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  1. What are some TV shows you find yourself constant rewatching?

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    For me it's definitely The Office and Parks and Rec. I've probably seen both of those series about a half dozen times all the way through and whenever I find myself not wanting to make a decision...

    For me it's definitely The Office and Parks and Rec. I've probably seen both of those series about a half dozen times all the way through and whenever I find myself not wanting to make a decision on a new show I just start it back up again.

    What are some infinitely rewatchable shows y'all find yourself defaulting to regularly?

    33 votes

  2. Comment on Tildes only has 350 uncompressed and well commented lines of Javascript in ~comp

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    Is this going to be scalable? Eventually you'll be creamed with requests and rather than scaling up and just increasing costs to handle load, why not let a CDN do some of the heavy lifting?

    Is this going to be scalable? Eventually you'll be creamed with requests and rather than scaling up and just increasing costs to handle load, why not let a CDN do some of the heavy lifting?

    2 votes

  3. Comment on The future of moderation on Tildes in ~tildes

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    Depending on the community, the Flame or Troll tag could also be abused and may not be an accurate indicator. For example, when I posted on a popular gaming forum that I didn't think that Breath...

    Depending on the community, the Flame or Troll tag could also be abused and may not be an accurate indicator. For example, when I posted on a popular gaming forum that I didn't think that Breath of the Wild was as life changing and genre bending as everyone made it out to be I was eviserated for my opinion and called a troll when I was stating my opinion.

    If we grow to the point where ~ has tons of users that are passionate about a subject, someones reputation shouldn't be in the hands of those who have a dissenting opinion. All that serves to accomplish is basically self censorship for fear of possible retributions from others and hivemind.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Must have Switch indie titles? in ~games

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    Stardew is a given like others said. If you enjoy light sports games and RPGs, Golf Story is a great title as well.

    Stardew is a given like others said. If you enjoy light sports games and RPGs, Golf Story is a great title as well.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - time to slow down a bit and figure some things out in ~tildes.official

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    I think removing tags is a good thing for the time being. As mentioned it doesn't really add much and with no auditing in place for it, there's really nothing to stop those who want to abuse it. I...

    I think removing tags is a good thing for the time being. As mentioned it doesn't really add much and with no auditing in place for it, there's really nothing to stop those who want to abuse it.

    I also think the tags are much more visible than actual votes, so a post with a ton of votes can easily be overshadowed by a few inaccurate tags.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on We should have more actionable entity for tags in ~tildes

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    I'd agree - I feel like some of the more derogatory tags like "Troll" and "Noise" should even possibly be removed until the auditing is in place. Or, alternatively, let those types of tags require...

    I'd agree - I feel like some of the more derogatory tags like "Troll" and "Noise" should even possibly be removed until the auditing is in place. Or, alternatively, let those types of tags require a Reason behind them that is publicly visible, similar to what mods see in a report. There's been a few comment I've seen tagged as Noise for no good reason (https://tildes.net/~talk/tl/what_are_your_favourite_podcasts#comment-46k, case in point).

    1 vote

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

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    I pretty much only listen to 3 podcasts. The Kidd Chris Show Mysterious Universe Dude Soup

    I pretty much only listen to 3 podcasts.

    The Kidd Chris Show
    Mysterious Universe
    Dude Soup

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Browns selected to be the featured team on this summer’s Hard Knocks in ~sports

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    I dunno I think it would be a pretty good watch considering all the new acquisitions they got this year.

    I dunno I think it would be a pretty good watch considering all the new acquisitions they got this year.

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

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    I just finished watching Evil Genius on Netflix - it's a documentary mini-series on the real life events of someone who robbed a bank with a bomb around their neck. It's pretty unsettling at times...

    I just finished watching Evil Genius on Netflix - it's a documentary mini-series on the real life events of someone who robbed a bank with a bomb around their neck. It's pretty unsettling at times but a riveting watch.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on The Switch is the perfect console for masochists in ~games

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    Clickbait article title is clickbait. tl;dr - If you like hard games, the Switch has them.

    Clickbait article title is clickbait.

    tl;dr - If you like hard games, the Switch has them.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Are we going to be able to make our own groups? in ~tildes

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    I'd imagine that the best way to handle the "few users with final say" issue is to make it into a voting system with the trusted users. I don't think that setting it so that it would be safe to...

    I'd imagine that the best way to handle the "few users with final say" issue is to make it into a voting system with the trusted users. I don't think that setting it so that it would be safe to trust a users reports without a preemptive review is good in any case - we are all human and have feelings and emotions, sometimes letting those things cloud our better judgement.

    I was a mod on a very large forum (over 5k active users) and as much as I'd hate to admit it, stuff like that happened to both me and the other mods. A better solution would be to make it a voting system, allowing a group of trusted users to review the content. If there are x amount of report validations, make it so.

    2 votes