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Annoying: people who like a lot of posts in a row for some reason, spamming my notifications with uselessly generic and identical 'updates'. Or, the forum equiv. of Brief and Match/Fiverr notification spamvertizing.
Less annoying: said likes seemingly building my "rank" (but presumably not my "posting privilege" because lol).
Overly long P.S.: I don't regard posting on any online forum as a privilege. This can clearly be seen from the huge amount of useless posts on here (thanks, congrats, all that jazz) and indeed any other forum where anyone may share their thoughts, whether they be insightful or particularly stinky guano. It did strike me from that discussion elsewhere on the forum where the drama fizzled out because everyone was nice and thoughtful (boring, but congrats on the adulting!) that the only people who seem to care about "posting privilege" are those who have fallen on the wrong side for whatever reason and are silenced. I suppose that would wake your sense of privilege up, but it's not privilege, it's just lazy, automated [bad wording] that hardly solves the issues and indeed brings up more.
Anyway, it's nice to see that people have been warned for suggesting that more shepherding might be a more effective tactic than limiting posts. Is this where the ugly specter of racism comes in - as in "not wanting to seem" by "impacting certain groups" who are "more likely to"? It's certainly discrimination if you approach it from that angle (and what large corporation isn't at least a bit woke these days?), but the way I see it, it's a wimpy excuse. You want a good forum, then it needs consistent, fair [bad wording] based on concrete rules that apply to everyone. You want millions of "congratulate me for doing something that tens, if not hundreds of thousands have achieved" posts, um.... yeah. And there will always be some chippy little [insert your favorite bad word for an irritating person here] who screams racism when they are disciplined for something that had precisely [bad word] all to do with their skin color. Let me be clear in case someone tries to misread this: in instances where someone has done or said something racist, of course action should be taken. But if that person had, for example, consistently posted their gig in the wrong category and been blah blah blah and then got disciplined and then said "YOU ARE RACISTS!", well no, shut up and sit down because it's time for a good [old-fashioned and unfashionable disciplining method typically involving slippers and/or wooden spoons].
So, basically, active sheeple managers are needed, not automated beep-boops. Those sheeple managers will of course be racist, simply because of the task that befalls them. And there's the issue, in a nutshell, and why the people who shouldn't be worrying about something as nonsensical as "forum posting privilege" do - and their counterparts go on their merry way. With, I expect, zero thought to any of this and more to how this is going to make them $$$.
And that's my 2c. I've probably said nothing new! And this won't get fixed, so us privileged limited posters will simply have to tug our forelocks and pray to the Gods privileges favors us today. On my wall, because I can't be bothered to wade through the forum posting labyrinth... and perhaps it's like 0.0001% safer to post this stuff on my wall. I have no idea! Well, thanks for coming to my TED talk, you can go away now.
EDIT: I didn't proofread this or anything so w/e, have at it
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Well, the swimming thing got nipped in the bud today!
Yes, I am a little surprised about the paid sheeple management not being more, uh, well, they're being paid, get my drift? I haven't noticed that a more heavy hand with female users, but that's mostly because I haven't really been here very much. Interesting, though. Still, perhaps not unexpected...
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Annoying: people who like a lot of posts in a row for some reason, spamming my notifications with uselessly generic and identical 'updates'. Or, the forum equiv. of Brief and Match/Fiverr notification spamvertizing.
Less annoying: said likes seemingly building my "rank" (but presumably not my "posting privilege" because lol).
Overly long P.S.: I don't regard posting on any online forum as a privilege. This can clearly be seen from the huge amount of useless posts on here (thanks, congrats, all that jazz) and indeed any other forum where anyone may share their thoughts, whether they be insightful or particularly stinky guano. It did strike me from that discussion elsewhere on the forum where the drama fizzled out because everyone was nice and thoughtful (boring, but congrats on the adulting!) that the only people who seem to care about "posting privilege" are those who have fallen on the wrong side for whatever reason and are silenced. I suppose that would wake your sense of privilege up, but it's not privilege, it's just lazy, automated [bad wording] that hardly solves the issues and indeed brings up more.
