fuck it why not
except for fucking politicians who are quite cosy in their seats
Don’t post screenshots of headlines
YSK: That’s not what this sub is for
YSK: This is a community not a subreddit.
YSK: “Sub” flows much better than “comm”
“Community” helps people take it more seriously. Naming is more than just how it flows in a sentence.
Fair enough, this is not what this community is for.
I love this comment so much. One of the biggest things that destroyed the quality of Reddit, although this is almost never talked about, was the trend of shoehorning the same topic into every subreddit, no matter how niche. Then to make matters worse, people will insist on leaving the post in an unsuitable just because they like the sentiment of the post. But over time this means that the purpose of communities completely breaks down, and the whole site just becomes “different formats for us all to express the same take on the same current event”. Absolutely insidious. Entire purpose of communities is so that people can customize their experience and see different types of content depending on what they’re interested in. Forcing the same topic into every community not only makes the service insufferable, but it also means there’s no point to joining small communities or contributing to them. You devolve to everyone just looking at the top most popular stuff, because all they would see anywhere else is just cutesy forced variants on that same thing anyways. Do not force topics into every community.
Again: Do not force topics into every community.
Thank you for so eloquently putting why I hate seeing this here!
The post has been up for five hours. Has it been reported? And if so what are the mods doing?
If you ask me the mods on Lemmy don’t help. Maybe the tools they have are shit?
It has been reported, yes. I got the report because it was an aussie.zone user who reported it. As an admin, I can remove the post, but that will only remove it for aussie.zone users.
For reports on communities on other instances, I rarely take action unless one of my users is causing issues or the post is spam/something super nasty.
Interesting. Sounds like the tools you have at your disposal aren’t as mature as they need to be.
As an admin, I can remove the post, but that will only remove it for aussie.zone users
And, IMO, it’s inappropriate for an instance admin to remove a post for violating a community’s rules.
As a reporter, I wish there were a way to direct where my reports go. The vast majority of the time I’m reporting something it’s because of either violating the community’s rules or because I think the reported content’s author’s instance admins should be aware. I very rarely think you should be seeing it or taking action.
Do you mean just the title formulation? Because people should definitely know about a genocide
WHAT??? IS ISRAEL DOING EVIL THINGS??? OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT NOBODY TOLD ME, THANK YOU YSK I NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!1!!
But in all practicality, every Lemmy user already knows about Israeli genocidal behavior in Gaza. If every community just becomes format-differentiated reposts of the same stuff, all of Lemmy becomes one big content-blob.
Even if I totally agree that, for example, Elon Musk is obnoxious, and I want to hear some news that he got punched in the face - I don’t want to open Lemmy and see:
You should know Elon Musk got punched in the face
Mildly interesting: Elon Musk got punched in the face
Mildly infuriating: Whoever punched Elon Musk in the face didn’t punch him hard enough
Map porn: Countries where Elon Musk has been punched in the face
Gaming: Would you play a Punch Elon Musk In The Face Simulator?
Am I the asshole: for thinking Elon Musk deserved to be punched in the face?
Programmer Humor: if(isElonMusk){punchedInFace = True;}
Privacy: If it’s illegal to punch Elon in the face why is it legal to punch my privacy in the face with tracking?
LinuxMemes: sudo punch Elon Musk in face
Uplifting news: Elon Musk punched in face
Depressing news: Elon Musk not punched twice in face
Television: Just watched this character get punched in the face. Remind you of anyone?
Classic Rock: “Facepunch” - 1982
Piracy: Links to movies where billionaires get punched in the face?
None of those dumb example is compared to this post. You are ridiculous
Sorry, my examples maybe didn’t make clear what my issue with the post is. The fact that public support for Israel in Western Europe is at the lowest point ever recorded, is not really a “YSK”, it’s not a piece of advice or tip that I can use in my daily life. It’s good information, but it belongs under News, or Politics. It’s not, as the sidebar says “things that can make your life easier”, unless you went to argue that it psychologically makes my life easier, in which case then I can fit just about anything into this community, in which case why do I even have the community? If everything belongs in the community, then the community may as well not exist.
Just think of how much better and more honest this post would have been if it had been made in a news community with a title that was just the title of the article and then a link to the article. But by being posted here in this manner, it comes across as engagement bait - and yes, the title is definitely contributing to that. Is it really news to anyone that people don’t like genocidal murderous bastards? Is that really something “I should know”?
Technically anything that’s news could also be posted here, if we take the definition of the community at its most literal level. But if that’s the case, why should we have a separate news community and a ysk community? Clearly, there should be some sort of distinction between things that belong in ysk versus in the various news communities.
If we’re following the spirit of the original subreddit, YSK was intended for useful, static information. Like, “YSK sucking snake venom out of a wound isn’t effective” etc. It’s not meant for topical content like this, especially news articles with editorial post titles.
Preach!
I wonder what the support for Palestine and its actions are? Cos I doubt its 5/6 as this article would imply.
Which actions? Being murdered by armed thugs?
I’m just pointing out the logical issue here. x% don’t support y does not imply that (1-x)% do support it. Let alone imply that (1-x)% support z.
Is that really what’s being implied here? I feel like you’re unconsciously buying into this narrative that you have the support either Likud or Hamas when the morally correct position is neither.
Yeah I think that’s what’s being implied. Especially by those people making a binary decision with no nuance.
Which people, though?
Neither the article, nor the OP are saying anything that could remotely be construed as support for Hamas. As far as I can see, nobody in the comments is either.
- Likud = bad
- Hamas = bad
And for good measure: Tories = bad Reform = bad Republicans = bad Australian Liberal Party = bad
And to a lesser extent: New Labour = bad Democrats = bad
They are all bad.
I didn’t say anything about people supporting hamas your the one who said an unconscious binary interpretation is possible through the polite mechanism of accusing me of exactly that. I’m not here to argue about Israel Palestine I’m here to point out bad logic in a purely objective manner.
I didn’t say that, that was the guy you replied to before. I replied to your response to him, so I can see how the mixup happened though.
All I was saying is that there are no good guys here, and I’ve seen no evidence that anyone is implying anything other than that.
You are the one who said you thought it was being implied.
Well, I’m doing it for a good cause that everyone agrees with, so that doesn’t apply to me.
-Every single genocidal murderous bastard and their supporters.
I know, it’s a bummer because it makes my plans to become Dictator God King Emperor of America a lot less fun
The MAJORITY of Europeans LOVE HITLER!
-The ADL!
Most of them still say that israel was right to start the war in gaza. How the hell the occupier has right to defend itself?
Still crazy high, one in six in support of murdering children en mass is wild.
That’s the fascist core baseline. 1/6 Nazis, 1/6 woke, 4/6 halfdaft
Does it really matter, though?
Well once Israelis finish the genocide. Everyone is going to cosplay the “never again” dance
