Meh. I don’t much mind, personally The notification is nice but I’m not so invested in most of my posts that I ever have an issue if one gets chomped. You do what you can do and I appreciate the modding
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Yeah… No one walks around recording every little thing I say (mercifully) so i never adopted the attitude that I should expect the things I say online to be permanent. I only get upset when I believe I’m being targeted due to grudges or something like that. But when a comment gets swept to the ether with the whole conversation it doesn’t bother me much.
Happy Thanksgiving BoingBoing!
And Happy Thanksgiving Orenwolf in particular.
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I reiterate my gripe:
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FYI, that’s being discussed next door:
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The women around here get misunderstood so often, AI wouldn’t necessarily make that worse…
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What Tamsin said.
I’m a Black woman in America; I already have to “be careful what I say,” regardless of AI.
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I’m sorry, I didn’t mean you specifically, or to sound like I was telling you what to do. I thought my meaning would be clear in the context of the AI “summarize” feature. Perhaps not.
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No need to apologize; no offense was taken.
In fact, please pardon my brusk retort; not meant to be directed at you, personally.
Just stating an unpleasant fact, coupled with my growing ire for all the recent attempts to cajole me into using shitty tech that just poorly remixes and regurgitates whatever content you feed it.
No, Google: I do NOT want to use “AI assist.”
No, Boing Boing: I do NOT want shitty AI to summarize anything, ever.
It does a terrible job; so there is no point in using it.
‘AI’ is a misnomer; there is no ‘intelligence’ in what basically equates to putting everything you can find into a blender and then dumping the resulting mixture back out.
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I feel there is some biased moderation going on here in Boing Boing. I literally posted the SAME story from SF Standard a few hours before this one, and it was marked ‘off topic’ and hidden.
Admins, what’s going on?
How many times does it need to be pointed out that this is a community-moderated site? Most of the time, it’s your peers in the community that have flagged a post that gets hidden. The moderator rarely does that unilaterally. If you don’t like that, you can petition directly to @orenwolf for the post to be reinstated, but whinging about it on the thread is itself off-topic.
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I just find it interesting how ‘arbitrary’ the moderation decisions seem to be, whether community or ‘moderator’ based. Same content gets flagged if posted by some people, lauded if posted by others. And there are certain posters with ‘power user’ roles who do seem to have a thing about going after certain people. This is not the first time. Perhaps you should consider what sort of culture you are cultivating here?
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ok, this is just ridiculous. you are flagging my comments about moderation bias in a topic about moderation bias as being ‘off topic’? Clearly, there are bigger issues here with the moderators.
I still see all your comments on this topic. What makes you think they’re being flagged here? 
Since your link was the same as RickMycroft’s, for the record, I would assume it was your “Was anyone here responsible for this?” that made people take issue with your post.
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Someone is reversing the moderation decisions after someone else removes them. I am getting a flurry of ‘your post was hidden’, ‘your post was unhidden’ emails. Something is broken with the process if it allows trol ling like this.
Also, why is trol ling rewritten as driving trollies?
I think you are better suited to participating at a site that doesn’t use community moderation.
All the best.
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Same story and attempted to blame mutants. I doubt you were moderated for the link.
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original post flagged as ‘off topic’ again.
yet there are follow up posts talking about flatworms… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Which post is that? Do you mean the one where you essentially implied a happy mutant was involved in setting the Waymo on fire?
If so, I’d ask why you’re so attached to that post staying visible.
Would you be happier if it had been flagged “inappropriate” rather than “off topic?”
The flatworm digression is on-topic insofar as it’s become a discussion about whether “self-driving” vehicles are capable of reasoning or learning, and the flatworm analogy provided a useful (imo) basis for that conversation.
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It’s just sooo beautiful that here we can go from self driving cars to flatworms!
LOVE this too much! More please.
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Same here. It’s one of my favorite things about the conversations here, the wacky little side tunnels we end up on.
And, to the topic of this thread, I rarely see those interesting side tunnels get flagged unless they’re either offensive or are detracting from a very serious issue, like violence against vulnerable populations. Those get flagged or moved.
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