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What's the most interesting interaction you've had on Tildes so far?
Now that a good portion of people have had accounts here for over a year, it seems fitting to ask: are there any interactions that have particularly stuck out to you? Anything that's caught your eye? Maybe changed your life, at the polar end of possible positive results?
I'm not even close to the one-year mark yet but mine would be this thread where I wanted to find out everyone's areas of interest and/or expertise. It got some fascinating replies and basically introduced me to many of the impressive people in our community, so it's probably helped humanize Tildes for me more than anything else.
I post a lot of
askthreads, partly because it's my way of contributing to the site (since I don't read a lot of news articles elsewhere that I could submit) and partly because I'm genuinely curious.Of these threads, my favorite has probably been What's a common misconception or misunderstanding you would love to see corrected?
It got a wide variety of answers, spawned a lot of interesting side conversations, and has several great "infodump" posts throughout that I found very valuable.
If we're looking at individual interactions, I've had a lot of great ones in my time here and am quite fond of the community. The best one in particular, however, was @spit-evil-olive-tips teaching me about encryption. They were incredibly patient and thorough in their explanations and gave me a great mental framework for understanding it. I can now say that I am a proud user of full-disk encryption on all of my devices thanks to them!
I can't point to anything in particular but that's not the community's fault. I joined last year in June but I'm only now starting to visit on a more frequent basis. Overall I enjoy the general nature of conversation here more than reddit though. I get the impression people actually read the articles here before commenting which helps haha.
I haven't been here long, but received a few very nice PMs in the beginning from unexpected directions. That motivated me to start reading many more contributions than just those within my immediate interest areas. It's a good place.
Mine so far was this interaction with @boredop, where he shed a delightful (though somewhat sad) bit of background on some of my favourite records:
https://tildes.net/~music/enp/kevin_devine_no_time_flat#comment-3gp6
That was a good one from my end too. Always nice to reminisce. Hard to believe it's been more than 20 years since I knew all those guys. We had a fun little indie scene going there for a couple of years.
You know, I actually had a chance to meet Kevin Devine at my day job a couple of years ago, but I didn't bring up that I knew Mike. I didn't want to bring him down right before he had to perform. Hopefully our paths will cross again some day.
I introduced @cfabbro to one of my favourite musicians in a thread 6 months ago, and have had a fair amount of back and forth about that artist ever since. Even going so far as to notify them of tours in their area :D
Dude, Cosmo Sheldrake is great, and I still really appreciate you introducing him to me!
And I still fully intend to see him live when I finally get the chance, too! I would have already bought tickets for his appearance at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, but that is unfortunately taking place on my sister's birthday... and I don't think she would appreciate me fucking off downtown to a concert instead of being there to celebrate with her. ;)
p.s. Speaking of Cosmo, did you see his latest A Capella, Joan Baez cover? I was tempted to submit it here, but I was worried it might just be my obsession with him that makes me love it so much, and so other people might not find it as compelling. :P
Take her with you! :D
I listened to it this morning, very much enjoyed it :)
Nice! That's fantastic to hear!
THE ONES IN THIS THREAD OF COURSE.
Can't remember. This site is slowly dying so i don't visit very much anymore.
But the one about pregnant women who were too large was interesting.
Why is the site dying? Seems pretty active to me.
It's getting less active each day, but maybe it's just my impression.
I disagree. It seems to be getting more active. I got over 30 comments on a post I made earlier, after only an hour or so. That's way more than before.
Who?
@alyaza.
Coincidentally, I was wondering just an hour ago why I hadn't seen her around lately. (These things take a while to creep up on you.) I checked her page, and it says she's banned.
Wasn't she banned before?
Yes.
And then she was unbanned.
What was it this time?
Probably the same thing as the first time, being hostile when disagreeing with others. Bans aren't public, so I guess you'd have to crawl through her profile. Wayback machine has about three weeks old copy, when @alyaza was still not banned.
I don't know. Deimos didn't announce this ban (he doesn't announce most bans), and I haven't asked him. You could send him a message and see what he says.
Glad to hear that!