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3 votes
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Oregon considers changing the way mentally ill people are committed
4 votes -
M2: Complete Works - The history of Japanese game developer M2, who are well known for elaborately porting retro games to modern platforms
5 votes -
Not just for soldiers: Civilians with PTSD struggle to find effective therapy
8 votes -
Google suspends some business with Huawei due to sanctions - future Huawei devices will be unable to access Play Store as well as Google apps including Gmail and YouTube
23 votes -
My video went viral. Here's why
15 votes -
What OS do you use and what are your favourite programs?
I saw back in January that a lot of you were on Linux, I guess I should've expected that considering it's ~comp but I'm curious how the trend is going. But to spice things up a little bit more,...
I saw back in January that a lot of you were on Linux, I guess I should've expected that considering it's ~comp but I'm curious how the trend is going. But to spice things up a little bit more, tell us about you favourite programs, any hidden gems?
I personally run a fairly standard Fedora 30 install running gnome and some flatpaks. I'd say my favourite programs are
Well, I've been trying to fight the electron uprising while still using a modern and open source IDE and well, I think it works great and looks pretty good too.
Dino.im (Using the Flatpak PR) :
It's light, supports XMPP and looks relatively modern, what more could you ask?
It's not really a program and just really a skin for Firefox but I really like it. It integrates pretty neatly with the rest of the desktop. Can't wait for the Gnome 3.32 changes to come in though since it kinda clashes with the new theme.
26 votes -
Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
14 votes -
Opera Reborn 3: No modern browser is perfect, but this may be as close as it gets
14 votes -
Is the EU democratic? Does your vote matter?
16 votes -
Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
8 votes -
Where's the sauce?
So, I was looking for soy sauce the other day and my grocery store has created a whole new "ethnic" section. This section was near the entrance so I went there first to look for the soy sauce. It...
So, I was looking for soy sauce the other day and my grocery store has created a whole new "ethnic" section. This section was near the entrance so I went there first to look for the soy sauce. It wasn't there. It was with the other condiments like BBQ sauce. Cool. Then I wanted oyster sauce and that wasn't near the soy and BBQ sauce, but back in the ethnic section...
So just wondering, where do you expect to find this sort of thing - ethnic and ethnic that's considered mainstream? (I also found tea in like five different places...)
8 votes -
The sealed garden that was only watered once in fifty-three years
9 votes -
As Cyberpunk 2077 development intensifies, CD Projekt Red pledges to be 'more humane' to its workers
20 votes -
Earle Sweatshirt doesn't exist
4 votes -
Mozilla Firefox Preview, new Firefox browser, is available on Google Play
18 votes -
Intel tried to bribe reseachers to downplay the severity of MDS vulnerability
19 votes -
What are your top three favorite games of all time?
Why? What do they have over others you've played? Do you ever think they'll be replaced/surpassed?
29 votes -
Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra (Hatred Will Prevail) (2019)
8 votes -
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes
18 votes -
Why Chinatown is so delicious, and why it might not be so forever
6 votes -
Hierarchical tags: How they're used and working toward a community standard [Draft part 1]
among the things i have been working on for the past day and change is documentation of the novel uses of hierarchical tags on tildes, how they vary by group (or in the cases here, across most or...
among the things i have been working on for the past day and change is documentation of the novel uses of hierarchical tags on tildes, how they vary by group (or in the cases here, across most or all of the site), and how we might best begin to standardize, introduce, or deprecate them going forward so we're on the same page and end up with tags that aren't a giant, unfriendly, user-unintuitive mess.
obviously, though, this is something that should probably include community input since the community generally determines the tags used in the first place; therefore, this is your chance to check my work, suggest additions, removals, etc. to this draft and in the end, hopefully help craft a standard of hierarchical tagging that's simpler, more intuitive, and more consistent for everybody on the website to use so we can reduce future meta discussions on this and make tags better overall.
this will be done in chunks for convenience purposes (your sake and mine). therefore, if you would be so kind as to try and limit your suggestions to the pertinent tags, that would be most helpful.
