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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.
Lemmy is the ultimate embodiment of a free market. [...]
Yet another dumb claim piled up over another. At this point I'm not wasting my time with this, I'll facepalm at this crap and move on to the main point.
Blocking communities doesnt work entirely since u end up with fat chicks and dicks in communities that arent specificly dedicated to either.
Nirvana fallacy. People who expect perfect and all-encompassing solutions for problems should take a reality check.
The odd part is that in the wild, the kitten doesn’t stay with the mother all that long.
That reminds me Cruela.
My cat Kika once got pregnant. We were able to give all kittens new homes, except one - that stayed with us. She grew into adulthood, not only pampered by the humans but also by her mum Kika.
Cruela would find an open window, take a walk, then come back after a few hours. And then when she was back, she'd ask Kika to be licked. And every single time Kika would lick her manchild womanchild catkitten daughter for a few minutes, then meow angrily and paw her once or twice, as if saying "you're clean now you adult baby, now sod off!". Every single time.
Siegfrieda: self-heating pillow, food bringer, good companion.
Kika: "it's a human so of course it's disgusting. But it slaps my butt so good~ A shame that it's too stupid to understand that it should be massaging me 25h/day."
Then as you ask "provide sources.", it says simply "Source: Tech Review Websites". If this came from an actual person I would genuinely ask it "do you take me for gullible trash?".
It's still somewhat useful, due to Google Search crumbling away into nothingness, if you ask "link me five sites with info about [topic]".
more [with a higher pitch]
Yes, I can. /me leaves the room
Serious now, this sentence is a great example because, even if phrased as a yes/no question, you'll typically see it being used as a request - "please tell me more". And as such you'll often hear it without the higher pitch associated with yes/no questions.
Well, Old English baggs to differ. English lost its case markings on articles early on and kept them on nouns a while longer while German kept them on articles and simplified nouns much more early on.
That sē is still the determiner, now with an additional function as an article, not an independent article. What I said applies to the article as its own thing, i.e. when "the" and "that" were already independent words - in fact their decoupling is directly tied to the same loss of the endings that caused the morphological case system to go kaboom.
Again, German didn’t dump anything into articles but rather lost it everywhere else.
I'm talking about the informational load, you're talking about the phonetic changes.
There is this idea that this fostered the process of using der/die/das much more often (which made it from a demonstrative to an article) but I disagree because it was a widespread process, not only in German but in huge parts of Europe, including beside Romance languages also English were this reasoning doesn’t work (as shown above).
It's actually both a shift promoted by interactions between languages in the Western European Sprachbund and the result of simple sound changes. Much like a vicious cycle:
- noun endings get slightly muddier due to syncretism →
- people rely more on a default word order to convey case →
- higher usage of demonstratives as "poor man's article" (definiteness might not be the same as topic, but in a pinch it's close enough) →
- poor man's article becomes an actual article →
- there's less pressure to keep the noun endings distinct, thus against sound changes that would merge them →
- noun endings get slightly muddier due to syncretism
Higher usage of demonstratives as articles might be also caused by interference of other languages - that guy spamming "that" and "one" in a language will eventually do the same if speaking some another nearby language. And it also explains roughly why German ended as the exception, as it's right in the middle of the way between "case endings, no articles" Polish and "articles, no case endings" Romance.
Then, in German you got that weird middle ground where word order still conveys topic, but the noun endings already weren't conveying the case any more. The info gets dumped in the article - and that prevents further sound changes and regularisation processes from attacking them.
It could be worse. You could speak a minority language. Then this shit stops being "mildly infuriating" to become "frankly depressing".
Supply demand is king
No, it is not. Smithsonian economics don't even work here, due to the network effect causing a vicious cycle: less visibility due to downvotes → lower perceived supply → users look for that content outside Lemmy → less demand for that content → lower actual supply.
And in this case it's really bad, because Lemmy is supposed to be welcoming to gay people too, not just heterosexual men like me.
I dont recon its worked at all its just means people will block the accounts meaning they are memory holed perminantly.
They block the communities instead, as it's easier than blocking individual posters. And, frankly, it's a better approach than downvoting the content as it discourages it from being shared.
