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  1. Comment on Proposals for new groups - July 2019 in ~tildes.official

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    I'm with you - the redundancy doesn't bother me as it makes things clearer and is the most easily understood. Names wont always be perfect, but they can be as clear as possible and this seems...

    I'm with you - the redundancy doesn't bother me as it makes things clearer and is the most easily understood. Names wont always be perfect, but they can be as clear as possible and this seems about right to me.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~music

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    Great cheesy tune!

    Great cheesy tune!

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Today I finally beat being a digital pirate despite having to jump a big hurdle in ~talk

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    :-) Finding something so good that you're like "I have to give this person my money" is a wonderful feeling.

    :-) Finding something so good that you're like "I have to give this person my money" is a wonderful feeling.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Do you value narrative, gameplay, or visuals most when it comes to a game? in ~games

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    If a game excels at any of the three then it can be a great game, but gameplay is what'll keep me coming back over and over to a game. FTL and CIV5 I still play the whole time as the games are...

    If a game excels at any of the three then it can be a great game, but gameplay is what'll keep me coming back over and over to a game.

    FTL and CIV5 I still play the whole time as the games are just so fun to play.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on What are your favourite podcasts? in ~talk

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    My wife is a big fan of Buffering the Vampire Slayer, which I think if you were a fan of the show and want a funny recap show that's 20 years late, is about as good as they come. I've heard a few...

    My wife is a big fan of Buffering the Vampire Slayer, which I think if you were a fan of the show and want a funny recap show that's 20 years late, is about as good as they come. I've heard a few and enjoyed them too.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Picard or Kirk? in ~tv

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    Picard, but if I was in a fight I would want Kirk on my side. Those two handed blows to the back could take down anything - gotta admire that kind of fighting skill ;-)

    Picard, but if I was in a fight I would want Kirk on my side.

    Those two handed blows to the back could take down anything - gotta admire that kind of fighting skill ;-)

    16 votes

  7. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - thoughts about making the site publicly visible, but still invite-only? in ~tildes.official

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    I have a slight worry that while I love Tilde so far and see that it is in the very early stages, if something is going publicly available, then there can be an expectation that it's being deemed...

    I have a slight worry that while I love Tilde so far and see that it is in the very early stages, if something is going publicly available, then there can be an expectation that it's being deemed 'ready' for the public.

    Tildes is still fairly feature-light, which is exactly what you'd expect at this stage in development, but I don't want people looking and thinking "Oh, it's like reddit but much worse as you can't do any of the things you can on reddit."

    If it got a bunch of attention (and face it, redditors are looking for an alternative and so this could blow up) That negative impression that it's a featureless reddit could cause lasting damage. I wonder if holding back until it's a little further forward might not help avoid that issue?

    On the other hand, people do understand early access games, so if the feeling is to go public, then perhaps it should be done in a way that makes it 100% clear in big letters that this is an early alpha, have an easily findable list of future additions, so people can see that it will be developing and what will be coming. One thing people hate on reddit is that the future features are always hidden until they announce them.

    Whatever happens, this site is great so far and I love the work that has gone in and the communities that are building up.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on What if we got rid of votes entirely? in ~tildes

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    I would want user history to be available because I want this to be a platform open to creators. For a creator, a writer, artist and so forth, it's important to have a record that people can find,...

    I would want user history to be available because I want this to be a platform open to creators.

    For a creator, a writer, artist and so forth, it's important to have a record that people can find, see and get access to other things they have produced.

    As for judging people on their past interactions, I think that also has a place, as we want people to be good high quality users and for people to know that, we should be able to see what they've said before. Hiding the past will encourage trolls in my opinion "Me? No I never said that." The founders have said they'll possibly look at history when judging if they want to make a temp account a permanent one and I feel we should all be judged on the way we interact across the whole site.

    I would almost rather go the other way and make it all open and don't let people delete posts without good reason.

    As for colours, I like the idea, but I feel it would just be a new race to be 'top' colour. There will be sabotaging of others with malicious tagging and anger if you drop a colour.

