glibg10b @ glibg10b @lemmy.ml

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Meanwhile South Africa has received snow for the first time in decades

Material You! Yes!

For embedded pictures you leave the alt text blank

That's not necessary. I usually leave it in so visually impaired people know what the image is about

Yup. I can't think when I'm nervous

it just punishes anyone who diverges from the herd

So you're saying people get less karma for posts that diverge from the herd. That can only mean those posts get fewer upvotes, which means they rank lower

In other words, the sort-by-votes system makes uncontroversial posts more likely to be seen, while the karma system makes those same posts more likely to exist. My point, therefore, is that both systems have a similar overall effect on the website, and that the result of their conjunction is only that the effect is amplified

Yup. ChatGPT is technically a non-deterministic pseudo-random number generator, even if it's terrible at it

Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments

Things people like get more upvotes
Upvotes give you karma
Therefore posting things people like gives you more karma

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But someone does

Be mindful of reflections when taking high-res photos

Jerboa doesn't seem to render spoiler tags or subscripts. Anyway, here's an image in a comment:

It's actually an SVG, which is pretty awesome.