And while we are discussing this shit, can we also “formalise” our rules. we currently have atleast 2 posts (on by me about schadenfreude and you about utu…, there maybe are more) which state some rules. similarly we have rules in sidebar, and there are not enumerated, which imo makes it harder to read specific stuff.

maybe, we can make a official rules post, and keep it perma pinned (same rules in sidebar), and for anynew rules added, we will make a new post, which shall also stay pinned for something like 2 weeks, and corresponding rule be added in perma rule post, and linking to explainer post. this way perma rule post will be short (so people actual read it unlike terms and services).

reason for doing both a perma pinned and sidebar is to insure that most people going to community page are reminded to actually read rules. I, for example, hardly pay any attention to sidebar. some will never really go to community page. so both kinds of people will be shown rules. hence, less people will claim to not know rules.

Again, this is just a proposal, so feel free to scrutinise/improve it, or form a separate alternate

yes, i was not suggesting we should ban him right away. only if they admit to be affiliated to utu… . but self admission would likely be rare if they are actually affiliated. if they are not affiliated (my current belief, because they have made human looking comments as well), then a warning (or 2) should suffice.

should remove the user’s utubepublisher.in posts on sight.

i think even that is a bit overkill for warning period (the period until we recieve some statement from them). maybe I or someone else can keep linking to original source articles.

I am not sure if i discussed with you are wolfeh, but i had proposed a 3 strike ban rule. break a standard rule thrice (ideally in 3 separate posts/days) and you recieve a ban. you can challenge it by messaging a mod, but final decisions remains with mods.

This is mostly to save people from getting banned by breaking rules like calling others bad shit while they were high and not in senses. If you repeatedly shit, we can not keep ooverlooking. there would not be a official count kept for anyone, just a unooficial “hey i saw this guy being reported last week, and they are shitting again”

Also, I just looked at your posting history (something which I rarely do), and found tons of posts with www.utubepublisher.in as the source. It is possible that you are just not affiliated to them, and just link to there posts, because you have subscribe to them over something like mail letter or rss. But if you are affiliated, then we may have to ban your account from this community. I am sorry, and I do not want to do that, but that feels appropriate. For banning, I would like to consult other mods though. @Aatube@lemmy.world @wolfeh@lemmy.world (sorry I only tagged aatube and wolfeh, because I do not know if it is appropriate to tag mods like this. I have had litte chats with them, so I think they would not mind much if I tag them. In any case, sorry for pinging)

I am sorry, but we have banned aticles from www.utubepublisher.in. for more info, check the pinned post on community homepage, but in short, they are a content farm - which reposts articles from other sources. There are valid reasons for reposting stuff, but at least proper credit should be done. in short - they do bad quality reposts.

I am not removing your post, because this is likely not made with mal intent (just lack of awareness). You can still edit your post, and link to a better, or possibly original source.

from quick searching, i found - https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-win-plagiarism-appeals-over-generative-ai-detection-tool

not sure if this was first or original to report, but this was made 5 days prior. I made quick glances, and content appears to be similar. Again, it is possible that 2 outlets cover same topic, and do independent reporting, but www.utubepublisher.in has a poor record.

if you can find a better source than what i liked, then please switch to that, or switch with this one (you can edit post and url as well)

I recently did that and my account was banned. It was not expensive (~$1), but still felt bad

I feel you. Not a american.

no - do not ban politics and do not ban catharsis

Essentially, all children games work - you can just make then hard, or raise the stakes to your taste

musical chairs (song plys, everyone dances, song stops - you have to grab nearest seat - for n players, start with n - 1 chairs, so someone is eliminated - now reduce the chair by 1 and repeat)

atlas - take places names - someone has to say a new place starting with last alphabet of last name.

antakshari (consider it as musical atlas - you start with a song - next song has to start with the last alphabet/sound of lst song)

these 2 can be played in teams, and instead of finishing game as soon as someone loses, you can have pre determined punishments (for example, they have to dance, with 1 leg in air, and a hand over their head)

passing the parcel - song plays - you pass the parcel - when song stops, the person with parcel gets the “gift/punishment” (punishment similar to above)

charades (or dumb charades) - you have to make someone else guess what you are acting/narrating out

well, would you be interested in befriending me?

me too, if you want one more

so tax social media and gaming, not the shop

but phone is not comparable to heroin. gaming or social media could be addicting. if sugar is addicting, do we ban shops? because shops sell sugary stuff (similar to phone providing the addictive thing)

the current problem with journals is that there is no money in it for authors. journals oly exist because of historical reasons, and older folks still value them.

Arxiv exists as a semi journal, which is some what cc4 (or some other cc of your choice) and that is great, but still one source.

You can just host your research papers as websites, as in just a web article, and use some vcs like github, codeberg, or self hosted forego system. That is arguably the best case.

