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9 votes
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C.S. Lewis - The Inner Ring
6 votes -
For the eleventh year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum's Geneva Equality List
7 votes -
Why is the James-Webb space telescope taking so long?
7 votes -
The African farmers taking on big chocolate
6 votes -
Exit poll suggests Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of eighty-six in the UK general election
33 votes -
The GOG GALAXY 2.0 Open Beta is now available
15 votes -
What software or service do you use for blogging?
If you have a blog, what service do you use? Are you happy with it, or would you recommend looking elsewhere?
27 votes -
What's something that is hiding in plain sight?
I don't have any setup or examples for this question like I normally do. I just thought of the question and figured it would be interesting to put out there. Answer with whatever you think fits.
17 votes -
Why Kansas City’s free transit experiment matters
6 votes -
Day 17: Set and Forget
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/17 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/17
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
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.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
7 votes -
ArchLabs Linux?
Anyone here use or used ArchLabs? I put out this Distro along with another dude and I'd love to hear any feedback.
15 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
4 votes -
Fraidycat - Follow from afar
10 votes -
The country that shut down its mental health hospitals
8 votes -
Really That Good: Star Wars
7 votes -
Beach House - PPP (2015)
4 votes -
Tildes and multi-dimensional weighted votes
hello, I've been wondering a little bit about what a well-designed voting system on a website like reddit or Tildes would look like, and as I do not have a definitive answer, I do have a...
hello,
I've been wondering a little bit about what a well-designed voting system on a website like reddit or Tildes would look like, and as I do not have a definitive answer, I do have a suggestion to make. I've originally posted this on another website, but I thought that it could also be fruitful to discuss this here, seeing that efforts have already been made in that direction (similar features have even already been implemented).
Looking forward to reading you!
I was wondering whether Aether should support downvotes or not, seeing that they are often misused on other discussion platforms to suppress content that is disliked rather than non-contributory or low-quality. People may then not view content that was heavily downvoted, even though it may have been high-quality.
Should we rather use some other mechanism to serve that function? If so, what would it be?
Personally, I'd suggest that we experiment with two-dimensional weighted voting.
In a word, it would allow users to express both whether they agree or disagree with (alternatively, like or dislike) a piece of content (and how strongly so) and whether they think that that piece of content is high-quality or low-quality (and how strongly so).
In practice, it could look like this (for users): upon clicking on the voting icon, a square with two scaled axes would appear. One for the quality of content, the other for the level of (dis)agreeance. A user, who had for instance found a piece of content to be very high-quality, but who somewhat disagreed with it, could then express that opinion by click and dragging right to the top of the square, but somewhat left of its center.
That simple mechanism would therefore allow us to distinguish between those two criteria and better capture the intention behind a vote, and help alleviate the issue of seeing deeply unpopular content being buried despite its high quality. It would also allow users to express how strongly they feel about a piece of content by letting them adjust the weight of their vote. Plus, it wouldn't be too cumbersome to use (in my opinion).
(Voting strongly should be slightly inconvenient or cumbersome to do, so as to deter users from voting strongly every time, thereby rendering strong votes meaningless. In practice, that could mean having to move one's mouse only a little for a soft vote, but more and more as the vote gains more weight.
Axes should also be sticky, so as to make it easy to vote with respect to one criterion only (we shouldn't need to try and aim precisely).)We could also put in place some additional mechanism to let users rate content with regard to other criteria (how informative it is, or impressive, exciting, funny, etc.). I do not expect users to rate all the content they read, but allowing them to do so could still be useful. They may still bother to do it for content they find especially informative, impressive, etc., and that would then allow other users to sort content with regard to one or several of these criteria and find content tailored to their interests.
(We could then also display for any piece of content a chart (that could look like this) showing how it was rated with regard to all these criteria. That's not really important, but I find that cool.
We could also plot the number of votes as a function of vote strength, find the average vote strength and so on... That would also be cool, and interesting.)
What do you think?
