u/Holdmywhiskeyhun

"The purpose of this subreddit is to foster discussion amongst members of this trade and is in no way intended for gathering data or answering questions regarding or pertaining to software or hardware development"

- Mod Brando

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At this time we are banning any app developers within the community. It was a misunderstanding of a rule, that has led to their presence. You cannot understand how much of a my bad that is.

I have a couple things cooking behind the scenes, I hope will work out. Give me a few days, and you should see them around the sub.

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RULE CHANGES:

New rule: Rule 6, no app developers

Many of our rules were repetitive, and were pretty much the same rules that are in the terms of service that you agreed to when you signed up for your reddit account.

So going forward any kind of harassment, racism, misogyny, brigading, etc.. can now be reported under "No ToS violations."

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As usual any questions, comments or concerns I will address below. 👇

Also anyone has any ideas for the sub, go ahead and shout It out.

I live in Wisconsin. Where I'm at we have many many outdoor areas, nature areas, recreation, etc

I try to, at least once a week, get them out to DNR controlled Lands. AKA off leash time..

Gives them a chance to run around and sniff new things, gives me a chance to work on their recall, and word recognition.

Yesterday we were up north. We weren't particularly doing anything, just stopping at parks.

My little one, Duncan. He's about 15 lb, and less than a foot high. Maybe about a foot and a half 2 ft long. Chihuahua/terrier/Dachshund mix. He is also terrified of his own shadow. One of the reasons I give him off leash time, is to kind of help him gain some bravery.

We got out at an area that had a dock. No one was around, and it's pretty well hidden, I figured it would be a good chance to get him off leash.

He's sniffing around, running around having a good old time. He's not sure about going on the dock, for good reason, even I wouldn't attempt it.

So he's sniffing around the shores. My other one is not too far behind him.

I go to light a cigarette, went out of nowhere all I see is his tiny little ass disappearing into the water.

This little shit full on just jumped in the lake. Like cannon weiner style. I ran over to the shore, because he has never been in a lake. We were going to start doing some swimming this summer.

I get over to the shore, and he's about a foot and a half away from shore.

He's just nonchalantly doggy paddling back. He gets up on shore shakes himself out a few times looks at me wags his tail and starts running around.

Copper, my big one, is going nuts, barking, freaking out. He also has not been in the water.

Needless to say my mind was blown. This is absolutely not behavior I expected from him. The way this dog has acted his whole life, I would have never thought he would have gotten in the water. I'm not going to lie I was expecting issues this summer when we started going swimming. I can't even give him a bath without him trying to take my throat out. (Not literally)

I don't know whether he saw a fish or something, but it literally looked, as if we were swimming. Finding a clear spot, and jumping right in.

These two are actually my first dogs, I knew dogs swam, but I've never really did anything with dogs and swimming.

What are some activities that I can do with them? I know there's the obvious like fetch. Maybe some activities more towards shore for right now.

Today's one of the worst days in our industry. From church goers, to stuck up snobs crawling out of the woodwork.

I'm not even going to go into my normal spiel for holidays. There's no saving today.

Bite your tongue, throw on a smile, and keep your head down.

Ain't no one worth losing the job over.

Stay strong, it'll be over before you know it.

Oh yeah we're fucking doing this!!

A certain unnamed companie's PR firm is making fraudulent reports, and complaining we won't remove the comments

#So you know what, fuck them

Let's hear every nasty dirty secret you can spill

Don't be shy, we ain't banning anyone

I'll go first, Taco Bell: Pedophiles, pedophiles everywhere. Also knew the outcome of Roe v Wade before the public.

Doing the process one by one is absolutely slow AF, ain't no one have time for that.

So we'll try it this way.

Leave any kind of comment below, so I have usernames in one place

Make a joke, leave a period, drop your spiciest memes idc 😂

Leave a comment so I can get you approved.

Edit: for anyone that is confused

https://www.reddit.com/r/Restaurant_Managers/s/f7BMskn17x

Please read the bottom paragraph.

If you've already been approved, you're there to go and can disregard this. It's slow doing it one by one so I'm trying to streamline it so it's quicker.

Been a couple months since our last update.

Figured we'd take a few minutes.

#WE HAVE OFFICIALLY HIT 20K MEMBERS!!

We've come a long ways in the past year. I believe we were at like 13-14k, when I was brought on.

Bot posts are now to a minimum. No more having to check my phone every 20 minutes. As of now most of what's published from you guys, gets approved. I'm happy we all were finally able to get to this sub in the right place.

As you may have noticed, since my last update, certain rules have been clarified, so there should be no issue on what the term solicitation means.

Other than that, no issues with anyone following the rules.

A special shout out to the ones that have used the report feature, and have helped us get to this point.

In that vein I also want to thank the ones that post in good conscience. Comments and posts, communication, that is what makes everything work.

I also want to thank my fellow mod team, without y'all, I could not do this alone.

#Account Security

As of late there has been a rise in phishing attacks, against moderators. The goal of this fishing scam is to gain access to the accounts "data." In this instance they're getting access to the karma, the account age, and it's contributor score.

By having access to a large pool of karma, they are able to access some of the largest subs. Reddit uses a few different systems, but one of the main ones is cqs. This is contributor quality score. It is a scale on the likeliness that you are a bot.

With a new account, your cqs is automatically lowest, as you are a brand new account and they don't know anything about you. The more you use Reddit in good faith, don't post spam links, make legitimate comments, etc.. the more you use reddit, the more karma you get, the higher your cqs gets. Reddit is more confident that you are not a bot.

Most of the largest subs, have the strictest participation requirements. Hell I myself still can't post to certain subs. By having access to the highest cqs levels, the karma pool, and a long time since the account creation, they are able to bypass a lot of the large subs requirements.

Why you may ask? Why have we seen such a rise in bots/stolen accounts on Reddit? Well why else, money.

All the awards that you get here on Reddit, all have a monetary value tied to it. When you give an award, you get anywhere between $0.15 and $0.25.

When you run a bunch of stolen/bot accounts, those awards add up quickly. The dispersal amount is $10.

Now I want you to think of some of the largest subs you see on front page, and why you pretty much see the same things everyday. They are repost bots.

#Solutions?

Make sure 2fa is enabled.

Do not respond to unsolicited DMs.

Do not give out your password to anyone, also do not use the same password in too many places. I am also guilty of this.

So just for a rundown:

1. Mods will never direct you off site for support.

2. Reddit nor admins will never direct you off site for support.

3. NEVER, EVER will they have you use discord or any other platform for support

4. Any and all support is done on the Reddit domain.

5. Reddit, will never tell you that a report was filed against you, unless they action you. Then the only thing they will say is either banned or suspended.

6. They also will NOT let you know about any "investigations" they are doing against you, or any other user. This is purely a scare tactic.

#We as the moderators of this sub, will NEVER contact you in any other way besides modmail. Modmail is the ONLY way we will contact individual users.

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Now that that's out of the way, what specials are you guys running this week?