While karma might help spam/bots in some ways, I feel like it would also lead to karma farming, which I'm personally happy to not have here. Maybe they could instead allow communities to set requirements for minimum time subscribed or minimum interaction (voting, commenting, etc.) before people could post? I'd prefer that be set per-community, though, and not a site-wide mandate.

Sync! It's what I used on Reddit, and having it here made switching platforms so much smoother.

It's definitely still chugging along, although I will point out that the sub numbers now include not only modern WoW players but also Classic players. If the 7 million number is accurate, that's 7 million across all WoW versions, not just modern WoW.

In recent years there's been a shift from "white/black list" to "allow/block list" in an effort to avoid the stereotypes associated with those terms. I wouldn't say it's the new norm yet, but it's slowly becoming more popular.

While I enjoy some Reddit drama every now and again as much as the next person, this article had a plenty of words but very little substance. A few former mods are concerned that new mods don't have the proper knowledge and background to moderate effectively (but with no concrete examples of a post's misinformation directly leading to harm), and researchers are worried they may no longer be able to use Reddit data for their studies (although Reddit has a policy around research-based access and is working with Pushshift to improve access).

These examples feel cherry-picked, and the article itself says that it's too soon to say whether or not content quality was impacted by the API changes and mod replacements. Without actual data - or at least many more examples of specific concerns that weren't present before the changes - it doesn't do much other than say "a few people are worried that something bad might happen."

This sparks a few different thoughts for me:

1. I believe there are a few Lemmy instances that don't have downvotes enabled. (Beehaw might be one of them, but don't quote me on that.) If downvotes are a stress point for you, you could try joining one of those instances.
2. I personally find both upvotes and downvotes to be useful as a way for me to quickly see the community's reaction to a piece of content. If I'm scrolling through my feed and see a post with many downvotes and few upvotes, for example, I know that post is unlikely to interest me and will move on. Conversely, a highly upvoted post or one with a mix of both upvotes and downvotes is more likely to have a good conversation in the comments in my experience.
3. If I make a post that receives a large number of downvotes - or if most of my posts tend to be downvoted - that's a signal to me that I'm either not communicating my message well (confusing, passive aggressive, etc.) or that my message itself may not be welcome (hate speech, misinformation, etc.). In either case, I use that as a mental trigger for me to reflect on my posts rather than a reason to become unhappy with the community/platform as a whole.

As someone who uses gold to buy WoW tokens for both game time and shop credit to make other Blizzard purchases, I have a hard time getting upset over this. I've been playing the game without spending money for years, and tokens are also how I buy both WoW expansions and other Blizzard games. Asking me to pay money for a month of sub time every few years seems reasonable, especially if this change makes it even the slightest bit annoying/harder for bot accounts.

That might be better, but I'd still worry about people rep farming (for lack of a better term). Any time you give people a score, title, or other personal metric, you run the risk of people posting to influence that metric rather than to post for the sake of contributing content.

It's possible the good such a system could do would outweigh the bad, but it will definitely always have elements of both.

Timberborn for sure! I've also enjoyed Settlement Survival, although the last time I played was during early access so it may have changed now that it's been officially released.

Your comment made me curious enough to go check my /played, and I regret my decision. Over 500 days of play time.

The difference is that racists are usually racist due to a moral stance, not because it makes them money; ignoring them means we'll hear about it less but it won't actually go away. Clickbait/ragebait, on the other hand, isn't a moral viewpoint - it's meant to bring a person money via exposure/engagement, so less engagement leads to less money which leads to less bait because it's no longer working.

Same, the subscription page is essentially my homepage. It has exactly the content I want on it, and I can always use the sidebar recommendations if I feel like browsing for something new after my queue is complete.

SMS text messaging unless it's a group chat/voice call for gaming, in which case it's Discord.

I can see how creators who are solely on Patreon will benefit from the additional features, but I'm curious about how widely they'll be adopted by those who post on multiple platforms. If you have a YouTube channel and use Patreon for members-only content, for example, using the Patreon chat feature would exclude the non-member portion of your community from those conversations. While this is a good alternative for those who specifically want member-only chat areas, I don't see it replacing tools like Discord any time soon.

Also, having the member profiles on by default definitely made me pause when I got the email a few weeks ago. I know some people will enjoy that feature, but I personally went in and immediately turned it off.

Cities: Skylines is a great game, although traffic can be a struggle to master.

I mentioned Timberborn in a recent conversation about colony sims, but I'd consider it a fun city builder as well. It's in early access and has received regular updates, and imo it's already worth the money with what's currently available.

Pretty sure LinkedIn already called dibs on selling our employment data.

A true desire to be helpful to the people they manage. Not that they need to do everyone's job for them, but a manager who asks "How's your work going? How can I help?" and means it is worth their weight in gold.