Anyway, it's nice to see that people have been warned for suggesting that more shepherding might be a more effective tactic than limiting posts. Is this where the ugly specter of racism comes in - as in "not wanting to seem" by "impacting certain groups" who are "more likely to"? It's certainly discrimination if you approach it from that angle (and what large corporation isn't at least a bit woke these days?), but the way I see it, it's a wimpy excuse. You want a good forum, then it needs consistent, fair [bad wording] based on concrete rules that apply to everyone. You want millions of "congratulate me for doing something that tens, if not hundreds of thousands have achieved" posts, um.... yeah. And there will always be some chippy little [insert your favorite bad word for an irritating person here] who screams racism when they are disciplined for something that had precisely [bad word] all to do with their skin color. Let me be clear in case someone tries to misread this: in instances where someone has done or said something racist, of course action should be taken. But if that person had, for example, consistently posted their gig in the wrong category and been blah blah blah and then got disciplined and then said "YOU ARE RACISTS!", well no, shut up and sit down because it's time for a good [old-fashioned and unfashionable disciplining method typically involving slippers and/or wooden spoons].
So, basically, active sheeple managers are needed, not automated beep-boops. Those sheeple managers will of course be racist, simply because of the task that befalls them. And there's the issue, in a nutshell, and why the people who shouldn't be worrying about something as nonsensical as "forum posting privilege" do - and their counterparts go on their merry way. With, I expect, zero thought to any of this and more to how this is going to make them $$$.
And that's my 2c. I've probably said nothing new! And this won't get fixed, so us privileged limited posters will simply have to tug our forelocks and pray to the Gods privileges favors us today. On my wall, because I can't be bothered to wade through the forum posting labyrinth... and perhaps it's like 0.0001% safer to post this stuff on my wall. I have no idea! Well, thanks for coming to my TED talk, you can go away now.
EDIT: I didn't proofread this or anything so w/e, have at it
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If I may once more put my controversial hat on (let's pretend I took it off), misogyny as a social ill just isn't very important. I point you towards the public debate on people who have "transformed." Lose the -formed; I'm unsure if this is a bad word, so I'm just going to call them transformers from now on, if necessary. Anyone who doesn't like that can take it up with the bad word filter and the art of self-censorship - quite frankly, I'd rather use the nomenclature but that's auto[badword]ing for you.
Tangent over. Anyway, I'm sure you and others reading this saw the recent stories about M2F athletes participating in women's sport; the swimming one is probably the most notorious. Now, I think most people are going to share an opinion similar to mine which is "I don't care about their personal lifestyle choices, but they shouldn't be participating in women's sport. Perhaps it's time to consider a third sporting category?" However, there are parts of the population (seemingly all on Twitter) who will absolutely fight you on that point, and I'm not even going to get into the more loopy TERF wars stuff too much - the, uh, degenderizing of a woman's, sorry, person's fun time of the month and pregnancy serve as two very mild examples (women's jails less so - and that brings up a whole can of worms full of bad words).
At the end of the day, look at what corporations and institutions are doing when it comes to this kind of misogyny (the argument here being that this is, in essence, men encroaching in and on women's spaces). It's an interesting debate, and I feel that it shares a lot with the modern racism debate. Is it really helpful? It seems to me that it creates division more than anything, and for what?
All of this can be boiled down to one thing: the misogyny issue goes quite a lot deeper than some dull [bad word] with a Madonna/"Lady of the Night" complex making tired sexist insults or whatever. The dull [bad word] is the superficial, familiar face of a pig, just as a stereotypical redneck or Bernard Manning type might be our familiar racist - but in the modern world, it's like the world's nastiest onion, full of unsavory layers to peel back. Sometimes, those layers cheapen what are grievous social ills - compare the horrors in Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit with somebody crying racism because they got disciplined for breaking the rules, for example - to the point that wedges can be driven where there were none (or fewer) previously. And sometimes, just sometimes, the refusal of "authorities" to take action for fear of upsetting whatever group might be upset is counterproductive.
