

Bill Gates will come and say “no!” and microsoft will make a sad face and say “okay.” and then bill gates will call my uncle at steam and ban microsoft from playing rocket league.
Bill Gates will come and say “no!” and microsoft will make a sad face and say “okay.” and then bill gates will call my uncle at steam and ban microsoft from playing rocket league.
exclusively. i never use the left shift for anything other than running in games.
“i am no threat to you, so please lower all your defenses. ignore the past 20 times i abused this to attack you again. this time will be different, pinkypromise”
back when reddit was not just a meme shithole, karma was used to motivate people to post quality content. 90% of the stuff posted on reddit nowadays would get downvoted into oblivion back then. typo in the title or image caption? downvoted. repost? downvoted. low effort? downvoted.
but with growing popularity the flat number of (usually young) users grew that hat other quality standards grew and these kind of faults were ignored. meme became bigger, and there was a general shift in reddits userbase. they changed the algorith to calculate your score and suddenly you could get just so.much.karma from cheap posts.
some communities became very strict in their content to avoid shitposts. some used karma to prevent trolls participating in their subs. nowadays high karma accounts are being sold as they can be used to participate in subreddits with a high reputation (due to participation limitations) and upvoting/downvoting and commenting on certain post can very heavily skew its visibility and impression of the discussed topic on “neutral” users.
so yea, karma used to be a good thing (good content motivation), became a bad thing (karmawhoring), which was still utilized for good things (participation limitation), which led to even worse things (karmafarming bots).
lemmy will have to deal with this sooner or later. there will be bots brigading communities on certain topics and there need to be some kind of indicators to distinguish honest users and trolls.
ok sorry :(
i am just worried that the idea of karma on lemmy starts to gain traction :D
thats another thing. no internet points, so no bots to farm them. upvotes really only indicate the quality of the post or comment that receives the upvotes. no way to use the total number of points to claim validity of your posts or to brag with them.
that being said, at one point we will need to figure out a way to identify and prevent bots that just post propaganda. while we wont have the problem of karmawhoring bots, they dont have the need to karmawhore and can try to spread their propaganda immediately.
imagine this sentence 10 years ago!
rip Kabosu, your alias was not meant to be stained in such a way :(
from my experiece: this style of displaying content is only ass if you visit the website for the first time and have a huge backlog of content.
ongoing comics with regular updates will mostly be frequented by visitors that already know all strips and just want to read the most recent one.
BUT (big but!): the fact that the navigation buttons for each comic say “previous” and “next” but will navigate to the next and previous chapter tells me, that the layout is not used as inteded. so… valid criticism!
Another comment in this thread you might already have seen by now:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17100252
And there were other instances mentioned in other threads as well.
Some problems are not tied to a platform, but to their users. Power hungry people try to grab power where they can. If they can’t be mod on reddit, they move to Lemmy. Here they can try to grow “their” space. If a topic already exists on one instance, they can move to another and shape the narrative and enforce rules how they like.
if that is your primary motivation, i have bad news for you… you might have to move on. here you will get bans for downvoting “the wrong” comment or post as well.
Thats trumps golf budget for the next two years that he will spend at his own businesses. with ~3mio/trip thats 161 trips. with him golfing 30% of his days in office during his last term and him being on track to repeat that, this “golfing budget” will be used up in less than two years.
sorry americans, you got screwed for years to come for some racist orange to loot your contry dry to go golfing and funnel money into his own businesses.
sorry but no. maybe i am biased since my sole experience is driving the german autobahn, but i drive well beyond 200km/h on a regular basis, which i consider travel speed when the road is not too crowded. cars that could go faster than 250km/h are usually limited to 250km/h. traveling at that speed is loud and a bit stressful, since the difference between you and other cars traveling at lower speeds becomes too high. they will not see you coming before switching lanes and braking distances are very high. but cars dont randomly switch lanes unless tying to pass others cars and you can predict these situations and slow down.
you will not hover, you can control your car normally and the only required luck is to not have others actively try to kill themselfes. you dont need to be a professional race pilot and dont need special gear (of course cars can easily be underequipped for these speeds, but you dont need special gears.
do you mean speeds above 250km/h or speeds above 150mp/h? if that was just a typo i would argue a lot less because those speeds stop being fun to drive, but are also accessible for normal drivers with normal street cars (with enough power of course, but you see plenty of those cards on the average parking lot in front of any supermarket)