Mostly group non-specific tags
There are also a number of tags which are more general and occur or can occur in several or all groups on the website. Some of the more common conventions of hierarchical tags that are generally not group-specific are:
economics.
and similar tagsThe
economics
tag can occur in several groups, most often ~science, ~news, and ~misc. While it can take hierarchical tags, standaloneeconomics
is usually fine. Nonetheless, with specific branches of economics like microeconomics and macroeconomics, hierarchical tags should probably be used (thuseconomics.micro
,economics.macro
,economics.applied
, and so on). Examples of this in action (and further specification under this scheme) are:economics.trade
(economics and trade)economics.micro.urban
(urban microeconomics)economics.policy.employment
(economic policy with respect to employment)
However, when placed in ~science, the standard is always
socialsciences.economics
overeconomics.
to align with the standards of tagging in that group, thussocialsciences.economics.trade
instead ofeconomics.trade
. Given thateconomics.
in this case is itself a hierarchical tag, it may be pertinent to break off the last hierarchical tag into its own tag where it would lead to three consecutive hierarchical tags, like so:socialsciences.economics.micro
andurban areas
socialsciences.economics.policy
andemployment
law.
The
law
tag takes a very large number of modifiers and can be used in just about every group due to the fact that law generally transcends the current set of groups Tildes has. Historically, topics related to law have been tagged in the[modifier] law
format (i.e.medical law
,copyright law
,us law
, and so on); however, this has generally been phased out by the community in favor of using hierarchical tags for the modifiers. Therefore, with respect to pre-existing tags, constructions likemedical law
should be deprecated in favor oflaw.medical
. In addition, the following tags which do exist should be converted accordingly:medical law
(convert tolaw.medical
)international law
(convert tolaw.international
)labor law
(convert tolaw.labor
)employment law
(convert tolaw.employment
)antidiscrimination laws
(convert tolaw.antidiscrimination
)copyright law
(convert tolaw.copyright
)maritime law
(convert tolaw.maritime
)environmental law
(convert tolaw.environmental
)gun laws
(convert tolaw.guns
)
All single modifier tags should follow a pattern like this. In other words, if you were going to tag something as "abortion law", you should do
law.abortion
instead ofabortion law
. Currently well established tags following this format are:law.citizenship
,law.international
,law.labor
,law.marriage
, andlaw.juvenile
.The following tags with location tags in them (and similar tags like them) should be converted slightly differently from the above tags. Instead of being rolled directly, the locator tag (or what would be the locator tag) should be broken out from the tag, and the tag that is left should have its modifier turned into a hierarchical tag if possible. Thus:
usa federal laws
is converted tolaw.federal
andusa
. (To elaborate in this case, theusa
is separated, leavingfederal laws
which can be converted intolaw.federal
)us law
is similarly converted tolaw
andusa
european law
is converted tolaw
andeuropean union
However, this should generally not be done with tags which refer to specific laws. For example
religious neutrality law
,blue laws
andsafe haven law
are tags which should not be converted to use hierarchical tags because it makes little sense to do so.There are also two specific tags which should generally not be rolled, which are
martial law
andlaw enforcement
. Martial law is mostly used to refer to a specific state of affairs rather than an actual subset of law, so it makes little sense for this to be grouped into thelaw
tag, while law enforcement is not really law in the sense being tagged here and is also covered by other tags likepolicing
; usinglaw.enforcement
for this purpose would also be ambiguous, since it more likely would refer to enforcement of legal doctrine.The use of the
sharia law
tag is ambiguous. Since sharia is de jure a form of law, it would make sense to roll it like the other examples so that the tag islaw.sharia
; however the two uses of it on Tildes aresharia law
and there is currently no real consensus on whether or not to roll it in this manner.
nsfw.
,trigger.
,tw.
,cw.
and similar tagsnsfw.
,trigger.
,tw
, andcw.
are all universal tags that have been used in one form or another to separate out content which might be objectionable and which are still useful for these purposes. Although all four have been used, the community has largely settled on a standard of usingtrigger.
overtw.
andcw.
with potentially triggering content primarily for reasons of clarity (thetrigger.
tag also been put forward by Deimos previously as a way of handing potentially triggering and objectionable content).nsfw.
is also sometimes used, but this is less frequent and usually carries a different implication thantrigger.
does.As mentioned above, if you are using intending to use a tag of this sort, the preferred option in almost all cases is
trigger.
overtw.
orcw.
