Yeah, monetary costs work too. The idea is that it has to cost.
Though with monetary the costs would still have to go up exponentially so that you don’t have some deep-pocketed Apartheid Manchild literally nickel and diming a server to death.
(like people who get angry at something you say and go to your profile to systematically downvote everything you’ve done, or organized dogpile voting, or …)
I actually saw a system once for dealing with that that I thought had serious potential. If you wanted to downvote someone, it cost you time. Every time you downvoted the system would pause you, rendering you unable to use it for a period of time. On your first downvote it was measured in milliseconds, but with every downvote you cast in a given time period (by default it was the day, I think?) the pause increased exponentially. So by your 20th downvote you were being frozen for a minute and by the time you hit your hundredth you were freezered for a week. (It was, actually, technically speaking, impossible to reach your hundredth as a result.)
The idea behind this was that the community could downvote you to perdition if you were a jackass (since it would be a miniscule freeze time for them), but if you tried to counter that by downvoting everybody who downvoted you, you’d rapidly be frozen out of the community.
Of course the problem with that was that it was based on the naive supposition that people wouldn’t coordinate downvoting circles; that you wouldn’t be able to arrange brigading and dogpiling. But I still think something interesting could be salvaged from the idea by people smarter than I am. After all the statistics are all there and it should be possible to identify voting circles, sock puppet accounts, and the like from statistical behaviour, no?
As opposed to Apartheid Manchild: Fairly unbalanced. 😀
Yeah, researchers for programs like this must need intense therapy sometimes.
I think the short life spans and the difficulty in finding what’s new are part and parcel of trying to clone Reddit’s flaws instead of figuring out why it was broken in the first place.
The problem with Reddit wasn’t that it was “centralized”. It was that it was mob rules.
No.
Anything with simplistic popularity polls attached to literally everything people provide is pretty much automatically going to suck. Even if everybody is voting in good faith you’re just going to get an echo chamber. Once you factor in that a very large number of people don’t vote in good faith (like people who get angry at something you say and go to your profile to systematically downvote everything you’ve done, or organized dogpile voting, or …) you begin to see the real problem lurking behind the obvious one.
Lemmy was an attempt to replace the festering pile of groupthink that was Reddit with something “On The Fediverse” (rather like “On The Blockchain” only less morally repugnant) and instead of thinking about where and how Reddit succeeded and where and how it failed and trying to do better, it just tried to clone Reddit while allowing its flaws to magnify by the distributed nature of it.
Yep.
I thought it was a great tool.
But I still know how to use paper maps and a compass. Because electronics fail waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more often than paper does.
Get one that uses the right skin products, duh!
The spoon method for pomegranates was a game changer for me. Beforehand I loved the taste of them but rarely ate them because they were such a pain in the ass. Now I eat them whenever they’re available.
I eat most things with chopsticks, so it’s a no-brainer to extend that to snack foods.
That works as well, but it’s harder to direct in my experience. The fork+spoon method of twirling just works best for me.
Well, when I’m in Canada. Here I eat noodles with chopsticks.
Or learn to twist the spaghetti with your fork against the spoon. It took me all of about ten minutes to learn that.
I use the spoon method for pomegranates.
For watermelon, I like to slice it in a grid with a knife before using a spoon to eat it. Then I don’t need a special spoon with serrations.
Thank you! 💘
It has some applications, but far, far, far, far fewer than its advocates hype.
Worst: Using ChatGPT (In French: “chat j’ai pété”) for anything important. I spend more time checking its output and stomping on its hallucinations than it would have taken me to just write things on my own.
Best: Learning to say “no” when people ask you to do things you don’t have time to do.
It … shows the last line!? That’s a very weird choice.
Different rices are needed for different uses. Basmati is one of the best for Indian food, for example, but it would suck for making zongzi. You want some kind of glutinous rice (I like Thai glutinous best for this) for that dish. And both would suck for sushi.
Why thank you! 😆
Nobody yet. Apartheid Manchild is just breathing hard for now.