Gotta love a pleasant misunderstanding lol. I’m right there with you :)

I wasn’t attacking you. Sorry if it seemed that way. Was just taking a moment to expand on the idea. I promise, no fuckery or snark, zero intent to imply you would deadname anyone.

Absolutely true.

However, that doesn’t mean you can erase your old name from other people’s minds and mouths.

I still have people that call me by my middle name.

I first started using, and requesting that it be used by others, my first name innnnn… . Fuck. I think it was 86? +/- a year, in that range. So, you know, fictional Gaylord from this urban myth is likely to run into similar, and maybe worse because at least I was using a name I was assigned by my parents, which reduced friction a ton both in the family and at school.

But that was forty fucking years ago, and the majority of my family still use my middle name. There were a couple of classmates that took a year or so to switch, and a couple of assholes that refused to and even tried to weaponize it.

And neither of my names is as culturally awkward as Gaylord.

Folks reading this far that might have someone in their life that wants to be called something other than what you’re used to. Be a bro, give them that respect. They’ll value you for it.

Is everyone from .world an asshole today, or is it just you?

Dammit, that makes me want to steal a laptop just to fuck with arch

I agree with the role Rocinante plays for sure.

I just don’t think that makes the name of the horse a good question. It’s like asking the name of John Wick’s dog. The whole movie hinges on the dog, but what name it has is irrelevant.

The point of reading something like Don Quixote isn’t the names. Even Pancho’s name is barely important. Hell, I’d even argue that the fact we’re talking about Don Quixote rather than Alonso Quixano even illustrates that names aren’t exactly the prime bit of information that matters.

Now, it is hard to discuss the story without factoring in name changes. Aldonza/Dulcinea in specific is maybe the biggest symbol of what the Don is experiencing, and the underlying theme of the story. But the specific names? It’s just a bad question for a high school English teacher to ask a student.

My reasoning is that, no matter what else is retained, names only serve as a point of reference in damn near all literature. When an early exposure to old school, classical literature is happening, the student is going to already be learning three or four things at once, and memorizing the name of a non dialogue character doesn’t serve do achieve that learning, or even test how much that student retained.

You’ve got them trying to learn how to read critically, how to read archaic styles, how to retain important factors, and how to express what they’ve picked up. The name of an animal that’s essentially stage dressing akin to the sword or armor? That’s entirely the wrong question.

What would be a good one is, “what does Quixote’s horse symbolize?” Or even, “what do you think about his horse?”. Both would get the student thinking rather than trying to just pull up a word that’s arbitrary.

That bit he says about having to work through a performance to be able to get to a performance is deep as fuck.

Like, he’s inside the same person he’s always been, right? Eliot. But he had to act the role of Ellen for decades. So everything he did before transition was two acting roles at once. It was Eliot acting as Ellen acting as whatever. That’s some deep shit right there. It really gives me a flash of insight into what trans people experience that I’ve never had before.

But then! He follows up by saying that he could do his best work now, because that filter of having to act twice is gone. And I agree with the article’s author; that’s fucking beautiful.

No, it isn’t.

Most people will not retain the name of an animal that doesn’t speak. The horse has zero impact on the story, and only serves as a piece of Quixote’ personality signifiers

That’s a shitty question though. Totally irrelevant to the meat of the story, and definitely not a proof someone read the whole thing and thought about it.

I dunno, mangos make really bad roommates after a few weeks

Yeah, I ain’t mad at it. Especially with the dubious stuff an exec at mullvad did. Quad9 is my default anyway, but I did use the mullvad dns here and there.

Definitely PTB. User history of OP here has no recent examples of trolling of any kind, nor any examples of even complaining about ai. Didn’t go back far because for a ban on a troll basis to be valid, it would need to be evident in a month or less of activity. If someone isn’t trolling in that period of time at all, they aren’t a troll. They may or may not occasionally pull a troll (I’m guilty of that lol), but that isn’t the same as the level of action needed to be a troll.

Thus, no ban would be justified at all in thia case. The two things cited as reason simply aren’t there.

Tbh, it’s one of the most egregious examples of PTB I’ve seen in a while. While I’m actually very much in favor of a limited degree of admin scrutiny of mods, this is one of those cases where it would be justified for db0 to apply some degree or correction.

Edit: scrolled back even further just because I’m bored. Two months since the most teeny mention of ai in OP’s comments, and it was in no way rabid or unreasonable. A simple observation about the changes ai has caused in search results. The next most recent was a casual mention of the ai bubble, and didn’t even constitute a complaint. OP has complained on their account less about ai in three months than I have in a week in meatspace. Makes the PTB even more glaring because it means the mod in question had to go digging to find something public to object to.

I can’t tell if that is a great joke, or you’re one of those nutters that calls people slavers for having pets.

In either case, thanks for the laugh

Well, I’ll say this much, if you and your stripey kin don’t stay away from my chickens it’ll be skunks in the box.

Damn, those platform boots be lookin heavy

What do you think c/appeals would do?

If it isn’t run by the admins and mods that you would appeal to, it’s useless. An appeal that isn’t made to a person that can change the thing being appealed is just whining with extra steps. This community already serves tat purpose, and it at least has enough of a user base that it might get attention from a mod that’s being PTB accused.

So, I guess you can feel free to disagree with the fact that the established method for making appeals, or seeking changes in policy goes through the mods of a community, but that’s just delusion.

You can also feel free to start any community you want that the instance admins where it’s hosted are okay with. Hell, even though it’s pointless for the thing you’re here complaining about, it would at least be more productive than this post was lol.

For real here, you don’t have to like the responses to a PTB post. It’s pretty damn common that if the consensus verdict isn’t PTB that some degree of butthurt will occur. But if you don’t at least recognize that you’re being told in a very direct manner that what you wanted to hear is just not a reflection of reality.

Well, usually, you’ll message the mods if that community, then post a meta post in that community. No point in doing so elsewhere.

YDI.

You were beating your own personal drum when the community allows a source you don’t like.

Temp ban, comment removal, and a warning to not do it again are totally appropriate in this case.

If you don’t like an allowed source on a link driven community, the way to handle it isn’t whining in a thread, or here. You make your case first to the mods, then possibly as a meta post.

Nobody gives a fuck if any random person dislikes a given source. Nobody. What matters is community standards. As long as standards exist and are moderated evenly, it’s users’ choice to participate in that community or not.

I dunno, one day old account and going at it like that? It makes me wonder if this was just rage baiting.

Any reason why that was your only activity other than this post?

Eh, in terms of what’s good about them, they do crank out some nice riffs, and they’re easy to shout along with.

Does that make up for the edgelord shit and the genericness? Not really. And it really doesn’t make up for every song sounding almost exactly the same.

That being said, they’re listenable overall, and have a couple of songs that stand out enough to not be the metal equivalent of elevator music. But they aren’t a great band