They do, but once you hop into the "local" view you see all of those posts. And the users, instead of blocking those communities as "content that is not relevant for me, but might be for someone else", simply downvote the posts as a knee-jerk reaction.
(Yup, communities. I typically shorten it to comms.)
Seriously, English has its flaws, but the simplification of article adjectives is one area where it shines.
When it comes to the articles themselves, it's less that English simplified them and more that it never developed case marks for them. For example, when se→þē split into what's today "the" and "that", that "the" was already invariable.
In contrast, not only German repurposed the demonstrative "der" (that, which, who) into an article in a cleaner way, but it's also dumping most grammatical case info into the article - so it's bound to preserve a lot more forms for them. (It still simplified them a bit though. Compare this with this).
[Sorry for hopping in to nerd out about language.]
Do you really pronounce those with a higher pitch? Or do you pronounce them louder?
EDIT: that is a genuine question given that a lot of people conflate stress (louder; more dB) with pitch (higher tone; more Hz), and the examples provided hint prosodic stress, not prosodic intonation, since in English prosodic stress is often used for emphasis.
They are removed to protect the sensibilities of the users, so instead of seeing ambiguous 100 downvotes, now you’ll have 70 downvotes with messages that might go from no or ew to horrible insults I’m not going to type here, if it was hurtful or discouraging before, it would get worse.
I am not proposing that you'd need to write down why you're downvoting the content, but that you'd pick an option. As such, the ability to say "ew" or hurl an insult would be zero.
And the goal here is not just "to protect sensibilities", but to force the downvoter to provide at least some feedback. Because a lot of what makes the current system feel awful is that downvotes are interpreted as "this is bad", but nobody can be arsed to tell you "why" it's bad, in a way that you could fix.
Sellers being also part of the problem is a fair point. But it isn't just about Lemmy being Lemmy; it's that unless a community disallows sellers, amateurs eventually leave.
This would probably need a different approach, like different comms for sellers vs. amateurs. Or, if the tag system were to be implemented, forcing people to tag their content accordingly.
About sexuality: the reason why I think that tags would've worked is that, once legitimate-but-shortsighted users stop downvoting things based on their sexuality, the trolls stick out like a sore thumb. And then you can simply kick the trolls out.
I agree that it's a broken feature, but I disagree with the idea of simply removing it and calling it a day. It is useful; the content that surfaces up might not be always the best, but the content near the rock bottom is typically shitty.
In my opinion the best approach would be to force some feedback from the user while they're downvoting the content. It doesn't need to be fancy, nor to go against the pseudo-anonymous of downvotes; just something like a pop-up asking "why are you downvoting this?", followed by 5~6 options (for example: "disagreeable", "rude", "factually incorrect", "unfunny", "off-topic" etc.). In that situation, even if people downvote you based on opinion, it's damn easy to detect and say "nah, they just disagree with it".
The problem with downvotes in LemmyNSFW was very specific to that instance and its sexual nature. It boils down to the typical user doing the following:
- people use downvotes to signal "I don't want to see this"
- most people want to see naked women, not naked men
- the instance is supposed to be inclusive towards people who want to see either
As a result, content geared towards gay+bi men, hetero+bi women, and plenty non-binary people was consistently downvoted - and it was discouraging genuine OC for those demographics.
It was totally a band-aid measure, mind you. But it kind of worked?
An actual solution for that issue would be to require people to tag their content, and allow posters to pick what they want to see based on those tags. But for that you'd need further improvement of the software.
Do you really think thats true?
"Rhetorical" questions - like this one - are specially interesting because, while they follow the syntax of a genuine question, they're pragmatically assertions. You're implying "this is not true", even if you're phrasing it as a question.
And that phrasal pitch contour that you see in yes/no questions is dictated by the pragmatical purpose of the utterance, so if the "question" is not actually a question, it doesn't get it.
Yeah - I noticed it after reading your other comment. Fair point.
Coupling it with info from the Mandarin article that I've linked, it seems to apply to declarative (yes-no) questions only.
Good catch - WH-questions tend to have a pitch drop instead.
Now thinking, Portuguese and Italian seem to follow the same pattern as English.
It is the result of Japanese law. Further info here (in English) and here (in Japanese).
As such, yes, the Japanese government is also to blame. Plus any other government playing along with this crap, be it from USA or Brazil or whatever.