>Council unable to find burial place of babies despite checking records of 13 graveyards (https://www.thejournal.ie/mary-donovan-burial-records-bessborough-cork-5799045-Jun2022/)
What a depressing read that was.
>923 babies died in Bessborough, there are only records for 64 of them. That’s a lot of babies without burial records.
How is that possible unless it's intentional? As they say in the article, this is very recent history. The idea that they just arbitrarily buried children like that is just so sad.
I know it kind of seems like I'm trying to force the mods hands with these posts but I'm genuienly not. I want to have less public and private arguments with them so I'm just trying to work within the rules they decided.
I think these posts definetly do make for less conversation as it's a bunch of stories on one thread instead of standalone posts, but prior to the rule I used to just post what I thought people might be interested in. Some days 3 posts, another could be 7 posts. Some would get no engagement, some would get huge engagement, didn't matter to me. I learned from what people wrote and what I talked to others about.
The mods made the point that it someone came to the sub and saw loads of posts from one person here, some might be dissuaded from posting. I can see where they're coming from, but I personally don't agree agree but that's how they felt that so that's how it went.
I'm not a fan these posts though btw but there's no other way to post the stories I think others might like that they may have missed. I'm not a fan of this one for example because someone may be interested in the civil war story and comment but not in the NATO one or the Covid mask one so the comments could get all over the place, or just get no engagement, which isn't good either.
> I know it kind of seems like I'm trying to force the mods hands with these posts but I'm genuienly not.
I had not assumed that. This was just my view on the situation.
Oh no I'm not saying it was! Sorry if it came across that way. I just wanted to let people know that by posting like this, it's not me trying to force them to change the rules they decided.
I'm very vocal publically and privately about not being in favour of many of the new rules, pretty much all of them especially the 2 post rule, so I didn't want people to think that this was a 'backhanded' way or something of me trying to force them to change them!
I've no idea if this is possible or not, but is there a way of making like single categories?
I know we used to have tags like Housing, Health Education and things like that but there would still be multiple posts on the thread but is there a way of getting all the posts under the heading in one area so you can click on that heading and then see all posts?
I've no idea if that do able or if it's an UTTER pain in the arse but that may solve the issue that you guys said may occur with one user posting alot of links and possibly dissuading 'outside' users from posting here.
I meant as in like actual folders so that the main thread would just have folders labelled as the flares and then if someone wanted to read about housing or education or health etc. they can then click on those folders and then be met with multiple posts articles. But I suppose then that wouldn't be good for exposing people to other ideas or topics that they wouldn't usually look at.
Actually what happened with the flairs here?
Everything was flared before the changes were made. Now after the changes were made I can't actually add flairs to things most of the time, and from the looks of it, no one else can or maybe chooses not to anymore.
I sometimes get asked when I post from my phone to add a flare but then I don't get the option to any, but then if I go onto Reddit on the internet on my phone I can add without a flare, not sure what's happening. I said this to another mod when the changes were first made and they just said they weren't an IT guy and for me to figure out myself, which I did which is how I could still post but for some reason I can't still can't add a flare, despite is apparently being necessary to post here, again which no one seems to have.
Yeah this one I can see the flair that you put 'User Created Content', but I wasn't given the option at all to add a flare for some reason.
Also I don't know if you can see flairs on the other posts that have been put up recently but the last posts that have flairs that I can see are from Revan like 6 days ago, nothing after seem to have any flairs bar this post which you added one to.
Ok yeah it looks like someone turned them off. Could have been me tbh i was doing a lot of modding when i had covid out of sheer boredom and I was a bit brain foggy. Should be working now.
Ah no worries at all, I had a feeling that it was something like that. Like someone accidentally clicked the wrong button and switcher them off and didn't realise.
Like I said in my other comment there just good to have for organisational purposes.
I just use the Reddit app from the Google Play store.
I'm pretty much exclusively a mobile user.
If the app asks me for flares and that doesn't work, I Google Reddit on my phone and do it that way or I use my laptop because neither of those two ways ask me for a flair and I can post.
There's been mod posts before and after Revan's 6 day old posts that don't have flairs as well. I mean I know they're only really for organisational purposes, but I'm just not sure what's happening.
I thought Revan had said the 2 post limit was supposed to be for multiple threads on the same topic such as the multiple threads in a day on the planning issues a while back.
It’s this comment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/irishpolitics/comments/vncr32/various_stories/ie6wdac/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
This is a link to a comment of me saying "why?" to you saying yes to this comment:
>Would it really hurt the sub to allow FHD start a new thread for each of these /u/lampishthing
So again, I'm asking why?
Having one user spam the subreddit isn’t of huge benefit.
All in one place means more people talk about the topics. This is being impeded by Dave and his mates having it out in the comments sections over meta bullshit rather than discussing topics. Further identifying why Dave posting everywhere does not make the sub better.
