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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
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Comment on Wikipedia:AI or not quiz in ~tech
polarays Link8/10! Some felt so obvious I skipped reading it fully, but still tripped up on two lol. Mostly had to decide whether the mistake was human or ai, rather than if there was a mistake at all8/10! Some felt so obvious I skipped reading it fully, but still tripped up on two lol. Mostly had to decide whether the mistake was human or ai, rather than if there was a mistake at all
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Comment on Parseword - a delightfully complex word game from Wordle’s creator in ~games
polarays Link ParentAhh I see now, thanks! Now that you pointed it out I remember another game Word Factori thats even more explicitly like functional themed lol, so check it out sometime The website for clojure is...Ahh I see now, thanks! Now that you pointed it out I remember another game Word Factori thats even more explicitly like functional themed lol, so check it out sometime
The website for clojure is actually so delightful I might actually have to go and learn it with how fun it seems
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Comment on Parseword - a delightfully complex word game from Wordle’s creator in ~games
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Comment on What are people using instead of VS Code? in ~comp
polarays Link ParentOne thing to note, is that Zed's Go-To-Definition or similar functions don't appear to work that well, as it fails to find the particular place in the project it's defined. Personally I use this...One thing to note, is that Zed's Go-To-Definition or similar functions don't appear to work that well, as it fails to find the particular place in the project it's defined.
Personally I use this feature alot when working on bigger projects (or modifing some existing applications code lol) as it helps me understand the code logic so its kind of a shame
It's a gorgeous code editor otherwise, and its loading time and snapiness is just a bliss
I will say, its possible that it does actually work and i have just not configured it properly as it has a slightly enigmatic config if you try to modify from the config file
I understand that while people are bringing up great points about whether or not this is a problem that needs solving, the actual solution here is quite simple.
Tildes has a labeling system which allows people to label comments, marking them as exemplary, offtopic, malice etc, right? While this is geared towards the quality of the messages instead of the messages themself, I propose either a sitewide new label, or a label for a new group about harry potter called "meta" such that people can chose whether or not to filter out meta comments in their settings and/or in the sidebar.
The reason for the new label instead of "offtopic" is because "offtopic" pertains to the quality, when we are discussing about the type of content of the message instead. This is more fair than blanket applying offtopic to genuine relevent meta disscusions.
Maybe, to expand this further, we can change this from a "label" (which, as I said is mostly used to acertain quality) to a "tag" on a comment thread, which can be site-wide-defined tags or page-based-defined based on the consensus and need of the community. This would also help in self marking the type of comment, which isn't possible in the label system.
If a comment is tagged as meta (or if the commenter themselves tags it when posting, if they are given the ability?), it can be understood that the comment thread is meant for meta discussions. This, combined with the filtering means if people don't want to see such discussions, they have every means to do so, while preserving the ablity to have such conversations at all - which is too integral to the philosophy of tildes to blockade on a case-by-case basis which is bound to upset some or the other group of people due to its opinionated nature.
With the filteration method, the ability to choose what to see is retained by individual users - and that is the only simple way to have this level of control over what you see without impacting other peoples right to comment.
On the implementation side, I wonder if we can add a "fight" tag/label, such that fighting threads don't impact activity numbers? This could help prevent bumping toxic posts to the top if a fight break out.
Finally, I should bring up that being "sick" of meta discussions is in itself a meta disscusion, so if someone wants to discuss about that general emotion rather than a solution, I suppose theres nothing stopping that - it is no different from bringing back an already discussed discussion, which is an older problem with forums and does not need urgent addression.