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Unfortunately not. But as far as "for life" diseases go, crohns is a good one. I go to the hospital every two months, get a few thousand dollars of special sauce in an IV, and I'm basically symtom free. 30 years ago I'd be slowly and painfully dying as they cut out bits of bowel bit by bit.
My only complaint is that they are very expensive, so without a first world socialised medical system, they are out of reach financially.
Using money as a gate has some issues. If you don't scale the amount to the region, you effectively exclude that region. But if you do scale to the region, it encourages the spammers to simply setup their operations (either physically or virtually) in the cheapest region (physically also has the benefit of cheap labour).
Requiring unique credit cards could mitigate that, but then there is PCI issues there, and its basically no different to requiring ID.
Non-permanent is definitely fortunate, although it sucks that you got to where you are now.
On the upside, for the next few months, you'll have a great time at theme parks, concerts etc. No need to queue for bathrooms.
Enjoy your temporary butthole I guess? :D
"You ever have a nightmare where you shit yourself in front of the class? Its surprisingly relaxing"
"Its only poo if it comes from the anus region in France, this is just sparkling stomach gunk"
Crohns? My condolences, I also have it, but its been in remission thanks to antiTNF drugs.
Anyone have the odds on how long it will take for this to be circumvented?
Do you have any legit resources for the first one? How did you get started?
You could argue that when they started cracking down on account sharing it quadrupled the price for many people.
Jurisdiction dependent, but where I live, the fine increases, and eventually leads to jail time.
Quick, raise prices!
5 posts in the last week vs 100s of moderation actions taken in the last week. Thats actually a really good hit rate, which suggests that the system actually works really well.
Criticizing that system without offering any better alternative isn’t useful.
Disagree. Pointing out flaws in a proposal is important, it raises awareness so that they can be resolved.
In the jury system, content could be hidden as soon as it is reported
True of all moderation systems, but is open to abuse. Removing content, even temporarily is good way to censor opinions, by hiding them until they fall off the "new" page. Moderation usually happens quite slowly if the mods arent terminally online. A jury system may exacerbate that if the jurors aren't available to respond in time.
Penalising false reports also risks discouraging reports, and may actually just encourage "group think". And if accounts are easy to spin up, there is no real cost to abusing reports to hide content.
I actually think the current systems are actually adequate. We have a moderators who can be replaced at any time by admins, which gives oversight, and we have the ability to simply move communities to other instances if that fails.