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Sure, that’s sort of what I said.

People can put whatevet they want on their vehicle, that’s none of my business. That said, I’d be too afraid that having something like this would incentivize some asshole to vandalize my car.

I can for this example yes, but those were sort of rhetorical questions about how polls like this are presented in general. I suppose the linked article is more clear than the title of this post is. “49% of Americans believe,” No, 49% of people who voted on this NY Times poll believe this. I know, it’s impossible to actually get every American to weigh in on this poll, I’m just saying I don’t like statistics like this because to me they don’t mean anything other than a 1000 or so people feel this way.

Who conducts these polls? How many people were polled? 100? 1000? I always see “Americans say this” or “People believe that”, but I certainly never voted on any poll, no one I know has. It always makes me feel like the polling base is going to be biased or carefully selected in some way to achieve the desired percentages.

Please don’t leave us behind. Maybe we can cut a deal and cut the state in half?

You’re not the only one that needs a wash around here

This is very interesting. I’ve been thinking of how a similar but different system could be implemented. The front page of any instance always seems to have two to four posts by the same person, and I’ve been following a rule that if I notice it I block them to remove their clutter of posts from my feed. Unfortunately, most of these accounts are brand new ones posting memes, so it feels like for every two I swat down, four more take their place.

I was looking for an instance that allowed me to mute all new accounts, or less likely an instance that filters out posts by the same person, but it doesn’t seem such a thing has been created.

This isn’t the same that I wanted, and if I’m not mistaken it only applies to posts inside this instance, since the algorithm is removing them? Or does it filter out all similar posts across the fediverse feed? Still, it’s close in concept.