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17 votes
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GitHub shocks top developer: Access to five years' work inexplicably blocked
24 votes -
A 'morbid fascination' with Columbine High School might lead to its shuttering
8 votes -
The Best They’ve Got: Examining the National Review’s “Against Socialism” issue
25 votes -
The number of votes on comments is no longer visible (for the next week)
I want to try another experiment today, and unlike some other times when I've referred to something as an "experiment" and ended up just leaving it around forever, I'll set a specific time limit...
I want to try another experiment today, and unlike some other times when I've referred to something as an "experiment" and ended up just leaving it around forever, I'll set a specific time limit on this one.
For the next week, the number of votes on comments will be completely hidden. This applies to everyone and all comments, including your own. I'm not even cheating for myself with admin permissions, I can't see comment vote counts any more either (unless I look it up manually in the database, but I won't do that).
There's no functional change: you can still vote and sorting will be affected exactly as before, but there's no way to see how many votes a particular comment has. Topic voting is staying unchanged, with the counts still visible.
I know that some of you are going to hate this. I think that I'm probably going to hate this. But I want to try it, because I think visible vote counts have both positive and negative effects, and I want to try and sort through those a little. Tildes is still small enough right now that almost all threads can be fully read through easily, so the voting isn't really that significant, and this is a good time to try it.
Here are the main things I'd like to think about, and want to hear from you about:
- In what cases does not being able to see the votes make things more difficult for you? Are there particular threads that you feel like you need to see the vote counts? Why?
- From a less functional perspective, when does not being able to see the counts feel better or worse?
- Can you think of other ways that we could accomplish the positive aspects (ones that are lost by hiding the counts), without showing an actual vote count?
Thanks, let me know what you think. Initial reactions/thoughts are good, but I'm also interested in your thoughts after a few days, once you've gotten a little more accustomed to it.
(And as is pretty usual with "official" posts now, I'm using this as a good time to top everyone back up to 10 invites)
128 votes -
How does "relevant sorting" work on Tildes?
Is it like the best sorting on Reddit, which takes time into account to prevent new comments from being buried by older ones? What other factors are weighed in?
5 votes -
Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
12 votes -
InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement
25 votes -
E3 2019: Microsoft Conference
E3 is upon us & Microsoft starts in about 10 minutes. Let's discuss! https://www.xbox.com/e3 https://www.twitch.tv/xbox https://www.youtube.com/xbox https://www.mixer.com/xbox
18 votes -
If only experienced cyclists feel safe in a bike lane, then is it a bike lane at all? In Vancouver, a shift to “AAA” (all ages and abilities) bike lanes
15 votes -
Southern Baptists to confront sexual abuse and role of women in the church
4 votes -
Huawei is sending developers requests to publish on its app store
8 votes -
DOOM Eternal | Official E3 story trailer
15 votes -
Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No
7 votes -
Ubisoft reveals game subscription service UPlay Plus for PC and Google Stadia
8 votes -
From design patterns to Category theory
8 votes -
Seeking suggestions for the name of this group
There has been occasional concern about the name of this group: ~lgbt. Some people believe it's not inclusive enough, some people think it's a bit clinical, some people think it's not expressive...
There has been occasional concern about the name of this group: ~lgbt. Some people believe it's not inclusive enough, some people think it's a bit clinical, some people think it's not expressive enough, and so on. Nothing major, just minor concerns here and there.
However, Deimos has said he'll rename this group if we want to.
So I'm here to find out what we might want to change the name to.
This will be a two-step process. This thread is for gathering suggestions, and discussing the pros and cons of the various suggestions. After I've collected a list of everyone's suggestions, I'll then post a second thread with a survey in it, for us all to vote on those suggestions.
But, for now... what do you think this group should be called? (And it's okay if you think it should be called ~lgbt!)
The current list of suggestions:
19 votes -
Huawei’s export ban is wider in scope than most people imagine
6 votes -
What are your thoughts on Pride Month?
Some questions to consider: How do you feel about it as a whole? What is your experience with it like? Do you go out, celebrate, march, get involved? Does it connect you to others or affirm your...
Some questions to consider:
- How do you feel about it as a whole?
- What is your experience with it like? Do you go out, celebrate, march, get involved? Does it connect you to others or affirm your identity?
- What positives does it bring to the table?
- What critiques do you have of it?
This last one can be treated as hypothetical but might apply to some real experiences as well--either are valid:
- If you chose to march in a parade to bring awareness to an issue, what cause would you represent? How would you show it, or what would your sign say? Who would you want there alongside you?