. For all intents and purposes,tw.
andcw.
should be considered mothballed and previous uses of them should probably be converted intotrigger.
at some point (particularly the duplicatestw.death
,tw.suicide
, andtw.selfharm
).The main established tags under the
trigger.
banner are:trigger.death
trigger.selfharm
trigger.suicide
trigger.sexual violence
trigger.rape
trigger.assault
trigger.child abuse
trigger.transphobia
trigger.homophobia
(not used yet, but presumably applicable due totrigger.transphobia
's existence)
These are self explanatory for the most part, and cover most bases; however, if you feel that a particular topic is likely to be triggering for some people, it would be courteous to tag it accordingly in line the above tags. (Do also note that all of these tags can be and often are applied as standalone tags instead of being grouped under
trigger.
due to the fact thattrigger.
has waxed and waned in popularity over Tildes's existence.)If you are intending to post graphic content, or content which has the potential of exposing people to graphic content (broadly construed) and want to tag it accordingly,
nsfw.
is generally preferable overtrigger.
.nsfw.
is quite rare, but one example of it in action is thensfw.racism
tag on Ignore The Poway Synagogue Shooter’s Manifesto: Pay Attention To 8chan’s /pol/ Board due to the exceptionally racist content screencapped as a part of the submitted article.nsfw.sex
is also seen on Do Police Know How To Handle Abuse Within Kinky Relationships? due to the explicitly sexual nature of the article's subject, but this is more of a courteous measure than a necessary one--a qualifiednsfw
tag is generally not necessary, and if one is a moderator will most likely add it after the fact.
hurricanes.
,cyclones.
, andtyphoons.
Tropical cyclone news generally fits into several places, most often ~news, ~enviro, or ~science. Generally, the standard for tagging tropical cyclones, whether they are hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, or other similar storms is to use the applicable term for the storm in question, and then use a hierarchical tag for the storm's name. Actual examples of this are:
typhoons.yutu
for the Pacific typhoon basin's Typhoon Yutuhurricanes.michael
for the Atlantic basin's Hurricane Michaelcyclones.idai
for the South-West Indian basin's Cyclone Idai
This is relatively straightforward, and covers the nomenclature of all existing basins. However, some basins have not been represented on Tildes thus far, so here are the two cases where standards overlap for reference:
- the Pacific hurricane basin and the South Atlantic basin would both be represented by the same standard as the Atlantic basin (thus,
hurricanes.patricia
for the Pacific Hurricane Patricia andhurricanes.catarina
for the South Atlantic Hurricane Catarina) - the Australian, North Indian, and South Pacific basins would be represented by the South-West Indian basin's standard (thus,
cyclones.tracy
for Australian Cyclone Tracy,cyclones.fani
for North Indian Cyclone Fani, andcyclones.gita
for South Pacific Cyclone Gita).
For convenience purposes, storms which are named but have not hit hurricane status should probably still be referred to with the corresponding cyclonic storm tag for their basin, even though they have not formally reached hurricane, cyclone, or typhoon status.
If there is no name to refer to (i.e. a name has not been designated for the storm), a hierarchical tag should probably not be applied at all, since that would get messy and likely necessitate updates. With storms that have only nicknames or lack a name under the nomenclature since they predate cyclone naming (for example, the 1938 New England Hurricane) there's really no best way to do things, however, using a truncation of the nickname may be the most preferable option (for example:
hurricanes.1938 new england
).36 votes -
The end of our first campaign
Ive been playing D&D for the last year with life and stuff happening it's taken us a full year to finish the campaign, something that should not have taken as long as it did but honestly it's been...
Ive been playing D&D for the last year with life and stuff happening it's taken us a full year to finish the campaign, something that should not have taken as long as it did but honestly it's been an absolute blast. I've met new friends, gotten to know a co-worker better and picked up a new hobby (mini painting) our DM has gone all out over the last few months, he started off by making 3D maps for us to play on he made tiny little styrofoam blocks and made house's, towers and all that fun stuff.
