Just telling us “but someone else told me it’s bad” contributes nothing to the current conversation if you cannot tell us anything about that discussion.
Giving every user access to a type of power that is known to be abusable is not a good solution. As I said at the start, we’ve seen this with Reddit. We’ve seen why this is not the right way.
Well, you haven’t even tried to explain it. You’ve just been saying “but minorities” over and over while refusing to elaborate.
This is a public forum. If you post to a public forum, you should expect your posts to be public. If you’re posting something you don’t want to be public, all I can say to you is that this isn’t the right platform for that.
That isn’t what I said. You’re replying to me to talk about somebody else’s argument, while completely ignoring mine.
I don’t understand what you mean. Moderator bans do work, that’s a moderator’s job.
We’ve seen the problems with Reddit’s style of blocking already.
If someone’s being truly abusive, that’s something you should report to moderators or instance admins.
That style of blocking makes sense for more personal social media, but I don’t think it fits a public forum like the Threadiverse. On Reddit, bad actors were able to weaponize blocking to hide from anyone who would disagree with them, anyone who would push back against misinformation. That did a lot more harm than good.
Everything you post here is public, and you should expect that anyone can see it, even people you do not like. If you don’t want to see someone you don’t like, that’s what blocking is for, but you shouldn’t expect to be able control who can see your posts when they’re all public to begin with.
If something is so sensitive that you think you need to hide it from someone you don’t like, then this probably isn’t the platform to post it on at all.
I can’t remember the last time I needed to look up an English word. It’s infrequent enough that I’d just Google it, I don’t have any go-to dictionary.
But I am currently learning Japanese and Yomitan has been an extremely useful browser extension. Just mouseover a word and hit shift to summon a popup dictionary.
A few years ago I had a falling out with the people I once considered to be my closest friends. It fucked me up pretty bad, I’m still not over it.
But last year I started leaving the house again. I’d been playing Riichi Mahjong online for years, and one day I just had the bright idea to check if there was any kind of local club near me to play in-person. There was, should’ve looked into this sooner.
I’ve met some pretty cool people through this game, and I’m starting to put myself back together at least a little. I can’t say my mental health is totally healed, but I’m a little better than where I used to be.
Whatever interests you have, look into any kinds of local hobby groups or activities you can get involved with.
I’m dragging you into some obscure retro arcade kusoge. Waku Waku 7, Twinkle Star Sprites, Soldam, Land Maker, Gyakuten Puzzle Bancho.
My high school computer science teacher would always put on Wargames for his class at the end of every semester. Took three of his classes and ended up seeing it three times.
Play one of the other rhythm games. Preferably Wacca or Chunithm.
Hard to put this on an absolute scale with no frame of reference, but maybe like 7-8? I’ve got a CS degree and I run Linux at home. I know enough to know how much I don’t know, but I know how to Google the things I don’t know and figure it out. Which is the skill that really matters, right?
On here? No one. On other platforms, only two people have ever given me enough grief that I needed to.
But if this other consciousness has no continuity or connection to the consciousness that is currently ‘you’, how can it be said to be you?
Suppose reincarnation was real. But no one has any memory or awareness of a past life. So then what connection does said past life even have to you? How can any supposed past 'you’s really be considered the same you?
Bring back octagonal gated analog sticks.
The Atari crash was a lot more multifaceted than that, but E.T. is often credited as one of the biggest factors. Though it was arguably more of a symptom of a lack of quality control as the market was being flooded with rushed titles.
I’d be too much of a lazy dictator to do anything truly evil.