I have a paper which is on arxiv, and my supervisor has been “polishing” it for a journal, but to me that is a useless process, because i almost never care about things like journal impact factor or h index. to me, the only thing valide is steps for reproducibility, that is, give me a recipe, and if i can recreate, then you did a great job. This could mean, for example, releasing all your raw unprocessed data.

how to handle reputation for who can review, but I think there are ways to do that and that’s beyond the scope of this post as I imagine it could get pretty complicated and would require feedback from people actually in the industry. The reviewers can submit comments and reviews back to the author via federation, but this time the process can be open instead of behind closed doors.

one of the reasons reviewers are effective is that the remain anonymous, that is why they can shit talk a lot. You would not have the slander, if you make the identity real.

I think we should not have reputation or verification, as i stated above, if you post on your own website, and not have gatekeeping. Yes a lot of the work may not meet “some standards”. but even with current system, a lot of work is published which is substandard. if we can release work in open, and colaborate as we do for open source software, thart would be the ideal thing for me. Each issue could be a literal git issue, each correction can be a pull request, and so on. Fully transparent, and somewhat resistant to whole network failing. (assuming you have local copies, you can just spin another instance, and your paper still stays onloine)

My 2 cents is that a community like this doesn’t need to take moderating too serious, since the content isn’t polarising or flammable anyway.

it sadly does get political and hence flamable, for reference, check one of the last posts about “elon getting depressed”. to me that is not uplifting, to a large section of community that is uplifting in a “cathartic” sense.

we agree mostly except for

2a) i would still consider it uplifting (source for question was yet another post about something relating to comfort for dogs in car being patented by some company)

i think we both know what i mean by martian leader here, and most of these question were either what has happened or what some people want to happen, with some amount of testing for what people consider uplifting.

for example, elon being depressed is 4h (yes i meant h, i don’t know why i midway through forgot abcd), and it got a huge number of upvotes, and when i go in comments and ask if this counts is uplifting, since we are being happy for someone being depressed, that does not feel right to me, most people just reply that he is getting what he deserves, but that was not the point. to my framework (as i explained), i can not tell a youngling that lets be happy about this man getting depressed, when i told him to be sad for other people getting depressed. Even when i tell the kid that someone is a bad person, i do not want them to leave their human conscience, but apparently people prefer catharsis.

Don’t worry about a potential ‘mistake’ you’re the mod and you’re human, you possibly making a mistake is part of the deal of participanting in an online community.

thank you. It has happened, when i got a pretty hatefilled personal message for a mod action, that i did not even make, and that kinda hurts. I do not know what to do. I am not a iron fisted guy who can always just roll on. So i wanted to just ask what should i do in various scenarios. But apparently popular vote is that i should just punch myself in face the next time i consider doing anything, but definitely not post here a “non uplifting non news”

In our home we have “coolers” (the big kind with metal bodies and large water storage, and padded, perforforated walls). It is outside our house and blowing air inwards. We try our best to seal the area around window with lots of cardboard, fibre sheet and thermocol, and then depending on time of day, confining the space (by closing other doors in home). It is not AC cool, nor is it really effictive when it is hot (50+ C) outside, but other time it works fine. In the nights it does a pretty good job (good enough that i have caught a cold right now). When we do not want the noise, we just run the water pump, so occasional winds from outside come and are cooled by the running water. Water usage is slightly high (we usually require one filling a day, which would be 40-50 litre water i guess), but we sometimes keep cycling between pump on and off to conserve some more water. If noise is a big concern to you, you can try to basically cover whole of the front (with some sound insulating material, like fibre sheets(the polymer ones often found in packaging)) and then make some side channels for air. Or something more simple is using lighter curtains just in front of cooler. This will break the flow of air, but if you have sealed rest of the are, so air can’t leak elsewhere, then you would get air breaking its flow and flow around the obstacles and reach you, but not as loud. We do something similar, we have not covered fully, we have left partially open (60 % i guess from the middle) but to cover noise, we partially close it by window (which is kept in place by curtain over it) so we get a tighter channel of air (as it bends around the edge of window). If you stay in the channel, you get large air flow, but more noise, but if you move away from it (from my casse, even by a foot) then the noise is cut in half. The rest of the room is now cooled by this air current mixing with rest of room air. If room is large, t=you may also have to turn your ceiling fan on for this, but we do not have to.

In really peak summers (and peak hours of the day), we use ac for few hours (1-1.5 or 2) and when it gets cooler outside, fall back to cooler.

can’t disagree

In India Fieex deposits for a period of ~400 days offer that. For lower periods it is lower. It is not a great investment if you account for inflations (that would be another ~5%, so after a year, the effective value would be close to 1.07/1.05 ~= 1.0190476)

If there are no universal truths, then that would be a universal truth, self contradicting

Probably make a fixed deposit with the principal of 1 Million, and then after a year, (Assuming annual interest rate of around 7%) I would get 1.07 million, and give you 1 Million back, and still have USD 70,000, which is still a good amount to get for free. If we get quarterly interest rate, it would be slightly higher, so will try for that