Japanese culture tries hard to avoid embarrassment, and dealing with foreigners can often lead to it. However, once you indicate that you understand this people are generally quite nice and helpful.
If there is no causal link between the existence a fat-hating subreddit and poor behaviour, why was banning it so successful? The study says that users who were part of that subreddit and used a great deal of abusive/foul language actually changed their behaviour afterwards, being nicer on other parts of the site.
/r/fatpeoplehate has 150,000 subscribers. The study is really interesting - they didn't have to ban any specific users, just those subreddits, and the main fat haters moved to Voat and the rest of the community stopped being such asshats.
This is a well understood principal in sociology. A small number of people behaving like asshats gives others "permission" to do the same. It normalizes it.
Shame neither of you actually read TFA. They did actually look on other sites, particularly Voat since that's where people said they would go, and found a lot of identical usernames with similar use of racist language on similarly names sub-boards.
That's why they concluded that the ban worked for Reddit, and pushed the people affected to Voat which is, as you might expect, a complete cess-pit.
So if some site decided to toss all them "pinko commis" off their site for expressing left wing views, you'd be ok with that?
Yes, of course!
I'm not the OP, but this has already happened multiple times. Gab and PewTube both regularly ban left leaning users and channels. One of PewTube's most popular videos was about communism, until they deleted it.
And that's fine. That's how it should be. If videos about communism trigger the poor snowflakes, they are welcome to build a safe space for themselves.
Let me ask you a question. Would you be okay if I came and set up my soap box in your living room? Ideally right in front of the TV. Come on, don't censor me bro. Support free speech, let me into your home to show just how dedicated you are to hearing the full range of opinions.
Surely if they want to encourage lively discussion they should ban the people who try to sabotage it with fat shaming and extreme racism.
Trolls aren't trying to improve the quality of discussion. They aren't trying to put forward unpopular opinions (you can do that without calling someone a n!gger). They are trying to sabotage the debate, to drive people away or silence them.
Trolls actually stop people discussing controversial topics. They make lively debate impossible.
That was the plot of an anime whose name I forget now... Some kind of robot bed for the elderly with a neural interface that naturally also transforms into a giant mech when required.
It was an interesting movie. There were elderly hackers, the guys who cut their teeth in the 80s and 90s and then got old, but still retained their skills and love of exploration and tinkering.
From what I can tell it's nothing revolutionary chemistry-wise. They adopted the round cell form-factor similar to what Panasonic/Tesla use, but the real innovation here is that the battery is modular. You can relatively easily add and remove capacity, meaning you can build identical cars on your production line and then fit whatever size battery the customer wants at the last minute. Customers can also pay for upgrades later, or even rent some extra capacity.
So the battery itself isn't that interesting, it's the BMS (battery management system) and mechanical construction that is quite clever.
I've been trying to figure out why all Linux desktops suck so much. I think it must be due to barriers to contributing.
I looked at working on KDE, since it's the least bad one I found. They have a page that tells you to start by spending hours on IRC, hoping that helpful people are in your time-zone and suffering from the same level on insomnia as you are. The relevant section on their forum is dead, hardly anyone gets replies. They then start talking about how you should do all the boring, trivial bug fixing crap they can't be bothered with as a way to get started.
Sod that. I want to fix the start menu, fix it opening slowly and sort out the half-baked Windows-clone layout. I'm an experienced programmer. The barriers are too high, KDE loses a potential improvement.
GNOME is basically the same, their guide eventually just tells you to go on IRC and ask someone, and they don't seem interested in fixing the horrible mess they have created. In fact their current goal seems to be to remove as many options and alternative settings as possible.
Maybe one of the other desktops is better. How long am I supposed to spend checking them? This is the kind of thing that keeps people on Windows, because the pain that Microsoft inflicts is not quite as bad as the average Linux desktop.
If "Apple certified" cables on Amazon are anything like "USB-IF certified" cables on Amazon then I wouldn't get my hopes up about them. Even if they work today, Apple might brick them with a software update tomorrow.
Japan does have a specific problem with people not having children though. It's basically too expensive, and even though they strengthened maternity rights at work women still feel unable to balance children and a career. There are also more and more men who have little interest in children, or even women at all, instead preferring otaku (nerd) culture. Note that they are not like western incels though, they don't hate women.
Japanese culture is particularly bad for this stuff. There is a culture of being seen to be working hard, which is somewhat incompatible with taking time off for children or balancing work and life. To change that parenthood is being portrayed as an important job in itself, something vital to the national well-being and to be commended.
It seems that there is also a bit of a disconnect with the younger generations, which makes it harder for the older ones in politics to find solutions to the problem. Initially it was seen kind of like an industrial problem; one minister actually described the problem as having a "limited number of baby-making machines" which really demonstrates how hopeless he was.
