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american English is improper English
"Improper" on which grounds?
You do realise that language variation is normal and expected, and it doesn't make any of the underlying varieties intrinsically "better" or "worse" than the others, right?
Here’s that video with Jeremy Clarkson that’s shows some of the issues with american English
My source is a 1min comedy video taking the piss out of vocab differences
You are being a bloody muppet. And given that it is not the first time, I won't waste my time further with you, go lick a cactus.
Yeah, pretend that I used your name instead of your username.
Japanese uses sarcasm ("needling" through words) and irony (a statement conveying its opposite) heavily, perhaps even more than English does. The problem is that how you convey sarcasm and irony changes from language to language, and Japanese relies heavily on context to do so.
I'll give you an example: in English you can show deference towards a person using Mr., Ms., or similar. If I were to do this here, and wrote something like "Mr. Appoxo", it would sound weird (as there's no reason to show deference), but not insulting.
In Japanese however this would be interpreted as ironic and belittling towards you. Specially if I used a "stronger" honorific like -様 / -sama.
And yet if you post it in 4chan expect at least some Anons telling you that you're a "dumb frogposter".
I gave the subject a check. From Tom's Hardware, industry predictions are like:
| Year | Capacity (in TB) |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1~22 |
| 2025 | 2~40 |
| 2028 | 6~60 |
| 2031 | 7~75 |
| 2034 | 8~90 |
| 2037 | 10~100 |
Or, doubling roughly each 4y. Based on that the state of art disks would 500TB roughly in 2040. Make it ~2050 for affordable external storage.
However note that this is extrapolation over a future estimation, and estimation itself is also an extrapolation over past trends. Might as well guess what I'm going to have for lunch exactly one year for now, it'll be as accurate as that.
To complicate things further currently you have competition between two main techs, spinning disks vs. solid state. SSD might be evolving on a different pace, and as your typical SSD has less capacity it might even push the average for customers back a bit (as they swap HDDs with SSDs with slightly lower capacity).
In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.
This is technically correct but misleading in this context, given that it falsely implies that the original meaning (doubling transistor density every 2y) became obsolete. It did not. Please take context into account. Please.
Furthermore you're missing the point. The other comment is not just picking on words, but highlighting that people bring "it's Moore's Law" to babble inane predictions about the future. That's doubly true when people assume (i.e. make shit up) that "doubling every 2y" applies to other things, and/or that it's predictive in nature instead of just o9bservational. Cue to the OP.
It's fine if the user actively chooses between the sub's style, the site's style, or even a custom personal style. However, I think that it's important for communities to have at least some room to customise their own look-and-feel - it delivers the point better, that Reddit is supposed to be an aggregate of communities, not some huge monolithic community on its own.
And custom CSS in special was the target of protests, as Reddit already tried to remove it.
Books. Mostly paper ones, but sometimes the TN spam pops up in e-books too.
Video typically doesn't have this problem because the translators know that you won't have time to read it.
On subtitles - when the person on screen literally says a word in english but the subtitles replace it with another word.
Depending on the word, this is actually sensible since borrowings tend to change the meaning of the words being borrowed.
A silly example of that is the Japanese garaigo "ダッチワイフ" datchiwaifu. It's a borrowing from English "Dutch wife", and recognisable as such... but you definitively don't want to translate it as such, as in Japanese it conveys "sex doll".
Using american English
I don't even use American English, but come on. This is a silly hill to die on, and one full of linguistic prejudice.
I do this for a living so I have a few words about it.
1 Obsessing over the meaning of individual words, and wrecking what the text (or dialogue) says on a discursive level. I see this all the time with Latin, but it pops up often in Japanese too - such as muppets translating "貴様" kisama as simply "you..." (literal translation) instead of something like "bastard" or "piece of shit" or whatever. Sure, "貴様" is "ackshyually" a pronoun, and then what?
2 Not paying attention to the target audience of the translation. JP→EN example again - it's fine if you keep honorific suffixes as in the original if the target audience is a bunch of weebs, we get it. But if you're subbing some anime series for a wider audience, you need to convey that info in some other way. (Don't just ditch it though, see #1.)
3 Not doing due diligence. It's 4AM, you got more work than you have time for, you need to keep pumping those translations. Poor little boy, I don't bloody care - spell-proof and grammar-proof the bloody thing dammit. "Its" for possessive, "it's" for pronoun+verb; "por que" if question, "porque" if answer; "apposto" if annexed, "a posto" if it's OK.
4 Abusing translation notes. If your "TN" has four or more lines, or the reader already expects one every single page, you're doing it wrong.
I see it as directly related to Nintendo suing Palworld for patents (yup - not copyright); as if it was trying to eliminate any sort of competition before releasing the Switch 2.
