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3 votes
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Daily Tildes discussion - how can we maintain quality without drifting too far into "gatekeeping"?
The daily discussion from Friday about the site's activity level has been great, with a ton of solid insight, feedback and suggestions from many different people. Today I want to continue...
The daily discussion from Friday about the site's activity level has been great, with a ton of solid insight, feedback and suggestions from many different people. Today I want to continue discussing one particular theme that came up in there multiple times: a number of people seem to feel like they're not "worthy" of posting on the site, with it seemingly exacerbated by seeing complaints about the quality of other people's posts.
This is a bit of a tricky thing to balance: we want to try to keep the quality of content on Tildes up, but it can be unwelcoming and discouraging if people feel that they're likely to get berated for posting something that isn't "good enough". By its very nature, being more selective about content means that we have to discourage (or remove) some types of content, but how can we do it in a way that doesn't feel quite so antagonistic to the people submitting?
A good way of thinking about this is to try to consider it from the submitter's perspective. If you were to post something that wasn't really suitable, how would you like to be informed of that? And (just as importantly), how would you not like to be informed of it?
As always, all thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Tildes is still going to require a lot of growth, so it's important to figure out how we'll be able to integrate people into the site's culture over time without feeling overly hostile towards new users.
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The World's Worst Industrial Disaster is Still Unfolding
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Is the Helsinki meeting the tipping point for US politicians?
From what I've seen, it has had a universally bad reaction. From D. From R. From every news network out there. Is this the tipping point?
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Jupiter’s got twelve new moons — one is a bit of a problem child
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Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
21 votes -
Deliveroo threatens to terminate workers after losing their contracts
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The "macaroni" scandal of 1772: A gay trial a century before Oscar Wilde
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How a group of romance writers cashed in on Amazon's Kindle Unlimited
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
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Wood ash cement
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PS4 5.05 BPF Double Free Kernel Exploit Writeup
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Any D&D players around? How'd your last session go?
(First post on Tildes, feel free to blast me if I screwed something up posting this.) So, as the title says, I'd love to hear about how your game is going. Also, if there's a lot of D&D...
(First post on Tildes, feel free to blast me if I screwed something up posting this.)
So, as the title says, I'd love to hear about how your game is going. Also, if there's a lot of D&D discussion, we might talk the admins into going ahead and making us a ~games.dnd (wink, wink).
Disclaimer: If anything cool happened, I may or may not steal the idea. =]
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The making (and unmaking) of a Canadian brand: Tim Horton's
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Health insurers are vacuuming up details about you — and it could raise your rates
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NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft form VirtualLink Consortium and introduce an open industry standard for connecting next-generation VR headsets
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Suggestion: when clicking on an external link, open it in new tab
It would be nice to have that functionality (at least as an option), so that the thread doesn't close. I personally instinctively close the tab after I am done reading instead of going back, which...
It would be nice to have that functionality (at least as an option), so that the thread doesn't close. I personally instinctively close the tab after I am done reading instead of going back, which can be really frustrating after the realization I have nothing to read now (yeah, I know, CTRL+SHIFT+T, reopen last closed tab etc etc, but it's much more convenient to hit CTRL+W and be back where you stopped reading the thread).
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Riot's approach to anti-cheat
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Variable Fonts - A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts
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KOGNITIF - Soul Food
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Deca - Flux (2018)
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US President Donald Trump's trade offensive is producing brutal local headlines
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The EU and Japan have signed an unprecedented free trade agreement which will create one of the world's largest trading blocs
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For a brief, glorious moment, camera-wielding pigeons spied from above
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Github is currently experiencing service outages
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ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct has been updated!
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What was your "20 seconds of insane courage" moment that actually ended up working out?
What did you recently do (or maybe not recent but still memorable) to go out of your comfort zone and actually have it work out in the end?
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Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds
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‘I broke the contract’: how Hannah Gadsby's trauma transformed comedy
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The millions: The great second-half 2018 book preview
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When you have a serious hereditary disease, who has a right to know?
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Silent Planet - Vanity of Sleep (2018)
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California judge halts deportations of reunited migrant families
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Talkback caller's heartfelt poem about violence against women resonates with listeners
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The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize
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Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' in Twitter outburst
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What are some Blind Spots of your political compatriots?
There's lot of academia out there that suggests that everyone has blindspots, topics and issues that we take with so much certainty that we would not even think to question them, people who so...
There's lot of academia out there that suggests that everyone has blindspots, topics and issues that we take with so much certainty that we would not even think to question them, people who so rarely enter into our concerns that we do not think to consider their needs or concerns, etc.
It's hard to know exactly what our own blindspots are because by their very nature as soon as they are identified they lose some of their power. This sort of self-awareness is difficult even on the best day, but it allows us to more reasonably address people who don't hold our views, so I think the exercise is justified.
This topic is intended to be introspective. Wherever you identify politically (left, right, moderate, anarchist, libertarian, the works), what are some topics and groups that your political people tend to struggle to focus on?
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How NASA’s mission to Pluto was nearly lost
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Methane is giving noctilucent clouds a boost
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Renewables will replace ageing coal plants at lowest cost, Australian Energy Market Operator says
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At last, a law that could have stopped Tony Blair and George W Bush invading. The Hague’s new crime of aggression might give belligerent heads of states a reason to pause.
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Programming Challenge: Construct and traverse a binary tree.
It's that time of week again! For this week's programming challenge, I thought I would focus on data structures. Goal: Construct a binary tree data structure. It may handle any data type you...
It's that time of week again! For this week's programming challenge, I thought I would focus on data structures.
Goal: Construct a binary tree data structure. It may handle any data type you choose, but you must handle sorting correctly. You must also provide a print function that prints each value in the tree on a new line, and the values must be printed in strictly increasing order.
If you're unfamiliar with this data structure, it's a structure that starts with a single "root" node, and this root can have a left child, right child, both, or neither. Each of these child nodes is exactly the same as the root node, except the root has no parent. This branching structure is why it's called a tree. Furthermore, left descendants always have values smaller than the parent, and right descendants always have larger values.
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Steven Universe Discussion - Season 5 ends and general feelings of show's current path
Spoilers Ahead! All topics and current plot arcs are free reign!
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What are some of your favorite lightweight websites?
By lightweight, I mean sites that are compact, that load quickly, that aren’t loaded with tons of scripts. Personally, I’m a fan of lite.cnn.io. No ads, very minimalistic. Edit: Oh, look, I found...
By lightweight, I mean sites that are compact, that load quickly, that aren’t loaded with tons of scripts.
Personally, I’m a fan of lite.cnn.io. No ads, very minimalistic.
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How is Prime Day going for everyone?
Anyone find any good deals on Buy-It-For-Life quality products? Let's talk about our hauls!
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Chrome uses ten to thirteen percent more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws
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The downfall of Theranos, from the journalist who made it happen
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Israel in turmoil over bill allowing Jews and Arabs to be segregated
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Liberapay is in trouble
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Spice and Wolf VR announced for 2019
4 votes