Lolz that's crazy... we should only take good ideas from Reddit.
I'm happy that most folks (in this thread, at least) seem to be of a similar mindset.
I struggled with Karma for a month, then I jumped on a few new 'DadJokes' and copy pasted a couple of puns - masses of Karma meant I could carry on trolling.
Votes are the way to push good/relevant comments upwards or downwards - and without value outside the thread, they'll only be used for that... as it should be.
They are not just rich - they're very powerful people.
Nah, it's only 4km. If they weren't lazy billionaires, they'd get out and walk home.
Sure, nobody mentioned it yet - but I think they must apply in person if they want a refund ;)
I'm not sure that they have a 5 star restaurant built in... but obviously, deep sea subs need to be smaller in size or they just won't work.
I'm terrible at choosing books. In the old days, everyone knew The Hobbit, and then LOTR were great. I was told by a friend to read 'Duncton Wood' and I bought a series of 'Classics' which lasted me a few years between books.
I search for lists, recent awards and stuff like that - but they can be so problematic. I just read through "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing" by Hank Green and cannot imagine why most ratings aren't between one to 3 stars. The remarkable part of the story is omitted, and we're subjected to a social diatribe probably made more popular by the current focus on gender fluidity.
I dive into Annies Archive and grab a few, polish them and send them to my Kindle... at least that keeps the investment down (as there aren't any libraries here...).
One must simply parse information going beyond reviews.
Right now I'm pushing my way into 'The Oracle Year' and already there are 2 things that happened there which just make no sense... but I'll give it a go.
Something which I will now persist with is multi-tasking... so when I find a book I like, I'll put it on the SLOW burner - with 4 books on the reading list (one for my son to read when he gets back from school - he's reading Bad Dad now).
So yes, it'd be good to have a few booklists here, with options to add/vote on them.
Also, don't forget Bookwyrm. I'm going to get around to adding my existing and past reads there too in the hope that some wonderful AI will be good enough to find me some really good ones I would miss.
Oh dear - that'll use up even more oxygen.
Yes - 2 years ago I was getting sick with Quora, now I can't visit the site because it's just a stream of spam/repeated questions most of which can be answered with a ten second search.
My experience with YouTube has taught me about this, my son had one account banned - even though he proved it was hacked and had 4 videos uploaded to it whilst we were away (and offline) which were 1. easily identified as spam and 2. Deleted on his return.
Basically, without more human interaction, you're taking away a safety razor and giving a robot a cut throat razor.
That means that users will be less able to just say what they think, and live in fear of being banned for typing a wrong word somewhere.
My experience (not being a cringingly polite person - I don't suffer fools gladly) with Yahoo Answers, Quora in the old days, and other platforms has backed this up. When communities become much larger, then there need to be more human moderators to keep up with posts being flagged by users, or bots, or whatever.
I'm slightly curious to see whether the future will see more AI moderation, but I can't see that being a good solution for a few years yet.
fu€K $PEz :"))
Personally I never knew this because I see no benefit in boosting Reddit's traffic - I just don't bother with it. If I get bored, I'm 80% more likely now to pick up my Kindle and read something and it's much better.
I have noticed a new tendency, however, as now I'm reading 3 books at the same time - just choose which one to continue each time I pick up... right now re-reading Great Expectations, The Oracle Year, and The Midnight Library...
ouch.
But 'coop' doesn't sound like 'coupé' (coopeɪ) :(
Ok, it's a US English thing - any idea why you ignore the é?
I disagree. I use my votes to show that something is interesting (this topic - despite my disagreement - is an interesting one).
I upvote content I wish other people to see. I download content I wish to be seen less by others.
Whether I comment or not is not relevant... though if I don't like something, I prefer not to give it the traffic.