Otter, otter@lemmy.ca

Is there a robust test suite?

Merge, test, merge, test, patch, merge, test

Oh good point 🤦

So maybe instead, we can clear all local + remote branches and tags, create a blank branch, delete main, rename the blank branch to main, then delete .git

Although the OP says that we can merge anything, and we might not have access to mess with branches

Goodbye fedecan.ca

I’m not sure about the git history wipe, I can’t test it myself right now

I did ban jaknapton earlier today but didn’t have a chance to reply here. We also banned itzbasicallystormy@lemmy.wtf just now.

For emkata2564@futurology.today, the downvotes no longer register for communities on our instance but they do seem to show up for those on other instances. We will put together a few messages to various admins to let them know to ban those accounts and keep an eye out for similar signups.

Thank you!

!misleadingthumbnails@lemmy.ca

On that note, I should replace the AI generated community icon.

edit: Done, the icon is now the sushi bird. It works on two levels, since it also looks like a thumb nail 😄

We did ban the user from lemmy.ca, are you seeing something different?

https://lemmy.ca/u/emkata2564@futurology.today

https://lemmy.ca/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=29304867

Thank you for the tag. I can confirm that both @petru@futurology.today and @areetx@lemmy.world appear to be a part of the same harassment / vote manipulation circle, and have been banned + content removed.

I also checked for downvotes in the past 24 hours, and those two are the only accounts that match the pattern. Looking through the data, AGM does not appear to be related to this circle. From what I can see, AGM is a regular user that coincidentally downvoted some comments on that other post where this started. Please don’t tag their user account, as they don’t seem to be involved in this.

I am sorry that this is happening to you, and I’ve passed on the method I used to identify these accounts to the rest of our team.

I’ll include the relevant parts of your other comment below, but remove it to untag the other user:

http areetx voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/areetx@lemmy.world

Petru voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/petru@futurology.today

They explain where the confusion comes from in the first two paragraphs.

Different wavelengths of light do affect some biological processes, and circadian rhythms are affected by light. From what I understand, there is some consensus that the brightness of the light source can affect sleep. There is no consensus on whether some wavelengths of light are better than others, but it was a reasonable thing to explore.

I think we need more education and practice on how to write good (or acceptable) alt text. I think people don’t know what to write, rather than not wanting to. Some potential solutions, not necessarily mastodon specific

• display the alt text for everyone, so that people can learn techniques over time
• create (or link to existing) easy to understand guides on what to include, and how to write alt text

Cat just needs one solid killshot to win.

Cat might need three, if we are going off the assumption that it needs to take out all three hearts. Although I think octopi have one “brain” type organ

Welcome!

For the rules, could you use different formatting? A lot of users use mobile apps, and some of them don’t format markdown the way Lemmy does. The spoiler tag in particular doesn’t get rendered in a lot of them.

For example, this is what I see in Boost:

Perhaps you can do something like

## Rules

1: 😇 Be Nice!

- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: **friendly**

2: 👶 Keep it at PG

Which will format like this

Rules

1: 😇 Be Nice!

• Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly

2: 👶 Keep it at PG

You could also shorten some of them to make it more likely that people will read them. For example, moving this to the bottom of the rules section, or taking it out entirely:

Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanantly banned from posting.

I also liked the old sidebar’s guidance on “complete stories” because it sums up what this community is intended for and differentiates it from “comics” and “memes”. I don’t know if it needs to be stated explicitly, but you could potentially include it right at the top with the description line.

I’m also happy to help out if the moderation load gets too much to handle. Feel free to add my LW account if at any point the team could use more hands: https://lemmy.world/u/otter

Thank you

After looking through the records from our side, we have banned the following accounts: @sxybaka@lemmy.cafe @battousai@lemmy.zip @ivar@progamming.dev @wildnessreshuff@lemmy.world @gradationstwope@lemy.lol @tactsquick@sh.itjust.works @lamdelille@ttrpg.network emkata2564@futurology.today. We also flagged an additional account internally to keep an eye on moving forward.

Sorry for not being able to deal with that sooner. However, in the future please don’t engage with the accounts as you have done in this thread. It’s reasonable to leave a public comment to call them out, but it doesn’t really help anything to engage with them further than that. You also run the risk of looping in legitimate users who are not a part of the vote manipulation circle.

Hi @HikingVet@lemmy.ca, I’m going to look into the vote manipulation reports from our end. Is this the most up to date list of the accounts to look into?

@disevani@lemmy.world set up a Pixelfed account which I have been following :)

https://pixelfed.social/disevani