“It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs”, “Do not go among the Gentiles”.

Funny how you dismiss it as consensus.

Not saying it’s wrong, but the comments here look as much like an echo chamber as any other I’ve seen.

Brigading

I’ve noticed that a lot of followers on you community on Lemmy are being douches, they simply follow you so they can down vote everything you say.

The vote brigading is all tightly timed and an administrator could (if they wanted to take the time) analyze the voting in the data base and accurately determine what accounts are guilty based on the data. -Yes; I’ve ran a website before. Natural down-votes from subscribers won’t fall into a tightly wadded amount that we’re getting like that. (And people with nefarious intentions wouldn’t generally contribute to the user count). Lots of subscribers just ignore the voting, and bots may be involved. Users don’t need to be subscribed to follow (just go directly to the community, use a feed reader, etc).

If you look back at older posts, we have a great community here. We just have a lot more accounts exploiting the lack of rules, and software maturity.

Maybe I’m missing something, but that’s my perspective.

Any time I’ve banned people, it never was reflected in the users stat. -They weren’t members. We’re more apt to lose people from edgy posts (like King Richard).

We can’t control vote brigading and manipulation. -That’s a Lemmy issue that even Reddit has. I have noticed though that Reddit has rules about it, and bans for life for it if it’s proven (or they catch it).

Nearly everyone if not everyone has cognitive biases and areas where they’re not so bright. Conspiracy theorists aren’t themselves because they’re stupid; they’re mostly a product of experiencing distrust in an authority at an impressionable age. (Rob Braxman is text book)

Aside from one user here, I don’t get personal. I don’t remember names of people I’ve banned. They’re a victim as much as the next person.

Animals sometimes are more comfortable in a cage because it makes them feel secure. -Like a cave for a dog or cat.

‘sorry sorry’ - better than the meme! lol

It is now! (at least for me)

The first version of Windows used tiling.

Silicon Dioxide? -I’ve only seen that in the knock-offs like at Aldi. Here’s why I avoid it (and notice it): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8289701/

-Some alcoholics can get leaky gut from drinking excessively and apparently let it through the stomach lining.

This is why I don’t believe in butt-chugging.

Love the show also! Peacemaker was along the same lines of greatness for those that haven’t checked that out yet! And if you end up being a fan of John Cena for it, Ricky Stanicky is great!

Conspiracy theorists use a scapegoat or analogue. Example: https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/The-Secret-Rulers-of-the-World---David-Icke-The-Lizards-and-The-Jews:7

PSPC w/ TRC lol

Doritos are using Stevia now, which is why they don’t taste as good. I can’t explain the price hike.

Common issues found mainly in forums, easy to look up (If on a PC and not a handheld).

The fun of playing PC games is most likely due to mods and using a keyboard + mouse as a controller.

Excellent points!

You know what an echo chamber is and ask that question. lol

It’s a problem with the karma system and it’s promotion of misinformation.

Myths about cast iron were debunked over 20 years ago. There are scientific data sheets showing thermal properties of various metals. Kenji Lopez-Alt published reproduceable results of a flour test on cast iron and a clad pan. Many people have shown you can cook steak perfect in steel. An obviously fake steak posted there got hundreds of updoots. A perfectly cooked steak that I used an air-fryer (lowest setting) and finished in stainless got 0 simply because I posted how I did it.

-The steak sub on reddit contintues to romanticize cast iron for mythical properties (at least they did a couple years ago before I muted it) and will likewise down-vote to hell factual information that dispells their nonsense). -This sub is far from alone, there are many promoting misinformation (and Kenji romaticized cast iron in his book after 2 chapters of bragging about being scientific). -(just a single example out of many I could give)

-It’s what kept me initially from reddit alternatives. (They did nothing to correct the inherent problems of the karma system).

Vote brigading / manipulation is punished on reddit with life time bans, and even Reddit is not able to stop it from being a major problem. Other sites like facebook and youtube know to hide the negative votes. (you can see the positive through p.lemmy.world -maybe others). -So at least you can see that people liked something here.

The brigading would be obvious to admins here too. If you look at old posts in this community, they were obviously brigaded while the positive votes that over-took them trickled in slower and over time.

If I could, I’d turn the karma system off. People should have to defend their disagreement with words and let the reader decide. They shouldn’t have to go to a ‘sucks’ community to find out the flaws that get buried or aren’t well received in echo chambers. They should be able to block an unlimited amount of users without it breaking the site (I know Reddit will break).