PeepinGoodArgs
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- Comment on What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body) 11 months ago:
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, or the post hoc fallacy, in general.
Basically in OP’s case, I did this and something did or didn’t happen. Therefore, what I did caused that something to happen or not happen.
Another comment used a survivorship bias with people that survived when others died. That’s also an example of the post hoc fallacy. The idea that the survivor did something that caused them to live isn’t necessarily true. They couldn’t just got lucky.
It’s also the foundational fallacy that connects the president to economic outcomes. Ask any economist: the president can’t control the economy, and his influence is severely limited.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I don’t know of a jet that takes off at a 90° angle
F-35B can do a vertical takeoff. So can the Harrier. And the F22 Raptor can do this cool maneuver.
Really weird how no one answered that question when it’s really easy. I don’t know anything about jets, but I’m tangentially aware of the failure that was the F22.
Why is there this political lense that people see everything through?
That’s a good question.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Probably the Lemmy users and the community mods? So, nothing different from Reddit.
As a recent mod of another community here on Lemmy, there seems to be a weird expectation that mods are there to protect posters from each other. “They called me an ignoramus! Ban them! Ban them now!” Like…yeah, abusive language should be banned…but mods shouldn’t be a poster’s way to play bait-and-whack-a-mole.
If Reddit mods had to deal with that shit, then I feel sorry for them.
Conversely, there is an expectation that mods are supposed to be impartial. They’re as human as any other poster, and dealing with antagonists day-in, day-out takes its toll. After a while, it’s just indiscriminate pattern recognition: a certain pattern warrants a ban every time without discussion.
For example, when you said this:
If this gets me banned than you are worse than spez
Did you look at the rules before and ask, “How can this post get me banned?” If so, then you obviously didn’t need to include this line. If you didn’t, then you shouldn’t have posted in the first place.
If users want a particular type of community, then users should act in a way to facilitate it. Mods alone can’t do that. Mods, at most, can define and enforce the limits of what’s acceptable. But if posters routinely act in unacceptable ways, then they shouldn’t get mad when mods routinely enforce those limits.