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Tachi said:
The tittle tattle at work has resulted in people being pulled into the office and given a bollocking about working patterns, being on the internet and generally moaning about small things.

This has led me to sit here boiling with rage, i've decided to tackle this diplomatically and request who has been saying things about me, they'd naturally say no but being the clever sod i am i've brought in articles form the U.N's Human rights, one of which includes being slandered or making comments that may lead to dishonouring a person or questioning their reputation.

I'll find out one way or another, but either way i bend over backwards for this department and if the team leaders are ballsy enough to pull me up on going on the internet during my f***ing lunch break then fine, i'll show reports to the service line leads to prove that the team leaders aren't managing (80% target and they've been giving out 46% consistently for the past few weeks?)

Dumb ****ers.
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Tach, you can always have my job if you want...
 
Almost time for the start of SLA, hooray :D

I know Gyo will be good later tonight, hoping that Ace Attorney lives up to its potential madness and fun. The Scotland game is on in between but I honestly don't want to watch that awful lot. Well, it's less the team and more the manager who reckons that tonight isn't a must win despite failing to win either of the first 2 games.
 
Has anyone been hearing about Reddit and the whole fustercluck about one of their subreddits dedicated to taking lewd pictures of women without their consent? Now some of the subreddits are blocking all sites linked to Gawker Media.

The Guardian said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oc ... sfeed=true

A row over a Gawker journalist's investigation into extreme adult content on Reddit has highlighted issues of free speech versus privacy and the publication of offensive material on the content sharing and recommendations website.

One Reddit politics forum has banned links to Gawker after what the moderator described as "an attack on the site and its users".

The focus on Reddit's less salubrious content will be an embarrassment for owner Condé Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair and Vogue, which bought the site in 2006.

Gawker journalist Adrian Chen began investigating one prolific Reddit user, Violentacrez, who has set up hundreds of sub-forums where users post links and images including bestiality, rape fantasy, under-age porn and upskirt photos.

Violentacrez most recently joined "Creepshots", a forum of stalking-style pictures of women taken without their consent. The forum was taken down last night and has now been banned.

The same user posted last week's email exchange with Chen on a Reddit forum seeking advice, but was apparently so concerned that his identity would be revealed that he later deleted his account.

In response, the Reddit forum's volunteer moderator PoliticsMod on Thursday published a statement about Gawker's "intolerable" behaviour, characterising Chen's investigation as an attack on the site's users.

"We volunteer our time on Reddit to make it a better place for the users, and should not be harassed and threatened for that. We should all be afraid of the threat of having our personal information investigated and spread around the internet if someone disagrees with you. Reddit prides itself on having a subreddit for everything, and no matter how much anyone may disapprove of what another user subscribes to, that is never a reason to threaten them.

"As a result, the moderators of /r/politics have chosen to disallow links from the Gawker network until action is taken to correct this serious lack of ethics and integrity."

The post triggered thousands of comments on the site and a slew of lengthy defences by PoliticsMod, who claimed that Gawker has previously attempted to reveal the identities of Reddit posters, undermining their safety.

The Guardian has asked Reddit for comment and to clarify its user guidelines for content posting. It has deleted previous sub-forums including r/jailbait.

The Creepshots controversy has triggered a backlash among Reddit users defending the right to post freely, and those who object to offensive, invasive and threatening content objectifying women.

Jezebel has reported that Creepshots included content posted by a teacher of "a hot senior girl in one of my classes".

One new Tumblr project, Predditors, is now identifying and naming Reddit contributors behind objectionable content, according to BetaBeat.

It is not the first time Chen has riled Reddit's users. In March last year a user called lucidending claimed to be a teen dying from cancer, spending his final moments on Reddit. Seemingly demonstrating the gullibility and herd mentality of its users, Chen joked on Twitter that he was lucidending.

"It hit the front page: User RT100 posted a screenshot of my confession, along with some critical tweets I'd written about Reddit and its dealings with Maya Gilsey, the implication being I'd faked the whole thing to prove a point about Reddit's double-standard … Reading my @replies on Twitter right now would be enough to make a normal person seek out their own lucid ending," Chen said.

Reddit's general manager Erik Martin told Buzzfeed on Thursday that the site has more than 100,000 sub-forums of which 10% are currently active. All are set up and moderated by users.

"We're always adjusting our approach, we're always following the lead of our users and community, and we always have to adjust things. We're also trying to maintain this as we want Reddit to be as open a platform as possible. "

Reddit has been the subject of controversy before. In September 2011 the site was pushed to remove r/jailbait, and a few months later r/Photobucketplunder, which hosted pictures copied from compromised accounts on the photo-sharing site.

The site has only five basic rules, which include not posting personal information and no sexually suggestive content featuring minors, though the latter was only added in February this year after a campaign from the website SomethingAwful.com, which claimed that content from r/jailbait had simply been reposted elsewhere on the site.