    The only way to avoid that 'must be popular' cycle, is to not have it at all in any way.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on What if we got rid of votes entirely? in ~tildes

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    I think voting does, or can work to help find quality content, what I would be more in favour of looking at (and may we be the case, as I see no method of recording it so far) is having no record...

    I think voting does, or can work to help find quality content, what I would be more in favour of looking at (and may we be the case, as I see no method of recording it so far) is having no record of your own 'karma' or whatever it gets called.

    Karma is designed to make people feel more inclined to post, to get the joy of fake internet points, but it has led to karma farming and a culture of getting the 'funniest', lowest common denominator material out as quickly as possible.

    A quick and funny post will get much more karma than a well thought out detailed post that comes later but people make those jokes because they want to grow their own karma. You see it all the time in places like the Lounge or MegaLounges, people posting about how they reached 5k, 10k or 50k karma, as if it's an achievement, but you look and all they've done is to repost gifs.

    Will people post as much? I'm not sure, but I feel like it would encourage people to think more about what they post, as you'll be trying to add to community by making a quality post that gets attention and rises, but it only benefits the community, not you.

    Is there something we could use instead? Some other way to track a users posts and show if they are a high or low effort user? There I am stuck and don't have an answer.

    49 votes

  10. Comment on Chelsea win FA Cup in ~sports.football

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    Does anyone really like Mourinho at this point? The fans of the team he's managing will tend to like when he wins then things, but moan about him otherwise. Man United fans seem pretty split - a...

    Does anyone really like Mourinho at this point? The fans of the team he's managing will tend to like when he wins then things, but moan about him otherwise. Man United fans seem pretty split - a lot like that he got them two trophies last year, but even more hate the style of football he plays.

    I reckon he's got one more season there and unless he does something impressive, like a title win or a Champions league run to at least the final, then we'll see him off again next year. Course, i'm always wrong in my predictions when it comes to football, so now I've said that he'll be there for the next decade.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on So thinking ahead... how do we stop bots? in ~tildes

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    So long as a bot has a real purpose then I am happy with it - otherwise no thank you!

    So long as a bot has a real purpose then I am happy with it - otherwise no thank you!

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What books are you reading nowadays? in ~misc

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    I'm just about to start the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. It has been sitting by my bed for months now and it's finally about time to dig in.

    I'm just about to start the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. It has been sitting by my bed for months now and it's finally about time to dig in.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on So thinking ahead... how do we stop bots? in ~tildes

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    Good bots are needed, but can we please avoid the kind of spammy joke bots that thrive so much on reddit, yet add nothing. Recent ones that we have removed from our sub there include one that...

    Good bots are needed, but can we please avoid the kind of spammy joke bots that thrive so much on reddit, yet add nothing.

    Recent ones that we have removed from our sub there include one that posts "ヽ༼ ຈل͜ຈ༽ ﾉ Raise ur dongers!" on hundreds of posts, several 'cat facts' bots that activate when they see the word "cat" and a 'tupac cares' bot that triggers on a comment that says "no one cares" and says "Tupac cares, if don't nobody else care."

    These are all from the last week or so, there must be hundreds out there and none of them offer anything quality - if we can avoid them here then it'd be so welcome.

    9 votes

  14. Comment on So far this site has been mostly politics-averse, but I am curious if I am alone as an MAGA/Trump voter/supporter in a sea of reddit mods in ~talk

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    I think that a forum for politics, where people can discuss ideas sensibly and seriously would be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, I think that's extremely difficult online, as the anonymity and...

    I think that a forum for politics, where people can discuss ideas sensibly and seriously would be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, I think that's extremely difficult online, as the anonymity and group mentality that forms will tend to lead to polarising viewpoints that promote the extreme over the moderate opinion.

    If there is a way to promote moderate and sensible discussion then great, but I am honestly unsure how that could possibly happen.

    So for me, if we can find a way to have a sensible forum, where it doesn't turn into a bunch of low effort memes or hate filled posts, then I would welcome it. I suspect that it would either have to be very heavily moderated or it would quickly descend to the lowest possible denominator and if it is heavily moderated, then people would claim that there is bias and that their viewpoints are being censored.