The biggest thing be did was have a map printed, he was going to draw it all out on a king single bed sheet, got five minutes into drawing it and his wife asked "can't you find someplace to have that printed?" and this is what he came up with when we got together again.
This thing is ridiculous in size. I've thrown in a few other photos from the night and have a small adult and cat for scale.
21 votes -
Rainbow Railroad: The organization saving LGBT citizens from hostile governments
9 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
16 votes -
Where's masculinity headed? Men's groups and therapists are talking.
14 votes -
Malaysia could lose last male Sumatran rhino
5 votes -
249 babies born with syphilis in Thailand this year: Public Health Ministry
4 votes -
Water democracy: Farmers in New Mexico band together to protect scarce water resources from developments that could end their way of life
6 votes -
The Terror
4 votes -
Social media are ruining political discourse
11 votes -
What makes ramen noodles so special?
9 votes -
How the Green New Deal can deliver land justice
4 votes -
Silver King, Owen Hart, and the tragic legacy of real death in a fake sport
3 votes -
DREVM - Death Of A Cult (2019)
3 votes -
This week's album and EP releases
Here's a list of a things that came out in this past week, up through Friday. Of course, there's no way to be completely comprehensive with this and I avoided including things where information...
Here's a list of a things that came out in this past week, up through Friday. Of course, there's no way to be completely comprehensive with this and I avoided including things where information was too lacking, so feel free to mention anything that isn't on here that you think is worth mentioning. Beyond that, if you have any thoughts of any of these albums, it would be great to hear them :)
Artist Title Genre(s) Song Link A.C.E. Under Cover EP K-Pop Song.link Alex Lahey The Best of Luck Club Power Pop Song.link American Sharks 11:11 Stoner Rock Song.link Antony Carle The Moment Electropop Song.link Big Big Train Grand Tour Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog Song.link Bow Wow Greenlight 6 Pop Rap Soundcloud Brad Mehldau Finding Gabriel Jazz Fusion, Third Stream Song.link Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Dance-Pop, Synthpop Song.link The Cash Box Kings Hail To The Kings! Blues Song.link Cat Princess Forbidden Items Art Pop, Indie Pop Song.link Chevy Woods New 90's Trap Rap, Pop Rap Song.link Com Truise Persuasion System Synthwave, Chillwave Song.link Conrad Sewell LIFE Singer/Songwriter Song.link Crooked Colours Langata Dance, Indie Pop Song.link Curren$y & Statik Selektah Gran Turismo Southern Hip Hop Song.link Dâm-Funk STFU II Synth Funk Song.link Digga D Double Tap Diaries UK Drill, UK Hip Hop Song.link DJ Khaled Father of Asahd Pop Rap Song.link DUCKWRTH The Falling Man Pop Rap Song.link Fauvely This Is What The Living Do EP Indie Pop Song.link Frenship Vacation Electropop Song.link FRENSHIP Vacation Electropop, Indie Pop Song.link Full of Hell Weeping Choir Deathgrind, Noise Song.link Ghostemane Opium Grunge, Acoustic Rock Song.link Glassing Spotted Horse Post-Hardcore, Atmospheric Black Metal Song.link Greg Antista & The Lonely Streets Shake, Stomp And Stumble Pop Punk Song.link The Head and the Heart Living Mirage Folk Pop, Indie Folk Song.link The Heavy Sons Funk Rock Song.link Injury Reserve Injury Reserve Experimental Hip Hop Song.link Institute Readjusting The Locks Post-Punk Song.link Interpol A Fine Mess EP Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock Song.link Jimmie Vaughan Baby, Please Come Home Blues Rock Song.link Joey Fatts Chipper Jones Vol. 4 West Coast Hip Hop Song.link Kota the Friend FOTO East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap Song.link Kurt Travis There's A Place I Want To Take You Indie Pop Song.link Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent Piano Rock Song.link Lucette Deluxe Hotel Room Singer/Songwriter Song.link Maluma 11:11 Latin Pop, Reggaeton Song.link Megan Thee Stallion Fever Trap Rap Song.link Minor Poet The Good News EP Indie Pop Song.link The National I Am Easy To Find Indie