The other issue is that Japanese culture is rather unique and quite big on conforming to social norms, not to mention the difficult language. That makes it somewhat difficult to import labour, because for example a nurse needs to be able to read and write Japanese to work safely. People who make the effort are welcomed, and tourists get by because no-one expects them to know that stuff, but in the middle you have people who want to work or integrate but need to study hard for a long time first.
Stack Exchange uses a reputation system like the one you describe. They try to detect unwanted behaviour, but it's still extremely hostile to new users and vulnerable to dog-piling.
The one thing they do have right is that down-votes carry a cost for the voter, but it's too small. At the moment it's only -1, and people are happy to take that hit to push their political agendas or harass users. Plus it's easy to create new accounts with a +100 rep bonus, giving them plenty of ammunition to down-vote people they dislike.
Even so, you would at least expect them to have figured batteries out by now. It was 15 years ago that the iPod launched, and 14 years ago that the non-replaceable dies-after-a-year battery scandal hit.
I thought we had solved the replacable watch battery issues decades ago... Okay, these days they might have different battery form factors (although I bet in practice they all use one of a few off-the-shelf sizes), but I'm sure 3rd parties will be happy to meet that demand.
I'd be annoyed because Slashdot's ToS doesn't ban conservative hate, not that I actually hate conservatives as a group.
On the other hand, if I started/r/coontown I'd pretty much expect it to get banned. If I was serious about running such a discussion forum I'd try Voat or 8chan.
Maybe... The problem with reputation based systems is that they are wide open to trolling as well. Slashdot almost works, but periodically people going against the groupthink or getting mod-bombed have their karma destroyed.
That's why they didn't ban words, they simply banned subreddits dedicated to things like fat-hate and racism. It's hard to imagine any context in which "coontown" isn't simply overt racism.
Battery warranties need sorting out. Companies claim that they are consumables, but you also can't change them yourself and if you get a dud or bad design you are SOL.
The law needs to be changed so that batteries have a minimum 2 year warranty and must be user replaceable. It isn't difficult to design for those requirements, and not expensive.
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Nothing came of it?
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...
Sure, but that's not a reason to take their word for it.
An unverified AC making bold claims... Excuse me if I don't take your word for it.
Hit the power button 5 times to disable fingerprint unlock.
Japanese culture tries hard to avoid embarrassment, and dealing with foreigners can often lead to it. However, once you indicate that you understand this people are generally quite nice and helpful.
If it had that, plus maybe an overview of the architecture and how the source is organized, I'd probably contribute some code.
Are you seriously saying that everything post-Gnome 2 was an improvement? MATE seems to have the right idea.
If there is no causal link between the existence a fat-hating subreddit and poor behaviour, why was banning it so successful? The study says that users who were part of that subreddit and used a great deal of abusive/foul language actually changed their behaviour afterwards, being nicer on other parts of the site.
Thanks, I might track down a copy.
/r/fatpeoplehate has 150,000 subscribers. The study is really interesting - they didn't have to ban any specific users, just those subreddits, and the main fat haters moved to Voat and the rest of the community stopped being such asshats.
This is a well understood principal in sociology. A small number of people behaving like asshats gives others "permission" to do the same. It normalizes it.
Shame neither of you actually read TFA. They did actually look on other sites, particularly Voat since that's where people said they would go, and found a lot of identical usernames with similar use of racist language on similarly names sub-boards.
That's why they concluded that the ban worked for Reddit, and pushed the people affected to Voat which is, as you might expect, a complete cess-pit.
So if some site decided to toss all them "pinko commis" off their site for expressing left wing views, you'd be ok with that?
Yes, of course!
I'm not the OP, but this has already happened multiple times. Gab and PewTube both regularly ban left leaning users and channels. One of PewTube's most popular videos was about communism, until they deleted it.
And that's fine. That's how it should be. If videos about communism trigger the poor snowflakes, they are welcome to build a safe space for themselves.
Let me ask you a question. Would you be okay if I came and set up my soap box in your living room? Ideally right in front of the TV. Come on, don't censor me bro. Support free speech, let me into your home to show just how dedicated you are to hearing the full range of opinions.
Surely if they want to encourage lively discussion they should ban the people who try to sabotage it with fat shaming and extreme racism.
Trolls aren't trying to improve the quality of discussion. They aren't trying to put forward unpopular opinions (you can do that without calling someone a n!gger). They are trying to sabotage the debate, to drive people away or silence them.
Trolls actually stop people discussing controversial topics. They make lively debate impossible.
That was the plot of an anime whose name I forget now... Some kind of robot bed for the elderly with a neural interface that naturally also transforms into a giant mech when required.
