You’re preaching to the choir here, I agree.

no one should ever feel like they have some kind of right to post someone else’s art.

It sure would be nice if the posts were the links directly to the artists own site, not rehosted elsewhere, that way the clicks might benefit them. It happens from time to time, but doesn’t seem to be commonplace. Hopefully when the mod returns, some changes will help shape this community for the better.

Oh no no, just the concept of caring about ‘karma’, not specifically relevant to that previous screenshot. Only reminded me of the exchange I described.

It’s not really occurred to me before that people make alts to manipulate votes here. I never saw karma as relevant even back on Reddit. I have some other accounts but mainly for when lemmy.world stops working. Seems quite narcissistic to spite vote with alts.

I agree, it’s unrealistic any user would dish out three times more downvotes than upvotes. All on posts too, none on comments? Certainly an alt, your instincts are surely correct.

This must be a holdover from Reddit? Last week I was having a conversation when the user suddenly pointed out they’d accumulated upvotes where I hadn’t and therefore was correct. I was the one upvoting their comments for contributing to the discussion.

When I pointed this out, they downvoted my comments haha.

You figured correctly. In fact I just looked and while I had seen the ‘motion’ post, I just gave it a vote and went on my merry way. Didn’t notice there was an upheaval going on.

I skimmed through a fair amount of the offender’s comments, and I could sort of see someone making a mistake and lashing out in refusal to admit they messed up, but as you say, the doubling down makes it seem they actually believe it.

The community mod sure is in for a surprise when they return. Hopefully it gets sorted out quickly.

Thank you for the additional detail.

Ah thank you for the context. As someone that only occasionally sees a comic post and doesn’t visit the community specifically, I hadn’t noticed the uproar. I appreciate the effort in your explanation.

Hopefully the mod returns and makes the needed changes. Maybe appoints another mod or two.

I wasn’t aware of that context, I haven’t seen whatever post where that was said. Obviously that’s the take of an imbecile, signing one’s own art far predates anything akin to modern advertising.

Imagine cropping Michelangelo’s signature haha. Whomever that was is a buffoon.

What’s the temperature on posts that didn’t have the citation wherever the poster found it? Would the etiquette here be to link to that reddit post, or simply not post any content that lacks artist attribution?

I’m thinking specifically the other day something was posted where the only source another user could find was it’s previous reddit post with the citation already cropped out. I checked myself and had the same result.

Not to them it’s not. Proportionally, it’s more than what many can afford. Just like how your fuel prices are dirt cheap to someone living in Hong Kong.

It’s worth noting there’s a difference between a heckler video and a crowd work video. If the performer solicits audience participation, that’s not them being heckled.

That said, many comedians do several shows a week, some even doing multiple spots a night. These days, most of them record their sets - and the audience, to a degree. When they amass so much footage, it’s easy enough to have a video now and then involving a heckler.

Of course, sometimes, some things do get ‘scripted’ with the audience. This is a funny example of a bit Gianmarco Soresi did using the audience to get this clip parodying a Rocket Money ad.

Oh I agree, the ‘Saudi Arabia of natural gas’ I was referring to is the United States.

This graph of LNG infrastructure in the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas” current, planned, and proposed is sad to look at.

Most of that isn’t too important. The real failure you neglected to mention is the loss of the negative reinforcement that comes with coal based energy generation. If we keep burning the stuff, the big man can’t give out as many lumps to the bad children, and so they grow up to be criminals running big companies.

18 years for one incident might be too much, but this is only about a month per desecrated body.

At least skim the article.

Probably just the law of large userbases. The more people around, the more rude people there are likely to be. Rude people are always a minority, but they tend to be more vocal.

A large portion of fediverse users have abandoned Reddit for moral or ethical reasons. So while occasionally people will be rude here, it tends to skew more towards polite discussion.

I’m sorry you were exposed to that at a time when you should have been insulated from the cruel indifference of technology. For a profession that once took pride in the personal touch, providing such an impersonal experience is appalling.

It seems especially horrid seeing as an obituary specifically is sort of the most formulaic aspect of funerals. Anyone that’s read them in the paper could tell you they tend to follow a pretty similar structure. It’s so lazy to use these machines to do something so rudimentary.

You and your father have my sympathies for your mother’s passing. I hope you’re both finding ways to continue onward. Undoubtedly she would hope the same.

Unsurprisingly, the machines are already being used in the funeral business. The last couple years I’ve seen obituaries, service cards, even images created through a variety of tools.

Trying to live a life free of this technology is becoming as hard as trying to live without oil, and now even our deaths are tainted by it.