18 votes -
Aurora - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) (2019)
4 votes -
Inside a PCB soldering factory in China
7 votes -
Stubborn Detachment
8 votes -
Project Scarlett is only a small part of Microsoft’s next-gen plans
8 votes -
Watch Dogs: Legion hands-on: one hour hacking my way through London
7 votes -
Metric - Synthetica + Dark Saturday + Cascades + Now Or Never Now (Live on KEXP) (2019)
5 votes -
You can’t beat an unwinnable game, but you can break it! – There is no end to simulators like ‘SimCity’ and ‘Roller Coaster Tycoon’. There is only terrifying perfection
12 votes -
Solving the Zelda timeline in fifteen minutes | Unraveled
10 votes -
Walmart wants employees to deliver products to your fridge - Available in three cities this fall
11 votes -
Detroit chief: Nazis wanted 'Charlottesville 2.0' at Detroit gay pride event
14 votes -
Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
13 votes -
Mike Tyson's weed resort - The former champ smokes the toad
12 votes -
Why I’m no longer vegan™ (an argument for political veganism)
4 votes -
Riot announces "Teamfight Tactics", a new League of Legends game mode similar to Dota Auto Chess
7 votes -
Emacs merges HarfBuzz support to master branch
10 votes -
Leader of worker protests at Google quits, alleging "retaliation" by company
10 votes -
Salesforce Acquires Tableau Software in $15.7 Billion Deal
10 votes -
Tony awards 2019: Folk musical Hadestown triumphs while Brits win big
5 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.
25 votes -
Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
5 votes -
'I was wrong': Officer who shot 911 caller gets 12½ years
19 votes -
E3 2019: Bethesda Showcase
Should be starting momentarily. Streams: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9B5qhzKyhg Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda Live updates: Eurogamer:...
Should be starting momentarily.
Streams:
Live updates:
12 votes -
What will the 2019 World Cup mean for the French cities that host it?
7 votes -
Drag Queen Story Hour brings LGBTQ-friendly fun to the South
10 votes -
Denmark’s elections show how much Europe has normalized anti-immigrant politics
7 votes -
What news sources or other websites do you use on a daily basis?
I’m down to just Hacker News and Tildes for my daily digest. I think using link aggregators is a great way to gain exposure to outside perspectives. Occasionally, I check the Wikipedia main page...
I’m down to just Hacker News and Tildes for my daily digest. I think using link aggregators is a great way to gain exposure to outside perspectives.
Occasionally, I check the Wikipedia main page for juicy world news and featured articles.
28 votes -
Daily Tildes discussion - allowing users to post anonymously?
It's a long weekend in Canada and I'm going to be quite busy, so this is going to be the last daily discussion until Monday. Because of that, I figured I'd pick one of the more interesting topics....
It's a long weekend in Canada and I'm going to be quite busy, so this is going to be the last daily discussion until Monday. Because of that, I figured I'd pick one of the more interesting topics. This isn't necessarily something that will be implemented particularly soon, but it should be good to discuss anyway:
Should we support the ability for users to make some posts anonymously?
General notes/thoughts:
- If the site itself doesn't support it, people will just create throwaway accounts and effectively post anonymously anyway. This is worse in some ways (causes a lot of abandoned accounts and wasted usernames) and especially doesn't work well while the site is invite-only, since people have to use one of their invites to create a throwaway.
- The user making the posts would still be tracked internally, so anonymous posting wouldn't be free of potential consequences. This association would probably be removed after 30 days, like most other private/sensitive data.
- There would be some sort of anonymous identifier that would change on a per-thread basis, so that multiple posts from the same anonymous user can be recognized.
- Once we start working towards a trust/reputation system, having the anonymous posts be linked to the user's real account would probably have a number of benefits.
Let me know what you think about the idea in general, and what concerns you think we'll need to be careful about if we decide to implement it.
One other, unrelated thing as well: it's been a while since we gave out invite codes, so I've topped everyone up to 5 invite codes. You can get to them here (linked in your userpage sidebar): https://tildes.net/invite
97 votes -
Music on the Altair 8800
4 votes -
What is your personal preference and why: vim or emacs?
This is of course the age old debate, which on other sites has been known to quickly devolve (one of the Internet ‘holy wars’ of yore). Nonetheless, I am curious. I personally use vim. Part of the...
This is of course the age old debate, which on other sites has been known to quickly devolve (one of the Internet ‘holy wars’ of yore). Nonetheless, I am curious.
I personally use vim. Part of the reason is surely that it is just the first one of the two that I happened to use, and thus by the time I tried emacs I was used to vim. But more broadly, I enjoy using vim because once you get over the hump of ‘weird’ commands and modes, I feel that vim most closely emulates the feelings and thought process that you have when building something with your hands. You can pick up different tools, yank pieces out and rearrange them, turn the object around in your hands to see different parts, etc etc. Once you internalize the movement and editing you really start flying around. At that point the interface seems less like a barrier between you and the text and more like a way to ‘hold’ it.
Of course, people have different preferences.
15 votes -
Clashes in Hong Kong after vast protest against extradition law
16 votes -
Poll: Most Texas voters believe business owners shouldn't be allowed to refuse service to LGBT people
25 votes