I was blanket banned from supposedly leftist subs for posting in PCM and the_donald - obviously trolling the shit out of them.
Fuck 'em, fuck spez, fuck their power-drunk mods, and fuck their total lack of understanding of what makes their site work, let alone good.
Mods everywhere are cunts. Including Lemmy. I’m sure @[email protected] will agree that he’s a cunt.
Lemmy doesn’t fix all the problems, but it fixes some, and improves others, which is something.
agreed, upvoted
Well, they could just have posted sources to their claims instead of just playing the self-authority card the whole time.
Yeah, but users on reddit don’t read sources, and that gets people frustrated and bored. Especially on /science or /askscience. Those subs are shitholes.
God I fucking hated ask science. It was a giant feed of garbage pseudoscience that was almost nothing but “NEW CURE FOR CANCER” or “WEED IS AWESOME”. Almost every single post and article was bull, or had extremely poor research. I remember seeing some sexist claim and it turns out the study only had 4 male and 4 female participants. The researchers acted as though the claim, and evidence, were definitive, so it was posted everywhere because of the headline.
This is why we can’t have nice things
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Narrator: it was his supervisor
If you can sound confident in a reddit-y way, being right doesn’t matter. If it seems like the threads going that way just disengage, it’s not worth it.
My favourite thing about this is that most of the AIs like chatgpt and its copycats use Reddit as a source of data.
Then they make shit up, sound confident, and mislead people.
All it needs to do is also repeat the same four tired memes, and it would be a high karma user.
One important aspect is to make a snarky comment starting with “it’s almost as if”.
Tbf, I think I got banned from a vegan sublemmy for having an opinion that wasn’t even necessarily pro-meat, but not necessarily pro-vegan either. I forget what it even was lol
I once got banned for racism - for making fun of a non-existent race.
I got banned because I said a transgender person that broke the law (raped and murdered someone) should face the same consequences regardless of what gender they identified as… I have nothing against transgender people but I bet you can guess what rule they said I broke. Honestly when it comes to transgender issues I think that’s everyone’s personal thing and I have no right to tell someone else what to do in that department.
Was it Elder Scrolls related?
What, did you say something like Vulcans are stuffy?
I said “non-existent race”.
How did you make fun of said non-existent race? Curious about this one.
I said “typical Vogons” or something like that. I don’t remember exactly what non-existent race I used. The whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself, and I got banned for racism.
Wait, did they add a cool down for unpopular commenting?
Democracy in a nutshell
Court of public opinion in a nutshell
That’s… how democracy works
Popularity in a nutshell
Yes, the two are entirely unrelated. /s
This is democracy… manifest.
Technically, gang rape is entirely democratic.
No, it’s not. Unless you use the definition of democracy that only fascists use to attack the concept.
Democracy isn’t a total dictatorship of the majority. The term implies protection of basic human rights, even if 50+% vote in favor of something that would violate them.No, you’re confusing the concept with the implementation. Nothing about the concept of democracy says that human rights MUST be protected, it’s just something that enough widespread agreement exists on that we assume it to be universal.
In the US, those fundamental assumptions are protected by the constitution, but that can technically be amended with a large enough majority.
As a more practical example, consider children, who do not have the right to vote and therefore must accept whatever the majority of adults decides. Their human rights only extend as far as the right to free housing, food, healthcare, and education, but they do not get the right to self-determination. As long as their parents feed, clothe, and house them, they can practically and legally keep them as indentured servants until they reach the age of majority. Perfectly democratic.
I disagree completely. Protection of human rights is a fundamental part of the concept of democracy.
A political system that decides everything purely based on majority vote, with no protections whatsoever for minority rights, is NOT a democracy.
You may call it one, but then you’re simply redefining the word.What you’re thinking of is commonly called a constitutional democracy.
A pure democracy would literally just decide everything by majority vote.
According to the United Nations, democracy "provides an environment that respects human rights and fundamental freedoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
What you’re calling “pure democracy” is called Ochlocracy or mob rule.
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Not saying the OP was banned fairly, but to do the devil’s advocate, there’s people with PHD in biology or medicine who still don’t believe in Evolution. You can always find idiots with PHDs, even in their chosen fields.
