Cool. Cool cool cool.

Funny, I just thought "My dad would get a real kick out of these."

It's an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they're selling.

I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?

On a dog.

"Law & order" has always been code for putting [whatever marginalized group you don't like] in jail.

Named in honor of Biff Yeager, I presume. His mail-in campaign finally paid off.

Hooray, ten minutes of new Groot content incoming. (Seriously though, I'll take it.)

Honestly it's a problem with binary ranking systems across the board. Maybe if there were additional axes you could vote on, like "agree/disagree", "quality/low effort", "nuanced/trite", etc. I don't know how one would go about implementing such a thing, but until someone does, we're stuck with having a simplistic system that doesn't adequately reflect the complicated responses real people have to content.

Yup.

I spent over a decade on reddit, and I learned that whenever someone did stuff like that, it was because I had struck a chord. And they usually got bored of their harassment pretty quickly when I ignored them.

Give him some slack, he's young. At least I assume so.

A) There is no hive mind. That's just you perceiving a bunch of people who happen to hold a similar opinion as a monolith, and that's an illusion. You have no data whatsoever to support the idea that they're thinking in concert or even have the same reasons for their reactions.

2. Don't take it so personally. They don't know you, and they're not attacking you by downvoting you. They're simply expressing "I want to see less of this."

d) Instead of having a kneejerk reaction when you get this kind of response and immediately being defensive, step back and use it as a reflective moment. Maybe you misjudged the room, misinterpreted the potential impact of what you posted, or are simply on a different track from those who downvoted. What can you learn from it? Do you need to change your own approach, or do you need to reevaluate your audience?

You're not wrong, but think of the number of people this brought joy to.

Is it wasteful? Sure. Is it a bit of a face slap to people living paycheck to paycheck, assuming they're even that well off? Sure. But is it a net negative? Who can say? Unlike most fuck-you-money splurges, this one probably at least lightened some people's days for a moment, and that's not nothing.

Nothing wrong with that guy. Awareness is a good tool for everyone to have.

Pointing out what it is doesn't necessarily carry judgment with it, it's just facts, and you can use them however you like.

Idunno about you, but I'm going to continue calling it twitter whenever I derisively refer to it or think of it at all. If only because it would make the manbaby angry/sad.

Part of me wonders if it's an attempt to tank the SEO, so people can't search for or news or easily talk about the site anymore - because it's been nothing but bad.

suX

Read a sidebar before posting in a community please. This is not for your support questions.

Yes, generally when people are telling you to shut the fuck up, you can technically say they want to "silence" you. But really they only want you to stop saying incredibly moronic things.

Soundsaboutright

I keep telling myself that someday I'll be able to buy a computer that can actually handle any of these, and then I'll have a library of games ready to go.

I have five other people living in this house, and nobody ever wants to turn the damn TV off. The only silent reading time I get is right before bed, which puts me to sleep pretty quickly. So if I want to read, I need headphones in, and I try to find instrumental music that's thematic to the book I'm reading.

Ahh, I see. They couldn't get their shit together for April, and are pulling this out now as an attempt to placate their users.

What the crap is a "consumer geeta roy"?

Can't replicate living beings.

K

Yes, movie trailers are ads. Film at eleven.

The city should fine the fuck out of NBCUniversal for the full cost of replacing those trees. Those are not healthy trees.

You know how many outmoded and idiotic laws are still on the books, but are simply ignored because it's embarrassing to even acknowledge them? Law is not absolute.

How is this "good approach"?

Dragon?! There hasn't been a dragon in these parts for a thousand years!?

It has one of the best final shots I've seen in a film since The Fabelmans. I laughed loudly at that. And honestly the rest of it was super fun. The big battle scene was a blast, and has some incredibly innovative stuff in it.

No, this is Patrick.

Does it though?

Ridley Scott lied to me.

Is?

Well I'm definitely doing to pronounce it that way to annoy my family from now on.

Golden Age (70s & 80s): Blade Runner, 2001, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Wrath of Khan, Undiscovered Country, E.T., Brazil, Lynch's Dune, Back to the Future, The Thing, They Live, Akira, Buckaroo Banzai, The Abyss

90s Renaissance: Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, Contact, Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Galaxy Quest, Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Gattaca, π, Strange Days, T2, First Contact, Event Horizon, Jurassic Park

Star Trek 2-3-4 is the second best sci-fi trilogy starting with the word "Star".