Hard Logic

[sovos15]

There's been a couple major updates on the website that seem to have been met with great lash back by the community. The problem I'm running into is that a vast majority of these people seem to have their ideas based in fantasy. They got something stuck in their head and even hard logic like actual math isn't enough to dispel the strange notions. People are angry and vitriolic about things that aren't real. People are still screaming crazy stuff. "less bits" no more bits "ok but the most bits from reporting!" no ~16bits a day from reports, 30 from following people... One of your biggest model contributors just left believing that 80% of the platform is angry. That sucks. That's an injury.

I'm here posting to the code base because I want to know how much power you have to save the platform from bad actors. We have seen in recent years that the most effective hack starts on the coder. In this case on the community/management. I imagine it's even easier to convince management of a bad course of action then a coder. Regardless of how the current security ecosystem plays, It's obvious these people are very stupid or outright dishonest, and ether way that's the problem I'm worried about. Choices driven by bad data/lies.

The people doing this seem to simply be trying to destroy the platform, out of anger about a fantasy, or for some unknown reason, but they talk about the death of the platform, it's on their minds, and they are causing as much damage as possible.

I see them trying to get you to do that damage yourselves, to yourselves. They seem to think that if they push hard enough, with enough lies, the management will start asking you coders to make changes that damage the platform. Big users making posts like "i'm locking all my models until you fix ____" are scary to me. Especially when that thing is fixed and then you go look in the bio of that person and it state's they left, aren't here. So who's posting?

Regardless of what management want's or says I imagine someone had to code the change to make NSFW content worth less for example. Detect the first post a day and make a change isn't quite as easy as the bit's thing. Someone with the hard logic needed to code could have gone. No lets not merge that. No that's going to piss people off, no most of our community is NSFW, no lets not destroy the platform. Granted that's maybe not the hill anyone would want to die on, my question is simply "do you have any such a hill?" you know... where's the line?

The management has bought into this DEI idea. It's literally espoused in the job portal. If they understand it or not they have publicly claimed a belief in antiracist racism, and a desire for anti bias bias. It's an ideology based on adherence to oxymorons. So what do you do when your management is looking for illogical people? They say they want crazy people at all levels of the company. That seems not entirely unrelated as the community erupts with illogical people screaming "up is down!" and "left is right!", asking you to fix it or they'll remove all their work from the platform! When they already have removed all their work. I'd say management created that environment to some extent. I really just want to know what can be done to stop it.

How far can management run into left field before the coders dig in, or stop? Are you along for the ride? Pro woke, ok going broke, let the bad times roll as long as it means I get to feel good about myself for having done all this harm? To be clear I'm not here bitching about rainbow flags or whatever, that is the weapon of choice for these folks. They like to strawman. They love illogic so they trade in fallacy. No, enjoy pride month, be gay as fuck. Make the homepage all LGBTQ++ for pride month and all the more gay furry porn, whatever, seriously. Not an issue, I'd welcome the stats. If you get a huge influx cool, you wouldn't, you know you wouldn't, and if you got a huge dip in users you would know better then to do it again at least. Obviously not a good choice to do something that hurts you again. It's the brain rot called DEI that would have people do it again and again, over and over, even with the dips getting worse because "it's the right thing to do" that worries me. The direct single point contradictions, oxymorons that are their axioms for life. What that means in light of what seems to be a bot army pushing nonsensical narratives about the state of things. Outright lies.

Knowing your bosses are susceptible to illogical arguments. Blatantly so. Right or wrong I tend to believe coders require some level of logic in order to be able to code. Maybe that assumption is wrong, so here I am asking.

How do you all feel about this?
Is there hope?

[sovos15]

With the new wildly unpopular buzz update following the previous wildly unpopular buzz update, given that day one the community pointed out you can just bypass the restriction by using blue for a lora and then spending blue to use the lora and launder it into yellow...

This after the previous change to "stop bots" that also just hurt the community and you aren't going to roll that back, just make more batshit unthought changes.

It seems time to bump this and ask now instead. Do you notice? You incompetent bosses. Did you notice that your competent coders don't exist?

Why do you think that is?