No talking in the bathroom!

Confidence makes the Chad, not the haircut.

Haha. This isn’t evil… if you want evil ideas let’s talk about moving walls when the player isn’t looking

I’ve been playing the blue prince recently, it’s put me into a mood :)

Depends on the context of the game. If you have clues, maps, items, mechanics that would assist an adventurer then having a maze with islands would be rewarding for the invested player.

I.e. leaving footsteps in the sand, or being able to paint walls, or leave breadcrumbs, or finding a old incomplete map

no loops where you can return to a point without retracing your original path

The downside of not having little floating islands in a maze is you can solve them by always going right (or left).

https://lemmy-federate.com/

But they didn’t downvote you… it was someone else entirely

I have strong opinions here. I view moderating a small community as trying to grow a garden and set the tone such that other people feel comfortable contributing to that garden.

The core problem with negative only participation is it makes the community hostile to new contributors. Most people on lemmy are lurkers, and if they feel that their post will be met with overwhelming negativity they simply wont post.

Downvoting is a form of participation, its a negative signal by design.

If someone hates a community so much they feel they need to downvote it every time they see it, but they don’t want to block the community, its totally reasonable for a moderator to help them block the community so it doesn’t ruin their lemmy experience (i.e. ban them from the community so they don’t see it anymore)

The generalist advice only works for topics that are not controversial. If there is any outrage in the discussion talking in the general area will be very negative and never get into the core issue you want to discuss

As someone who runs multiple niche health and diet communities I can literally feel the burn everytime the topic comes up in a general discussion.

Here is a community promo post for a diet community https://hackertalks.com/post/8398344 50% downvotes and 31 comments all negative

Here is the first introduction post for the community https://hackertalks.com/post/5677435 75% downvotrs, and 40ish all negative comments

I’m just trying to illustrate how anything controversial needs to be protected and sheltered for meaningful growth. All the negativity that can be delivered has a real chilling effect on new user participation

Any amount of external carbs will cause the release of some amount of insulin.

They could make baked cheese crackers (so no carbs) and then their daily snacking is just fat.

It can connect to any instance

Current federation status:

• https://defed.xyz/check?name=chinese.lol&software=lemmy
• https://defed.xyz/check?name=lemmy.doesnotexist.club&software=lemmy

There is some interesting area here, like a personalized vote score, based on others who vote similar to you, giving them more weight then people you never agree with.

net-net I think open votes make for better neighbors.

I was trying to think of the right community for this… its not fedidrama, I want to target moderators and admins… is there a better community?

Yeah, I was scrolling new and saw some science posts with 50 downvotes… and I couldnt figure out why people were so triggered… so I started digging.

There are lots of gaslighting opportunities presented by social media.

Yeah, I was able to set it up using the openwrt interface luci. Just ignore the other stuff, experiment in luci until you dial it in

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/vlan/switch_configuration

Typically surrogates carry a couples baby to term, they are not genetically related to the child. The procedure is done via IVF.

What you describe is having 100ish children, with 100 different biological mothers… An different thing entirely.

In most of the world it’s illegal to sell a child.

I hate April’s fools

National security letters and research… That’s why there is zero information, it’s all sealed.

That’s why the lawyer won’t say anything, they are not allowed to.

Wasn’t unheard of for PhD students at my university to get their research made secret while their PhD was in progress…created huge headaches for everyone, especially if they couldn’t get clearance to even see/finish their research.

Why can’t you degoogle a phone?

You can use GrapheneOS, or lineageOS… or a iphone, or a chinese phone…

Since its your home network you can block all network access except to signal for the phone.