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  1. Comment on Tildes Book Club - Experiment - Crowd sourcing our next voting thread in ~books

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    Sorry, I thought that I had replied back to your message—I can post all of the comments for you tomorrow. Message me the info and a general timeframe (if it matters) and I'll set it up. (I also...

    Sorry, I thought that I had replied back to your message—I can post all of the comments for you tomorrow. Message me the info and a general timeframe (if it matters) and I'll set it up.

    (I also removed the comment with all of the username pings so all those people don't get notified)

    4 votes

  2. I've added ~society for topics related to politics, law, policies, and similar societal-level subjects

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    The quick summary and important info first: I've just added a new group to the site named ~society, which will encompass politics as well as some other similar subjects. Over the next few hours,...

    The quick summary and important info first:

    I've just added a new group to the site named ~society, which will encompass politics as well as some other similar subjects. Over the next few hours, I'll be moving many existing topics into it, and then based on those topics I'll be automatically subscribing users who have a history of regularly participating in them (based on commenting, voting, labeling, etc.). Feel free to subscribe manually now if you already know you'll be interested, and if you'd like to ensure that you're not automatically subscribed to it by me, go to your topic tag filters page, add politics on a line by itself, and click the save button (I'll be excluding anyone that has politics ignored). I'll edit a note into the bottom of this post later today when I've finished doing the automatic subscriptions.

    Adding a group like this is something that I've been thinking about doing for a long time, but I didn't want to make any major changes as it got closer to the US election, and then I've considered the last week to be a bit of a "blowing off steam" period, where I've been more lenient on the number and quality of political topics than I normally would have. However, I think now will be a good time to add it, since we're probably going to have a lull in significant political news for a short while until it kicks up again, and this will allow the group to get established.

    I've never wanted to have a group devoted to politics on Tildes, and I'm sure that a lot of the older users will be able to remember my explanations about why and find our old discussions about it. I don't think a lot of those reasons have actually borne out over the years. ~misc has effectively ended up as ~politics-in-all-but-name, and political topics are also spread over a lot of other groups (politics-but-with-a-financial-angle ends up in ~finance, politics-but-with-a-healthcare-angle in ~health, politics-but-based-on-a-study in ~science or ~humanities, and so on).

    The default topic sorting on Tildes being activity-based has also ended up making these types of topics feel too prominent. In terms of number, they're a small portion of the total topics posted to the site, but there's a set of highly-active users (who are also a very small portion of the active commenters on the site overall) that comment heavily and quickly in them, which keeps them being constantly bumped back up in the activity listings.

    And on the opposite side, many users clearly want to avoid these topics. "politics" is by far the most common tag that people filter out, with about four times as many users putting it in their filter list as the second most common one (to nobody's surprise, "elon musk"). In theory, tag filtering is a good solution for this, but it's not a visible enough feature and the large majority of users don't use it (or even seem to know it exists). The group system is far more intuitive for this purpose.

    I could continue with other reasons for a while, but the upshot is that I believe it's time to accept that the existing approach hasn't worked out and it's worth trying something different. There are also a few other similar subjects/tags that are generally spread across other groups for lack of an obvious relevant place, so I think going with ~society as a little broader of an umbrella will be able to give those ones more of a home as well. I'd appreciate input about which other subjects you think might fit (but to be clear, I don't intend for this to subsume or replace any of the other existing groups, and especially not ones like ~lgbt, ~life.men, and ~life.women).

    I expect to be busy for quite a while today figuring out which topics to move into the group and experimenting with some different possibilities for choosing which users to auto-subscribe to it, so I probably won't be replying much, but I'll definitely read through the discussion here later. I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank @mycketforvirrad again for their tireless devotion to keeping topics well-tagged across the site—it's a mostly-invisible and mostly-thankless task, but it makes doing a major reorganization like this so much more feasible than it otherwise would have been.

    Edit: Auto-subscriptions should be mostly done now, hopefully I managed to select a decent set of users (and didn't subscribe many people that don't actually want to be—please unsubscribe if you'd like)

    241 votes

  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    That's really interesting, thanks for working on that! I'll be looking forward to seeing if it's able to fully work out.

