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When you roll a nat 1...
Naw.
The DM broke out the special dice (see below,) and turned it to a divine 1. Just for that guy….
(Edit: credit where it’s due)
20 should be fuck you
Why are there so many fucking accounts less than 30 days old? Do y'all just keep making accounts every week? Are there this many newer Lemmings?
Reddit did another stupid, so there's plenty of new joiners
Not long ago Reddit introduced a new policy thatpunishes people for upvoting bad posts, which includes posts about Luigi Mangione. After that, people have been moving into Lemmy as an alternative.
Thank you for the context. Always happy to see growth, the paranoid bit of me always jumps to the worst conclusion.
nah, they're all me. I'm creating accounts to fake the numbers :)
@Object @Speculater I want to try to understand this better. What's a 'bad post', and who decides what that is? It sounds arbitrary from how you say it, but there must be some kind of logic to any enforceable rule.
I certainly understand the example of Luigi (even if I disagree with it), but what's the broader rule in effect here?
I don't assume it's not stupid, mind you. Reddit's been doing stupid things for awhile now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditSafety/comments/1j4cd53/warning_users_that_upvote_violent_content/
The Reddit admins, of course. They say that upvoting contents that violates their policy can get your account flagged, and Luigi posts happen to fall under "violence".
So yeah, it isn't completely arbitrary, but ultimately vague.
This reference may or may not be before your time .. forgive me, I've seen this before.
Think of it as "Eternal September" and you'll be able to take it in your stride .. brace yourself, this is going to happen more and more, at least for a while.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
To be fair, I'm only noticing because I've switched to Voyager and it shows which accounts are newer, but there's a ton! My instinct is to think troll farms. But, I'll be happy to live in an eternal September.
Yeah, Voyager here too. The indicator helps evaluate if I care enough to respond. As for Eternal September, it was a doozy and the road was pretty rough.
That said, I'm still here, so there's that 😇
Pretty sure it’s another wave of refugees.