Rock, Chamber Pop Song.link NIKI wanna take this downtown EP Alternative R&B Song.link Noseholes Ant And End Post-Punk Song.link Olden Yolk Living Theatre Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Folk Song.link Operators Radiant Dawn Synthpop Song.link Psychic Graveyard Loud As Laughter Noise Rock Song.link Rammstein Rammstein Industrial Metal Song.link Rich Aucoin Release Indie Pop Song.link Sam Cohen The Future's Still Ringing In My Ears Psychedelic Pop, Indie Pop Song.link Seba Kaapstad Thina Neo Soul Song.link Second Still Violet Phase Coldwave Bandcamp Slow Pulp Big Day EP Dream Pop, Indie Pop Song.link slowthai Nothing Great About Britain UK Hip Hop, Grime Song.link 2 Son Step Fossilillies Indie Pop, Indie Rock Song.link Theo Croker Star People Nation Jazz Fusion Song.link Tyler, The Creator IGOR Neo-Soul, Alternative R&B Song.link Verdigrls Small Moves EP Indie Pop, Dream Pop Song.link Whitesnake Flesh & Blood Hard Rock Song.link Winner We EP K-Pop Song.link Wu-Tang Clan Of Mics and Men (Music from the Showtime Documentary Series) East Coast Hip Hop Song.link WVNDER Nothing Stays Emo-Pop Song.link Zr. King Musically & Morally Bankrupt Alternative Rock Song.link
Notes:
Bow Wow - Greenlight 6 || no song.link yet, soundcloud link instead
DUCKWRTH - The Falling Man || linked no "parental advisory" version (so NSFW warning)
DJ Khaled - Father of Asahd | linked no "parental advisory" version (so NSFW warning)
Ghostemane - Opium || says single but is EP
Megan Thee Stallion - Fever || linked no "parental advisory" version (so NSFW warning)
Second Still - Violet Phase || no song.link yet, bandcamp link instead
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain || two versions on song.link with different links, included both9 votes -
Dinosaur diplomacy: Andrew Carnegie thought fossils could save Europe from World War I
5 votes -
Nothing but the truth: The legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
5 votes -
What's something you were completely wrong about?
Maybe you mislearned a fact in elementary school. Maybe you misjudged someone's character. Maybe you took a risk thinking it would pay off and it backfired. Maybe you made the complete wrong call,...
Maybe you mislearned a fact in elementary school. Maybe you misjudged someone's character. Maybe you took a risk thinking it would pay off and it backfired. Maybe you made the complete wrong call, maybe at the wrong time, and maybe for the wrong reasons. We've all made mistakes, errors, and slip ups. We've all had to learn some things the hard way. And we've all had beliefs we were certain of flip, change, or decay--either over time or in a single, often difficult moment.
So, with all that in mind:
- What's something you were completely wrong about?
- How did you find out you were wrong?
- What was it like to confront that?
- Were there any repercussions?
- Has that experience changed your outlook now?
- Can other people learn from your situation from the outside, or does the new understanding come from the experience itself?
- Are you better off because of it, or did it cause some harm?
18 votes -
Australia election results discussion
Figured tildes could use a discussion thread on this topic.
17 votes -
The logic of Alabama’s abortion law should permit you to claim a fetus on your taxes and collect insurance if you miscarry
14 votes -
'It would destroy it': New international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage
12 votes -
Finally, US child data privacy could get much-needed reform in new bill
6 votes -
Saigen Complex - Recipe for an Anime Song (37 songs, 4 chords, 5 minutes)
5 votes -
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defied years of opinion polls and public expectation to lead the Coalition to a shock election victory
14 votes -
Game of Thrones petition: 500,000 demand series eight remake
29 votes -
Powered by the people: A genuine populist is running for West Virginia governor
9 votes -
I regret my role at Facebook, but I’m keeping the money
6 votes -
Las Vegas is about to take a gamble on Elon Musk’s Boring Company
11 votes -
The real life landscapes of Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas
6 votes