Posts by schmeckles65 17 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2020
1000% true, my daughter now has the tech related stuff as she's more advanced for her age, but she also has the imaginative things where she sits for hours talking to herself and making up scenarios.
People think these are "cool" but in reality you are starving your child from early learning and being independent.
I recently moved my business to Teams Voice and what a nightmare that was, I am a solo person business and it was either buy a mobile plan and a new phone or go with VOIP, I chose the latter.
What on earth is the admin panel? It took me 4 hours to assign my local number to a resource account to allow people to call the queue line, along with error after error and messages for me to contact Microsoft Support and when you click the link it takes you to an unrelated wiki with information.
The search feature is very specific... you have to type the number exactly how it is so it can be found and when I say exactly I mean all the spaces in the right place. Overall, not a great experience for something so simple.
I discovered you have to assign a "Virtual Phone System" license to the resource account but doing it directly in Teams Admin would throw error after error but when you assigned it through Admin 365 it would work?
Also coming from Skype for Business at my old place and now using Teams at home, I have to admit that Skype for Business just works for what it is. Even at my old work place they refused to use Teams.
I use JS as little as possible but with Google pushing "Core Web Vitals" down your neck you have to use some form of JS on a cached website.
Example - A few WordPress websites I run are cached so they load much quicker but then that leaves timestamps and other important information to be static, JS is then used to pull that data client-side with AJAX.
The speed difference with cache and non-cache to visiting users is negligible but for "Core Web Vitals" it's the difference between getting your page seen or not seen.
Or... They are ruining pages for "false positives", I run a news page with a website to go with it. We posted a few photos of another Social Media user inciting some violence and Facebook assumed it was us inciting the violence.
So now we have non-appealable strikes on the page, Instant Articles removed which has completely nulled the income from that specific page.
Guess why we can't appeal? Because they have limited staff during the coronavirus pandemic, we even contacted support and because I am no longer a partner with Facebook Monetisation they refuse to help.
So to conclude, AI moderation is working too well for them - Why employ more staff when you can just take the majority vote from the trusted social media users and remove content and punish people in the process.
Get enough reports on a post and the chances are high that the AI will bite you. I've come to the conclusion that from some of the responses from "support" the majority of their system is run from automated AI messages.
I misread the article so I have withdrawn my comment.
You sell a few items or 4000+ items a month like me? You need to remember that eBay has Service Metrics and when a dispute is opened your sales tank so that is why the seller is always obliged to suck up the loss from scammers.
eBay do not investigate anything.
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