Why are you sticking with a specific spectrum? You made it hard to read in service of a requirement that doesn’t make any sense.
Why are you sticking with a specific spectrum? You made it hard to read in service of a requirement that doesn’t make any sense.
Your dentist’s name is Crentist?
If you follow the Arch installation guide it’ll get you to a working system, but you’ll need to install sudo yourself. It’s not strictly required so it’s not installed with the essential packages (or even the packages recommended for most users in the guide).
Yeah, timestamps should always be stored in UTC, but actual planning of anything needs to be conscious of local time zones, including daylight savings. Coming up with a description of when a place is open in local time might be simple when described in local time but clunkier in UTC when accounting for daylight savings, local holidays, etc.
I’d say the real world doesn’t reward being actually gifted.
More accurately, the real world punishes being below average at any one of like a dozen skillets. You can’t min/max your stats because being 99th percentile at something won’t make up for being 30th percentile at something else. Better to be 75th percentile at both.
The real world requires cross-disciplinary coordination, which means thriving requires both soft skills and multiple hard skills.
They pronounce it “heera”
Oh come on you don’t actually believe we should structure the entire system around such a minority use case
Minority use case? I’m talking about how downvotes are useful for communities to enforce their own norms, or ensure that erroneous information is excluded. Someone who insists on a proof that the angles of a triangle add up to more than 180º is probably going to get downvoted, especially if he’s being an asshole about it. Same with someone who insists that the common cold is caused by exposure to cold air, or that the earth is flat.
Or there are broad consensus beliefs about what is or isn’t off topic for a discussion, what types of insults break the forum rules on civility, etc. When a community largely agrees that someone is being an asshole for using racial slurs, downvotes quickly sort that out. In other words, toxicity can get filtered out through the downvote/hide mechanism, as well.
Even for beliefs that are simply matters of opinion/taste/preference, the community can decide what’s actually up for debate and what’s not, within that space. A forum dedicated to fans of Real Madrid doesn’t have to tolerate trolls coming in and saying “Real Madrid sucks” or “lol soccer is a stupid sport you Europeans are so stupid” or “sports are dumb.” Same with a vegan forum downvoting someone’s brisket recipe (or a BBQ forum downvoting a “meat is murder” manifesto). These “echo chambers” are just how people organize with people who share their interests, and it’s weird not to be able to see that there’s value in those communities.
So yeah, I think that you have a problem with people’s desire to organize into groups of similar interests, not with the actual mechanism by which those groups enforce those norms. It wouldn’t be any better with a mod-enforced echo chamber, either.
Agreeing with the dominant mentality is rewarded.
And I’m saying that some communities have a “dominant mentality” that’s pretty obviously correct. The only thing worse than a person who says “just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s right” is the person who swings the pendulum too far in the other direction of saying “it’s unpopular so it must be right.”
All this does is bury comments regardless of quality
But if downvotes (and upvotes) are well correlated with quality, then what’s the problem? Your complaints are about community culture around downvotes, not about the mechanism itself.
I’d love to see a system where votes can be correlated between users so that the ranking algorithm weights like-minded voters and deemphasizes those voters you disagree with, but that would probably create a pretty significant overhead for the service.
It is functionally a “I don’t like this” or “I’m right” button.
Sometimes comments are just wrong, and detract from the community. Downvotes (plus an interface that hides negative voted comments) clean things up without need for formal moderation.
Whatever can be said about downvotes (an automated system for marking one’s disapproval) is probably true of reporting (a human reviewed system for marking one’s extreme disapproval), too.
Racists would pay quite a bit of money to be able to target certain ethnic groups.