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  1. Comment on Every episode of "The Flash" ever in ~tv

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    Yay! It would be great to see a healthy creators community built here. I'm certainly willing to be patient in the name of doing it right.

    Yay! It would be great to see a healthy creators community built here. I'm certainly willing to be patient in the name of doing it right.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Suggestion: Ability to save/favorite posts and comments in ~tildes

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    When I looked for previous posts, I didn't realize I wasn't seeing all of the posts. I didn't even think to go look at Gitlab. Now that I see the dupes of my suggestion, I understand. To @Bauke's...

    When I looked for previous posts, I didn't realize I wasn't seeing all of the posts. I didn't even think to go look at Gitlab. Now that I see the dupes of my suggestion, I understand. To @Bauke's point: I suppose search may have helped with that some. Thanks!

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Suggestion: Ability to save/favorite posts and comments in ~tildes

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    Gotcha. I agree. :) Good luck and godspeed my man.

    Gotcha. I agree. :)

    @Deimos has been working on search

    Good luck and godspeed my man.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Every episode of "The Flash" ever in ~tv

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    It takes a fair amount of effort and suffering complaints to police HQG as an OC-only subreddit. For years it was approved-posters only to alleviate that. Now that the mod team is larger and the...

    It takes a fair amount of effort and suffering complaints to police HQG as an OC-only subreddit. For years it was approved-posters only to alleviate that. Now that the mod team is larger and the popularity of HQG has grown, the notion of going back to approved-only comes up from time to time when the inevitable "why did my post get removed" modmail arrives.

    I know it will take a heavy amount of moderation which I'm not sure would be a good fit for Tildes.

  5. Comment on Suggestion: Ability to save/favorite posts and comments in ~tildes

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    Despite how easy Google and others may make it seem, implementing search is a large undertaking for a webdev and requires constant tuning and maintenance (I know this from first-hand experience)....

    Despite how easy Google and others may make it seem, implementing search is a large undertaking for a webdev and requires constant tuning and maintenance (I know this from first-hand experience). I think some sort of save/favorite functionality is easier to achieve than full-on search. What I'm proposing may serve as a middle-ground until the time dedication for real search possible.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Every episode of "The Flash" ever in ~tv

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    I'm a bit of a content creator myself and just wanted to say I appreciate that you took the risk so the entire discussion above could be had. I had been shying away from posting linked media...

    I'm a bit of a content creator myself and just wanted to say I appreciate that you took the risk so the entire discussion above could be had. I had been shying away from posting linked media because I didn't know where the current/proper etiquette stood. Thank you!

    4 votes

  7. Suggestion: Ability to save/favorite posts and comments

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    A lot of the time I'll see a discussion I don't have the chance to participate in the moment I see it. It would be nice to be able to "save" it so I could revisit later without having to hunt....

    A lot of the time I'll see a discussion I don't have the chance to participate in the moment I see it. It would be nice to be able to "save" it so I could revisit later without having to hunt. Similarly, being able to do the same for comments would be handy for when someone links to something I want to follow-up on or fully explore when I have more time at hand.

    Even if only implemented in localStorage per client, I feel it would be a useful addition.

    11 votes

  8. Comment on Discussion: Internet Piracy: ISPs tracking every your move in ~talk

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    Wow. That's straight up slimy.

    to their own mailservers

    Wow. That's straight up slimy.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Residents of the Bay Area, CA, how do we address the homeless camps littering the streets of Oakland and surrounding towns? in ~talk

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    I came here from Sacramento where encampments have been a reality since the 80s at least. I don't know that there can be just a single solution or even just a dozen solutions. We in the bay area...

    I came here from Sacramento where encampments have been a reality since the 80s at least. I don't know that there can be just a single solution or even just a dozen solutions. We in the bay area see this as a fairly recent turn of events, but it's been a reality of California (and other parts of the US) for a very long time. At this point, I fear the problem may be more systemic and cultural than people realize.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on [Suggestion] Use sortition for moderation ? in ~tildes

  11. Comment on Discussion: Internet Piracy: ISPs tracking every your move in ~talk

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    It was well over a decade ago. I was fighting ISPs to run my personal mail server all the way back to 2000 or so. I eventually got smart and got some colo space after spending the next few years...

