Catch42

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[–] Catch42@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is an ongoing problem with our Information Age. The fediverse already has this problem, though to a much lesser degree than reddit. Look at the structure of titles of threads on the political magazines/communities here. They are designed to make you outraged, because the sources they come from made their titles with engagement in mind and that permeates over to here. My hope is that the group of people on the fediverse, who are more interested in the future of the internet than most, will give rise to an idea that helps combat this problem.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sooo, literally everything. Are there even any categories left out? That seems pretty comprehensive.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the shout out. It seems that the original thread was deleted, so I'll re-explain my idea here. The capped overall karma is to remove the incentive to grind for reputation points. There is fundamentally no point to them, but there is clearly some psychological need driving us to want more of them. This should help with karma farmers.

The magazine specific reputation points is so that people can tell when a troll has entered their specific magazine. A troll would have high overall reputation but in your magazine it would be very low, which allows for them to be quickly identified and banned.

@RheingoldRiver I like your idea of a percent breakdown, but it wouldn't help magazines identify spammers. A spammer can create an unlimited number of magazines with legitimate sounding names and spread out their grinding among them. The percent breakdown would look normal unless someone really dug into it.

What I don't have a solution for is creating an incentive structure that discourages shills from creating alt accounts in order to gain more influence.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm almost too afraid to ask, is this intentional irony?

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (15 children)

In the 90's you could've written an equally true headline replacing "Tesla owners" with "PC owners". It's not an indication that BEV's are a fad, it's an indication that wealth inequality and sexism continues to this day.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks uncomfortable though I'm not sure for which chicken.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

It's nice here. :)

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Let's be real it probably will create an uneven playing field just like amazon does. At first it will seem great and then when they have enough data to make sure they can do it without pissing off their users, they'll start squeezing the authors.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't notice more problems with kbin to Lemmy federation than with kbin to kbin federation. They both seem to be having problems. I also don't think the hd-dvd and blue-ray comparison is an apt analogy. Maybe it's more like xbox vs playstation. They're platforms rather than technologies (Lemmy and kbin both use the same activity pub technology) and while there are exclusives to each system there's so much overlap that it hardly matters which one you buy from a content point of view

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure thing; Sony shows it in the official teardown of the ps5.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I'm imagining him planning his vacation but making sure not to do anything that would make a good video. People who know him are suggesting off the beaten path attractions, ands just like no - I'm going to disney world.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For long live the queen at least, this is a whole sub genre of visual novels called stat-raisers. LLTQ was inspired by series princess maker. Princess maker 2 is available on steam and is probably the most popular one. As for games like exocolonist check out the rpg/vn hybrids made by Winter Wolves, she’s made a whole bunch of them and is in the process of running a kickstarter for a sequel to one of them.

Consider joining m/Otomegames, which full disclosure I run. I'm not sure if you're familiar with otome games but it's a genre of visual novels targeted towards women. The romance in games coming out of Japan tend to be exclusively girlxboy, but ones made in the west tend to let you pick your gender and allow both straight and lgbt romances. Most of them are straight visual novels without the stat-raising or RPG elements. Thus, the content on m/Otomegames will be mostly tangential, but both games you mentioned are considered otome adjacent, and I include games like them on my bi-weekly news round up.

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