Under Reddit's guidelines, publishing sexually suggestive covert pictures of women would be acceptable, but identifying Violentacrez by name would not be.

"Journalists are different in that they're accountable," said Martin, referring to their use of real names and susceptibility to lawsuits. "That system on some level works. On Reddit, when someone is anonymously posting someone's information, it's our policy to remove that and one we enforce pretty strongly."

Social software consultant Suw Charman-Anderson said internet communities are self-selecting, so people are drawn to groups expressing shared interests and shaped by age, gender and experience, also known as an "ingroup".

"Predominantly young, male communities such as Reddit are fairly common simply because there are a lot of young males online and people naturally congregate with people they identify with: as soon as you have a community of young males, more young males will join," Charman-Anderson added.

"Ingroups tend to become more polarised and strongly favour members over non-members. This leads to the exclusion of people with differing opinions (outgroups) and then not just the marginalisation of dissent, but also vehement attacks on dissenters."

In a group dynamic, people will take a more extreme position than they would as an individual, she explained.

"Ingroups are common online, and although many of the biggest and most extreme are dominated by young males, by no means are they the only type of ingroup. Mumsnet, for example, is an ingroup with an entirely different demographic and attitude to content, but the same forces are at play," Charman-Anderson said.

Google Trends data indicates that Reddit has dramatically replaced Digg as the internet's favoured boys' locker room, with four times the level of search traffic than the latter achieved at its 2007 peak.

Traffic tool Alexa lists Reddit as the 65th most popular site in the US. Some of its mainstream sub-forums, such as r/funny, have reached peaks of 9m impressions in one day. Alexa characterises Reddit's user base as predominantly male, between 18 and24, with no children and still in education.

In August, President Obama triggered a surge of traffic to the site when he joined a late night Q&A on internet freedom.

"We will fight hard to make sure that the internet remains the open forum for everybody," Obama wrote. "Sure thing," replied a user. "Do you like cats?"
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Also, why is there a swear filter on all of a sudden?
 
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theirsbailiff said:
Also, why is there a swear filter on all of a sudden?
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As far as I can tell, we had a swear filter for ages.... Unless another mod disabled it when I wasn't looking....

It must have been Ryo..... =P
 
Last second sniping has ruined eBay for all time. As a buyer, I find myself constantly outbid by tiny amounts in the final two seconds and as a seller, my things go for stupidly low prices because the bidding war on a 7 day listing doesn't start until 20 seconds before the auction ends (if I put a reserve on, I usually get one bid below the reserve and then no more).
 
ayase said:
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ayase said:
Last second sniping has ruined eBay for all time. As a buyer, I find myself constantly outbid by tiny amounts in the final two seconds and as a seller, my things go for stupidly low prices because the bidding war on a 7 day listing doesn't start until 20 seconds before the auction ends (if I put a reserve on, I usually get one bid below the reserve and then no more).
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This and rampant piracy/counterfeiting are why I don't use eBay any more. I can find 90% of stuff I want on Amazon anyway.
 
MaxonTreik said:
ayase said:
Last second sniping has ruined eBay for all time. As a buyer, I find myself constantly outbid by tiny amounts in the final two seconds and as a seller, my things go for stupidly low prices because the bidding war on a 7 day listing doesn't start until 20 seconds before the auction ends (if I put a reserve on, I usually get one bid below the reserve and then no more).
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This and rampant piracy/counterfeiting are why I don't use eBay any more. I can find 90% of stuff I want on Amazon anyway.
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Mmm. I remember a few years back an item would bid up to it's actual value over several days and remain there until the auction ended - it was like a real auction in an auction house. It no longer operates like that because people have worked out how to manipulate the timed nature of eBay's listings to get things cheaper.

Personally, I still place my maximum bid on things as soon as I see them even if it has a week left to run. Pisses off the snipers and forces them to start bidding early / pay more for the item than they otherwise would have done if they outbid me.
 
ayase said:
MaxonTreik said:
ayase said:
Last second sniping has ruined eBay for all time. As a buyer, I find myself constantly outbid by tiny amounts in the final two seconds and as a seller, my things go for stupidly low prices because the bidding war on a 7 day listing doesn't start until 20 seconds before the auction ends (if I put a reserve on, I usually get one bid below the reserve and then no more).
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This and rampant piracy/counterfeiting are why I don't use eBay any more. I can find 90% of stuff I want on Amazon anyway.
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Mmm. I remember a few years back an item would bid up to it's actual value over several days and remain there until the auction ended - it was like a real auction in an auction house. It no longer operates like that because people have worked out how to manipulate the timed nature of eBay's listings to get things cheaper.

