Rachel actually was the first person to accuse this person of scamming; her post is what led to the rule changes in the mutual aid comm. I have never seen anything to suggest that Rachel is anything but genuine–her requests have never been claims of emergency medical issues but rather ordinary stuff.

How long do you have before you need to be there? I’m at the low ebb of my funds at the moment, but will be able to contribute soon if timing allows

Thanks for posting this. I recently submitted some of the same information you’ve documented here to an admin, who shared the info with the rest of the team; they determined that it was appropriate to ban BaileyDee and CassandraD, and have since banned KodyGerba and KeralaDee as well (both other alts of the same person).

To any donors out there reading this: please know, if you were among those who gave to this person, that you are not alone. I myself gave this person a total of $275 over the course of a few months a couple of years ago, when they first started posting here.

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We already figured out the cure for AIG: upwards of $100 billion in float provided by the US Treasury

Bump. Sure is a shame the mods allow scam posts to stay up alongside this genuine need, but apparently it’s Not Allowed to actually call that out, and reporting that other post (the scam), as I did, apparently accomplishes nothing

It never did; the Active sort biases for relatively recent posts (last 6-8 hours or so) with very recent comments (last 10 minutes for maximum impact).

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I moved most of mine to an ex-US fund that’s offered by my 401k plan, but even that is going to take a large hit when the bubble pops. My concern is that the U.S. market has been propped up by enormous government expenditures into R&D that are no longer happening, so I was leery of just standing pat. But I plan to simply ride out the crash while continuing to toss money in from every check, which I believe is the safest, most sensible way to go about it, for a long-term investor.

https://github.com/hexbear-collective/lemmy/pull/6

That’s the Active sort algorithm, which I restored to the original Hexbear Active sort after we merged back to upstream lemmy. See file up.sql for the actual algorithm. It’s unfortunately rather difficult to read for those not technically inclined, and kinda hard to understand clearly even for those who can read it. I came to understand it by trying out some basic examples to understand how it worked.

Basically, for several hours after a post, recent comments adjust the time of the post forward to make it come off as more recent, which pushes its rank higher. Right after the post is made, a comment can adjust the post time into the future, maximizing this effect. This effect fades away after several hours, though, such that posts 8 or 9 hours old or older have trouble rising to the top of the feed when competing with newer posts.

Bumping this to hopefully get it a bit more engagement; not really prepared to opine on this topic myself. Effortposts often have trouble getting any traction, which is a rather unfortunate dynamic, so I thought I’d add visibility while that’s still possible.

Bumping, but this thread is too old for it to do much :/

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