    It was well over a decade ago. I was fighting ISPs to run my personal mail server all the way back to 2000 or so. I eventually got smart and got some colo space after spending the next few years fighting. Blocking port 25 has been SOP almost 20 years at least.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Linux distro of choice? in ~comp

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    For desktop Ubuntu. For headless/server I pick Ubuntu nowadays as well, but CentOS comes in a very close second and was my previous choice for a very long time.

    For desktop Ubuntu. For headless/server I pick Ubuntu nowadays as well, but CentOS comes in a very close second and was my previous choice for a very long time.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Just getting into DnD, tips/help? in ~games

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    I think you might be surprised how receptive they would be. Every game shop hosts events the cashier should be willing to point you to even if only for doing their job. Most folks that work at...

    "hey cashier, know anyone willing to teach someone new to DnD on how to play?"

    I think you might be surprised how receptive they would be. Every game shop hosts events the cashier should be willing to point you to even if only for doing their job. Most folks that work at game and comic shops do it because they love games and comics.

    Of course, this may not apply if said cashier is super-busy. If so, wait for a lull.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Just getting into DnD, tips/help? in ~games

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    CR is great. So is the A.J. Picket Monster Ecology series on YouTube.

    CR is great. So is the A.J. Picket Monster Ecology series on YouTube.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Just getting into DnD, tips/help? in ~games

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    Wishes seem like wonderful things. If you should ever encounter anything that grants wishes, leave it be. Your DM has supreme discretion in fucking with the wish. It always ends badly.

    Wishes seem like wonderful things. If you should ever encounter anything that grants wishes, leave it be. Your DM has supreme discretion in fucking with the wish. It always ends badly.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - starting some moderation in ~tildes.official

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    In your first paragraph you hit on something I think we both agree on: context is a major factor. I've tried to keep my parts of the discussion general because reddit is not the only example of...

    In your first paragraph you hit on something I think we both agree on: context is a major factor. I've tried to keep my parts of the discussion general because reddit is not the only example of sites facing such issues by a long shot, but I agree that there have been some issues with its moderation tools.

    Those aside, every moderation action also has the possibility of behind the scenes consequences. Should someone in a righteous mood garner multiple actions, there's a good chance they'll message or file a support issue to complain. For every one of those you rebuff or ignore, there's a chance you gain a user with griefing as a hobby. Even large sites with seemingly deep pockets such as Facebook, Twitter, and yes Reddit have trouble staffing support/QA teams with the skill and patience to handle their volume of support contact.

    What it comes down to in my opinion is that sites need to weigh such public facing (and possibly disrupting) features as they grow. For the vast majority of sites, it's terribly impractical due to all of these accumulating factors until they get to the kind of scale to support it.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - starting some moderation in ~tildes.official

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    It would be tough to balance that without creating a place for drama aggregation or rubbernecking in my opinion. In my couple of decades of experience as a web developer, I'm constantly amazed at...

    It would be tough to balance that without creating a place for drama aggregation or rubbernecking in my opinion. In my couple of decades of experience as a web developer, I'm constantly amazed at what users can find their way to and popularize.

    That said, I would like to see a www that could handle such transparency. My point isn't that such a thing is bad or not an ideal to strive toward, but that it's simply not practical.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - starting some moderation in ~tildes.official

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    For many actions and with a more humane humanity, I'd agree. Aside from the possible legal/jurisdictional things, there are a great many users on the Internet that would still see that as...

    For many actions and with a more humane humanity, I'd agree. Aside from the possible legal/jurisdictional things, there are a great many users on the Internet that would still see that as censorship and/or silencing them. It's a tough call and I understand why many sites opt to not publish such things, use some form of "deleted" placeholder, or a mix. The resulting griefing of being more forward can be brutal.

    [clarified last sentence]

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - starting some moderation in ~tildes.official

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    Logging removals publicly is not really feasible. In the cases of users with spammy or malicious intent (linking to shock sites and such for example) you don't want those links surviving for your...

    Logging removals publicly is not really feasible. In the cases of users with spammy or malicious intent (linking to shock sites and such for example) you don't want those links surviving for your good users to possibly fall prey to. There may also be legal issues depending on the content and removal reasons. The latter is why things such as Warrant Canaries exist.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Post one of your favorite songs have other tilderados recommend a related song in ~music