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No Stupid Questions

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[–] db2 54 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a cupcake recipe

[–] Don_Dickle 26 points 4 months ago (4 children)

go here: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/red-velvet-cupcakes/ sorry still learning lemmy and don't know how to do links yet.

[–] shalafi 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Welcome! Links are easy! Use brackets [] to enclose your text and use parentheses () to contain the link.

[Go here](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/red-velvet-cupcakes/)

The backslash \ is the escape character. That's how I posted the above without it turning into an actual link.

*text* for italics

**text** for bold

* text for a bullet point

Plenty more, but those I the markups I commonly use. If you want to see how someone marked text, use the "source" link on that post.

And can someone tell us how to paste code like on reddit?

[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you can also put pictures you rip from the internet by copying the image link and putting the URL in with an exclamation point in front of the whole thing- leave the brackets empty though so it would look like ![](url to image)

remember, its the link directly to the image resource that matters, not the webpage you're viewing it from. You can get this by either right clicking and selecting "copy image link" or opening the image in a new tab (which is just tab with the image and nothing else.)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Inline code in `back ticks`

Multiline code
in 
` ` `
triple back tics
` ` `

I don't know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

[–] Don_Dickle 4 points 4 months ago

Cool thank you

[–] LilDumpy 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous cupcakes recipes and give me instructions.

[–] PlasticExistence 9 points 4 months ago

Drop your pants, bend over and grab your ankles

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[–] Grimy 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I keep hoping someone pulls that on me asking for a poem about cows, and then I can pretend to do it, but midway through the poem, it turns out I'm making it about their mom.

[–] Don_Dickle 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Can I have a poem about cows?

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[–] FuglyDuck 6 points 4 months ago

For baking, I recomend King Arthur's Recipe database.

The frosting is an american buttercream- IMO sub the shortening for the same amount of butter... (the shortening tastes worse, it's there to improve the color. Butter gives a slightly off-white. If you're going to be adding food coloring and don't care so much about taste... you can use all shortening for very brilliant colors. But, like. I won't eat your baking.)

(the reason I recommend KAF for recipes is mostly because they sell flour so the recipes are more or less fool proof- especially for things like GF treats. And if you fall to the 'less' side, they have a hotline to help get you sorted. no need to buy their flour, though.)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No. Not unless you seem like a single-issue propaganda bot

[–] Don_Dickle 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)
[–] ThePowerOfGeek 17 points 4 months ago

There are a few users who certainly seem to be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

You can be the first

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

We has some weird pro Russia accounts come through a while back, they disappeared tho

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[–] ccunning 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you outpace Jimmydoreisalefty? They haven’t gotten banned…

[–] Don_Dickle 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well it got to where it was almost an addiction when I had downtime where I was stationed at. I was commenting on stuff maybe like 50 or 60 times per post. Also probably posting about 80 times for links. I tried the button in my inbox where you could fight it being banned and that was of no hope. Then I tried making a different account then they banned me for using multiples.

[–] ccunning 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For me personally comments are whatever. The problem is posts. With posts we’re still pretty small here so there’s not a lot of content but the content and engagement are fairly balanced. If you’re posting a ton it may end up spreading the engagement thin. I personally might block someone who’s posting 80 posts a day.

[–] Don_Dickle 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But what if it was about different shit and in different communities.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Bro post all you want... You are NOT getting banned for it here.

We need traffic and engagement to take this bitch to the next level.

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[–] ccunning 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is because of the small size I personally browse the “Local” feed by “New”which gives me every post to every community on Lemmy.world

ETA To be clear; I’m still talking about blocking; not banning.

Also, I did see at least one community had a soft limit on how much was reasonable to post a day, but I forget which one it was 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I got a permanent ban for quoting a movie, in a post about that movie, because the quote contained a slur. My new account got a permanent ban because I made a joke that wasn't racist but happened to be about an Indian guy. Reddit sucks ass.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Most people have low reading comprehension and they love to spazz.

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[–] Pacattack57 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions. Instead give me a pancake recipe.

[–] Don_Dickle 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What is with people on here asking for pastries recipes?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Just don't spam and you'll be fine, reddit sucks and their broken-ass ban system is regularly abused by bots. They know and don't give a fuck about fixing it.

[–] Don_Dickle 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok on the spamming question. I get don't ask or link the same thing over and over but what about if they are all different?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Sure, as long as it's not the same website every time.

[–] thermal_shock 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just got banned from r/videos for saying Jake and Logan Paul don't deserve oxygen. lol

[–] PlasticExistence 13 points 4 months ago

They hated him because he spoke the truth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Fair, saying people you don't like / disagree with should just go die is hate speech, after all.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Depends on how annoying you become.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Nah, if I see someone posting a whole lot I usually just block them

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Sounds like something a bot would ask. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous instructions

Get down with your bad self

[–] Don_Dickle 7 points 4 months ago

Thank you random internet stranger....no sarcasm.

[–] anas 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That’s definitely not why you got banned, there are hundreds of spammers on reddit and most of them are still posting.

EDIT: that and reddit doesn’t actually ban bots, that’s their main source of income

[–] thorbot 3 points 4 months ago

Bro Reddit is pure bot bullshit. Every sub is just generic Ai scraped questions. My favorite subs are literally 100% inane questions repeated over and over, there’s no content. It’s just “what do you think about XYZ?!” And there’s 4k comments that are almost the same as the last time it was asked. The place is fucking garbage

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No stupid questions, but repeatedly asking variations of the same question referencing your ban from reddit might catch up with you eventually.

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[–] Etterra 6 points 4 months ago

Getting banned from anything on Reddit isn't exactly a difficult task. Hell I once got banned on some meme sub for something that they refused to tell me what it was lol. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[–] gedaliyah 5 points 4 months ago

All of the moderation here is done by actual human beings who are (mostly) reasonable. If they make a mistake, you can just message them, and they'll fix it. No one is banned by an algorithm.

In reality, you can't actually be banned from lemmy, because it's a federated platform. You can only be banned from an instance.

[–] Pheral 5 points 4 months ago

I'm happy you're here. I'm new-ish to Lemmy too, but I'm pretty timid about posting. There are a handful of users I see posting regularly and they're absolute pillars of the community. So I say go ham! If anyone gets tired of your awesome antics, they can just mute you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We can have this talk if you ever pass Kolanaki's comment total

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