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Vote early. Order up. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/washington@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53292583

The early voting for the Midterms is now available in many places. You can early vote at a polling place: https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state

Or you can use mail-in voting: https://www.eac.gov/voters/national-mail-voter-registration-form

It's highly recommended to avoid election day voting in person, and vote early.

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[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ballots in Kitsap were sent on the 9th, if you haven't got yours yet, you should print one online on https://votewa.gov.

It felt great to vote against all three of Brian Heywood's terrible initiatives.

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    The only spam worth spamming. Go vote.

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    [–] -5 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

    Get rid of this fucking spam bot.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

    You’re free to block this community, or bot or glance at the sidebar Tropical.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

    Building and implementing bot spam communities is something which we should culturally consider inappropriate. This is a 100% spam community, even if well intentioned. It has no place in the project and as a community, we should name and shame those building and promoting these kinds of communities.

    If you want this community to be a thing, there is nothing wrong with community built around supporting voting. But post and engage in that community organically. We've enough 0 traction, spam communities already.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    This is for a specific and very important goal and limited in time. You’re welcome to your opinion, but as I said, you have plenty of tools to filter it.

    The purpose of this community is very clearly stated, and it has traction.

    You’re welcome to either block the bot and use this community for discourse or create your own.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago

    You are also welcome to shut down a bot which is principally for the purposes of spamming /new.

    Its irrelevant that its something you consider to be important (and I would generally agree), because a genuinely toxic and destructive, and deteriorating practice to the broader fediverse.

    It does not belong here and you should stop. If you want this to exist, manually post these things and organically engage. otherwise please shut down to bot. Its destructive the the entirety of the project of the fediverse.

    Low quality low effort spam posting should result in a temporary ban.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (7 children)

    Complain about it when it's useless or damaging. Voting isn't, and reminding people to do so isn't either.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

    There is a bot reposting Christian AI slop. Your moral preferences that one is a priority and the other are irrelevant to them both being spam.

    If you think voting is a priority, post about it. Comment about it. Do not set up a spam bot about it.

    All spam is damage.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The bot is doing a great job reminding people to vote, I'd prefer to let it continue doing so. No need to have a person remember to post the same message every day for a few weeks, that's exactly what automation is for

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Tropical, you’re barking up the wrong tree.

    I waited 3 weeks for anyone do start anything grassroots here on lemmy to encourage early voting. Nobody posted anything. I designed a couple of cards and created a community. The bot is posting them because I’m not chronically online.

    This is happening because nothing else was happening. You are far more online than I am, engaging in many more communities than me too. In your post history you haven’t mentioned early voting once, so I’m not sure early voting is as important to you as posting a lettuce meme.

    So far, of all the cards posted I am the only one crossposting them.

    You can block this community, you can block the bot if you don’t want to see its posts in /new. You can block me if you don’t want to see the crossposts until Nov 3. I highly recommend those options as I will not tolerate anything that comes even close to voting discouragement in this community.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Then just post it yourself instead of using a spam bot. And if you can't be online enough to do it, then don't do it, because it's obviously not a priority for you.

    And if it is a priority, then get engaged and post and comment and steer those discussions.

    But don't just add spam to an already spam filled space. It's not an acceptable option. If you don't have time either make time or don't do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    What you’re describing sounds like an overal personal problem with bots being part of the infrastructure of an online community, and once again I am the wrong person and this is the wrong community to discuss this.

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