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Engagement bait
I mean, if you feel people shouldn't be posting engaging content....
Leaving it up.
EDIT: people keep complaining. There's no rule against this, and the meme stands on its own without the line though the word.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I guess I could have been more clear: this trend of half-assedly crossing out normal words is a clear manipulation tactic to increase the comment count of a post and boost engagement because people inevitably call out the bullshit in the comments section. It dilutes the discussion and becomes very tedious when it happens so often.
i would like to report this post. it seems to be bombing.
It's pretty obvious the report is due to the badly censored word. That's specifically done as engagement bait. And saying "that's how I found it" isn't an acceptable reason, anyone could very easily edit it out in a few seconds (Not that anyone did, just showing that there is absolutely no reason to post it with the engagement bait).
Just ignore it. If it works then we’re too stupid for it to matter anyway.
Ironically, if people (like you) just ignore the line then it won't drive engagement. You're writing multiple comments about how this is bait which is falling for what you consider bait. Personally, I didn't think much of it because it doesn't ~~fucking~~ matter.
Stop. Censoring. ~~Normal.~~ Words.
I’d say: Stop censoring any words, please.
~~Or censor all words. Everybody shutting up would help a whole lot more than anything anyone could say.~~
That's why I cross out "normal."
If this came from another, corporate run platform, they OCR images and “normal” words will get your content deplatformed so
Sorry the online world is more of a sinister dystopia than you may have considered
~~make me~~
You better!
aww ok~~a~~y
why is the "Viole" in "Violence" crossed out?
I assume getting around TikTok and Meta algorithms that would automatically filter this image from public view.
Gotta make it safe and corpo friendly for the advertisers! 🙄
Imagine being a child and seeing the word violence or ass. I would kill myself
You would what yourself? Up 'til now you'd have been shielded from that scary word!
It has nothing to do with what children see, the reasoning is that advertisers don't want their products to be associated with violence by showing their ad next to a post about violence.
Also platforms don’t want to be seen as places of free expression by the current administration. State department approved messaging only!
imagine it was really fine ass, and you never saw ass that fine again
I would literally shake
It probably just gets tagged as "spicy meme someone tried to censor", and still gets tracked and targeted the same way as the rest of the content. They know fully well what kind of post it is, a line is not going to break the algorithm
Engagement bait
Maybe to get past software that would screen out political violence posts? To be transparent, I didn't make the meme but the hypocrisy is worth pointing out.
Are you ok, though? Is someone threatening you if you don't post nonsensical memes to Lemmy? Should we call the police?
You should have removed it. It's being done as engagement bait a LOT, same with misspelling words. Just the fact that it can be that should be enough to either not share anything that has it or to take a few seconds to edit it out.
This post was made by a disgruntled viola player
Engagement bait to increase comments, this getting an algorithm boost. Report and move on.
You'll be happy to know that comments don't matter to the Lemmy algorithm.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
The ranking is basically (upvotes-downvotes)/time. I don't know whether this is intended as "engagement bait", but it doesn't work.
You mean to prevent algorithmic censorship on other platforms where this may be crossposted.
Stop fedposting
They're not a fan of Tower of God and hate any reference to Ju Viole Grace.
Exactly why I can't take any of these weenies seriously when they spout this nonsense on whatever Pod Save Whatever episode they're on this week.
Not just politicians and definitely not only Americans. No one spouting the 'violence is not acceptable' actually means it. They don't mean to abolish the police, military, prisons, taxes, mandatory school...
It's just doublespeak, the violence I like is not violence so if someone responds to it with more violence I can condemn them, they are the violent ones not me.
Post is more related to political violence. The double standards of extreme condemnation when violence used against politicians while they do promote violence towards foreign populations (i.e. palestinians, jews or venezuelans) and local minorities (i.e. racial or radical groups).
THE BRITISH ARE COMING
but violence has no place in politics, we should just surrender
Fun fact: Writing on munitions can be considered a violation of the Geneva Convention. Under Article 23, it is forbidden to employ weapons with any substance intended to aggravate a wound. So unless that is a completely non-toxic marker, it could fall under that.
There is some distance between "intended" and "could conceivably". Good luck convincing the ICC that a nanoliter of ink is being used as a chemical weapon.
I mean chances of it happening are almost infinitesimal, but it is still something to consider. I was a munitions troop in the US military for 6 years and this was drilled into us. If there was anything on a bomb or missile it had to be sanded and repainted.
shrug That sounds more like your officers just didn't want you writing on munitions. But it is something to consider.
I always thought the same thing until I had to unload a plane one time because they found some corrosion on a bomb. A dumb bomb that was going on it's way to be dropped. Of course that was back in the Bush era when the US government was a little more picky about the war crimes they committed.
substance intended to aggravate a wound
So where does nce belong, then?
You don't understand. These motors aren't hitting anybody I know or care about, therefore I can feel no guilt about it
Ah yes. In order to highlight the creators passion of playing the violin, the single-handedly put a bow through the ~~viol~~ part of violence. Truly magnificent.
When the censoring is diegetic.
Where did the trend of writing on munitions come from? Is it Ukraine or were there cases before that? I'm trying to figure why would anyone ever do that, to me it sounds the same as mass shooter gun scribbles kind of lunacy.
I know we did it some in ww1.
Edit: I didn't expect anyone to have researched this lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3buled/when_did_the_practice_of_writing_messages_on/
Here's a slingshot ammo from that thread 500BC-1BC
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1851-0507-11
