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6 votes
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Why Tesla stock skyrocketed and got halted - Elon Musk is "considering" taking Tesla private in a $70 billion deal
12 votes -
The rules of monopoly
9 votes -
How the “happiest Muslims in the world” are coping with their happiness
8 votes -
How the CIA’s fake vaccination campaign endangers us all
11 votes -
"Now the Donald Trump administration wants to limit US citizenship for legal immigrants"
24 votes -
Scientists put a nuclear waste container through a demanding trip to see if the fuel would break
7 votes -
Uber but for snitching
14 votes -
Fighting for Judaism in the Jewish State
8 votes -
Disney Outlines Streaming Service, Will Launch in Late 2019
13 votes -
Oversight group to probe treatment of animals at University of Calgary lab
2 votes -
Car design today: Is baroque back?
3 votes -
Flexible working becoming the norm
5 votes -
Bizarre “rogue planet” found lurking in Earth’s galactic neighborhood
9 votes -
Public access unix server for tildes.net?
Reading about tilde.club and cmccabe's excellent post about public access unix servers has made me want one for tildes.net. I realize that there are several alternatives, like tildes.team and...
Reading about tilde.club and cmccabe's excellent post about public access unix servers has made me want one for tildes.net. I realize that there are several alternatives, like tildes.team and sdf.org, but I think it would be really cool to have one specifically for the people here, and once the API is done, it could even integrate with the site.
10 votes -
Mal forums are back online
6 votes -
Overcooked! 2 | Release trailer
12 votes -
Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse (2018)
6 votes -
Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
4 votes -
I don't know where else to ask this, or if it has been asked before. But can we have a feature to mark all unread messages as read?
As opposed to having to mark them as read one by one.
11 votes -
Force India F1 team exits administration, under consortium of investors led by Lawrence Stroll
5 votes -
Najib Razak charged with money laundering over 1MDB scandal. Former Malaysian PM faces multiple counts in what has been called the country’s biggest ever corruption case
5 votes -
Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 40 discussion thread
MAL Please no manga spoilers as this is an anime only discussion.
6 votes -
Slice of PIE: A linguistic common ancestor
3 votes -
NOAA plans ‘outside the box’ response to save J pod orca, which may have just days to live
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What games make good use of rogue-like elements? Which games try but fail?
Rogue like elements are used by lots of games. I'm interested to know which ones you think work, which ones you think don't work, and why. Feel free to interpret rogue-like however you want. In my...
Rogue like elements are used by lots of games. I'm interested to know which ones you think work, which ones you think don't work, and why.
Feel free to interpret rogue-like however you want. In my mind I have procedural generation, perma-death option, and some kind of turn-based strategy.
19 votes -
Lake Street Dive - Call Off Your Dogs (2016)
4 votes -
How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
19 votes -
Power worth less than zero spreads as green energy floods the grid
9 votes -
This surgeon wants to offer cheap MRIs. A state law is getting in his way.
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Tackling the Comment Voting Problem
I took a break from Tildes for a week and came back to look at things again with a fresh perspective. One of the things I immediately noticed was how the earliest comments are the ones that get...
I took a break from Tildes for a week and came back to look at things again with a fresh perspective.
One of the things I immediately noticed was how the earliest comments are the ones that get the upvotes to the top of the comment list, and tend to stay there, even when better comments and chains flow below.
I started thinking about why this is so pervasive. Not just on tildes, but everywhere. Reddit and tumblr both suffer this issue to a degree. At the end of the day, going through any comments requires a certain amount of time, and a certain approach to the existing library of commentary. If we lock in the amount of time an average person will examine comments (which...is not much), we’re left with the only thing to address: the approach to going through the existing library.
Plenty of proposals (mostly already done) come to mind. Perhaps you go by most active or most recent comments. Controversial perhaps, or sorting by newest, rather than most popular. Maybe some secret mix of it all (the reddit “hot” formula). What about complete and utter randomness? ...yeah remember that Certain Amount of Time we discussed earlier? It’ll only be a couple posts before the user will switch back to another sort method.
