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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

One health smells of top down control of humanity! One size doesn’t fit all! I have plateaued at just under 500 readers. I am treading water and my articles are improving so what is my problem? Substack monitoring?

Meryl Nass's avatar

Could be --I have lost 5,000 subscribers in about 6 months.

Deep Dive's avatar

After 4 years, 500 is also the magic number for me, Thomas.

Jason Arthur Taylor's avatar

"...Substack recently activated a little-known option which allowed it to monitor and remove comments. "

substack. The epitome of controlled opposition.

Freedom Fox's avatar

Meryl,

I just posted a piece about the "automatic moderation" that Substack activated. It gives examples of comments that were "hidden" - i.e. shadow-banned - and why the Substack chatbot said they violated "community standards." While individual platform authors like you (and me) are able to turn their shadow-banning off of our Stacks, it reveals what Substack's "community standards" are that result in our Stacks themselves being shadow-banned across the entire platform. It comes with much greater ramifications than just the comments on our publications that we control. This is why your Stack doesn't reach more than those who come here intentionally for it, like having to "show hidden replies" is now an intentional act.

https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/alert-substack-shadow-banning-deployed/

Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

Definitely puerile.

Mark Brody's avatar

Said Robert Burns in 1785: ""The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley".

There are a lot of mice who will not be finding the cheese.

Meryl Nass's avatar

Great work on the conference, Mark!

Mark Brody's avatar

Thanks Meryl. You helped make it unforgettable. I'm so grateful you came.

Neil Pryke's avatar

Did Substack ask first..?

Jon Olsen's avatar

Let's accelerate the satire on AI and data centers folks. AI mangers can't handle being ridiculed.

Deep Dive's avatar

Dr. Nass,

I checked my Settings and could not find anywhere to alter the "reply rules" which I think you refer to. I notice that, inside of this box where I am typing now, the bottom right shows your rules, and that you have no rules.

What step did you take to set it up that way?

Cynthia Ford's avatar

....is actually not a food problem but a crisis of equity that WHO has defined so as to feed its agenda...' That's pretty funny Dr. Nass, "feed its agenda". I imagine that WHO bunch with baby bottles full of Nestle corn syrup faux milk formula sucking away, Nestle being a decades old example of just how much they give a flying about the children. You did magnificent work awhile back interpreting the propaganda of One Health, which made it obvious how they think humans are only as valuable as cockroaches. I swear someone should make a Mad Libs or a drinking game for every time they come up with a humanitarian reason to strait jacket us into technocratic globalist technofeudalism or they just plain indulge their never ending greed. I think of that pipsqueak mayor of London who presented ULEZ zones, an utter racket, as being a humanitarian intervention to prevent childhood asthma deaths. One can't wait until it gets really bad to resist though because these dark triad psychopaths will never stop, even if they manage to enslave us so we are governed by some hellish fusion of Islamism and Chinese social credit, surveillance, and CBCDs, corralled into the utopia of a 15-minute city that's a cross between a caliphate and the Forbidden City 2.0, with oligarchs and tech bros in their penthouses, they will not stop even then as it's an addiction. They'll start chaining us to our cubicles and refusing to serve us mealworms and lab grown pork and it won't end there either. Nothing to do but resist now!

Jon Olsen's avatar

If you can find BACK TO THE FUTURE #2, it features a very Trump-like figure in charge of a very dystopian world--remarkable pre-cognition (or predictive programming?) It would be fine if this can be resurrected. but they only show #1 and #3 .