It was an interesting movie. There were elderly hackers, the guys who cut their teeth in the 80s and 90s and then got old, but still retained their skills and love of exploration and tinkering.
From what I can tell it's nothing revolutionary chemistry-wise. They adopted the round cell form-factor similar to what Panasonic/Tesla use, but the real innovation here is that the battery is modular. You can relatively easily add and remove capacity, meaning you can build identical cars on your production line and then fit whatever size battery the customer wants at the last minute. Customers can also pay for upgrades later, or even rent some extra capacity.
So the battery itself isn't that interesting, it's the BMS (battery management system) and mechanical construction that is quite clever.
I've been trying to figure out why all Linux desktops suck so much. I think it must be due to barriers to contributing.
I looked at working on KDE, since it's the least bad one I found. They have a page that tells you to start by spending hours on IRC, hoping that helpful people are in your time-zone and suffering from the same level on insomnia as you are. The relevant section on their forum is dead, hardly anyone gets replies. They then start talking about how you should do all the boring, trivial bug fixing crap they can't be bothered with as a way to get started.
Sod that. I want to fix the start menu, fix it opening slowly and sort out the half-baked Windows-clone layout. I'm an experienced programmer. The barriers are too high, KDE loses a potential improvement.
GNOME is basically the same, their guide eventually just tells you to go on IRC and ask someone, and they don't seem interested in fixing the horrible mess they have created. In fact their current goal seems to be to remove as many options and alternative settings as possible.
Maybe one of the other desktops is better. How long am I supposed to spend checking them? This is the kind of thing that keeps people on Windows, because the pain that Microsoft inflicts is not quite as bad as the average Linux desktop.
If "Apple certified" cables on Amazon are anything like "USB-IF certified" cables on Amazon then I wouldn't get my hopes up about them. Even if they work today, Apple might brick them with a software update tomorrow.
Japan does have a specific problem with people not having children though. It's basically too expensive, and even though they strengthened maternity rights at work women still feel unable to balance children and a career. There are also more and more men who have little interest in children, or even women at all, instead preferring otaku (nerd) culture. Note that they are not like western incels though, they don't hate women.
Japanese culture is particularly bad for this stuff. There is a culture of being seen to be working hard, which is somewhat incompatible with taking time off for children or balancing work and life. To change that parenthood is being portrayed as an important job in itself, something vital to the national well-being and to be commended.
It seems that there is also a bit of a disconnect with the younger generations, which makes it harder for the older ones in politics to find solutions to the problem. Initially it was seen kind of like an industrial problem; one minister actually described the problem as having a "limited number of baby-making machines" which really demonstrates how hopeless he was.
The other issue is that Japanese culture is rather unique and quite big on conforming to social norms, not to mention the difficult language. That makes it somewhat difficult to import labour, because for example a nurse needs to be able to read and write Japanese to work safely. People who make the effort are welcomed, and tourists get by because no-one expects them to know that stuff, but in the middle you have people who want to work or integrate but need to study hard for a long time first.
Stack Exchange uses a reputation system like the one you describe. They try to detect unwanted behaviour, but it's still extremely hostile to new users and vulnerable to dog-piling.
The one thing they do have right is that down-votes carry a cost for the voter, but it's too small. At the moment it's only -1, and people are happy to take that hit to push their political agendas or harass users. Plus it's easy to create new accounts with a +100 rep bonus, giving them plenty of ammunition to down-vote people they dislike.
Even so, you would at least expect them to have figured batteries out by now. It was 15 years ago that the iPod launched, and 14 years ago that the non-replaceable dies-after-a-year battery scandal hit.
I thought we had solved the replacable watch battery issues decades ago... Okay, these days they might have different battery form factors (although I bet in practice they all use one of a few off-the-shelf sizes), but I'm sure 3rd parties will be happy to meet that demand.
I'd be annoyed because Slashdot's ToS doesn't ban conservative hate, not that I actually hate conservatives as a group.
On the other hand, if I started /r/coontown I'd pretty much expect it to get banned. If I was serious about running such a discussion forum I'd try Voat or 8chan.
Maybe... The problem with reputation based systems is that they are wide open to trolling as well. Slashdot almost works, but periodically people going against the groupthink or getting mod-bombed have their karma destroyed.
Effective filtering seems to be the best option.
That's why they didn't ban words, they simply banned subreddits dedicated to things like fat-hate and racism. It's hard to imagine any context in which "coontown" isn't simply overt racism.
Battery warranties need sorting out. Companies claim that they are consumables, but you also can't change them yourself and if you get a dud or bad design you are SOL.
The law needs to be changed so that batteries have a minimum 2 year warranty and must be user replaceable. It isn't difficult to design for those requirements, and not expensive.