Its not as if things are any better in the country that boasts the most about its freedoms regarding access to supposedly public spaces: https://www.instagram.com/780_lord_of_bench
99.99% of SaaS could only dream of the revenue of GTA5, and this post is about GTA6. It generates more revenue than famous SaaS unicorns like Notion and Figma.
Just flag and go, or report directly in email if you feel the account isn't being cleaned up quick enough. There is a good chance such accounts will end up being bots anyways.
It's good that GP posted that. I didn't initially clock that it was AI slop. Their message prompted me to look at the poster profile, which immediately showed this was a bot. That in turn meant I downvoted that message, which increases the signal that it's a bot. The community has something to gain from it. Downvotes are not strong, visible signals. A message it.
Flagging != downvoting, be sure to actually flag. Flagging & moving on or emailing is the advice of the guidelines. I don't think replying is something GP should have been downvoted themselves for though.
For whatever reason, the site makes you click the direct link to the particular comment you want to flag. I.e. the timestamp link. For posts you generally always click a direct link (via the comments link) so that's why it's obvious for posts.
If you opt to have "showdead" enabled in your profile you'll still see flagged comments but marked as [dead]. In this case you can also vouch for comments in the same fashion (or add another flag to make it harder to be vouched for).
I think it's something like >30 karma to flag/vouch posts (so you should well qualify). This means users actually gain that well before the ability to downvote... but the site sure does a good job of hiding that from them lol.
The downvote feature requires even more karma to unlock. Something like >500 IIRC. Downvoting is only possible on comments (not stories) and a down arrow will just appear (no settings to change etc) below the up arrow once you qualify.
In a just world Zuckerberg would already be talked of only in past tense. This reality will get flagged/killed without a single Meta employee/astroturfer who does the flagging providing a justification as to why this isn't true.
> Trading a dependency on MasterCard and Visa for one on Google and Apple is at best a sidegrade.
That's really not how it works. You as the user are prompted to pick the bank you want to use, and then your bank prompts you to approve the transaction.
The only scenario I can think of that might involve google or apple is if you want to use Android or iPhone for mobile payments with NFC.
Which part of "confirm the transaction by opening the banking app on your mobile phone." does not depend on a banking app installed on a Google/Apple-controlled environment?
This is wrong for a large share of the companies that most people deal with on a daily basis. And that share has been steadily increasing every single year.
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