So what should we try? What HASN’T been tried?
What about multiple panes? User-selectable, arrangable, 1-4. Vertical columns of different views, updated dynamically synchronously or asynchronously for the most controversial, new, and active. You could see all the views at once, side by side, so that your time switching between views and waiting for page loads evaporates and 100% of that limited attention span is spent on the comments in each of the sorts.
Having the more rapidly-changing columns (newest, active) update synchronously (every # seconds, configurable) would allow a user to engage those comments in time for the next refresh. The less-rapidly changing columns could be set to be asynchronous- updating as the orders change (top, controversial). This can also be tweaked as the site gets either more or less active as a whole. So what might need to be asynchronous now while things are quiet, can be made synchronous later.
Again, all of this is just a possibility, or perhaps starting point for a way to address the overall issue of the first comments being the most voted on.
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Disenchantment review: Groening’s new Netflix toon is off to a bloody good start
11 votes -
Has anyone else watched Netflix's Dark Tourist? What are your thoughts?
I found this show thoroughly interesting, if confronting at times. I haven't seen much discussion on the internet, so I'm wondering what Tildes thinks?
4 votes -
Leaked white paper proposes Congressional regulation of social media
14 votes -
Tim Cook’s email to employees about Apple’s $1trillion milestone
13 votes -
WV House committee approves fourteen articles of impeachment against justices
5 votes -
Experts criticize West Virginia’s plan for smartphone voting
13 votes -
Why Nord Stream 2 is the world’s most controversial energy project
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What was the best change you ever made in your life?
I'm going to be a little bit more broad on my response. It wasn't a matter of just a one-time thing or action, but a philosophy. I have a personal rule of mine to change something major about...
I'm going to be a little bit more broad on my response. It wasn't a matter of just a one-time thing or action, but a philosophy. I have a personal rule of mine to change something major about myself at least once a year, and that could range from a job or to taking up a new hobby.
Since taking up on this idea, this thought, I've felt better as I can see changes happening, and looking back from exactly a year ago to the date there's a lot to be impressed by. By following this new tradition I feel better as I can see constant improvement, and self-motivation to adapt, and evolve as a person.
What was the best change you ever made in your life?
41 votes -
Japanese medical school deducted points from exam scores of female applicants
12 votes -
El Paquete, Cuba's answer to digital content distribution
7 votes -
Chronic - For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?
6 votes -
Angered by traffic deaths, students began to direct traffic in Bangladesh (facing government backlash)
7 votes -
Tesla shorts lose more than $1 billion on post-earnings surge
15 votes -
Italian upper house votes to overturn mandatory vaccinations despite surge in measles cases
9 votes -
Peep Shows, STD Scams, and Freak Shows: Inside the Bowery's Bad Old Days
2 votes -
All eight Harry Potter movies are returning to theaters
11 votes -
Energy deal in limbo as states step up their demands
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~music Listening Club 7 - Highway 61 Revisited
Hi folks, sorry for the late post. @Whom is sick and wasn't able to post this today so she asked me to do it. Hello all you good people, here we are in week number 7! It's time for another classic...
Hi folks, sorry for the late post. @Whom is sick and wasn't able to post this today so she asked me to do it.
Hello all you good people, here we are in week number 7! It's time for another classic record discussion: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited!
Here's the place to discuss your thoughts on the record, your history with it or the artist, and basically talk about whatever you want to that goes along with Highway 61 Revisited. Remember that this is intended to be a slow moving thing, feel free to take your time and comment at any point in the week!
If you'd like to stream or buy the album, it can be found on most platforms here.
Don't forget to nominate and vote for next week's obscure record in response to this comment!
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Saudi Arabia orders 16,000 students to leave Canada amid escalating clash
7 votes