Personally, I still place my maximum bid on things as soon as I see them even if it has a week left to run. Pisses off the snipers and forces them to start bidding early / pay more for the item than they otherwise would have done if they outbid me.
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Sniping's one of the many many reasons I try to avoid using eBay. The main reason being how many scammers there are on it. I have a bunch of (none anime related) stuff to sell but know full well that because of the way current eBay rules are that selling on eBay risks losing the items and not getting paid for them. So I'm pretty much just sitting on a bunch of stuff at the mo that I don't want but that's worth too much to me to send to the charity shop.
 
megalomaniac said:
I have a bunch of (none anime related) stuff to sell but know full well that because of the way current eBay rules are that selling on eBay risks losing the items and not getting paid for them.
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Eh? I'm pretty sure you're not obliged to send anything out until you've been paid.

That said, some idiot sent something to me once and then later said I hadn't paid for it when I had. When I pointed out to him "why on earth would you have sent it before receiving payment?" he shut up and I never heard from him again.
 
I've adopted a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach to buying on ebay. If there's something I want but not badly enough that I'm willing to pay anything close to what it costs new, I will be a dirty filthy sniper to keep the price down. I will fully understand if nobody wants to talk to me any more after this shocking revelation.

This does of course mean that I can't complain when the bidding for anything I sell doesn't start until 5 seconds before the end. Them's the breaks. Sometimes I'll get lucky and will have someone make a sizeable bid early on. From a buyer's perspective, though, if you bid the maximum amount you're willing to pay, and someone outbids you, surely it doesn't matter whether it's early in the piece or at the last minute? Or am I just trying to justify my less-than-honourable methods for winning certain auctions? YOU DECIDE!
 
Most of the things I buy from eBay are Buy it Now listings, but I did have some bad experiences with snipers last year. Thought I had Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie for about £5 - only to get sniped at the very last second. :(
 
Nah, I can understand that approach and I'm not really all that pissed off when someone snipes something I'm bidding on out of my hands.

It's more the selling that bothers me. I had a book listed last week which got no bids until a bidding war between three buyers resulting in about about eight bids in the last 30 seconds. That makes me suspect that if they had started bidding sooner, it would have gone for a lot more. I know it's market value is a lot more than it bloody well sold for... went for £9.55 when the only other copies I've seen for sale have been over £30.
 
Ebay's always been like that, hasn't it? I remember people installing apps to bid for them at the very last moment before I moved out of my parents' home many years ago. I only really buy stuff using Buy It Now because I'm chronically impatient, but when I have tried my luck on actual auctions I've found I always get the best prices by camping the last few seconds too ^^;

The bidding model amplifies the natural cheapness of British people a thousandfold. If I really want it I'll bid early and high, yet it's so tempting to try to get a bargain later on.

I've sold a few things on Amazon Marketplace successfully in the past. It isn't quick (or cheap) but at least you get the price you want for something if you have a competitive offer, and when the sellers don't screw up at least the buyer gets what they wanted, too.

R
 
I don't think sniping / late bidding used to be as prevalent as it is now. I did take a break from using eBay for a few years however, so it could be that it was a steady process which I've noticed the culmination of more due to absence. Or maybe I used to bid on stuff no-one else wanted.

Amazon marketplace is fine if you're okay to have the stuff you're selling sitting around until it does sell. I need to start haveyourcakeandeatit.com, the auction site that operates like a real auction and only ends after there has been no bidding activity in the last 24 hours.
 
ayase said:
megalomaniac said:
I have a bunch of (none anime related) stuff to sell but know full well that because of the way current eBay rules are that selling on eBay risks losing the items and not getting paid for them.
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Eh? I'm pretty sure you're not obliged to send anything out until you've been paid.

That said, some idiot sent something to me once and then later said I hadn't paid for it when I had. When I pointed out to him "why on earth would you have sent it before receiving payment?" he shut up and I never heard from him again.
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Indeed, however all the protection is with the buyer these days. It's very very easy to falsely claim you didn't receive something (yes even with recorded delivery "honest guv that's not my signature"), to claim something's broken, not as expected etc. which will result in eBay/PayPal issuing a refund and leaving the seller out of pocket. At which point your choice as a seller is pretty much shrug and give up or spend an inordinate amount of time battling a system rigged against you trying to get your money back.
 
megalomaniac said:
Indeed, however all the protection is with the buyer these days. It's very very easy to falsely claim you didn't receive something (yes even with recorded delivery "honest guv that's not my signature"), to claim something's broken, not as expected etc. which will result in eBay/PayPal issuing a refund and leaving the seller out of pocket. At which point your choice as a seller is pretty much shrug and give up or spend an inordinate amount of time battling a system rigged against you trying to get your money back.
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Surely Paypal / eBay can't just take your money based on someone else's word, can they?

Can they? (he said, his voice cracking along with the last slivers of hope he held that there was still at least some small measure of fairness in this corrupt and horrific society)
 
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