I actually don’t think this has been a huge problem in NZ politics in recent times. When Key and Ardern came into power, they didn’t do massive “policy bonfires”. They kept most of the major projects currently in progress, didn’t mess with too much settled policy, and generally where they wanted to make changes, either did it through careful reviews or just made some tweaks. There were a few exceptions for headline policies (e.g. the tax cuts that Labour cancelled when they got into power), but for the most part we haven’t seen the massive reversal of a huge number of policies we’re seeing this time.
It seems like polarisation between left and right might be growing, which is likely to lead to these reversals, so the policy “ping pong” might continue and get worse as governments change.
Yes, it only seems to talk about comments. But it seems to me the intention is not to delete entire threads when someone deletes their account (which is good, because it doesn’t make any sense to do that). Whether the changes will fix it for posts I’m not sure, but it seems like they’ll fix it eventually anyway.
Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.
I am not too worried about bots posting discussion threads. Sometimes there are probably people who might post in the discussion threads but don’t want to create the thread.
Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.
Had a look thru GitHub (because apparently I don’t have anything better to do) and it looks like there will be a “fix” in 0.19 for deleted posts: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3965
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
And specifically where they should be posted… I know it is a tricky area as to what counts as political, but in my view there are some that definitely are that I would prefer to be kept on NZ politics community....
Posting here, and not in politics, as a heads up for people who might need to adjust travel plans for tomorrow morning (if you want to discuss the politics around this then maybe a separate thread in the politics community would be best)...
The international headlines about NZ recently have been quite embarrassing… we definitely seem to be a country going backwards on climate change, reducing smoking and COVID (and probably other things).
There are many different ways you can do legalisation. You can do it carefully so that people can grow it themselves, or you can make it highly commercial, restricting what individuals can do, and creating an industry that has vested interests and lobbies for laws in their favour, has misleading advertising and preys on the vulnerable. Because we missed our chance to do it the first way, we seem much more likely to end up with the second way.
Objectively a better move than prosecution by any stretch of the imagination.
I agree. But I don’t think a legal, highly commercialised system is going to be much better than what we have now, at least in health terms. See: alcohol and tobacco.
That’s a shame… I don’t buy lunch much in town, but have been there a few times and it was always good. Seems like it’s pretty tough for retail right now everywhere
PSA: Lemmy.world has been compromised
I’d avoid going directly to the site. There could be security issues, and you could get redirected to some “bad” places....
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 27/11/2023
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NZ wins COP28 'fossil' award for revoking offshore oil exploration ban (newsroom.co.nz)
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 28/11/2023
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One thing that's surprised me about the Reddit shitshow
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
‘So grimy, so cheap’: New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world (www.theguardian.com)
Can we please have another discussion about political posts?
And specifically where they should be posted… I know it is a tricky area as to what counts as political, but in my view there are some that definitely are that I would prefer to be kept on NZ politics community....
What do we think of the Fedipact? (fedipact.online)
It's a pact to block Meta (as in Facebook) run instances if they appear. Obviously up to @Dave to sign, but wondering what people think
Te Pāti Māori plans protests across the North Island as Parliament restarts (i.stuff.co.nz)
Posting here, and not in politics, as a heads up for people who might need to adjust travel plans for tomorrow morning (if you want to discuss the politics around this then maybe a separate thread in the politics community would be best)...
'It's a racket': Why a man got $96 fine when getting two coffees (www.stuff.co.nz)
So let me get this straight…...
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NZ a 'pariah' if oil and gas exploration is revived (newsroom.co.nz)
More money in cannabis than tobacco, advocates say ahead of repeal (i.stuff.co.nz)
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New Zealand signs up to COP28 declaration on food production, sustainable agriculture adaptations (www.rnz.co.nz)
New Zealand has signed an international agreement saying agriculture and food production must urgently adapt to respond to climate change....