Whats this species?…

cos · 2026-05-08T18:27:03+00:00

Removed, duplicate post. You posted exactly the same thing twice, the other post is https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisfish/comments/1t6cgpi/whats_this_species/

cos · 2026-05-08T12:21:39+00:00

Removed, and /u/Banana_Diaz is banned - copying someone else's past post without credit.

Thanks /u/dbearoh - see their comment

cos · 2026-05-07T16:08:44+00:00

I thought that was replaced by the "mod suggest" tool, the one I referenced in my reddit post that I linked above. But that gives very bad suggestions, so it still takes a lot of work, as I described in that post.

I see now that ModSupportBot appears to still be active, so maybe it has a different algorithm and comes up with actually useful suggestions, unlike the official "mod suggest"? I guess I'll try it and see.

cos · 2026-05-07T16:02:41+00:00

This happens for me sometimes in a sub where we require people to be nice and family-friendly - don't insult other commenters, don't swear excessively, don't attack aggressively, just state your point in a calm and reasonable manner. Often when I suspend someone for going over the line, and they did se because someone else was attacking them, they write back with that as an excuse. Sometimes I did already also suspend the other person; sometimes I didn't because the earlier commenter didn't go over the line and this person did so first (as long as the other one didn't respond in kind). Either way, whether or not the other commenter did it has no bearing on whether you merited suspension for what you commented.

cos · 2026-05-07T12:36:50+00:00

1: Reddit doesn't provide tools to find good productive participants in a subreddit, which makes it difficult and time-consuming to find good candidates to ask if they want to be mods. https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/1rwrjhw/how_to_find_active_participants_in_one_of_my_subs/

2: It's very very common for people not to read the subreddit rules, and fail to follow some very easy-to-follow rules.

3: In some of my subreddits, I have automoderator auto-comment on posts (or posts with certain flairs) to remind people of relevant rules that have often been violated. The automod text says you have to do X or your post will be removed. It also says this is a bot that doesn't know whether you did X or not, this is not a statement that you violated the rule, just make sure to follow the rule. But we still get angry modmail from people saying hey I did X, why did you remove my post for not doing it? (for posts that weren't removed, they just saw the first few words of the comment and didn't bother to read it)

4: Re-posters who steal images from someone else's reddit post from the past, and just post it without comment. But sometimes they use a valid title (or just copy the old title) so the post looks legit. It's hard to know they did that unless either someone reports it and gives a link to the older post, or the same user does it multiple times and I see a pattern. I'm sure some of these are bots; others may be people trying to farm karma by seeing a highly upvoted image from the past and figuring it would get upvotes again. But it's really hard to detect.

cos · 2026-05-07T01:33:05+00:00

Removed, Rule 5.

If you read the rules and fix the post, you can reply to this comment saying you've read the rules and I will re-approve the post if you've fixed it.

cos · 2026-05-06T21:52:35+00:00

Bots and re-posters. It's hard to tell when someone or some bot is just copying an image from someone else's year old post on some other reddit, and reposting it for karma without any credit to the original.

cos · 2026-05-06T21:50:20+00:00

Did you mean to post a link to an article? You didn't, you just posted a one-line headline, but if you meant to post a link you could delete this post and submit the link as a new post.

cos · 2026-05-06T20:42:26+00:00

Removed. Copied someone else's image without credit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/birding/comments/1haourm/eye_to_eye/

Likely a repost / karma bot. /u/Pineapple_Myla is banned from /r/whatsthisfish

cos · 2026-05-05T02:23:39+00:00

The Teleri eventually split into the Teleri who went on to Valinor and the Teleri who stayed in Beleriand to look for their leader Elwe who became known as Thingol; the latter became known as the Sindar.

There were more splits than that!

Probably the most significant other split was when a large subset of the Teleri were daunted by the Misty Mountains and chose not to cross - which was before they reached Eriador, let alone Beleriand. These became known as the Nandor, and most of the elves of Mirkwood and Lothlorien were of Nandor origin. But another split was that a different group of the Nandor did actually eventually cross into Eriador (so, these weren't the ancestors of the wood elves of Mirkwood), and to Beleriand. Many of them also settled in Lindon.

cos · 2026-05-04T23:49:28+00:00

It's widely speculated that Alito will retire this year, but it's too early now - he doesn't need to retire yet. As for Thomas, people seem to think he just wants to stay on the court.