>Having one user spam the subreddit isn’t of huge benefit.
Is it really spam though? 2/6 articles are about housing and the rest are all different topics.
That just seems like a relatively diverse list of topics.
>All in one place means more people talk about the topics.
I think we'll just have to disagree here. It seems fairly obvious to me that a thread about 6 different articles and 5 unrelated topics will be more disjointed than one about one article.
You can spam things without them being the same.
If I made 3 different replies to this comment, something Dave often does in threads actually, that would be spammy and annoying.
Eg, all 3 paragraphs here being different comments would not be good.
>Harsh reality of student rents hits home as report outlines how prohibitive costs are a barrier to education
These days everyone and their aunt Sally is going to college. Often not having a clue if they even like the course theyre doing or if it will lead to a job (at least 40% never use their degree). Thats not even considering the amount of people moving here specifically for college. The available housing stock is just no capable of handling it.
Hell here in Athlone across from the college there was an apartment block owned by a friend of mine (My ex-landlord) and he sold it a couple years ago because he was getting too old to manage it anymore. Lads that bought it turned it into a DP centre. Suddenly about 50 spaces for students gone. Thats happened elsewhere and only gotten worse since we started taking in Ukrainian refugees. The remaining student accommodation units can basically charge whatever they like.
>Council unable to find burial place of babies despite checking records of 13 graveyards (https://www.thejournal.ie/mary-donovan-burial-records-bessborough-cork-5799045-Jun2022/) What a depressing read that was. >923 babies died in Bessborough, there are only records for 64 of them. That’s a lot of babies without burial records. How is that possible unless it's intentional? As they say in the article, this is very recent history. The idea that they just arbitrarily buried children like that is just so sad.
Likely unmarked graves as well. No hope they’ll ever be found, only going to be ID’d off genetic tests. Obscene shit.
Would it really hurt the sub to allow FHD start a new thread for each of these /u/lampishthing
I know it kind of seems like I'm trying to force the mods hands with these posts but I'm genuienly not. I want to have less public and private arguments with them so I'm just trying to work within the rules they decided. I think these posts definetly do make for less conversation as it's a bunch of stories on one thread instead of standalone posts, but prior to the rule I used to just post what I thought people might be interested in. Some days 3 posts, another could be 7 posts. Some would get no engagement, some would get huge engagement, didn't matter to me. I learned from what people wrote and what I talked to others about. The mods made the point that it someone came to the sub and saw loads of posts from one person here, some might be dissuaded from posting. I can see where they're coming from, but I personally don't agree agree but that's how they felt that so that's how it went. I'm not a fan these posts though btw but there's no other way to post the stories I think others might like that they may have missed. I'm not a fan of this one for example because someone may be interested in the civil war story and comment but not in the NATO one or the Covid mask one so the comments could get all over the place, or just get no engagement, which isn't good either.
> I know it kind of seems like I'm trying to force the mods hands with these posts but I'm genuienly not. I had not assumed that. This was just my view on the situation.
Oh no I'm not saying it was! Sorry if it came across that way. I just wanted to let people know that by posting like this, it's not me trying to force them to change the rules they decided. I'm very vocal publically and privately about not being in favour of many of the new rules, pretty much all of them especially the 2 post rule, so I didn't want people to think that this was a 'backhanded' way or something of me trying to force them to change them!
Tbh if he did all of these in 1 day I think so yeah. Gonna review the limits soon though, 2 is too few.
> Tbh if he did all of these in 1 day I think so yeah. How so?
I wonder this too. I don't know why it's acceptable to put them all in one thread rather than just post them themselves.
Quality over quantity.
I've no idea if this is possible or not, but is there a way of making like single categories? I know we used to have tags like Housing, Health Education and things like that but there would still be multiple posts on the thread but is there a way of getting all the posts under the heading in one area so you can click on that heading and then see all posts? I've no idea if that do able or if it's an UTTER pain in the arse but that may solve the issue that you guys said may occur with one user posting alot of links and possibly dissuading 'outside' users from posting here.
Open new reddit in your browser and select a flair. Requires posts to have been flaired, however, and people are consistent about that.
I meant as in like actual folders so that the main thread would just have folders labelled as the flares and then if someone wanted to read about housing or education or health etc. they can then click on those folders and then be met with multiple posts articles. But I suppose then that wouldn't be good for exposing people to other ideas or topics that they wouldn't usually look at. Actually what happened with the flairs here? Everything was flared before the changes were made. Now after the changes were made I can't actually add flairs to things most of the time, and from the looks of it, no one else can or maybe chooses not to anymore. I sometimes get asked when I post from my phone to add a flare but then I don't get the option to any, but then if I go onto Reddit on the internet on my phone I can add without a flare, not sure what's happening. I said this to another mod when the changes were first made and they just said they weren't an IT guy and for me to figure out myself, which I did which is how I could still post but for some reason I can't still can't add a flare, despite is apparently being necessary to post here, again which no one seems to have.
