Hahah no biggie! I think me using the royal "you" may have felt more personal than it should have been and came off as a PM in the interface
Thanks for posting! Don't worry about it, netizens love to argue, and I'm guilty of starting a few flame wars myself 😅
I don't think they're necessarily "extremists". Different cultures, different countries, different legislations, and different dogs create varied opinions on the topic of collars and harnesses.
Here in Montreal, IIRC dogs above 40 lbs must be in a harness and wear a collar at all times when out in public, and must be held on a leash no longer than 6ft outside of designated area. They must wear their license, be microchipped and be neutered unless you get a special permission.
Having a border collie, if I left his harness on at all times, his fur would get matted and he would get infections as he loves to get wet in summer, so I take it off when indoors. He's also not a flight risk, but I still leave his collar on most of the time because he spends a lot of time free in the backyard.
Another dog may have short hair so matting may not be an issue, or could be a flight risk, yet another dog may live in the countryside and have nowhere to go but home. Some countries have easy access to microchip scanning at a vet, some countries require you to go to their SPCA equivalent to get the microchip scanned, and some countries don't even require microchipping.
TL;DR opinions vary based on experience and situations, and no one is right or wrong. See my pinned post, but I encourage conversation.
I received a few reports on the conversations in this thread, and although heated and certainly divisive, seems to remain civil, and thus I haven't taken any action.
Please remember to mention the rule broken when reporting content, and although I encourage you to keep reporting content you believe violates the rules, avoid reporting content simply because you disagree with it (unless it's a topic explicitly banned by the rules).
I am proud of the level of civility you were able to retain even in very divisive topics. I encourage open conversation without hostility, and disagreeing is part of conversation. You can even agree to disagree, and some topics may have no right answer, and / or more research may be needed to decisively answer a question.
We should also be specific in what we oppose.
"Artificial Intelligence" is probably one of the broadest terms in common use today.
IMO, this is what we should oppose:
I might have missed some, but IMO, large language models and voice generation can be done ethically and are ok in very narrow contexts. Both of these are tools and should never be used as a final product.
I've stared at a few of these thus far, and I'm 99.9999% sure this is AI-generated.
It's more obvious on some graphics than others, but there's a lot of incoherence, the shadows make no sense and the window styling looks nothing like Windows.
This just screams of AI.
Cap, I think you're a proudly ignorant luddite.
Go yell at clouds or something.
It's not safe and all that stuff.
No, I'm dead serious about rule 7.
We follow the ASPCA's stance on the issue.
Breed discrimination is prohibited, and a ban will ensue following multiple rule violations.
Dog-related art is fine so long as it isn't AI generated.
I don't think it buries questions or other content. I could hold a vote at some point about the content people want to see on this community.