Lemmy's Image Problem
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The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.

Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    4 months ago

    Imagine you get approval to build a new park and playground for your neighbourhood. You spend hundreds of hours designing the plan and layout and you spend incredible amounts of your own money to get the resources.

    You get to work and things are going well. As you near the end of months upon months of work, the park finally opens for families and kids to use.

    As you’re standing there proud of your work, some people come over to you. Do they say “thank you!” or “you did amazing work”? No, they come over to complain about things that are missing, tell you what you should have done better, that you didn’t accommodate their each specific needs, etc.

    You would very quickly get bitter and demoralized.

    Like I mentioned before: this is a massive problem in the open source development world and has killed many great projects. This has nothing to do with “mental attention” and everything to do with users abusing the devs and their time.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      4 months ago

      In your analogy, the park didn’t follow any safety guidelines and people are dying on the rides and falling into a lake with piranhas.

      • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        the park didn’t follow any safety guidelines and people are dying on the rides and falling into a lake with piranhas.

        In my analogy it’s a park with trees, bushes, rocks, and slides. I said “park in your neighbourhood” not “mega-extreme rollercoaster park”. I also said “you got approval” which is generally from the city or other governing municipal/county/regional body. And that also requires a plan to be submitted before approval is stamped.

        So no, what you did is make up a bunch of crap to strawman my argument and try to make what I said wrong in some way.

        Nice try.