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That sub was always prone to lengthy back and forths with mods because their standards are set essentially barely below what a masters or PhD student could be expected to produce.

It’s worth it, because it was/is the single best sub for finding both bredth and depth of information. Them insisting on high standards is what made it worth going to.

But holy Hannah, it does make it difficult to contribute with niche interests if you don’t already have some degree of knowledge about how historiography is done. My background was nothing near that, and I had no interest in spending a week or more doing edits until I got everything up to snuff the one time I ran across a question I could answer.

I did try a couple of times, but the kind of research and reporting I’d done was always more casual, with next to zero need to cite much of anything beyond a quick note.

My steam ran out after maybe the third attempt to get things up to standard. Never actually made the comment, because I respected their standards and didn’t want to give them extra work removing unacceptable comments when it was easier to just message a draft.

Which, I kinda think they might be better off implementing that as their default, if there’s a way to make it manageable. It would be way less hassle for users too.

Since there are other subs with less stringent requirements for history questions, I’m glad there’s a place online that average folks can interact with experts at a high standard.

But dayum, I can imagine the chaos and annoyance on your end lol.

Normally I’d skip this without answering since I don’t use porn any more. But I used to, and I have an answer that ignores the letter of the question but may honor the spirit of it.

Back years ago, spoof porn existed. I had never cared much about porn in terms of what it was as long as the performers weren’t hamming it up sexually. You know, the over faked stuff.

But then I ran across the “this ain’t” series and it hit my absurdist funny boner. Enough so that after the intended purpose was served, I wouldn’t rush to hit the stop button like usual. I’d let whatever scene it was finish out, and then pick back up there the next time.

However, those days are past, and porn has almost entirely lost the ability to be enjoyable on any level, even with that kind of silliness involved.

But erotica? That’s different. A nice book, more particularly short story collections. I don’t even much care what the subject matter is, it’s about how the writers convey the ideas. It may or may not end up arousing, but it’s still more fun across the board than video based porn. Even bad erotica, or the really weird stuff is fine by me.

What’s really funny to me is that I used to write erotica, specifically custom erotica on commission. By the time the bottom dropped out of the custom fiction and custom erotica market, I was pretty meh about the field of erotica as a writer or reader.

But, I’m the opposite of someone with aphantasia. My inner movie screen is very vivid. To the extent that reading can provide me with visuals in my head as good as most movies, if I have quiet and time to sink in all the way. So, sometimes, erotica kind of is porn, if it’s a longer story. Doesn’t work as well with the short stories though.

I hereby move to end southern baptists

Right now, interstellar is the only app that works with piefed

Which, it’s not my favorite app, but it definitely works fully as far as I’ve seen. Haven’t tested every function though.

That’s a major flaw in lemmy. No ban notifications. Or, I’ve never gotten one. Like, rock n roll, ban me, especially if it’s justified. But since lemmy doesn’t let me know, if a mod doesn’t send a “fuck off and die” note, I may not find out I’m banned for months (like your situation, it wasn’t until someone else brought it to my attention).

But I do have multiple accounts, and if you want to ban me instead of just this account, you gotta let me know so I can filter shit out so I don’t vote on an alt or make a comment while I’m piddling around or whatever.

Also, apologies for going off topic since the mod action taken against the OP is the point of posting here, PTB. With no specifics given, and the total lack of anything hinting at racism in your years on lemmy, I can’t see this being a justified ban. Like you said, you’re human enough to put on an asshole hat now and then (less than me most likely, but still), but racism just isn’t something you’ve indulged in even in jest that I’ve ever seen.

Eh, that seems like a shit ton of clutter for no real benefit.

As it is, if someone wants the info, it’s easy to get, but doesn’t add more junk to the UI

I’m all in on goat.

Thanks for that. My eyeballs retreated into my skull and made their escape through my ears. They just texted me from florida.

No worries :)

Sailors are gay, obviously

I’m always torn over that for my various accounts.

On one hand, I genuinely don’t object to any pronouns being used for me, even in person. At most, if someone is being a jerk, I’d object to their motivations.

On the other hand, there are communities and instances (as well as other forums away from the fediverse) where having something there is a sign of support for those that do have pronoun preferences in a world that’s really shitty towards such.

From my end of things, the act of leaving them off and accepting any that come is a statement that I don’t see any gender applied to me as a negative thing. It isn’t a bad thing if people think I’m a woman, a man, non binary, cis or trans.

So I end up in decision paralysis and just don’t put anything there at all.

Can’t complain about that!

Well, I’d generally point to Wikipedia and say that’s as much as most people could ever need to know without a specific reason to go deeper.

Really, all it takes to understand what’s being talked about in the news is there, plus details.

For even less stringent uses, you could break it down to being a monotheistic religion that shares roots with judaism and christianty and has wide ranging rules that sometimes conflict with other religions and/or philosophies/moral codes.

Hell, most people, most of the time, all they need to know to get through life is that it’s a religion. Even that’s only necessary for casual conversations so you don’t have to interrupt and ask what that word means.

From what I’ve read on it, only when someone is way over consuming often enough that it lingers at a higher level long enough. Otherwise it fades when the high does, or not long after.

Can’t say I’m surprised. The evidence that’s publicly known was damning, and the retrial was based on a really narrow section of the state’s case, so they didn’t lose any ground that would matter in terms of what most people would use to reject the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Might have led to a longer deliberation, but from what I’ve seen/heard you can’t predict that anyway

Man, that’s me with elertroweak unification. I didn’t really understand the weak force to begin with, so it being unified with another is so far beyond my capacity I just have to call it magic

Aren’t the Brits more viral historically? Go, inject themselves into another organism and force it to produce more brits.

Completely fake, no anon ever gets into college.

Completely gay, watching another dude jerk it without offering at least a dutch rudder

That’s just what a lamp would ask!

Seriously though, it’s a meme thing. It goes in cycles. Sometimes it’s beans. Sometimes it’s Gowron (glory to the empire!). Sometimes it’s people posting about how southsamurai has the most epic beard on the planet. Sometimes it’s moths.