TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on Social media is to democracies what PVP quick matches are to decent players: the worst teammates refuse to take any advice, but are still very vocal. This usually ensures that the team loses. 1 day ago:
“team”
- Comment on The mystery of $MELANIA 1 day ago:
smelania
- Comment on i broke 1 day ago:
Haven’t really thought about it much
The system works
- Comment on YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads 4 days ago:
Seems like they werent willing to roll the dice on this one.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 6 days ago:
Yeah. The draconian/ editorial banning selects for bad actions on the part of users.
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 6 days ago:
Yeah so I’m a huge fan of the Intelligence Squared series. I think they do debate, excellently.
I highly recommend reviewing this old gem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiEI8CtuSKs, which I think is highly relevant today, which addresses the premise “Has Obama overstepped his congressional mandate?”
The way that this debate program works, is that an audience is polled, prior to observing the debate, with regards to the impression or conclusion of the thesis. So some audience members say “I agree, Obama has overstepped.” some say “I disagree, Obama has not overstepped.”. These data are recorded on a per audience member basis.
Once these data are recorded, the debate proceeds. Now I’m not so hung up on the Oxford debate structure (two teams, prime and secondary, minute based timed sections, etc).
Once the debate is concluded, the audience is polled again. The “winners” of the debate are not the team which has the highest raw score at the end of the debate, but whichever team has changed more minds.
Now I’m not interested in the structure of the debate as being important here, so much as, the registering of a prior opinion, and then the registering of a posterior opinion, as a part of the debate structure.
I’m imagining this as either a secondary web page where a debate can be “registered” and then a bot proceeds to become involved in that thread. Users can maybe use the spoiler tag to register their initial opinions (or maybe they need to go off site; clumsy, but simpler). I dont quite know how it would all connect together, but the way I’m imagining it is that its a separate server with, where a question gets “registered”, which spawns a bot (which manages and monitors that specific thread and maintains polls from within the thread).
“influence” someone else’s communications unilaterally is really necessary to a good community
I completely agree. I think that some elements of Lemmy are extremely destructive and toxic because of this. I think communities should be self governing, and that these little fiefdoms are deeply problematic. However, if I was going to develop a fediverse bot app for managing and scoring debates, I would most definitely need mod access to the community.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 6 days ago:
I mean, most of the communities that are heavy handed in their moderation like this, are building themselves to becomes extreme echo chambers. Examples include c/world, c/politicalmemes. One of the worst betrayers of this was @flyingsquid who would regularly get into flame wars with people, then proceed to use their mod authority to ban them. And as much as people complain about people like @jordunlund, they are far, far better as a mod in not abusing their mod authority in this manner (although they have, and its been documented).
However, lemmy is small. And the reality is that the “kinds” of conversations that might happen only in one community are actually happening all over the place. The “conversation” happens wherever the conversation might be.
So instead of worrying to much about it getting unbanned from fiefdoms, you might consider starting your own communities, or taking the conversations you would imagine happening in banned communities elsewhere. The fact is, that the attention and people will follow you if you have good things to say.
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 6 days ago:
I mean, why would I bother doing that for a community I don’t have influence over?
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 6 days ago:
Nothing is stopping you from making that tool without mod powers…
Except the motivation, the time, and a good reason to do so.
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 6 days ago:
Hey make me a mod. I want to build a tool to do oxford debate style scoring and this might motivate me to do so.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 6 days ago:
gee thanks I’m cured
- Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers' 1 week ago:
I mean they’ve been there for several decades. But it does seem as if they’ve given up on any pretense to the contrary.
An alliance to stop a genocide seems necessary.
Never again means never again, for any people.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 week ago:
:cautiously lifts onions to mouth, taking a bite:
- Comment on Pope 1 week ago:
iblb
- Comment on Top 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysis 2 weeks ago:
We’re being eaten alive.
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 2 weeks ago:
You should watch this from the “don’t be evil days” days of google.: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkl
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 2 weeks ago:
yeah. it’s mind blowing to me how the Internet was convinced to give up its a culture of piracy and privateering and become sycophants for corporate protection of IP under they imaginary impression that they are “protecting artists”.
There were industry executives and think tanks litterally quoted (in the 2000s) for saying that their job was to effectively convince people that piracy “hurt the artist”, that this was the way to stop piracy: convince people they were hurting artists by piracy.
Turns out, almost no artists except the most extraordinarily successful make any money off copyright or IP. They mostly make their money the way they’ve always made their money: ticket sales, merch sales, performances, etc.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
If you’re still
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 3 weeks ago:
So…
Like full swing or just a little tap tap?
- Comment on Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88 3 weeks ago:
inb4 pope teir ranking youtube videos
- Comment on In heat 3 weeks ago:
So she is in heat …
- Comment on its-a-me, Luigi 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Who's That Pokémon? 3 weeks ago:
Pokenmon
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
☑️
- Comment on U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security 3 weeks ago:
Open AI:
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 3 weeks ago:
I’ve fixed the line of code that was causing an error by commenting it out.
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 3 weeks ago:
Also, pretending it got the job you asked it to do while not actually doing it.
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
I uhh.
I think the “boring” part is over.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t want to upset any sensibilities.
