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6 votes
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Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu — A tale of ancient philosophers, alien abductions, murder-for-hire and how the world’s largest pearl came to be the centerpiece of an 80-year-old hoax
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Matthew Good Band - Apparitions (1997)
4 votes -
Body found at a marina on the banks of the Firth of Forth confirmed as missing Frightened Rabbit singer
5 votes -
Kyle Dubas announced as the Toronto Maple Leafs new GM
5 votes -
The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers
5 votes -
Inside the final days of Robin Williams
3 votes -
Oneohtrix Point Never -- Boring Angel
6 votes -
Russia’s Controversial Knockoff of The Americans
6 votes -
DJ with your friends live with JQBX for Spotify
5 votes -
Brooklyn Nine-Nine cancelled
9 votes -
Kyle Craft - Heartbreak Junkie (2018)
5 votes -
Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
5 votes -
Humble Store Spring Sale + Flame in the Flood currently available for free
3 votes -
Rog called Liverpool making the Champions League Final back in January!
5 votes -
Snail's House - [snowdrift] (2018)
5 votes -
Man allegedly used change of address form to move UPS headquarters to his apartment
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Daily Tildes discussion - limits/restrictions on viewing user history?
Currently, Tildes user pages only show one "page" of the user's history—their most recent 20 topics and/or comments. This wasn't really a deliberate choice, I just haven't added pagination yet...
Currently, Tildes user pages only show one "page" of the user's history—their most recent 20 topics and/or comments. This wasn't really a deliberate choice, I just haven't added pagination yet (it's a bit tricky because of the combination of topics and comments). But I wanted to talk about the general idea of being able to look through users' histories and see if there's anything we should consider doing differently.
In some ways, being able to look through user histories is nice. Sometimes I find a user that makes good posts, and I like to go back and see what else they've posted. However, a lot of people use it in a malicious way, going back through people's posts to find "dirt", or even sometimes using it as a way to doxx them. This happens a lot on Twitter especially, where attention will land on someone for some reason, and people will dig through years of their previous tweets to find things to attack them with.
Even reddit (unintentionally) puts a limit on how much history you can look back through because of their 1000-item limit on any listings. That's not a limitation that I'm going to have, so adding pagination will mean that it's possible to view all of any user's previous posts.
Do you think we should add some restrictions to how much history is visible to try to reduce these bad uses, or is that futile/unnecessary?
11 votes -
Adult Swim has ordered seventy episodes of Rick and Morty
8 votes -
Jordan Peele Isn’t Slowing Down Anytime Soon
6 votes -
Researchers have found methods of sending secret audio instructions undetectable to the human ear to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant
6 votes -
The Battle of Ilerda (49 B.C.E.)
4 votes -
The last days of the blue-blood harvest
6 votes -
Mandy Smith - Jolene (Dolly Parton cover, feat. Dolly Parton) (2016)
3 votes -
test 👏post 👏with 👏clapping 👏 back 👏
I can't use emojis in tags.
2 votes -
John Bolton pushing to eliminate White House cyber job
5 votes -
Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck - Freeborn Man (1992)
4 votes -
The Star Wars posters of Soviet Europe
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Comment Permalinks
I'm sorry if I'm just blind, but there doesn't seem to be a way to permalink to a particular comment in a thread or to "go to comment" from the Comment Replies in your profile. For larger threads...
I'm sorry if I'm just blind, but there doesn't seem to be a way to permalink to a particular comment in a thread or to "go to comment" from the Comment Replies in your profile.
For larger threads when someone responds, getting the larger context is quite useful so it'd be nice to "go" to my comment in a thread vs just responding from the inbox, especially if I want to reference other comments made in the discussion.
8 votes -
Marty Stuart - Way Out West (2017)
4 votes -
TIDAL accused of deliberatly faking streaming numbers
4 votes -
Childish Gambino - This Is America is still #1 on YouTube Trending 5 days after dropping. 59M views.
The video, in case you haven't seen it yet. WaPo had an interesting breakdown a few days ago on most of the shots in the video and theories as to their meaning that is worth reading. However, one...
The video, in case you haven't seen it yet.
WaPo had an interesting breakdown a few days ago on most of the shots in the video and theories as to their meaning that is worth reading.
However, one thing I noticed they (and most other people so far) missed was that you can see Glover's back in the beginning since he is facing away from the camera and there is clearly no gun in his pockets or in his waistband... so it simply materializes when he reaches behind him after he slowly dances towards his first victim.
They also don't mention how during the third to last scene everyone screams and scatters even though he is only making a gun shape with his hands which, when contrast against the actual scenes of murder causing no reaction by anyone, says a lot.
I am also currently addicted to Reaction videos on YouTube of people watching the video for the first time. Peoples' initial shock and their different interpretations of the video are fascinating to watch. In one of them, someone even mentioned something nobody else seemed to notice... that after the first murder, the gun is carried away by someone else with an almost reverence while the body is simply dragged away like garbage and again after the second murder scene as well.
Anyone else notice any other interesting elements worth noting?
10 votes -
The Civil Wars - Billie Jean (Michael Jackson cover)
7 votes -
Castle's Nathan Fillion making TV comeback as the oldest rookie cop ever
4 votes -
Changed the default theme to use a white background, moved theme-selection to Settings page
Okay, okay. The default site theme is now less beige/tan/yellow. This was a bit of a quick-and-dirty way of doing it, so the other colors are all still the Solarized ones for now, but I may change...
