I found the exact opposite. By not complaining I just found myself with low karma. Since I started complaining about it, I consistently have excellent karma. This is the system working as designed.

Defending others is, of course, acceptable. Otherwise the police should hand in their guns and fuck off, right?

And you are a child rape supporter, exactly as stated. You will never condemn Christian child rape because you want children to be raped.

I think that people who treat others without respect deserve the same experience. If it looks like I'm being rude to someone out of nowhere, that's a case of missing context. I have, after all, been interacting with some of these people for decades.

I appreciate that. Let me just give an example which was already corrected, and which occurred under this story: this comment was modded down and languished for a while, while this comment which was posted after it rose rapidly to 5. I am not complaining about that comment; it is a perfectly good comment and deserved to be modded up. My complaint is in the case of my comment, which said essentially the same thing and was posted earlier, it was modded down by someone who wanted to prevent me from being heard.

Why do I bother to bring this up? Because sometimes this gets corrected naturally, moderation ultimately works, and comments are scored organically based on their composition. But in other cases, they don't, and one way to induce a correction is to post more comments complaining about it. For years I just ignored it when that happened, and my karma score would bounce around between 0 and 50. Since I started raising a ruckus about obviously abusive moderation, I have rarely been anywhere but up against the cap.

TL;DR: I do this because it is necessary to be heard. If we want to make it unnecessary, and I would love that, we have to solve the abusive moderation problem. The owners are actively disinterested in this because it would reduce comments, and thus ad impressions.

"Despite the clear and obvious differences."

You mean that the child rapist worshipped by the Christians is orange? That's not a meaningful difference.

There are many excellent people here who are capable of reason. I enjoy speaking with them very much. There is also an infestation of scum here which likes to shit upon their fellow man. They deserve every ounce of contempt they receive.

As I am tolerably literate, it is simple enough for me to watch certain comments get modded down in an attempt to hide them simply because they've got my name on them. I am by no means unique in this regard, so I do not actually claim any special status here, but that's both not the point and also makes its own point.

eyeroll.

Oh? They've gone to both Google and OpenAI for help so far...

For all its faults, and it does suck, Discord became popular because it had a value add, more or less working forums. Though TBF, their email notifications are still garbage, so there could be work done there. (Except I presume it's done on purpose to bring you back to the app or website, of course.)

No doubt they are using someone else to provide everything, and no doubt it's a large number of someone elses who are involved. It's outsourcing all the way down.

While this is true, it's a strike against, because water vapor is a GHG. Emitting it over towns makes them hotter until you emit enough to make it overcast — which isn't happening.

There's holes in everything, but Microsoft goes above and beyond to fuck up. I think it's fair to say that everyone is going to have to take security a lot more seriously going forwards, but that goes triple for them.

Are you kidding? No AI company is fool enough to let AI do anything important for them.

Both of those used to be super common, but I admit it was a long time ago.

BUT: I've been using them here since then.

The people who follow me around modding me down as a hobby because I oppose child rape and corporate malfeasance (srsly) are truly the dumbest dipshits on earth. These are the kind of enemies who really give me self-confidence.

They are definitely not on the same level.

They are both bad, and the email server was not just a security risk, it was employed specifically for the purpose of avoiding discovery. That's why there are rules against it.

Email was definitely deleted from the server before it was examined. Evidence was destroyed. Period.

But YES, you are correct, it's very tiny potatoes compared to the Trump world.