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Can registrations on kbin.social be disabled to stop spammers
  • It is stupid easy to get a free .edu account. It will not hamper spammers in the slightest. Even if they don’t want to make a few .edu accounts a day to do their spamming, they can just buy .edu accounts in bulk for about 10 cents per. No one is making thousands of kbin accounts to spam from, they make a handful a day, and use them till they get banned. Then they make a few more.

    .edu accounts are a terrible way to try and prevent spam on kbin. There is literally an industry around generating fake .edu accounts. You can buy them in bulk. Some colleges receive 10’s of thousands of fake applications a month trying to get free .edu emails.

  • Can registrations on kbin.social be disabled to stop spammers
  • I think you're thinking 4 year college, not 2 years. It takes a lot of effort and money to apply to a 4 year school. It takes like 5 minutes to apply at your local community college online and get a .edu email address, and it's free.

    Using .edu as some sort of validation is a terrible idea because it's something anyone can get with just a few minutes of work.

  • Hello Games has announced its next game, called Light No Fire
  • A truly open world, with no boundaries at a scale never attempted before. A massively varied and dense planet filled with immersive biomes, unique enemies and valuable resources to discover.

    uhhhhhhhhhhhh about that

  • Nearly 20% of workers have changed their name on a resume because of discrimination concerns, says new report
  • We have rubrics. Like if we're asking for an AA degree, but a BS preferred, you'll get tossed out if you don't have an AA, you'll get 1 point for an AA, and 2 points for a BS. But you'll also get a 2 for a MA or DR.

    It gets weird when it's education and or maybe experience somewhere in the field.... some people who write our job descriptions don't think things through....

  • New homeowner lots of questions
  • it’s obvious their pets handled the moving process poorly and have urinated in every room with carpet

    Cleaning up pet urine can be really expensive depending on how bad it is. If it's not just a few spots here and there, seriously consider ripping out all of the carpet and padding and living on the floor boards until you can get new flooring.

    You should buy a black light. Nothing expensive, $20 or so. And shine it on everything with the lights off, urine glows. As a side note, anyone looking to buy a house, or even get a new rental should get a black light.

  • Nearly 20% of workers have changed their name on a resume because of discrimination concerns, says new report
  • I brought this up a few years ago where I work. I want to have a team sanitize the applications before the hiring team gets to see them. Remove names, dates that can be used to construe an age, gender, etc. I hope this study helps me get my point across at next years EEO training.

  • Nearly 20% of workers have changed their name on a resume because of discrimination concerns, says new report
  • I doubt it's your name/ethnicity. It's probably more that you're over qualified and they're afraid you're going to work for 3 months before getting a better job better matching your qualifications. To be clear they shouldn't discriminate because of over qualifications either.

    I say this as someone who works in the public sector, for many years. Every year I have to go to an EEO training and they drill it home what we can and can't consider. There's no way they are managing to discriminate against white sounding names for a decade without someone blowing the whistle. I 100% guarantee some fox news watcher there is blowing the whistle for their 20 minutes of fame.

  • Or we could fund the the education system to provide teachers with what they need to do their job
  • Remember it's not the school that won't pony up, it's your local and state government that aren't giving them an appropriate budget.

    Also keep in mind that most grant money comes with stipulations. I remember many years ago (late 90's or early 00's) we got a big grant for computers in the classroom. Good chunk of money. But it had to be spent on computers, and only computers. Would have been nice to get some furniture to put them on. We had some in the back of the classrooms next to the sink, some we put 2 desks set front to front (it was not level) It was janky, but the computers were nice.

  • Biden Administration to Resume Border Wall Construction in Policy Reversal
  • ...the construction project was appropriated during the prior administration and the law requires the government to use the funds, with an announcement made earlier in the year. "We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money but it has not done so and we are compelled to follow the law,"...

    --https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-build-new-barriers-roads-texas-border-area-2023-10-05/

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