Yeah, back in the “write checks for everything” days, my wife asked me why I’d written over a dozen checks in the past year to “Exotic Gardens”… I had to show her that the closest gas station to my work was owned by the next-door Chinese restaurant.
But look at the explanations we’ve had to give when ONE person “sees our likes”. Having everyone see them could get awkward:
“Fletcher, I’d love to give you a raise, but I see here that years ago, you ‘liked’ a post by Aaron Rogers…”
“But back then he was my quarterback!”
“I don’t care about your sexual positions, Fletcher…”
Sure there is–it gives me a chance to list the reason for every purchase as “definitely not drugs”. So people will know it wasn’t for drugs. Can’t be too careful, you know.
I think making it so that the post shows the number of likes but not who liked them is a good change. I wish likes worked like that everywhere, like facebook, message boards, etc. I want to give feedback to the submitter that I liked the post, but I don’t necessarily want randos looking through the likes to see who liked it. And on places like facebook, some people get upset if they see you liking other people’s posts but you’re not liking their posts. I’d rather not deal with all that drama. My solution is to just not like anything so I don’t have to deal with any fallout. If the list of people who liked something is private, people will feel more comfortable giving feedback that they like something.
It’s understandable why people want likes to be anonymous, but I think its to the detriment of society. The anonymity of the internet enables pretty shitty behavior. If you’re embarrassed to like something, maybe it’s better to keep your opinion to yourself.
Heheh, I usually list the reason for the transaction as something like “Human slavery” or “Extortion overhead fees”. Sadly, Venmo would not let me use “Giant Rat Penis”.
Once upon a time, but these days I take a photo of both sides of the check after I endorse it, scan it into my banking app on my phone, and it gets deposited that way.
And before that, I’d go to an ATM, put the endorsed check in an envelope they keep at the ATM, fill out the envelope, and then deposit it into the ATM after using my card and going through the menus.
I was surprised to find that at least some checks are checked. My wife wrote me a large check to cover part of the CC bill, and messed up the written out part slightly. She overwrote it, but Bank of America (reasonably) rejected it a couple of days after the electronic deposit.
They also gave no notification that they had done so by phone, text, email or Pony Express. Fortunately, I noticed the decline in my balance before attempting to use the funds.
It feels like you really may have hit on something here. I’m cynical enough to think this might actually be Elmo’s final play.
Elmo: I’m taking away a standard, long standing feature. I’m improving it for YOU!
Users: Boo!
Elmo: Fine then! I’m restoring this feature that everyone loves but now you’re going to have to pay for it! (Why won’t everyone recognize my inherent genius!?!)
This was my old job. The computer’s OCR scan kicks out the discrepancies and the operator flags the item to be rescanned and if the person that scanned it doesn’t re-submit the deposit is canceled. I didn’t work for BoA but you should have gotten an automated e-mail.
What do you know? I just got put in Xitter time-out because, evidently, I support violent behavior. Which I, of course, actually do not. What did, though, triggered the clown who posted a picture of a noose with the text in the picture calling for summary hanging of, among others, traitors. So, like an idiot, I posted in text, “Trump’s a traitor. I can get behind him being put in a noose.” Mind you, I don’t support capital punishment either. My intent was to point out the hypocrisy of the idiot posting the picture.
So, lesson learned: don’t post such things in text. Be sure to make them into pictures.
At least the time-out will be over in approximately 11 hours. To get that, sadly, I had to delete my post. And this is what Musk calls the free speech platform.
