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6 votes
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The machine that erases what it creates
7 votes -
Rescuers in China have freed eleven gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks
7 votes -
335 year old recipe, 'Rice Puddings In Guts' (beef bung casing), from The Acompliſht Cook
5 votes -
/groups indicates I am subscribed to ~anime, subscriptions list on the homepage indicates otherwise
Pretty simple bug, documented as per title. The /groups page incorrectly indicates that I am subscribed to ~anime (I shouldn't be), whilst the ~anime group itself, and the subscriptions list on...
Pretty simple bug, documented as per title. The
/groups
page incorrectly indicates that I am subscribed to~anime
(I shouldn't be), whilst the~anime
group itself, and the subscriptions list on the homepage (along with the topics I see), correctly show me as unsubscribed from~anime
.I could try toggling this? Which might fix the bug, but would also potentially erase the state of my subscriptions in the database and prevent debugging.
8 votes -
A page containing videos/lectures for an entire computer science degree
7 votes -
New non-toxic "green" propellant successfully demonstrated on NASA mission, now ready to replace hydrazine onboard spacecraft
11 votes -
What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
10 votes -
NAYAD – Holy Lakes (Dusk) (2021)
4 votes -
Anyone using a lightweight browser with Linux?
I've got a crappy Chromebook running GalliumOS (Xubuntu) and Chromium is slow as molasses. I tried a few other browsers like Otter and Falkon. They're alright for most sites -- not Tildes, but...
I've got a crappy Chromebook running GalliumOS (Xubuntu) and Chromium is slow as molasses. I tried a few other browsers like Otter and Falkon. They're alright for most sites -- not Tildes, but this seems consistent with QT5 browsers.
Anyway, outside of text browsers, anybody have any light weight browser suggestions?
14 votes -
Rethinking votes
I know we have talked about it to death, and even run experiments on the mechanism, but I think it's worth re-evaluating the idea of voting on comments. I know that voting provides value to Tildes...
I know we have talked about it to death, and even run experiments on the mechanism, but I think it's worth re-evaluating the idea of voting on comments.
I know that voting provides value to Tildes as a social platform; it acts almost like a social currency; you know that if you have a lot of votes, people appreciate what you have to say. That provides incentive for people to write more comments and participate with the community.
What I and others have come to realize is that votes also have negative effects on our community. Here's a short list of negative effects:
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Voting is addictive. I'm sure most of us are familiar with the process of clicking on our usernames to see how many votes our last few comments have gathered. We do this because it's a dopamine hit; they act like tiny digital love letters telling us how awesome we are.
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Voting is a measurement of popularity. Those love letters aren't actually how good you are, they measure how popular your ideas are. In other words, votes encourage group-think and creates an echo chamber that will prevent you from taking competing ideas seriously.
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Because of number 2, we alienate people with other ideas and reduce the richness and quality of discussion on this platform.
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Also as a result of number 2, the information that gets put into those popular threads becomes the de facto truth - weather or not it's actually true. This can prevent us from seeing the "bigger picture" or from understanding problems others might have with how we think.
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The end result of all of these effects is that we will slowly become more and more extreme and insular as time progresses. We essentially become the same as the people stuck in conservative media prisons that we tend to look down on.
Personally speaking, I think that we would be a much more robust community if we had more conservative voices speaking up. After all, the left does not have a monopoly on the objective truth. I know we probably have a few conservatives that are lurking around, but I think that they are largely disincentivized to contribute because they don't get the same kind of votes left-leaning comments do.
With that being said, I would like to hear back from everyone what they think we should do about voting. Should we go back to hiding vote totals again? Should we get rid of them entirely? Or maybe you think things are good as they are? Please let us know your reasoning.
26 votes -
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Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still (2020)
4 votes -
Norway arrests highlight impact of pandemic on sex workers – governments should include sex workers in public health and financial support responses
6 votes -
Technological stagnation
6 votes -
Michigan county commissioner pulls gun out during virtual meeting when resident asked board to denounce Proud Boys
21 votes -
In Tunisia, some wonder if the revolution was worth it: Tunisians are putting their hard-won right to criticize the government to good use. They just wish there was less to protest.
10 votes -
Classical entrée: Sergey Lyapunov — 12 Transcendental Études, No. 1. "Berceuse"
8 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 23
This thread is posted daily - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
9 votes -
Why? - Alopecia (2008)
6 votes -
Low cost metal 3D printing by electrochemistry
7 votes -
What's something you wish people outside of your field knew/understood?
"Field" here can refer to career, field of study, or even identity or subculture. Really, it works for anything on which you would consider yourself an expert above the level of the larger lay...
"Field" here can refer to career, field of study, or even identity or subculture. Really, it works for anything on which you would consider yourself an expert above the level of the larger lay population.
26 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
8 votes -
A curious journey through the story of the passport
7 votes -
Please stop ruining summer and turn off that godforsaken music
13 votes -
Parents with disabilities face extra hurdles with kids' remote schooling
8 votes -
Obituary of Dr. Brad J. Cox Ph.D.
9 votes -
NASA's weirdest experimental plane - The Ames-Dryden-1 oblique wing aircraft
9 votes -
CHIVVY – Red Water (2020)
3 votes -
Red Ball world record progression: Speedrunning history
5 votes -
Aleksei Navalny protests: Live updates as mass rallies sweep across Russia
23 votes -
Beer company Natty Light is the unlikely force behind the 'Da Vinci of Debt', now on view in Grand Central Station
11 votes -
Larry King, legendary talk show host, dies at 87
11 votes -
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons takes effect, without the US and others
12 votes -
Italy takes action against TikTok following girl’s death
5 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 22
This thread is posted daily - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
10 votes -
A factsheet about single people in the USA
10 votes -
Icelandic man receives world's first double-arm-and-shoulder transplant – four surgical teams were involved to minimise the transition time between donor and recipient
9 votes -
WandaVision | Episode 3 discussion thread
Now in color Previous: Episode 1-2
6 votes -
SpaceX’s record-setting rideshare mission Transporter-1, with 143 satellites onboard, is a challenge for space traffic control
4 votes -
What are you growing in your fruit/vegetable garden?
If you're comfortable with listing your country or hemisphere maybe include that for context
16 votes -
WandaVision | Episode 1 & 2 discussion thread
14 votes -
Update on Xbox Live Gold pricing
8 votes -
First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
20 votes -
Pfizer will ship fewer vaccine vials to account for ‘extra’ doses
11 votes -
The coming software apocalypse
7 votes -
Making sense of sky-high stock prices
11 votes -
I'm getting spammed by robocalls, what can I do about it?
Hello people of Tildes, long time no see! As per title, since some point last week I've begun receiving calls from extra-EU countries I've never had any contact with (Haiti, Algeria, Morocco,...
Hello people of Tildes, long time no see! As per title, since some point last week I've begun receiving calls from extra-EU countries I've never had any contact with (Haiti, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia just to name a few).
No doubt it is part of a call back scam; of course I have never picked up nor redialed, still, this seriously blows as I've now been woken up twice at 3am during the week.
Now, I've never had such a problem before, nor have I recently posted my number online anytime recently. Has anyone here had a similar issue? What can I do about it (I'm from the EU if that might help)? Is there any way for me to find out where my number was leaked from?
I have just now installed NoPhoneSpam from f-droid, but have no idea how good of a fix that will be.
Let me know if y'all have any ideas, thanks :)
13 votes -
Baseball great Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, 86, passes into history
8 votes -
High spirits: Heavy metal and mental health
6 votes -
Virtual reality has real problems. Here’s how game developers seek to delete them.
10 votes