All three up right now are dense with links and discussion. While your posts are frequently great for evoking a chuckle, or an insightful “hmm”, the difference in substance between the average post here and the stickies is massive. I think that should continue even as the topics shift. I’d hate to see this place take a note from TD and just pin whatever retarded shit the mod feels like, when they feel like it proves them right. Also one wonders why someone with as many opinions to share as yourself hasn’t ventured into either of the more recent pins, even if only to say “I disagree and here’s why”.
What do you mean? Are posts automatically expanded for you? I only browse mobile and I can’t even tell how long a post is until I expand it
That’s what upvoting is for, pins are for keeping content that’s valuable and provokes discussion artificially above the fray of drive by twitter screenshots and random low effort trash that gets upvoted but isn’t beneficial for a forum beyond giving a sense of “activity”, which admittedly has some slight value
Since this place doesn’t have the same dumb restriction as reddit however, there’s no reason not to pin a good thread, even if only for a little while.
We should just set up a system where someone can nominate a post for sticky in a comment, then if that post gets say 5 or 10 upvotes the user pings a mod, and it gets pinned for a day or two. Thoughts?
Hot is garbage for discussions imo, if something is “hot” that means everyone agrees with the idea, if everyone agrees then the discussion will be pointless or nearly pointless beyond reinforcing your current beliefs.
And the point of a forum is discussion, not the circlejerk of upvoting and downvoting
It’s almost entirely upvotes, I’ve never seen a post with less upvotes but more comments and the same time of posting higher in the front page. And given the obvious and documented presence of downvote manipulators here, it’s silly to put so much faith in them. Stickies serve a useful purpose, I’m sure if you posted something worth stickying and made a comment pinging a mod they would consider it, especially if that comment showed a consensus or atleast common support
All three up right now are dense with links and discussion. While your posts are frequently great for evoking a chuckle, or an insightful “hmm”, the difference in substance between the average post here and the stickies is massive. I think that should continue even as the topics shift. I’d hate to see this place take a note from TD and just pin whatever retarded shit the mod feels like, when they feel like it proves them right. Also one wonders why someone with as many opinions to share as yourself hasn’t ventured into either of the more recent pins, even if only to say “I disagree and here’s why”.
Pass
What do you mean? Are posts automatically expanded for you? I only browse mobile and I can’t even tell how long a post is until I expand it
That’s what upvoting is for, pins are for keeping content that’s valuable and provokes discussion artificially above the fray of drive by twitter screenshots and random low effort trash that gets upvoted but isn’t beneficial for a forum beyond giving a sense of “activity”, which admittedly has some slight value
Since this place doesn’t have the same dumb restriction as reddit however, there’s no reason not to pin a good thread, even if only for a little while.
We should just set up a system where someone can nominate a post for sticky in a comment, then if that post gets say 5 or 10 upvotes the user pings a mod, and it gets pinned for a day or two. Thoughts?
Hot is garbage for discussions imo, if something is “hot” that means everyone agrees with the idea, if everyone agrees then the discussion will be pointless or nearly pointless beyond reinforcing your current beliefs.
And the point of a forum is discussion, not the circlejerk of upvoting and downvoting
It’s almost entirely upvotes, I’ve never seen a post with less upvotes but more comments and the same time of posting higher in the front page. And given the obvious and documented presence of downvote manipulators here, it’s silly to put so much faith in them. Stickies serve a useful purpose, I’m sure if you posted something worth stickying and made a comment pinging a mod they would consider it, especially if that comment showed a consensus or atleast common support