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I don't know if the functionality exists yet for the mods/admins, but I think it's pretty safe to assume any links pointing to that domain are coming from bots/spammers and the accounts should just be automatically banned. I first saw that site linked to about 2 days ago from variations on the username "johnson", then from a (new) account named debbie, and today from kelvinwashington to worldnews and now here.

It's all clickbait ad-laden garbage and it's getting tiresome having to report each instance of it.

Seems more economic than political to me, but also why such the strong reaction to an on-topic reply? As you even said yourself:

I don’t really care all that much about any particular issue. I enjoy copying the ideas suggested by others in the fediverse and transforming them into new issues, as many individuals do not take this initiative.

Your account has existed for all of 3 hours and you're trying to come off like a well-known fixture of the community whose opinions are above reproach. I'll also say it seems suspect how quickly detracting comments are earning downvotes but not replies in this post.

In short, I don't believe you, your post or its engagement, are sincere.

Imagine a social media landscape where every piece of content is perfectly tagged

working tirelessly to make your online experience safer and more enjoyable

All of this feels a little disingenuous when it's not even mentioned that all this tagging and classifying would also make it much easier for training LLMs or tracking groups/individuals/movements.

*pique :)

Username Johnsoncentral, registered ~50 minutes ago, linking to the domain central24 -- pretty sure their intention isn't to inform but to drive traffic to their site.

I don’t mean that the contact should be deleted, I think it should still be in the database. For the reason you said, so you can see the history of activity. But I’m saying there should be a way to mark they’re not at that organization anymore. A one click button that flags them as past employee rather than active - and then those contacts are still in the database but displayed differently to make it easier for the sale team to direct their attention.

The database does not include that boolean field that can be queried and acted upon. The front end viewer class doesn't have methods to change the presentation of results. It would require someone to implement those features and that would either cost money or development time.

What's a philosophical equivalent of the above response to your open ended, no specific answer, question?

I get that I'm either the guidance counselor in Clerks searching for the perfect carton or Harry from In Bruges [NSFW], but I still believe that rules and principles are important and there's no reason to have them if they aren't enforced.

The rules are clearly not enforced in this community. This troll posted obvious bait yesterday too, was reported, and the post is still up and they have not been warned/banned.

Is it just that members of the same species are better at picking up on the differences from the thing being imitated that this camouflage doesn't work against mate pairing to the point of extinction? Intuitively it feels like this poor moth would spend large amounts of time investigating/courting actual dead leaves, or just constantly flying past potential mates without even realizing it.

Do you suspect there's a larger reason than they just haven't built in that functionality and don't consider it a priority? What kind of answers are you expecting to get from this community? What reasons have the companies that lacked this feature given you when you asked about it?

I was hoping there was some law (or at least fear of a lawsuit) that kept that functionality around for accessibility reasons. I suppose with the PSTN phasing out the last of the analog bits they don't even worry about rotary phones anymore. Would still be nice to have the "Shibboleet" functionality...