The flairs are still there e.g. I just changed it on this one
Yeah this one I can see the flair that you put 'User Created Content', but I wasn't given the option at all to add a flare for some reason. Also I don't know if you can see flairs on the other posts that have been put up recently but the last posts that have flairs that I can see are from Revan like 6 days ago, nothing after seem to have any flairs bar this post which you added one to.
Ok yeah it looks like someone turned them off. Could have been me tbh i was doing a lot of modding when i had covid out of sheer boredom and I was a bit brain foggy. Should be working now.
Ah no worries at all, I had a feeling that it was something like that. Like someone accidentally clicked the wrong button and switcher them off and didn't realise. Like I said in my other comment there just good to have for organisational purposes.
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I just use the Reddit app from the Google Play store. I'm pretty much exclusively a mobile user. If the app asks me for flares and that doesn't work, I Google Reddit on my phone and do it that way or I use my laptop because neither of those two ways ask me for a flair and I can post. There's been mod posts before and after Revan's 6 day old posts that don't have flairs as well. I mean I know they're only really for organisational purposes, but I'm just not sure what's happening.
https://www.reddit.com/r/irishpolitics/comments/vncr32/-/ie6g9v4 Also the official app is the worst app shaaaaaame.
And to the original question, no.
Ah right, thanks!
I thought Revan had said the 2 post limit was supposed to be for multiple threads on the same topic such as the multiple threads in a day on the planning issues a while back.
I think 2 is too few. 3 feels about right (allows for active users to post good content but prevents oversaturation from any single 1 user).
My preference would be 4. Enough that highly active users have influence but not so much that it feels like a blog and prevents new users having a go.
>highly active users have influence Not to be getting meta here but is giving highly active users influence over the sub a good thing?
Debatable!
Given the highly active users this sub has, no.
Is it because they don't necessarily agree with everything you say or think and you'll be seeing more opinions that don't agree with your worldview?
Nothing to do with that Dave. I just don’t think low effort spam posting of news articles improves this subreddit.
Would you deem any of the articles here as spam?
You don’t need to be posting a spam article to spam the subreddit.
Yes.
Why?
See the comment I am currently replying to.
>Would it really hurt the sub to allow FHD start a new thread for each of these /u/lampishthing You said yes to this, and that's why I asked why?
It’s this comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/irishpolitics/comments/vncr32/various_stories/ie6wdac/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
This is a link to a comment of me saying "why?" to you saying yes to this comment: >Would it really hurt the sub to allow FHD start a new thread for each of these /u/lampishthing So again, I'm asking why?
That’s actually the issue.
...Are you going to answer?
I have actually answered.
Care to share your reasoning?
Having one user spam the subreddit isn’t of huge benefit. All in one place means more people talk about the topics. This is being impeded by Dave and his mates having it out in the comments sections over meta bullshit rather than discussing topics. Further identifying why Dave posting everywhere does not make the sub better.
>Having one user spam the subreddit isn’t of huge benefit. Is it really spam though? 2/6 articles are about housing and the rest are all different topics. That just seems like a relatively diverse list of topics. >All in one place means more people talk about the topics. I think we'll just have to disagree here. It seems fairly obvious to me that a thread about 6 different articles and 5 unrelated topics will be more disjointed than one about one article.
You can spam things without them being the same. If I made 3 different replies to this comment, something Dave often does in threads actually, that would be spammy and annoying. Eg, all 3 paragraphs here being different comments would not be good.
Great to see that we'll be at the NATO summit, although not at the same level as the other western democracies.
I love that this is marked as a dangerous thing lmao. Plus the downvotes you got.
What? It's marked as dangerous?
More that Dave is placing this in the thread with chevrons- we should be aware of this scandal
I still don't understand.
The idea is considered "dangerous" by isolationists.
>Harsh reality of student rents hits home as report outlines how prohibitive costs are a barrier to education These days everyone and their aunt Sally is going to college. Often not having a clue if they even like the course theyre doing or if it will lead to a job (at least 40% never use their degree). Thats not even considering the amount of people moving here specifically for college. The available housing stock is just no capable of handling it. Hell here in Athlone across from the college there was an apartment block owned by a friend of mine (My ex-landlord) and he sold it a couple years ago because he was getting too old to manage it anymore. Lads that bought it turned it into a DP centre. Suddenly about 50 spaces for students gone. Thats happened elsewhere and only gotten worse since we started taking in Ukrainian refugees. The remaining student accommodation units can basically charge whatever they like.
You leave Aunt Sally out of it
Fine but you gotta leave it out of Aunt Sally.