Okay, okay. The default site theme is now less beige/tan/yellow. This was a bit of a quick-and-dirty way of doing it, so the other colors are all still the Solarized ones for now, but I may change them around some later.
The other themes are still available, and can now be selected on the Settings page—if you want the beige back, that's "Solarized Light". I also added a theme with a full-black background (I don't think it looks very good, but it's there).
11 votes -
'A Suicide Club': How WWI Pilots Pioneered the Age of Airmail
3 votes -
Hackers find "official," usable PSP emulator hidden in PS4's PaRappa
5 votes -
Russian ambassador to Portugal Oleg Belous dies suddenly at age of 66
4 votes -
Valve will soon release apps for streaming Steam games, movies, and shows to phones and tablets
6 votes -
Infinity Shred - Wayfinder (2012)
6 votes -
Warrant Canary
Hey, Just a thought. I'm not sure what the legal standing of warrant canaries (i.e. being compelled to lie) are in Canada, but given the privacy level afforded by the site the key component to...
Hey, Just a thought. I'm not sure what the legal standing of warrant canaries (i.e. being compelled to lie) are in Canada, but given the privacy level afforded by the site the key component to that privacy is trust.
You're doing a lot to make sure private data is treated as harmful, and with the open source code being visible, but that's still not a guarantee that the server is actually running the code that will be open sourced.
Tildes could probably benefit from a warrant canary given that it's a platform for user generated content and if it gets prominent enough it may be subject to LEO scrutiny. Compliance with LEO is a given since the website operates under Canadian Jurisdiction, but given the... nature of some requests (Gag Orders / Etc...) a canary could be a privacy positive move for users of Tildes.
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Daily Tildes discussion - missing information?
I'm doing some writing (and re-writing/editing) for the Docs site today, to prepare for trying to spread the word about Tildes more in the near future. To help with that, what information,...
I'm doing some writing (and re-writing/editing) for the Docs site today, to prepare for trying to spread the word about Tildes more in the near future. To help with that, what information, explanations, or answers do you feel are missing or insufficient right now?
For example, the discussion we had the other day on moderation was a perfect example—there was no information really laid out about "how does moderation work?" I'm sure there are quite a few other subjects that also feel like mysteries for now.
So, especially for people that only found out about Tildes recently, what other gaps are there where you feel like, "I don't understand how Tildes is planning to ____________"?
11 votes -
The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine
6 votes -
Meet the scientists keeping a global watch for nuclear explosions
7 votes -
Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship
5 votes -
Thea & The Wild - Power Is a Lonely Place (2018)
5 votes -
Nat Turner Rebellion
4 votes -
Ben Caplan & Old Man Luedecke - Uptown Funk (Bruno Mars cover) (2015)
5 votes -
l2t mod guide copy
A couple of us were chatting about recent events and figured it would be a good idea to rattle off some of the things that go without saying. We've already had two ex-mods who clearly needed them...
A couple of us were chatting about recent events and figured it would be a good idea to rattle off some of the things that go without saying. We've already had two ex-mods who clearly needed them said. /shrug
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- CHILL. That should be your top priority at all times. This is the internet, it is not serious business. Don't let some dipshit issue on reddit that's going to vanish off of the page in three hours bother you, life's too short for that shit.
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- Keep mod chat and this backroom confidential. Don't share this stuff with the rest of reddit. If you do, that shows you can't be trusted and we pretty much gotta axe you at that point. Even if you're just sharing petty bullshit, it's a trust issue, the content doesn't even matter.
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- This goes triple for any other parts of reddit that have privileged access, such as /r/defaultmods. That not only makes us not trust you, it makes our mod team look like chumps to the rest of reddit.
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- When in doubt about something, ask! Ain't nobody going to fault you for questions or because you're just learning the ropes. We weren't born knowing this shit so ask away.
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- Be cool when dealing with other moderators. We're trying to weed this garden together, tempers may flare, if someone is having a bad day don't take them too seriously either.
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- If there's a problem with a specific user and yourself, hand that shit off to another moderator to deal with, one who hasn't got anything invested in that mess. It makes it easier to be impartial.
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- No special treatment. Mods gotta stick to their own rules, otherwise nobody is going to take any rules seriously. If there's something about the rules that's bugging you, post here and let's talk it over, and maybe change that rule for the better.
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- Pay some attention to what the other mods say. Everyone's opinion is supposed to count, this isn't meant to be just a team of button clicking robots. Mods here all get a say in how things are run.
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- No powertripping, period. That's just immature, you can do better. This is a stewardship, not ownership. Reddit owns this place, not us, and it's nothing without the admins that pay the bills and the users who come here to share music. Any credit that could be claimed by anyone in this place is spread far too thinly to justify a holier-than-thou attitude. If anyone gets to claim a boss attitude, it's radd.it - and he stepped down to avoid conflicts of interest. :P
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- If despite your best efforts some shit does go down - especially if it's a conflict between mods - talk to a mod who's been here a year or more such as myself, astarkey12, multi-mod, boredop, or g_yore. Don't let things get to the point where someone has to leave the team before addressing concerns. When in doubt, sleep on it.
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- Do not go begging for subreddit moderation invites from other members of our mod team, and do not be one of these crazy people collecting subreddit mod bits like they are some kind of new age pokemon. The more subs you mod, the less time you have to spend moderating here. We're not interested in part-timers. Having a couple other subs you moderate is fine, but not like 70 or 300!
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Who’s winning the self-driving car race? A scorecard breaking down everyone from Alphabet’s Waymo to Zoox.
5 votes