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    1. Strange YouTube watch-tracking behavior

      Just looking for some indication that I'm not going a bit crazy here, but does anyone else get shown videos they've never seen before, indicating that the video has been partially watched? It...

      Just looking for some indication that I'm not going a bit crazy here, but does anyone else get shown videos they've never seen before, indicating that the video has been partially watched?

      It seems to be just on search results and recommendations and it picks random points in the video to be kick-off points for continuing.

      If anyone has an explanation that'd be appreciated, as it almost feels like my watch history is getting mixed up with someone else's.

      26 votes
    2. Posts vs. comments. Where do you fall and why?

      I'd say that on Tildes as on other platforms, you see a lot more posts responding to a topic than you see comments on existing posts. I get it. Responding to a prompt with a thoughtful, top-level...

      I'd say that on Tildes as on other platforms, you see a lot more posts responding to a topic than you see comments on existing posts.

      I get it. Responding to a prompt with a thoughtful, top-level comment is expressive, can often be therapeutic and comes with the bonus of possible comments by others on your entry.

      Comments on existing thoughts are less sexy and possibly less fulfilling because you're riffing off of another person's idea, but as a reader and a community member, seeing user to user interaction is the best part of a social network.

      I'm a perennial commenter - at best because I love conversation, at worst, with the hope that I can digress from the mainline conversation.

      Where do you fall?

      *Edit: I've just learned the difference in terminology between a top level comment and a comment. Edited to avoid confusion.

      21 votes
    3. Why does this happen?

      A photographer I knew passed away, and I was trying to see if there was any information. This was the top result I got on google. The part after the ellipses says “killed in a plane accident in...

      A photographer I knew passed away, and I was trying to see if there was any information. This was the top result I got on google. The part after the ellipses says “killed in a plane accident in Pantanal.”

      He did not die in the plane accident! That’s another piece of Brazilian news, about the architect Kongjian Yu. The search result is even tagged with Yu’s Sponge City/Cidade Esponja.

      So why is this showing up for a post summary about José Bassit? There’s nothing in the post comments or the post itself saying anything like this.

      14 votes