Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don’t know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.
So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it’s not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.
This is what my last reply would have been.
(Yes I’m being snarky, but that “I’m so mature” bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)
In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.
What does the code look for when deciding if something is low quality? And how do they decide if someone is posting memes specifically? It just feels like it could easily lead to false positives if he did it poorly (or even if he didn’t)
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/7ddd5d0b69d4be8e8dd4b3a32731f3379b1b83b6/app/models.py#L2739-L2741
Specific phrases rimu doesn’t like, urls rimu doesn’t like or if it’s a meme.
Also this function could have just been a regex, or a one-liner:
return body.lower().strip() in ('this', 'this.', 'this!')There’s so much of little things like that in the code. Gif check is just stringed together if thens