In general, I tip a flat $5 for food deliveries (pizza, Uber Eats, etc.) and $10 for grocery deliveries since they have to carry more stuff to my door. I may do more than that for special circumstances, but I find tipping the same amount every time makes it easier for me to ensure it's fair across the board and I haven't shorted anyone. That said, I'm only ever ordering for myself - I'd probably adjust amounts if the orders were for multiple people and routinely had a lot of items.

I'm able to hide posts I've read in Jerboa. On the main home feed screen, go to the menu in the upper left corner, then open Settings > [Account Name] Settings. Uncheck the box next to "Show read posts," save your changes, and then refresh your home feed (or close the app and reopen). From what I can tell, this only works for posts you've actually opened; it won't hide posts that you've simply scrolled past.

The WoW token wasn't introduced until WoD, so if you played that long ago it wouldn't have been an option. If you're ever looking to jump in again though, it's definitely a useful system if you like to make gold in game.

Same. A friend and I were excited to play together like we did in D3, but we barely managed to finish the campaign. It's on the shelf for now unless/until we hear the team turned things around.

Like others have commented, unlimited texting has been available in most phone plans for the better part of a decade now; I'd struggle to name a place that offers plans without it.

As for the accented characters, that's something I personally don't encounter much as a native English speaker. I obviously can't speak for those who do need those keyboards, but for me it's not a problem.

With regards to encryption/privacy, I can't say that's a concern I've personally had regarding my texts. Could the government read my messages? Probably, but all they're getting is cute cat pics and random chatter about games and food and whatnot. Again, that's another aspect that's probably more of a concern for people in more sensitive situations, but I can't speak for them.

The vast majority of people I speak with just use regular old text messaging. If it's someone I meet via networking at work, I'll occasionally get asked about LinkedIn; same thing but with Discord if it's someone I meet gaming online.

If anything, I think the r/diving example would have been a good choice to include alongside the others. It demonstrates how something that's already risky can quickly turn even more dangerous when inexperienced (or outright deceitful) mods are appointed.

It's not that I find the examples in the article to be wrong, more that they give the impression (rightly or wrongly) that the author really had to dive deep to find any material to support their view. It gives off the same vibes as the articles claiming everyone's outraged about ABC, when really the whole thing is based off three tweets and a TikTok. I'm not in any way trying to say that that's what's actually going on here, merely that it's the way the article reads (at least to me).

True, if it turned into a situation where you had to sub with money for a month every time you wanted to redeem a token or something, that would definitely lessen the value for me. I'd still say it was worth it because I could use the tokens for expansions and other games, but not everyone may have the same opinion.

If I ever get out of this apartment that only allows nano tanks, I - and my floors - will be in trouble. So many ideas, so little usable space for them all.

Similar to that, yeah, although I think the master/slave thing started earlier. (It's a bit more blatant, tbf.)

I agree that allowlist doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but as long as it makes it obvious what the word means, I'll go with it.

Free trials can't farm gold anyway because they're capped to 1k gold, so this really does only impact bot accounts for the most part. There's likely a small number of people who use tokens because they otherwise couldn't afford to play, but I expect that's not terribly common.

I agree, and I would extend this thought to also include situations where it's simply the wrong audience for your post. The content itself may not have anything wrong with it, but if you post a casual joke or comment without much depth in a community that's built on deep conversations and well thought out replies, for example, you're likely to be downvoted simply because the context wasn't appropriate.

As someone who grew up in the US, from my perspective it's less a question of "how good of a job did they do" and more a question of "did they do so poorly that I'm okay with them not making enough money to pay their bills or buy food this week." Not that my single tip is going to make that difference, of course, but at least in my circles the thought is that delivery drivers and waitstaff are paid poorly enough that tips are needed even for average service. It's not a great system and I'm all for changing it to making tipping truly optional, but in the meantime I'd rather tip even subpar service than contribute toward someone's financial worries.

My response comes down to what I feel the other person's intent is. If they're a troll, I don't engage to begin with - downvote and move on. If we entered into a conversation but I find that they're arguing in bad faith (they want to argue, not reach an understanding), then I say something like "I'm not going to argue with you about it, but I appreciate your perspective" (even if I don't). If it seems like it could be a useful disagreement, though, I'll consciously remind myself that there's a person behind the text, and I'll continue the conversation until it reaches an end. It may be uncomfortable, but remembering that we're all just humans being human helps me tone myself down.

I use it for my own dvds/blu-rays, yeah. This is technically still considered piracy, but my personal view is that I'm fine paying for something once because the people who made it deserve to get paid, but I'm not fine paying for the same thing multiple times when the effort on their end to make the new version was basically zero. It would be one thing if there were physical costs like going from vhs to dvd, but that's not the case here.