    That's really interesting, thanks for working on that! I'll be looking forward to seeing if it's able to fully work out.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Hello to Reddit folks from /r/selfhosted in ~talk

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    Sure, I gave you another 100, and topped everyone else on the site back up to 10. They're available here: https://tildes.net/invite Thanks for inviting people! (But definitely don't feel obligated...

    Sure, I gave you another 100, and topped everyone else on the site back up to 10. They're available here: https://tildes.net/invite

    Thanks for inviting people! (But definitely don't feel obligated to try to use up all of those new codes, that's just so that you hopefully don't run out again)

    23 votes

  5. Comment on I am missing a neutral way to flag low-effort or potentially spammy posts in ~tildes

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    Just to confirm it again officially: yes, always feel free to message me about things like that. It would definitely be better to have a proper report function, but a message does the job. In the...
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    Just to confirm it again officially: yes, always feel free to message me about things like that. It would definitely be better to have a proper report function, but a message does the job. In the end, since I'm the only person that can act on the reports they would have to be sent to me directly, so they'd really just be a different form of message anyway.

    12 votes

  6. Comment on Millions of people are using abusive AI ‘Nudify’ bots on Telegram in ~tech

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    There's no filter at all on the generated codes, so it's just been pure luck that @cfabbro's never seen a questionable one (but really, it's incredibly unlikely to generate a bad/offensive one)....

    There's no filter at all on the generated codes, so it's just been pure luck that @cfabbro's never seen a questionable one (but really, it's incredibly unlikely to generate a bad/offensive one). The code is here, it's just 15 random choices from uppercase letters and digits: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/blob/master/tildes/tildes/models/user/user_invite_code.py?ref_type=heads#L57

    11 votes

  7. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Please don't submit something like this again. AI-generated articles are low quality and often contain significant errors and inaccuracies (as @burkaman demonstrated here). They aren't an...

    Please don't submit something like this again. AI-generated articles are low quality and often contain significant errors and inaccuracies (as @burkaman demonstrated here). They aren't an appropriate source for news.

    8 votes

  8. Comment on BTK-gate, Turkey's massive surveillance state: Internet activity, identity, and personal data of all users in Turkey is collected in ~tech

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    I don't feel strongly about it. There seem to be arguments for either side, as well as prominent organizations using either (for example, Associated Press is still using "Turkey"). I'd probably...

    I don't feel strongly about it. There seem to be arguments for either side, as well as prominent organizations using either (for example, Associated Press is still using "Turkey"). I'd probably lean towards "Turkey" personally, since it feels a little odd to try to expect people to write the country name using a character that isn't easily accessible on a standard English keyboard layout.

    When it comes to submission titles though, I think it probably makes sense to just use the same form that the source page is using. The author can make that decision for themselves, I don't think that we need to change it (and I'll change this topic's title back).

    7 votes

  9. Comment on Disney animation shake-up: Jennifer Lee exiting as Chief Creative Officer, Jared Bush takes over in ~movies

  10. Comment on Tildes should recognize the Gaza Genocide, and moderate accordingly in ~tildes

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    This thread is already quickly devolving into arguments, and I don't trust it to be unmonitored overnight. I will review your suggestions tomorrow.

    This thread is already quickly devolving into arguments, and I don't trust it to be unmonitored overnight.

    I will review your suggestions tomorrow.

    56 votes

  11. Comment on Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least nine people and injured thousands in ~news

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    I've removed that one and moved the comments over to this one.

    I've removed that one and moved the comments over to this one.

    19 votes

  12. Comment on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow in ~games

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    From the current top review on the game's Steam page:

    From the current top review on the game's Steam page:

    The game was advertised as having 40 new levels, which at first glance is sounds engaging and interesting, until you find out most of those levels are programmer/beta/alpha stages. It's not entirely new content, but rather going through iterations until you arrive at the level as it is today. While interesting, it does feel disingenuous to advertise this as a new level. When I hear braid has a new level, I think "There's one more puzzle piece", but that's not the case. You are not rewarded with anything in game, but instead receive some occasionally insightful commentary. In total, there are around 14 actual, new puzzles.