I look forward to the insanity the rest of the 2020s has for us. The past 2 years have proven quite eventful, and I have no doubt that as recession/depression sets in people will get even crazier, with businesses bending over backwards to cater for it because well, $$$ 🙂 Of course, such trying times would also signal an unwelcome new seller influx not dissimilar to the COVID invasion... one wonders if Fiverr will ever become pay to play, or if some expert has already warned them of the horrid racism such a policy would have.
So, that's what I reckon. To finish this, I'd like to announce that we need to stop doing things like turning "history" into "herstory." That is not "feminism," it is blinkered stupidity on a par with everything I mention above. Etymology, people.
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I apparently can write status update posts but not replies to them @lloydsolutions. What an adventure in Byzantine this is turning out to be!
I should probably space out my visits if I don't want to be [bad worded] by [bad words]! In any case, it's the same criticism they've had since day 1, namely the appalling quality of user contributions (in general) on the FF and subreddit and the apparent disinterest of TPTB in doing anything to improve that.
One of the reasons I don't really come here (or to r/Fiverr) anymore is because good posts are few and far between, and my tongue tends to get me [potential bad word fun part 3]. With a whole internet of content to enjoy, well. Still, kudos to those of you who keep on fighting the good fight, though I do have to ask why you don't make better use of your time and do something less sisyphean (and presumably, more enjoyable)!
Anyway, bit rubbish this [IDK if this is a bad word] business, so I'll log off for the day.-
Thank you! I seem to remember we all moaned about how "complicated" Discord was when we first got that too. Now Discord seems like a model of simplicity. Oh, and I figured out the chronological thing, it's the "questions" upvote/downvote thing that messes everything up but it's only in that specific category.
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I apparently can write status update posts but not replies to them @lloydsolutions. What an adventure in Byzantine this is turning out to be!
I should probably space out my visits if I don't want to be [bad worded] by [bad words]! In any case, it's the same criticism they've had since day 1, namely the appalling quality of user contributions (in general) on the FF and subreddit and the apparent disinterest of TPTB in doing anything to improve that.
One of the reasons I don't really come here (or to r/Fiverr) anymore is because good posts are few and far between, and my tongue tends to get me [potential bad word fun part 3]. With a whole internet of content to enjoy, well. Still, kudos to those of you who keep on fighting the good fight, though I do have to ask why you don't make better use of your time and do something less sisyphean (and presumably, more enjoyable)!
Anyway, bit rubbish this [IDK if this is a bad word] business, so I'll log off for the day.-
Well, the good news is that my "rank" increased x2 in the past 1.5 days to contributor. The bad news is I have no idea how many posts that entitles me to before I'm thrown back in the dungeon!
I am also still hopeless at navigating this forum or even using it semi-competently. Like, how to add a GIF or an image? How to reply to a specific post without quoting somebody? Is there a way to see posts in chronological order without stupid upvotes and downvotes putting everything in bizarro-order so the conversation can be followed? Is there any master list of recently-updated posts that isn't the 'activity' list? What's with the spy tech of seeing who viewed your profile?
Etc. etc. etc.
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Welcome back, Emma 🙂
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Hey, Em,
You were banned for 1000 years and now you are back on the Fiverr Forum. But @jonbaas was banned until September 2021 and he is not back? At least that is what he told me when I inboxed him to tell him that formerly banned users were back on the FF.
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Feels good to be back! 🙂
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Hello! I'm not banned anymore 🙂 or 😞 if you didn't like me very much, so YMMV. The golden poop stays.
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Feel free to follow my forum account so you can get notified when I create new content! 🙂
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I had a feeling that the update might unban me (I mean, it's probably a lot of boring and mostly unnecessary work to do that, right?)
This is a very confusing layout overall at first glance. BUT it does look like it will be easier to just not see those kind of posts anymore unless we hunt for them, so it's a bit of a win.
I shall endeavor not to get banned again; I didn't like coming to look and only seeing those kind of posts as visitors have no handy filters. I am refraining from naming the type, but I'm sure you both know which type of posts I mean. Those ones.
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Feel free to follow my forum account so you can get notified when I create new content! 🙂