24 votes -
Apps that access Google G Suite services using a username and password (as opposed to OAuth) will be restricted in June 2020, and blocked in February 2021
13 votes -
AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today.
16 votes -
Estonia's president has apologised after his country's interior minister mocked Finland's new prime minister
8 votes -
Inspired by Wikipedia and its predecessors, a new genre is emerging at the crossroads of interactive fiction and alternate reality games
8 votes -
The lie that helped build Nintendo
9 votes -
A look inside some of the facets of the world of falcon breeding, racing, and hunting
4 votes -
Boeing to suspend 737 MAX production in January
5 votes -
What are your personal picks for "Games of the Decade"?
The 2010s are coming to a close soon, and I'm curious to know what your gaming highlights are from the past decade. To be clear: these are your personal standouts so don't feel beholden to...
The 2010s are coming to a close soon, and I'm curious to know what your gaming highlights are from the past decade.
To be clear: these are your personal standouts so don't feel beholden to popularity, critical opinion, review scores, or anything else like that. If a game was great for you and you deem it worthy of mentioning, then by all means go for it. I'm not interested in a list of the "most important" games of the decade but individual lists from individual people.
Please let us know why you loved the games that you're choosing, and what makes them worth mentioning as your personal picks for "Games of the Decade." Furthermore, choose as many or as few as you like. I'm also not even going to limit this to games released in the 2010s, as I know that many games released before then have gotten new life in this decade through patches, mods, randomizers, online communities, etc.
Basically, there are no rules for this list other than "tell me what games you loved these past ten years, and why."
25 votes -
The conservation of Salvator Mundi (No, not that one)
3 votes -
The measurements to convert common whole spices into ground
9 votes -
The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
13 votes -
Shop Assistants - Safety Net (2007)
3 votes -
No Man's Sky update adds the "ByteBeat Device", a full audio-creation application
6 votes -
Day 16: Flawed Frequency Transmission
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/16 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/16
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
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6 votes -
Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all
9 votes -
DIY vanilla extract is a waste of time and money: It's really an infusion, not an extract, and one that lacks the nuance and complexity of those made by commercial producers
9 votes -
Theo Katzman - (I Don't Wanna Be A) Billionaire (2019)
5 votes -
The Hornsdale Power Reserve and what it means for energy storage
8 votes -
Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2019 edition
13 votes -
Yang qualifies for December Democratic debate
34 votes -
The inevitable decade of Marvel
5 votes -
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
7 votes -
Using PHP 7.4 typed properties
4 votes -
Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
5 votes -
PinePhone: Everything you need to know about the $150 Linux-powered phone
25 votes -
The ending of Joker?
Not sure how spoilers are supposed to work here, but I deleted my other post and put the image in the comment https://i.imgur.com/6EupcC0.png T.W. - is Arthur imagining it in arkham asylum? When...
Not sure how spoilers are supposed to work here, but I deleted my other post and put the image in the comment
https://i.imgur.com/6EupcC0.png
T.W. - is Arthur imagining it in arkham asylum? When asked by the social worker he didn't have much of an answer why he was locked up before.
3 votes -
Path of Exile - Conquerors of the Atlas expansion and challenge league released
4 votes -
The old man and the rising seas
5 votes -
Canadians travelling to or through U.S. should pay close attention to their withering rights: Latest changes to Preclearance Agreement give U.S. officials dangerously extended power on Canadian soil
11 votes -
When does a boyfriend or girlfriend become part of the family?
10 votes -
Is there any way to combine content from both tildes and reddit into one place?
I'd like an app or preferably a website that I can use that will combine both discussion from reddit and tildes into one place. I actually haven't used tildes since April 2019 and the reason is...
I'd like an app or preferably a website that I can use that will combine both discussion from reddit and tildes into one place. I actually haven't used tildes since April 2019 and the reason is because I just straight up forgot about tildes. There just isn't enough content on tildes for me so I find myself spending more of my time on reddit which means I end up forgetting about tildes.
10 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
13 votes