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Re: Campaign to improve posting quality for local boards
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Etranger
on 01/10/2023, 13:56:23 UTC
⭐ Merited by Ratimov (1)
Further communication with you is useless.

I'd rather go find a plagiarizer or an AI shitposter. That would be more useful.
What you are doing might be a, well, let's call it noble effort but I believe the issue you don't understand boils down to:

"Give a man a fish and he's fed for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will be fed for a lifetime"

I'm more in favor to teach people how to learn fishing.  Wink

I understand your point about teaching people how to fish, and I support your efforts to make this forum less spammed, however I have doubts, reasonable as far as I can see, that everyone can be taught. I mean, users which light_warrior reports in the Plagiarism and AI report threads make regular copy past and apparently they don't see any problem with this, despite the existence of many training and quality improving initiatives and help in understanding the rules of the forum, as well as opportunities to turn to senior users for advice.

I also sometimes come across newbies, and not only newbies, who systematically write AI-generated posts, and many of them are starting their way on the forum by doing that. I don't think that such people can be retrained or taught, because they themselves do not show any intention to do so, if they write plagiarism or AI content in their first posts. They don't even need to be familiar with the rules of the forum, it's enough just to be a conscious person and understand why you shouldn't do that. These are not some special rules of this forum, which turn out to be so complicated and incomprehensible that beginners break them without understanding it.

Therefore, those whom light_warrior reports hardly deserve a different treatment, because they do not show any motivation to learn and change their behavior. Unfortunately, they will not even see that you have started such an initiative, let alone put in the effort and learn. Therefore, in my opinion, the principle "take a fishing rod, hit them on the head, and drive them out of the pond for fishing" works better with such users.