Over the last several months, as the garbage glorified hentai known as AI generated wam porn overtook the site and slowed everything to a crawl, I grew so frustrated that I have given up. I no longer have the urge to come here after work to relieve the daily tension. By the time I see something interesting, I am already no longer horny because the craving to watch people get messy has already worn off. I no longer have the urge to spend my hard-earned cash on videos because it's just no longer worth my time. I never thought I'd see the day where Twitter would be the best place to find WAM porn, but it's here, and since I've always despised Twitter and have no desire to make an account, it's made things even simpler. I'm cured, and I have AI to thank

Congratulations to the OP for curing their addiction, however for anyone who simply wants to block out most AI content, you can do that from your proifile settings, just find this section:



And change the radio buttons to block AI / Synthetic content.

It's not perfect as it won't catch AI images posted to non-AI threads in discussions, however it will block the overwhelming majority of it, and pretty much everything posted to the AI WAM group, which is 99% of it.

Not sure how much of this is real and how much of this is sarcasm. You don't need to make a twitter account to find the content that you are after as you have found. No reason you can't enjoy the stuff there. That is, until you realize that there is just as much AI on twitter as anywhere else. I am as much against AI and claiming to be artists because you cheat with AI as most people. However, that does not prevent me from coming here and getting horny and wanking to the genuine displays of art that are still here without AI. If your post is serious, don't give up. There is nothing wrong with having a healthy sex life. Anyone that tells you otherwise is brainwashed by some kind of entity.

Absolutely true, but if anyone feels that something sexual is causing an issue and in this case it sounds like 'too much porn', there is also nothing wrong with seeking help to get your mental health back on track.
As for what is "too much", that is also down the the individual.

Good news, you can't get 'addicted' to porn, it can only ever fulfil 2 of the 5 necessary criteria for an addiction and thus is a compulsion.
Bad new: It still feels like and addiction a that time.
Good news: it's far easier to change habits of a compulsion than addiction due to fewer/no side effects.
Good news: simple therapy can get you to where you need to be, though a sexologist/clinical sex therapist is trained more specifically.

Cool story. You do realize you can just filter out what you don't like or just scroll on past it right? I mean, it's like that for everything in life...I hate the beatles with every fiber of my being, but I just don't listen to them, and somehow I'm still able to listen to music that I actually do like...strange huh?

TBH guessed was part sarcasm but still thought worth pointing out where the controls to filter it are, lots of folk may not have noticed how that's been expanded.

I think StickyFingas' point is being missed. Here is how I interpret his sarcasm and his point:

I think site lag is preventing him from enjoying this site. I think he thinks this problem is caused by AI wam images.
I think he does not have an addiction/compulsion and nothing was cured. He is discontinuing use of this site and using Twitter instead.
I think he dislikes AI wam, but he did not mention anything about filtering or preventing from seeing it. He may have already had the synthetic filter enabled.

StickyFingas feel free to correct me if you ever log back on. It helps to be more clear and avoid sarcasm if you want your opinion to be respected and not treated like a joke. It is hard to tell if you were trying to be serious or having fun making a sarcastic joke.

I have noticed site lag on occasion. There have been times where it was too slow to shop. There have a been a few posts about site performance:

https://umd.net/forums/this-site-being-incredibly-slow-on-a-mac
https://umd.net/forums/really-slow-wall
https://umd.net/forums/site-lagging-for-anyone-else
https://umd.net/groups/large-latency

Site lag may ruin someone's enjoyment. I can imagine someone who is trying to enjoy this site in the moment, and is unable to do so because it is too slow.

The site performance may not be caused by AI wam images. Only Messmaster would know, and it would make no sense to disclose what causes poor site performance because people could use that to deny service to other people using the site. The poor performance could be dos attacks.

The bottom line is that this user, and possibly more, thinks that AI wam images are the cause of the slow site performance. This user, and possible more, are willing to discontinue use of this site because of site performance and possibly because of AI wam images in general.

One final though. I am afraid of this sentiment: "AI wam images overtook this site". My fear is that we will see additional posts like this where people announce they are leaving. My biggest fear is that producers will announce their retirement stating that it is because of AI wam images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB16AkSGLqk&list=PLxI9rM7N2E01D8pIt0sYF-k5JY4OfAJDe

I never thought I'd come across another person who would say something negative about the Beatles. I don't particularly hate them but I think they're massively overrated but saying this to pretty much anyone seems to lead to a barrage of "you're wrong and here's why I'm right" comments.

Apologies for the digression in this thread.

Thank you HappyCamper for curing my music addiction. I no longer have the urge to listen to music anymore.

I hate a lot of music that is considered to be all time best...lol...I could list so many artists that would make people on here shake their heads, but I'll keep myself safe and just limit it to the beatles .

Nothing much to add. But I now have an overwhelming compulsion to announce that I don't much care for the Beatles either.

absolutely spot on to Sticky Fingers.

Cartoon fucking network

As pointed out above, people can very eaily block the vast majority of it - are folk having problems with getting the filters to work?

One issue I've had changing filters is because it's all part of the huge profile page, my browser auto-fills one of the password fields but not the other, so if I just try and submit stratight away I get a password error.

But password only has to be present for a few specific operations (and not for setting filters), so the solution is to scroll to the top and blank all the password boxes before clicking Submit.

Poss it would help if MM created a separate filter settings page that was separate to the main profile one so people can tweak their filters in a few clicks without getting tripped up by password auto-fill issues? I imagine most browsers that remember passwords probably do the same thing on that page.

PS: While the Beatles do have some good tunes, I can't ever claim to have been a massive fan, and if a $DEITY descended and banned them forever I'd happily live without.

I found it very convenient to have the synthetic filter option placed on: "/gallery", "/wall", and "/picarchive" on the top right. I do not go to my profile to enable this setting. I just toggle it from these pages. I frequently use the synthetic filter toggle.

The synthetic filter filters out this fake AI content just well as how the gender filter works to filter out male content for people who do not want to see male content.

As for site performance, I have not had many issues lately. Usually if there is an issue, I take a break and it is back to normal when I come back. Taking a break might not be an option for someone who is trying to enjoy the content on this site in the moment by looking at pictures, playing videos, or watching trailers.

PS: Thank you UMD for curing my Chipotle bean burrito addiction because of the use of beans on scenes from this site I can no longer eat it, and there is no no-beans filter

secondary apology for another digression I feel similarly. Beatles are vastly over rated. The Monkees were far more entertaining.

Also... I will always share this gem from college humor on every exit thread because they're pretty similar.


https://youtu.be/mGcHNnI2mh4?si=EmtLQumUDJly9-yV

I also don't really care for the Beatles. Many bands from their era I like waaaaay more.