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You can do this with a report button, but keeping them hidden so you don't encourage pile-ons
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Brand new chain but I get slipping in cogs 2-5ish
Not a bent hanger?
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“I became a landlord almost by accident. Our neighbour was having difficulties selling his bungalow and the owner on the other side already had a portfolio of properties he rented out so we jumped at the chance to go in 50:50 and learn from him,” he said.
In the end, their would-be business partner couldn’t afford the investment, so Mr Shields and his partner bought the property outright for £164,000 before investing £20,000 to do it up.
Almost by accident. Meaning, I deliberately fucking invested £184k into being a landlord and it was not at all an accident in any way.
“However, what worried us most was the elimination of Section 21,” he said.
"We were forced to evict our 90-year old tenant because we were scared that we wouldn't be able to evict him later. In other words, we were always going to evict a 90-year-old, but it's Labour's fault we did it now"
Absolute cunts. Also the Telegraph: absolute cunts.
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However, it was the threat of an even higher tax rate on capital gains from property – widely thought to be under consideration in October’s Budget – that finally made the decision for him.
If the Government decided to increase the tax on gains from property, sales analysis shows the average landlord would be £11,000 worse off.
“Speculation varied but some had the rate going as high as 45pc,” he said. “Turns out that Rachel Reeves didn’t put up capital gains on rental properties but I still feel it is not worth the effort now.
They sold because of the cunts in the Telegraph speculating on what Reeves was going to do.
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For this to work you'd need basically every long term member to be familiar with the moderation guidelines and 18 types of harm in the Ofcom guidance etc... for example, as Dammit was saying, can we be sure that a majority of people are going to correctly interpret freedom of expression etc. rather than just deleting things they don't like? Personally I feel like it's easier to have 10-50 people who are familiar with the moderation rules in depth and encourage other users to make liberal use of report functionality.
I think it might also be a little sketchy if we then have a single person who is liable for the decisions of a random group of anonymous people doing moderation through consensus, without any ability to overrule things when they feel that the wrong decision has been made and puts them at risk of Ofcom intervention
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I'm happy to get stuck into code if I can help on that front
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I think before you can even strategise on what is needed there need to be multiple people working through the Ofcom guidance as well as the legislation. That is unfortunately going to be hundreds of pages. The interpretation as applied to LFGSS needs to be documented somewhere. Possibly there then needs to be some actual legal advice.
It seems like it would be very easy to put together a moderation team as there are plenty of highly-engaged, somewhat-responsible users. I would suggest way more than 10 though, as we probably need round-the-clock cover. With 10 mods, if the only US moderator is on holiday and a troll shows up at 3 AM, no one's going to catch it.
A one-off crunch effort on the tech side to build things like a report function, checking content, etc. is probably easily achievable too, with a smaller amount of ongoing maintenance effort
Edit: the guidance does say that a single named person needs to be accountable for online safety as well. So someone has to take that burden.
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
Archive link for people who don't like the Telegraph
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Thanks all, I'll give that a shot
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https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17614439/
Any advice for this? I need to reinstall my cleats tonight before a ride this evening. Can't decide between grease or Loctite but leaning towards copper grease.
I like ugly bikes and bodges