I’ll go ahead and say OP was probably banned fairly, judging solely by the fact that he willingly posts threads on 4chan
Especially back in 2020 long before the API changes caused the largest wave of migration of intellectuals away from reddit.
Where have they moved to?
You best start believing in ghost stories, You’re In One.
Anon probably used slurs and got banned for that
As someone with over a hundred banned reddit accounts, you generally don’t get banned for disagreeing. So maybe not slurs, but maybe just general rude language. Or my personal favorite, bothering the mods.
Unless he’s Richard Dawkins, people do get banned if they argue about biological sex.
Especially back in 2020 long before the API changes caused the largest wave of migration of intellectuals away from reddit.
The PHD means you passed your classes. It doesn’t mean anything you say is right.
No, there is no coursework past a master’s thesis. For the last typically ~3-4 years of graduate training, everything that you’re doing is original research. If your research isn’t good enough or done correctly, you will never get a PhD. You also have to defend your dissertation. Getting a PhD from a reputable university does mean that what you say, specifically related to your research area, is correct.
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Something like 1/5 of pharmacists believe homeopathy works. How the fuck can you go through that training and still believe in a hyperdilution that’s magic if you shake it the right way and never ever touch it with your fingers because that takes the magic away?
(For those who are unfamiliar I’m not even being facetious, this is what homeopaths actually believe)
Like, I didn’t believe in magic before I learned a lot of technology.
Now I do.
I have no idea about homeopathy, but you used the word “facetious” so you must be very smart and I believe everything you say.
Pharmacists don’t get PhDs, they get degrees for practice, like MDs. A PharmD doesn’t require being able to understand or conduct original research like a PhD does. Basically, a PharmD requires a really good memory, not necessarily critical thinking.
20% of pharmacists believing in homeopathy? That seems ridiculously high. Do you have a source for that?
I read it in Pharmacy Practice. I cannot find the article. Linked in this article is a photo of one the pages I had read and a link that I cannot access. The number was 19% and it was specifically Canadian pharmacists. Not sure what that looks like elsewhere.
To be fair, I’ve heard that as well. My source was a trustworthy guy in lemmy.
Placebo effect is powerful. They probably have lots of people saying X really helped with their cold/pain/cough/whatever.
There’s some amount of people who believe homeopathy is the same thing as essential oils and herbs, and have no idea about the hyperdilution stuff somehow. Granted, that’s not much better, but there’s at least a realm of slight possibility that you might get useful effects from those, as opposed to literal water with extra steps and flavoring added to make it taste vaguely medicinal.
We’re also talking about people who should absolutely know better regardless so maybe that offers far too much credibility to them.
Pharmacists and General practitioners believing in homeopathy. Physical Therapists believing in chiropractice. There’s way too many examples. But at least physical therapists don’t tend to have PHDs :D
Well they do now. Physical therapy changed to a doctoral degree several years ago. You have to get a doctor of physical therapy (DPT) degree plus pass the licensing tests to practice these days.
It’s still not an MD, but yes.
Huh, I don’t know if that’s true for all countries tbh.
Physical Therapists believing in chiropractice
I will never not be mad that chiropracticians have largely avoided the hunt for woo-woo magic crystal retards. Don’t get me wrong, some people have managed to find treatment for chronic pain in things like acupuncture and chiropractic care that they couldn’t get elsewhere, but most of the time this is presented as equal to physiotherapy despite lacking any scientific support, and the inability for “alternative medicine” to cure or permanently treat people.
Totally, everyone who continued to a PhD in my area was batshit insane. Entirely fuckin deranged but diligent enough to write thousands of words of cogent garbage that no one could be bothered contesting.
Isn’t there some stat that PhD students have 3x the mental health issues than undergrads? Which nowadays is like 100% lol
You misunderstood the statistic. Mental health issues are caused/exacerbated by academia not the other way around. Many of my cohort and friends were bullied, harassed, abused, taken advantage of by supervisors and senior academic staff who often have unreasonable demands and expect blinding unquestioning allegiance.
