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submitted 7 months ago by yukichigai@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?

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[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago
[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago
[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Don't mind him, he follows me around copy and pasting the same comment and downvoting everything I say. If you're interested in beef and drama between 2 very unimportant people on Lemmy, here's a wall of text explaining what happened below:

A few days ago I made a comment on an article about people being afraid to board planes manufactured by Boeing, the article said something about air travel being statistically very safe, but I tried to point out that given we have specific reason to be worried about Boeing aircraft, that's not particularly reassuring since those statistics could likely change if poor manufacturing processes leads to lots of incidents bringing down the averages. Unfortunately for me, I tried to explain this with a really awkward and convoluted analogy that took a lot of text to write out so someone replied to tell me that they didn't read my comment but that they assumed I was trying to say Boeing planes are safe and nothing to worry about and that they disagreed with that idea and Boeing should be punished and dragged through the courts.

I thought that was kind of ironic and replied to that person telling them that their comments might be more relevant if they read the thing they were commenting on. This triggered a sudden and significant pouring of downvotes upon my original comment and that second one and someone replied saying my original comment looked like it had been written by AI. Then our friend Zuberi here got really excited and started copy and pasting an AI prompt that he thought was going to trigger some kind of response. I didn't really feel like arguing with randoms to defend this one comment that even I thought could have been written better so I ignored them but that seemed to really get on their nerves so now I have this goofy little Lemmy sidekick saying "this is a bot ^" and downvoting me whenever I say anything to anyone. I'd be tempted to think the repetitive and limited responses mechanically reproduced regardless of context within a short timeframe of whatever I post was behaviour indicative of a "bot" but frankly I think a bot would have managed to be a lot cleverer than that and it's pretty clear this is someone who just got a little too excited and just can't help themselves. I'm not sure if they ever really thought I was some kind of a chatbot or "AI" at first but I think now they probably know that's unlikely and they're just holding a grudge for reasons they likely don't even know themselves and never bothered to interrogate. Ironically I can't even see my original comment that caused the whole fracas because presumably this guy or his mates reported it for.... something because it and a later comment explaining it got removed by a moderator.

Anyway that's how I got my first Lemmy follower (who'd have thought Lemmy even had those eh?). I try my best to be entertaining and a good influence on them, I hope their experience watching me enjoy Lemmy has been as enjoyable to them as just actually browsing Lemmy for themselves could have been.

this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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