humans will remain accountable

I see this a lot in clanker apologia, but it’s never clear what “accountable” actually entails. Unless it’s something of the order of a first-offense permanent ban from the project then it’s not going to dissuade anyone from being lazy meat proxies.

The company run by sex predators is doing other unsavoury shit, you say?

Require an AI SLOP disclosure.

No advertising bot is going to admit to it. The only people for whom failure to jump this hoop will be a blocker, are legit posters.

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I think it’s a deliberately bad name chosen as a Malicious Compliance type fuck-you to people who wanted it to sound “professional”.

There’s already Latex

wait what? Latex is used in tons of non-sexytime things, surely nobody’s raising an eyebrow at that?

Maybe I’m thick but that seems like the answer is the same as it is for anyone selling something on a website without blockchain.

1000% if they tried even slightly they could have passed the server to the community to support legacy gamers, but are choosing to just shut it down instead because crypto bros are always psychopaths

Yeah, the irony is that I’m sure you could do some sort of blockchain-based DRM that didn’t need a centralized server. Does such a thing exist? Patent pending…

That’s a great example of the exception proving the rule: companies across all industries do shitty things on the regular, but incidents like Jimmy Kimmel only happen when you get a once-in-a-year massive swell so big that even I heard about it, and I don’t even live in the US.

Your example doesn’t prove that the buyers control the market, it demonstrates just how weak that control is and how big a backlash is needed to get even a tiny change made.

are you a bot? I ask because that response was grammatically completely coherent and intelligent-sounding, but the entire content bore no relation to reality. I mean there’s not even anything to argue with, it was just straight up 100% wrong.

just don’t buy the games that use it

This is called the “Free Market Fallacy”, and is always a terrible defence of any shitty practice, whether it be games or vehicles or banks or HOAs. The market just isn’t liquid or efficient enough for that to be a reasonable position.

wow, I didn’t need any more reasons not to support Oracle but thanks anyway

“Outperforms 70% of Gaming PCs” is the sort of statistic you’d only quote if you thought it sounded more impressive than it actually was, and it already doesn’t sound impressive.

(edit: genuinely surprised how controversial a statement that turned out to be?)

weirdest use of that meme format to date

also the irony of 145 IQ man tripping over his own grammar

Sorry, I’m still stuck on what the limiting aspect of it is. “Operating on hundreds of pages that each have limited reach” costs next to nothing if it’s all automated with bots.

Either I’ve not understood your point, or you’re suggesting that spammers would limit themselves to one instance?

Spam is about volume, and a 0.1% takeup rate would be a dream for a spammer.

How does location specificity limit spam? Surely the nature of spam is it costs nothing to produce and is done en masse.

And I mean any kind of bad actor really. Spammer, scammer, or even just a griefer deciding the gum up the system for lulz.

To be clear these are genuine questions, I’m not here to shit on the project or anything. I’d love more than anything for there to be good answers to them.

I’m not here to cheerlead for eBay, but I don’t think that’s entirely true.

What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors?