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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “There’s nothing more expensive than a free gift.” - Michel de Montaigne

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When asked about Musk and Huffman’s correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: “We take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously, whether on Reddit directly or through other public or private means. We will evaluate content reported to us and take action if violating.”

  There was a famous reddit user called Unidan who I think was a scientist that studied animals. His account was eventually banned for Terms of Service violations due to his having an account that posted comments, and several other accounts that were just used for voting. He used the other accounts to give his comments an initial voting boost, which was a policy violation, and was therefore permanently banned.

  Anyways, I occasionally noticed a strange voting pattern on Reddit. I’d have one comment that had not gotten any votes or replies for hours after I wrote it, and then all of a sudden, somebody would reply to argue, and their reply would more-or-less instantly have several upvotes, and simultaneously, my comment would have a similar number of downvotes.

  This person was obviously using multiple accounts, violating the Terms of Service just like Unidan, so I went to report them, only to find out that there was literally no way for me to report them. The report button didn’t have any fitting option, nor was it guaranteed to go to a reddit admin who could actually look at who voted for what. Mods can’t see comment votes. There was a separate webpage you could go to to contact the admins, but again, there was no category for it, and no way to make a report that didn’t fit those categories.

  From that experience, it didn’t feel like they would “take any report of Reddit policy violations seriously.” How could they take the report seriously when they wouldn’t even take the report in the first place? Now I see I was supposed to directly contact Reddit CEO Steve Huffman through private messaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blobfish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The name information is incorrect.

  Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.

  Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. […] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus

  The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, “binomial name” is not always the same as “proper name”. There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that’s the Family) above. “Fatheads” sounds insulting, and “Toadfishes” aren’t toads.

  I wouldn’t have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the “proper name” so poorly that I first read it as “Psychrd Lutes”. And the second reading, I misread as “Psychiro Lutes”, due to the weird “R” that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you’re trying to emphasize how it is spelled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weeb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The ellipsis locations are another giveaway. I noticed them before I read the rest of the text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This idea in particular seems inconvenient to me, but there may be people who would prefer something like this.

  I had a very small apartment when I lived in Japan, and honestly, I really liked it for the most part. It was a bit bigger than what I think they’re saying in this article, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If she really believes those breasts, ovaries, and wombs are so important, why was she telling women to think about things? You don’t think with breasts, ovaries, or wombs.

  And what will she do when she hits menopause? How will that affect her beliefs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Treegasmic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boy it really makes those pictures of bees covered in pollen seem slightly less cute.