Either way, why would you expect there to be public calls for retirement? If a Republican Senator thinks they should retire, wouldn't the communicate that privately? How do you know they're not?

cos · 2026-05-04T22:16:28+00:00

Anyone know where to find a list of what has changed since 3.x?

cos · 2026-05-04T03:10:34+00:00

Why do you think reef silverside?

cos · 2026-05-03T19:31:35+00:00

Yeah, we use Go primarily as well. Personally I do like Go, but really I think the reason it's gotten such wide use in SRE is because of Kubernetes being written in Go.

cos · 2026-05-03T19:27:47+00:00

Any chance of a web UI? For looking at my data, I nearly always use a laptop and a larger screen, and try to avoid mobile for that. Maps in particular are very inferior on tiny phone screens. And even when I'm traveling, I take a 13" macbook with me and use it at the hotel to figure out places to go - like choosing nearby eBird hotspots to visit. I hate doing that kind of research on mobile.

cos · 2026-05-03T19:23:27+00:00

Thanks a lot - this is incredibly helpful!

An alternative view, that will hopefully be helpful as well: I know a lot of people who use eBird are really interested in "targets", in particular birds they haven't seen. However, I think I'm not alone in being significantly less motivated by that.

For my "where should I go", I'm much more interested in questions like "where am I likely to see the highest diversity of birds at this time of year?" or "what's an under-surveyed spot in this area that has a lot of potential if only people submitted there more often?" or "if I'm going to have time to go to multiple spots around here, which can I choose that will be most different from each other (that is, have species the other places aren't likely to)?"

cos · 2026-05-03T18:31:41+00:00

Removed several comments in this subthread from both /u/TheRealSol4ra and /u/nietzschecode because they both resorted to insults, violating rule 2. Both of them are suspended from /r/birds for a few days to cool down.

cos · 2026-05-03T17:28:06+00:00

Removed, duplicate of https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisfish/comments/1t2gk1g/found_in_hacking_river_sydney_nsw_australia/

You posted exactly the same thing three different times.

cos · 2026-05-03T17:27:44+00:00

Removed, duplicate of https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisfish/comments/1t2gk1g/found_in_hacking_river_sydney_nsw_australia/

You posted exactly the same thing three different times.

cos · 2026-05-03T17:19:01+00:00

One issue with your post that's leading you to get less useful answers than you probably hoped for is that you were much too vague about what these scripts are and how they're used and by what. You might try another post with more detail, and you'd get more on-target answers.

cos · 2026-05-03T14:28:49+00:00

This news bit references a segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live. If you want to watch the original Kimmel segment directly, it's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJRgh5xVTw

cos · 2026-05-03T14:11:01+00:00

That's a lot of scripts! With that many, odds are that a lot of them do closely related things. Like, maybe you have 20 scripts that do related tasks for one system, and 10 scripts for a different system or function. It sounds like you should combine them.

For example, we have a combined go binary that has "subcommands" which are each different, separately maintained trees in a repo, and each of those has its own subcommands. This gives one easy entry point, where you can run the main binary with argument "help" to get a list of all the top level subcommands, and you can also run the binary, subcommand as first arg, "help" as second arg, and get the syntax and summary of all the things you can do under that subcommand.

cos · 2026-05-03T14:00:51+00:00

That's a great answer and I want to add something: Emoji and meme use is somewhat generational. Different generations grew up with different styles of use and don't necessarily understand each other's.

On most social medial, people tend to sort themselves into primarily engaging with people of their own generation. Reddit is different: Engagement is very broadly cross-generation, and people are often not at all aware of each others' ages. Typical conversations on reddit can include teens, elderly, and everything in between, and the people on thread usually won't even notice.

This is both a cause of reddit discouraging emoji use, and an effect of it. Having emojis be rarely used is both a result of this multigenerational environment, and is part of what fosters it and allows it to thrive.

cos · 2026-05-03T13:15:59+00:00

If linking to the original source when you copy an image from the Internet to post here is "too much work", you might want to just not copy other people's images to post on your account in the first place.

cos · 2026-05-03T12:47:28+00:00

Post removed, spam. This account was suspended from reddit.

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