I’m not sure why you were banned, I was just annoyed about reading a screenshot of text.

It’s different in my view. As the mods and admins are experiencing a loosely coordinated brigade of vitriolic messages. It’s no surprise to me that they responded by filtering out those who are being persistent in bad faith communication. But they have in fact been receptive to improving the bot based on feedback. They have not, however, instantly determined and implemented any improvements.

Reviewing the situation as an outsider. It seems that the mods and admins are not wrong and those complaining are ill-informed about many aspects of what they’re complaining about and are being belligerent in their ignorance. But even if they were 100% informed and correct about Media Bias Fact Check, their behavior has been out of line.

I agree with that.

The level of vitriol that the banned users have been spewing seems like harassment of the mods.

To be honest, none of what I’m seeing in these comment seems worthy of a ban.

I don’t agree with this. It seems like people are harassing the mods for the mods having a different opinion. These people don’t seem interested in any counterpoints or evidence that undermines their opinions which don’t seem to take relevant facts into account.

Quote: [the quote is really long, pls dont make me type it and just look at the link lol]

Result: 15 day ban

Note: the comment precedes the ban by 26 days, but catloaf’s recent comment history contains opinions critical of the LW News mod team

I copied it for you:

Link to the study, because the fuckers never do: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405334121 Here’s what I was looking for:

In all studies, we made certain that the participants and the people in the images were from the same nationality, since cultural familiarity is critical for the face–name matching effect to occur.

Additionally, this survey was conducted by Israelis, and since it says it was translated into English in the paper, I assume it was conducted in Hebrew. They say “socioeconomic cues such as age and ethnicity are experimentally controlled”, but I don’t see that they explain how. My suspicion is that the results are affected by non-facial cues like clothing, hairstyle, facial hair, and indeed age. For example, if I showed you a picture of an old woman and asked if her name was Doris, Helen, Megan, or Kayley, which do you think it is? If I showed you a picture of a guy with short dark hair, possibly graying, beard stubble, and a collared denim shirt, is his name Edgar, Clarence, Emil, or James? Further, since they did some kind of control over the prompts, I have to assume they presented faces and names the respondents would be familiar with, meaning this does not necessarily hold outside of Israel and Israelis (and I assume mostly people ethnically Israeli Jewish). This reinforces my belief that their methodology is flawed, and while people might look like their names, their faces themselves do not change to fit, rather there’s a correlation with other factors like age (i.e. name popularity over time), grooming style, and so on.

Ford recently announced their decision to use their facility built for the purpose of expanding their EV supply to instead manufacturer more ICE pick-up trucks.

The most recent group of people that acted on their emotional desires in this vain did so in support of the man who is taking money from a billionaire (hundred-billionare?) to stay in power in exchange for changing their policy position to favor the donor. This group failed and many were convicted of federal crimes.

It’s formatted properly with Lemmy markdown. This is on the Sync developers to handle a very common feature in Lemmy properly.

Thank you!

What?

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people on Lemmy browsing all that downvote any Sports content. Makes it hard to establish a thriving community.

Not all work is unwanted. I want the communities I moderate to thrive and reports can help with that.

And then there’s the trending section.

That’s just a bug the Lemmy project software that isn’t being given any priority by the current developers. Hopefully someone takes the time to submit a fix to the code.

I took the comment you replied to as a suggestion to make the spotlight change weekly because people are not always on Lemmy World everyday.

FYI: https://lemmy.ml/c/learningrustandlemmy

Maybe @SorteKanin@feddit.dk would be interested in helping people there.

wild

Hopefully one of the admins can figure it out

Have you gone into your settings and verified that you’re not blocking any accounts? There could have been an error in the database on the upgrade that inserted blocks. This is pure speculation but easy to check on your end.

Bookmarks?

Are you talking about your saved posts?

Let’s go!