I always like these posts. Comments are usually useful despite snide remarks and it’s nice hearing from other people that struggle(d). Glhf I say. Worth it in the end.
There’s a lot of criticism of the bot implementation and mbfc in this thread but no criticism of why it was implemented.
The whole point of mbfc bot was to reduce the mod workload. By (hopefully) exchanging a bunch of posts examining the source of a link, mods hoped to have fewer fights to wade into.
A person could say that’s just what happens when you run an English language community during American election years, and there’s a degree of truth to that.
I think that the mods of the world communities the bot is in want some way to restrict speech along the lines of their own combination of political axes and see the bot as a way to do so under the guise of “just checking facts”.
I am not invoking free speech as a negative criticism here.
What would be possibly more healthy for the mods is to develop a political line and clearly say “if you speak outside this system of understanding you may be modded upon”.
Thanks. I’ve actually already seen it, but it wasn’t enough as it only listed web hosted solutions and I found most of them lacking for my needs. Thankfully others’ comments below are pretty inspiring :)
Before the blackout r/QultHeadquaters was a guilty pleasure of mine. Since then I’ve lost touch with the weirdest of the weird.
Hopefully there are still folks camping in Dealey Plaza waiting for JFK, and there are still Canadians following a self-proclaimed Queen of Canada who (I think) was/is squatting in an abandoned school.
I can confirm for you “the queen” is still in richmound, Saskatchewan, hiding in an abandoned elementary school.
Province and municipality can’t/won’t do anything about it, because Saskatchewan is the gaudy rectangular buckle of the Canadian Bible Belt, so their brain washing interests align.
Slack was my second distro, in early 2000, you wouldn’t believe how many times I had to try to get the install working and how many times I saw this screen in the image, I was like 13, had no internet, only time and passion, I got it booting after like a week of trial and errors
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