    [...]

    Overall, if you have already played the original Braid, I'm not sure you'll get much more out of it. The new puzzles are not Jonathan Blow's best, and can be completed relatively easily. They are much more reliant on timing than puzzling this time, and are not my cup of tea.

    19 votes

  13. Comment on TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough in ~tech

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    Sorry for the confusion, I changed the link - ArsTechnica re-posts some FT articles, but without the paywall. So when an Ars version is available, it's usually accessible for more people. The Ars...

    Sorry for the confusion, I changed the link - ArsTechnica re-posts some FT articles, but without the paywall. So when an Ars version is available, it's usually accessible for more people.

    The Ars version does still refer to them as "Apple supplier" in the sub-title too though.

    9 votes

  14. Comment on What have we liberals done to the US west coast? in ~society

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    I changed the topic to link to the original source, the archive link was https://archive.is/xknAF

    I changed the topic to link to the original source, the archive link was https://archive.is/xknAF

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Feature request: font override in ~tildes

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    The site shouldn't be doing anything non-standard related to fonts that I know of, so I'm not sure why that extension isn't able to override it. It would be useful if you can find any information...

    The site shouldn't be doing anything non-standard related to fonts that I know of, so I'm not sure why that extension isn't able to override it. It would be useful if you can find any information about how exactly that extension works, but from Tildes' end it just has CSS that sets the font for the html and body elements (basically ones that mean "the entire page"), which should be pretty typical.

    You might also want to see if there are any other extensions available, they might work slightly differently and be able to do it successfully.

    18 votes

  16. Comment on Tildes Book Club - Voting thread 2 in ~books

  17. Comment on Happy 6th Birthday, Tildes! in ~tildes

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    Happy birthday, website! Thanks for all the kind words in here, everyone, and thanks for being here. I know that I'm not very visible around the site any more, but I'm still on here every single...
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    Happy birthday, website!

    Thanks for all the kind words in here, everyone, and thanks for being here. I know that I'm not very visible around the site any more, but I'm still on here every single day, and glad—and proud—to see so many people continuing to hang out here. Tildes is defined by its community, so keep up the good work!

    59 votes

  18. Comment on An honest assessment of American rural white resentment is long overdue in ~society

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    Please don't copy-paste the full text of an article. Limited excerpts are okay, but we can't have a full reproduction of an article here.

    Please don't copy-paste the full text of an article. Limited excerpts are okay, but we can't have a full reproduction of an article here.

    10 votes

  19. Comment on Why are no reasons given when (or even better before) removing a post? in ~tildes

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    Yeah, sorry @bj-rn - I'm fairly busy at work today, multiple Malice labels were starting to get thrown around in there in quick succession, and a quick glance at the thread showed that it was...

    Yeah, sorry @bj-rn - I'm fairly busy at work today, multiple Malice labels were starting to get thrown around in there in quick succession, and a quick glance at the thread showed that it was already starting to go in a direction that's repeatedly ended up going very, very poorly in the past if people had a chance to continue escalating the arguments with each other. The topic/article itself was totally fine, but the comments tend to turn into a mess where everyone involved ends up angry.

    So I just shut it down, but didn't have the time to post an explanation along with doing that. I do usually try to post an explanation, but I can't always depending on what time it is, where I am, etc.

    53 votes

  20. Comment on Special tag: "Active" in ~tildes

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    If you don't want to see highly-active threads near the top all the time, change your sorting method to one of the options other than "Activity" (and especially don't use "All Activity", if you...

    If you don't want to see highly-active threads near the top all the time, change your sorting method to one of the options other than "Activity" (and especially don't use "All Activity", if you are). The entire point of the Activity sort is that active threads stay near the top.

    Alternatively, ignore the threads you're tired of seeing and then un-ignore them later if you want to. If you forget to un-ignore them, that's probably a good indication you didn't actually have much interest in the thread anyway.

    29 votes