    Just allowing political groups seems like it'll just lead to what exists on reddit being recreated. In you look at Imzy (now sadly deceased) among the first communities created were political ones by the same people that run the same groups on reddit or elsewere and they were immediately just the same as existing ones. We don't need that here, it already exists elsewhere and honestly I think it tends to poison sites.

    I'd much rather spend my time talking to you about TV, fishing, gardening, movies, technology or a million areas where who you voted for several years ago in a completely different country to the one I live in, doesn't matter.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on What's something new that you're watching that's good? in ~tv

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    I can see that - the show does change a fair bit from the first to second season and I've had similar fall-offs with shows in the past.

    I can see that - the show does change a fair bit from the first to second season and I've had similar fall-offs with shows in the past.

  16. Comment on Suggestion: Find a new name for "Vote" button in ~tildes

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    Ha ha ha, I kinda did make it up, but I guess nothing is really new in the world :-)

    Ha ha ha, I kinda did make it up, but I guess nothing is really new in the world :-)

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - why should we allow (or not allow) fluff content? in ~tildes.official

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    So I am a bit back and forth on this - my thinking: For allowing fluff - people like fluff. It's true, it drives traffic and gets eyeballs on the site, and if the site grows, then i's more likely...

    So I am a bit back and forth on this - my thinking:

    For allowing fluff - people like fluff. It's true, it drives traffic and gets eyeballs on the site, and if the site grows, then i's more likely to be successful. Yes, some of them will be a bit more, well, fluffy, but a community built of only early adopters will struggle to survive too - look at google plus.

    Deciding what is and what isn't high quality content is also extremely difficult - we see this on WritingPrompts where we aim to be a high quality subreddit and not have people posting jokes or low effort stories, but how do you define that? We try many ways and we're still not successful and that's in a fairly narrow set of ways people can submit. too draconian and we'll just drive people away, too loose and you lose what you're going for.

    If we ban pretty pictures, then do we also want to ban sports areas? I mean, realistically what do they bring that you can't get elsewhere and 99% is going to be rumours, news and arguments. Do any sports subs really try to create high quality content? if the line is inconsistent and subject to the whims of the first 500 or 1,000 people, then will it become a community that people want to be a part of?

    Having a wide and varied set of voices in your community brings huge benefits and one of the jobs that good moderators do is to encourage and educate new users. Again, on WritingPrompts, we'll very often see people who post low quality stuff and what we'll try to do is to encourage them, help them grow and post better things. It's hugely rewarding to see someone go from a 200 word story to a 20,000 word multi part story.

    Against allowing fluff - yes, people like it, but there are plenty of places online you can get it. If you were looking to become the 'new reddit' then it'd be needed, but if you're happy being a fairly small community that is pretty focused on what it does, then maybe you can build something new and something different.

    Trying to clone a successful site is rarely a good idea and maybe by setting out stadards early, the site can evolve into something different, but also awesome.

    Running out of time here and may come back and add more thoughts, but I am not sure which side I come down on. On the whole I would feel inclined to keep it to one area if you allow it and put a lot of work into quite clearly working out what high effort content is and how you want to get it onto the site.

    Despite me having more in the pro- than the anti- side, I actually think I am a bit more anti if I am being honest with myself. Just a bit.

    On a side note, I really like that these discussions are coming up here and now. It's going to make a better and stronger community.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Chelsea win FA Cup in ~sports.football

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    He's a great player and there is a lot of speculation if he'll make a big money move this summer. If he does well at the World Cup then we could be looking at a new world record price, or close to it.

    He's a great player and there is a lot of speculation if he'll make a big money move this summer. If he does well at the World Cup then we could be looking at a new world record price, or close to it.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on The OG clicker game: Cookie Clicker in ~games

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    No no no no no no no, I am not getting back into this, not again! Twice in my life I have got into cookie clicker and both times it has become a real issue for me and I cannot afford to start down...

    No no no no no no no, I am not getting back into this, not again!

    Twice in my life I have got into cookie clicker and both times it has become a real issue for me and I cannot afford to start down that road again.

    15 votes