People who run research groups are not selected for based on their people skills but rather academic performance/pedigree, which is the biggest issue IMO.
Academia is a tough gig. Peer review and thesis chairs perform the review of candidates work, trust me they are almost always contested to varying degrees.
You know what gets me? The fact that the public seems to think that academia is well paid, I’ve had a few people make comments along that line. Cue me, manically laughing when they confusedly ask why anyone is in academia if it’s high stress and relatively poorly paid.
Truth. It’s well paid higher up the ladder but those jobs are few and far between. Depends on the country as well - the US and UK wages suuuck.
I can’t complain. I personally love it and have only worked in supportive teams.
Unless you’re in university administration, academia is not well paid. University administrators who are well paid are usually EdDs (essentially, university-focused MBAs) who didn’t take the normal academic route of research first.
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Isn’t there some stat that PhD students have 3x the mental health issues than undergrads? Which nowadays is like 100% lol
Given that academia is an absolutely grueling and downright soul-crushing career, I am not surprised only those with mental issues are wild enough to sustain it.
Those are extremely few and far between, and they aren’t evolutionary biologists. Behe, the most famous of them, doesn’t have a PhD in biology, but a PhD in biochemistry. Those are vastly different fields, and understanding the evidence for evolution wouldn’t have been relevant to Behe’s PhD. MDs more commonly don’t believe in evolution because MDs are essentially average folks who can memorize stuff really well. MDs don’t receive training in research or how to conduct it, so they’re pretty poor at understanding primary research most of the time.
Someone with a PhD from a reputable university (essentially, one that funds their PhD programs rather than making students pay, and one that doesn’t incentivize publications directly with bonuses) will be an expert in their subject area. Behe would be able to tell you about the biochemistry of sickle cell anemia. Someone with a PhD speaking on an area outside of their expertise is perhaps more likely than the average person to be correct because they could have read and understood most primary sources even outside of their area, but I wouldn’t say it’s all that much more likely. Basically, PhDs speaking on the topic of their expertise are experts, but they’re not experts in everything.
Personally, my PhD made me like the trope of someone who could tell you everything you want to know about some esoteric subject but wouldn’t know how to make a meal.
Getting a PhD produces highly specialized knowledge, not general knowledge.
What you say is never as important as how you say it. I noticed that if I came off as a self-righteous dickhead, people would disagree with me out of principle and if the person was still wrong they’d bring neutral “Sure, but” arguments to avoid the same thing happening to them.
The only time you can be a jackass is if you do it in a funny way or the person is so far gone it’s the equivalent of default dancing on their grave.
What you say is never as important as how you say it.
In real life, maybe. But this does not line up with my experience at all on here or reddit. The up and down vote buttons are overwhelmingly used as agree/disagree buttons.
I try to be respectful in my disagreements, and often fail, but they usually doesn’t have much of an influence how bring mercilessly down voted for disagreeing with the hive. And I’ve always watched people I vehemently disagree with, who have made reasonable and respectful disagreements, get down voted tons while people attacking them will get tons of upvotes.
It’s nice to think that we respect different opinions if they are represented respectfully, but it does not seem to reflect the reality I’ve seen.
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Well, I more meant that even if you’re correct if you’re a dick about it, people won’t like it.
Respectfully (I’m honestly trying here, I hope it doesn’t come off otherwise), I still don’t agree. I’ve seen plenty of times where I’ll respectfully disagree with someone and the other poster will be a complete dick back for no reason, but still line up with the agreement of the hive and get plenty more upvotes than I got.
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you that it will influence the outcome, but from my experience, clearly “agreeing with the hive” is overwhelmingly the most important factor when it comes to how many upvotes or downvotes you’ll get. It’s certainly not universal, as I’ve been surprised sometimes by how well my disagreement has been received, but generally speaking it’s the case.
And we aren’t talking about simply being wrong or right. One can be wrong, but not really strongly disagree, and still be accepted. I wouldn’t be surprised that (removing being nasty), the harder you make it to maintain the position of the hive mind the more likely it is to get downvoted.
I can’t think of a better system, but it’s still deeply flawed when it comes to promoting quality posts.