I'm totally mocking online anyone who buys that skibidi by the way.
My prediction:
It'll reach a profitability peak some months from now, then start dropping again. That drop will prompt Reddit Inc. to introduce further changes to the platform, and they'll get a new profitability peak - smaller than the older one. This pattern will repeat a few times, until the focus is back from "maximising profits" to "cut down the losses".
Investors will be pissed and try to find someone to blame, potentially even suing Greedy Pigboy - seeking to get their money back, as the amount that they invested in the platform became nothing. This will fail, but Greedy Pigboy's reputation will be ruined among investors, just like it is among users.
In the meantime, users will flee in flocks from the platform. Most of them will go to Discord, with only a handful hitting Lemmy - as by now Lemmy already has its own culture aside from the one of the "leftover" in Reddit. (I expect that "fuck off back to Reddit" will become a common scene here.)
In the meantime, it'll be an open secret that the very changes promoting short-term net profit caused long-term losses. Because it'll be stuff like:
- Targetted ads further encouraging users to use ad blockers, and to avoid the app altogether.
- Disruption of the mobile site to "encourage" users to use the app. Some will use it for a while, then ditch it altogether.
- Making ads less and less distinguishable from genuine content. You click it once by accident, get pissed but give Reddit some money; you do it twice, and you leave.
- Removing features only used by a small fraction of the userbase - but the fraction differs each time, so users in general get pissed.
- Removing the ability to customise the old.reddit page of each subreddit with CSS, under some bullshit claim like "someone might abuse it, think on the children!", but the actual reason will be brand awareness.
- Introducing changes that, while desirable for larger subreddits, either neglect or outright harm smaller subreddits. Even if the main reason why people stay in Reddit is the smaller subs.
- Copying features from social media platforms strictu sensu. That'll promote Reddit in the short term, but in the long term it becomes pointless to stay in Reddit instead of a bigger platform (like Facebook).
And also the cousin of Sam Neuman. Another con artist, but this one relying on novel techniques.
I mean that what you call "the solution" (to curate one's feed) already exists and did not solve the problem for the platform as a whole, as attested by the OP. Because regardless of what you or me think that people "should" do, they're still browsing by "All" (that's fine) and then downvoting content geared towards other audiences (that is not fine).
And it is not just porn; you see the exact same issue with content in other languages. Same deal: the resource exists (you can set up the language of your content, as well as the ones that you want to see) and people still don't use it.
You're suggesting that people should make use of that resource, but our suggestions mean nothing if people won't follow them. We do need a way to at least encourage the usage of those resources, and discourage this idiotic "this content is not made for ME! ME! ME!, how do they dare? Downvoting time!" tendency.
Secondly, if the tagged grey area posts reach a wider audience then it doesn’t solve the problem because the problem is that people don’t want to see specific posts in their feed.
It might not solve the problem but it does alleviate it. There's a big difference between seeing 10% or 50% of irrelevant content.
People who mass downvote, with or without scripts, are better dealt separately - it's vote manipulation, those people shouldn't be voting up or down on first place.
Disagree, the downvoters would just pick a default reason
You're still doing two clicks to downvote someone, instead of just one. And in the meantime there's always some room to think "why am I downvoting this again?"
And perhaps I'm judging other users too much based on my own usage of the downvote button, but often I'd rather have a way to say why I'm downvoting it - because someone were rude, or because they're babbling bullshit, etc. I tend to believe that other people are like this too, but perhaps I'm wrong, dunno.
For reference, Slashdot uses a similar-ish system; except that it does it towards people voting up. I see "types of upvotes" problematic because often good content checks multiple boxes, but the rough idea works.
Honestly… after reading another guy’s comment, I am more inclined to just say fuck it and say we return to the forums, no upvotes or downvotes, things neatly categorized into their place (specially so sensible things can be hidden but still available) and if someone wants to interact they’d have to comment.
The problem with this approach is that chronological sorting leads to a lot of trash, as people know that their shitpost will be still highly visible for the others. Kind of like 4chan.
Frankly I also browse by "Subscribed". However that is not an actual solution for the problem, unless you have a sensible way to encourage/force other people to do it.
Multiple feeds (a la multireddits) is a great idea that pops up often. I hope that the devs are at least considering it.
While a tag system could achieve something similar I feel like tags would probably be more annoying to use because you’ll be at the mercy of whomever sets the tag.
The solution doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. So even if posts within a grey area get tagged in a way that reaches a wider audience than they're supposed to,, it's fine.
The bot is 1m old. Just wait until it gets suspended for "multiple, repeated violations of the content policy" (translation: "don't you dare to shoo the botters! Bot = activity!").