Lorenzo Buonanno
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Hi!
Currently (Oct 2022) mostly doing translations and community building in Italy, and some web development consulting part-time.
I'm also a forum mod, which, shamelessly stealing from Edo, "mostly means that I care about this forum and about you! So let me know if there's anything I can do to help."
Please have a very low bar for reaching out!
Used to be a Software Developer donating most of my income, and won the 2022 donor lottery, happy to chat about that as well
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We’re issuing John Salter a two-month ban for using multiple accounts to vote on the same posts and comments, and in one instance for commenting in a thread pretending to be two different users.
This is against the Forum norms around using multiple accounts. Votes are really important for the Forum: they provide feedback to authors and signal to readers what other users found most valuable, so we need to be particularly strict in discouraging this kind of vote manipulation.
A note on timing: the comment mentioned above is 7 months old but went unnoticed at the time, a report for it came in last week and triggered this investigation.
If John thinks that this is not right, he can appeal. As a reminder, bans affect the user, not the account.
The rest of the application seems to be optional also if one indicates that they have not been personally referred by someone. Do you get something different?
We've banned Sol3:2 for 3 weeks. This comment is uncivil and was reported multiple times. Other comments have been reported in the past for similar reasons.
I want to note that criticism can be extremely valuable, and we have a slightly higher bar for taking mod action against criticism. But referring to analyses of HLI's work as "autistic" clearly violates core Forum norms and is above that bar. I think it’s possible to outline strong disagreements while still following our norms, and we’d want to see this from Sol3:2 in the future.
If Sol3:2 thinks that this is not right, they can appeal.
What's the forum etiquette on advertising jobs?
I think job listings are one of the most valuable things on the forum, I'm surprised you're even asking!
There's even a Job listing (open) tag, that you've used in the past with wild success. It was the success story for the forum from the past 6 months.
I personally would heavily encourage people to post more job advertisements on the Forum, and let users vote on them, especially roles at extremely impact-oriented orgs like Training for Good.
Is your experience as a user decreased by the current top-level posts advertising jobs?
Hi Shalott, welcome to the Forum!
- On taxes, you might be interested in this page https://doneereffectief.nl/advies/belastingvoordeel/ (en: https://doneereffectief.nl/en/advice/tax-and-anbi/ )
- On suggestions for charities, there is no easy answer, as it depends a lot on your empirical and moral beliefs. You might be interested in these posts on family planning, which seem related to what you're looking for. I have personally donated to Family Empowerment Media
Thanks! I've bolded the headings and added some footnotes.
For these link-posts in the handbook, I recommend reading the original, as it's more up-to-date and has better formatting.