Being an expert in any arena is fucking annoying when you have to deal with idiots.
Oh yeah, I am an expert in my arena as well (been a Secutor for almost 15yrs) and I have to constantly deal with these idiots.
“Oh, I’m a Murmillo, look at me!” Bitch you can’t even see out that damn helmet.
“Hurr Durr, I’m a super cool Dimachaerus.” Most people can’t properly fight with a sword and you’re gonna use two?
So I completely get you.
Gladiatorial vindt is easy, you just use Russell Crowe
OP might not have a PhD but this stuff happens a lot on reddit. A lot of people here on Lemmy have an IT background and would get a rude shock looking at some of the dominant opinions on the major technology-related subreddits, particularly those that are heavily astroturfed.
It hits like this when people with a pure CS or IT background start talking about the humanities or literally anything not purely tech-related.
“Just” is the most dangerous adverb in the English language for engineers. I catch myself making sure I revisit anytime I say it to make sure nuance is better captured.
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Yeah, I avoid most of that nonsense. Even the humor sites annoy me more than anything.
/r/technology is perhaps my least favorite, and the Lemmy alternatives are a bit better imo (though a little too focused on Elon Musk).
If you really want to have some fun, when an Intel CPU is out preforming an AMD one on the charts go and mention that in a thread related to CPU performance. I’m fairly sure you’ll be talking to people paid with AMD money to astroturf the shit out of Reddit who will make up every excuse they can about the situation.
Intel CPU do outperform AMD in several workloads, but on the top end, AMD seems to have the efficiency advantage.
If AMD lost in some, they outperformed in many more metrics by large enough margins.
This trend was true in past 2 gens (price and efficiency advantage with an overall perf advantage in power limited scenarios). Nothing to astroturf about it.
The weird part would be if someone is comparing a zen2 with 14gen and still sticking with AMD for “some reason”
I have similar gen Intel and AMD, the Intel chip annihilates the AMD one for bursty workloads, AMD eats Intel at everything else though (power draw especially).
Yup. Intel can boost significantly higher than base clock
I have similar gen Intel and AMD, the Intel chip annihilates the AMD one for bursty workloads, AMD eats Intel at everything else though (power draw especially).
it better, with all of that power…
Wat astroturfed
I hop into the selfhosted subreddit every once in awhile and as you would imagine it’s mostly hobbyists that have no clue what they’re doing, but they’re also not very receptive to advice from people who do. They have their own set of commandments at this point it’s pretty wild.
just wondering, but what are they commonly doing wrong?
The most common thing you see is the idea that the holy grail of security being “not forwarding ports in your router”. Put your publicly accessible web service running on your unsegmented home LAN behind a cloudflare tunnel and you’re “secure”, problem solved, job done. If you point out the fact that this doesn’t solve any of the problems that go along with “port forwarding” or that CF tunnels MITMs all their data, you’ll get downvoted as a “CloudFlare hater”.
Similarly they tend to believe that there’s no reason to separate your publicly accessible server from the rest of the devices on your home LAN, especially because the home LAN is “safe”.
To be fair, it was only in the last couple years that it became that bad. It’s still better than Elon’s white nationalist vehicle of a social media site.
One word Echo chamber
That’s two words.
Op probably does not have a PHD. He posted a stupid opinion and got down voted for it, and ran to 4chan because he was sad.
Everyone on 4chan has a PHD and a active social life.
Pretty much, seriously, fuck reddit… it’s the only service I’ve ever been banned with in my 33 years of life, and I keep seeing others who have an unfair ban either on the site or from the site.
What’s the old saying? If you run into an asshole, fuck him, if you CONSTANTLY run into assholes, you might be the asshole…
A lot of subreddits have the wildest and most complicated rules. Said the word “aardvark” on the third Wednesday of the month? BAN
The only site I’ve been suspended in was X (twitter) recently, and it was on a lurker account I mainly use to follow people and rarely ever post on, and it was after coming back to the app after a few weeks of absence lol.
Automated modding seems to fail on those sites, while giving users modding powers is always abused. I guess it’s manageable if there’s support, which X doesn’t seem to have anymore.
