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The Alt-Right Playbook: The south bank of the rubicon

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  1. updawg
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    What is [are] your Rubicon(s)? I'm having trouble deciding. Given my life choices/circumstances, my Rubicon is inherently different than many other people's. Similarly, what would trigger you to...

    What is [are] your Rubicon(s)? I'm having trouble deciding. Given my life choices/circumstances, my Rubicon is inherently different than many other people's.

    Similarly, what would trigger you to cross the Rubicon/what would crossing the Rubicon look like for you? When would you do something that there's no taking back? What would you do that you couldn't take back? Keep in mind that there may be restrictions to what you can say on the site based on deimos's responsibility to moderate it.

    4 votes
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    updawg
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    @mycketforvirrad two questions: I see you removed the capitalization of something that has an actual title (the video title), as well as the capitalization of its highest-level set (the series The...

    @mycketforvirrad two questions:

    I see you removed the capitalization of something that has an actual title (the video title), as well as the capitalization of its highest-level set (the series The Alt-Right Playbook). I'm curious why you change titles (which I'd consider to be proper nouns) to all lower case, but not all titles (e.g., *Shawshank Redemption). Seems internally inconsistent in a hypercorrective attempt to be more consistent.

    Secondly, and I think I've asked this before; how are we supposed to find/block specifically YouTube videos on tildes if they are untagged?

    Edit: victory is mine.

    2 votes
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      mycketforvirrad
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      Fixed the capitilisation back. You can always filter videos out with the videos tag.

      Fixed the capitilisation back. You can always filter videos out with the videos tag.

      2 votes
      1. [15]
        updawg
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        But what if you specifically want to filter YouTube (some people avoid it like how I avoid Twitter or TikTok) or see which videos other tilderinos have previously found interesting/relevant enough...

        But what if you specifically want to filter YouTube (some people avoid it like how I avoid Twitter or TikTok) or see which videos other tilderinos have previously found interesting/relevant enough to share?

        2 votes
        1. [14]
          mycketforvirrad
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          There isn't a tag for that as the vast bulk of the posts tagged videos are from YouTube. It's one of the last rubicons of tag moderation considering the number of posts that would need updating to...

          There isn't a tag for that as the vast bulk of the posts tagged videos are from YouTube. It's one of the last rubicons of tag moderation considering the number of posts that would need updating to your desired format.

          3 votes
          1. [11]
            kfwyre
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            If you want help tagging those (maybe source.youtube?) let me know. I’d be happy to dive into the Tildes archives and do some mass tagging and take some/all of the work off of your plate.

            If you want help tagging those (maybe source.youtube?) let me know. I’d be happy to dive into the Tildes archives and do some mass tagging and take some/all of the work off of your plate.

            2 votes
            1. [10]
              mycketforvirrad
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              Thank you for offering the hand. 😊 My mind boggles at how many YouTube links have probably been posted to Tildes since 2018. Maybe the last big tag endeavour begins here with this very post...

              Thank you for offering the hand. 😊 My mind boggles at how many YouTube links have probably been posted to Tildes since 2018. Maybe the last big tag endeavour begins here with this very post...

              2 votes
              1. [8]
                hungariantoast
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                @kfwyre I think this is the kind of task we should just ask @Deimos to handle. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10,000+ topics linking to YouTube. Manually re-tagging them would take ages....

                @kfwyre

                I think this is the kind of task we should just ask @Deimos to handle. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10,000+ topics linking to YouTube. Manually re-tagging them would take ages.

                @Deimos, would it be possible to automatically tag all existing topics linking to youtube.com with source.youtube?

                (Or whatever other tag @kfwyre and @mycketforvirrad would prefer, if any.)

                5 votes
                1. [7]
                  kfwyre
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                  That definitely would be easier. If automation isn’t an option though, I genuinely don’t mind chipping away at it with my lowly human limitations! And it looks like source.youtube has already been...

                  That definitely would be easier.

                  If automation isn’t an option though, I genuinely don’t mind chipping away at it with my lowly human limitations!

                  And it looks like source.youtube has already been applied to this post, so I think that’s what we should go with (it’s also consistent with our source tagging for other topic types).

                  2 votes
                  1. [6]
                    Deimos
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                    Yeah, let me take care of it, it should be straightforward. (@mycketforvirrad @hungariantoast)

                    Yeah, let me take care of it, it should be straightforward.

                    (@mycketforvirrad @hungariantoast)

                    4 votes
                    1. [5]
                      mycketforvirrad
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                      I got 584 done before the gong! 🙃

                      I got 584 done before the gong! 🙃

                      3 votes
                      1. [4]
                        kfwyre
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                        You were supposed to be leaving those for me! What am I going to do with my weekend now?! 😂

                        You were supposed to be leaving those for me! What am I going to do with my weekend now?! 😂

                        3 votes
                        1. [3]
                          mycketforvirrad
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                          What's the weather like in your part of the world? I'll recommend parks and gardens unless you're due a snowstorm. 😛

                          What's the weather like in your part of the world? I'll recommend parks and gardens unless you're due a snowstorm. 😛

                          6 votes
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                            kfwyre
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                            This is by far the most polite way I’ve ever been told to “touch grass.” 😂

                            This is by far the most polite way I’ve ever been told to “touch grass.” 😂

                            5 votes
                            1. mycketforvirrad
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                              That's only because I'm far too old to be using phrases like that...

                              That's only because I'm far too old to be using phrases like that...

                              3 votes
              2. kfwyre
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                I’ll get on it this weekend!

                I’ll get on it this weekend!

                1 vote
          2. [2]
            updawg
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            It seems like removing the tag from posts would make the job harder in the future if it isn't done in batches.

            It seems like removing the tag from posts would make the job harder in the future if it isn't done in batches.

            2 votes