Q&A on Non-Moderation Matters (Mechanics, How-To, etc.)

[dangaroo]

In Chrome for Android on a Pixel 7 phone, ads are covering the post content and can’t be dismissed. It started happening in the last 2 weeks or so and it shows up in the middle of the post, anyone else seeing this?

[dangaroo]

I should add the bloomberg ad goes into the bottom right corner of the screen when I scroll down, but if I close it and scroll back up, the post content is still obstructed by a black rectangle where it used to be.

[dfaris]

One way to fix the problem is to browse using the Brave browser. It has an ad blocker built-in, and will prevent most ads from overwriting the blog content, or displaying at all.

[sqlrob]

It looks like the picture in the onebox for Guardian vanishes after a few seconds. It’s been pretty consistent when I’ve posted links to there, not sure what other places have similar behavior.

[NukeML]

What’s up with this “Related” feature? It seems to pull in the most unrelated topics imaginable.

Good (Encouraging) stuff vs. “Fuck today”

[wazroth]

The magic wand suggests it’s an AI feature (based on other places where it’s shown up in Discourse) so… you get what you pay for, I guess?

(Though it’s also used for “Blur Spoiler” so… )

[subextraordinaire]

So AI thinks that I want to revisit old, closed threads from 2015 and 2017?

[Mindysan33]

@wazroth

it’s an AI feature

[Falco1]

@NukeML

What’s up with this “Related” feature? It seems to pull in the most unrelated topics imaginable.

I tested a few topics today and it was working well for those:

@wazroth

The magic wand suggests it’s an AI feature (based on other places where it’s shown up in Discourse) so… you get what you pay for, I guess?

(Though it’s also used for “Blur Spoiler” so… )

Streamlining that icon is in my list for next week, maybe we go with that other companies are using.

@subextraordinaire

So AI thinks that I want to revisit old, closed threads from 2015 and 2017?

There is a setting to remove closed topics from the AI pool, which is a better approach for some communities.

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I will be around to hear feedback on this feature. Maybe we can split this into a separate topic ?

[politeruin]

[Mindysan33]

That gif is never not relevant, here in our shitty “future”…

[smulder]

[politeruin]

Isn’t it though? I find myself increasingly identifying with it when i see more “AI” bullshittery being shoved in our faces as the answer to everything.

[Mindysan33]

So depressing… it’s “solutions” in search of problems that don’t exist…

[NukeML]

Instead of clearing out my garden on a sunny day like I should have, I did end up going into some of those old closed topics. A lot of old long gone once-familiar faces, for better or worse. And some choice observations like this one

[NukeML]

Looks like the options have changed again.

[Mindysan33]

I still see it on mine…

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Me too. I don’t see the wand for typing suggestions anymore, but it’s there for suggested topics.

[Mindysan33]

[NukeML]

Now I have no idea whats going on.