BillyClark

I realize what I’m saying is basically the same point as the post, but I can’t help myself… What was that moron talking about? When normal people get into arguments, it’s over mundane everyday shit like forgetting to wash dishes or being irritated about friends or activities. Not stuff that you can cite.

Normal people don’t get into arguments with their partners about shit where the answer is already known and you just have to look it up on Wikipedia or something. And only a moron would argue against the already proven truth.

I don’t know about Islamic texts, but the Bible doesn’t really say much about hell. If you want to learn about hell, you have to go to preachers. Fire and brimstone is their bread and butter. The more they talk about hell, the more money they make.

maybe the ppl think repeating this discussion again is boring and they dislike it.

See? You don’t honestly believe that’s the reason for the previous comment being downvoted. The person I responded to was arguing the other side of that argument. If people were simply tired of the boring discussion, they’d have downvoted the parent, as well. You can use that same service I linked in the previous comment to see exactly how many people voted like that. This is what I’m talking about coming to the discussion in an honest manner.

btw mastodon and bluesky don’t have downvotes. i think ppl who are here instead on those, decided this way is better. i for one left mastodon in favor of lemmy.

I originally came from Reddit and never saw any appeal in Twitter or Twitter clones whenever I tried them out. Regardless, I don’t think the argument makes sense. Either it’s a good idea or it’s not. If it’s a good idea, then there is no reason why it shouldn’t be used on both platforms.

I do think downvotes are universally a terrible idea, but for the part about reposting from xitter, which is the only point you made with any small merit, that is only relevant to post downvotes.

If they got rid of comment downvotes and left the post downvotes, you’d still have enough data to sort. People could still vote for comments strategically.

Comment downvotes are a clear case. If you’re making a valid argument, and talking about the topic, then the only people who would downvote you are raging assholes. Here’s the list of people who voted for my previous comment. As you can see, it’s got the full public list of downvoters. Strange. One of those usernames looks familiar. One might look at that and come to the conclusion that certain people here are not coming to this discussion in an honest manner.

The mods were on .world. The accounts were from several different instances.

Do you know what else helps with sorting? Upvotes.

Do you know what else helps with hiding spam? Reports.

If you have upvotes and you have reports, then you already have all of the information you need as a platform. Downvotes are unnecessary.

Plus, speaking of sorting, accounts that use downvotes get double the votes for sorting than accounts do that only use upvotes. Yet, the types of people who downvote a lot are… well, they’re the assholes. So, you give assholes more control over the platform than good people by having downvotes.

So, downvotes are unnecessary and they give extra power to assholes, making the entire user experience worse.

I complained about this downvoting behavior in the past (on a different account), pointing out specific accounts, and the admins and mods don’t care. They told me not to complain, instead.

This is counterintuitive to me, because 303/2800 is .108, which is between 1/9 and 1/10. But 97 out of 400 is less than 1 out of 4, so it shouldn’t be able to interfere more than twice in a 7 year cycle, on average. But your math looks correct. I must be missing something.

That can’t be correct, can it?

They would have a rotating 7 year schedule, but it’s messed up by leap years. You have the seven calendars you’re thinking of and 1-2 leap year calendars mixed into those 7 years. It would have to be somewhere between 1 in 8 and 1 in 9, wouldn’t it?

Pretty sure he was into athletics at that age. Specifically wrestling. So, this locker story seems more dubious than most made up stories.

Putin’s replacement might be crazier than he is… But I still think they’d take the chance to blame Putin for the ill-conceived war and cut their losses.

Boomer humor.

I must not be that old because the docs always tell me to alternate heat packs and ice packs.

During the previous administration, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $80 billion for IRS to hire more people to go after the rich. The CBO estimated that it would collect $200 billion in the next decade, but there were other predictions of $560 billion.

Trump reversed all of that. Elon Musk and DOGE fired 1/3 of the IRS work force.

Pete and Repeat are sitting on a bench. Pete jumps off the bench. Who is left sitting on the bench?

Pete and Repeat are sitting on a bench. Pete jumps off the bench. Who is left sitting on the bench?

One important skill for school is to look at the entire question so that you can understand what the teacher is asking for, even if they don’t format the question exactly right.

In this case, your answer would not fit into the 6 spaces provided for the answer.

So you have to ask yourself what they meant by “Write the following words”. Since “the” is the same word repeated twice, once you’ve written “the” after 5, then I could argue that “the” has already been written.

Therefore, if there are only six blanks for the answer, looking at the entire question, I argue that the answer I provided is most likely correct.

1. alphabet
2. come
3. in
4. order
5. the
6. they

Did Alanis Morissette write this?

This does happen a lot, but have you ever had the opposite happen? Where you go into some of your older code, and not only is it nice to read, but you had anticipated that you’d have to make this change later, and so the design makes the change easy?

That’s happened to me a few times and all I can say is that it takes days for my self-satisfaction to wane.