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Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by glandium »

Grue3 wrote: post #50
glandium wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, くろ (kuro) is the "kunyomi" of 黒 and しん(shin) is the "onyomi" of 心. Japanese 2-character compound words don't mix onyomi and kunyomi. I don't think there is a character with a "kuro" onyomi or one with a "shin" kunyomi (well, there's 信じる (shinjiru), but that's a reading that doesn't go without the hiragana).

Actually there's a lot of words that mix onyomi and kunyomi. For example, 親身 "shinmi" (relative): both of the characters have onyomi "shin", but 身 uses kunyomi reading "mi" in this word. Other examples are 見本, 強気, 親分, it's more common than you'd think.

Heh, this is where this gets embarrassing... of course, they are common. They are so common that you end up losing track of them, hidden in plain sight. Looking them up, I now discover they even have names: 湯桶読み(yutouyomi) and 重箱読み (juubakoyomi).

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by antod »

chris_wot wrote: post #27

Kuro5hin is really what I cut my teeth on before I discovered Wikipedia. I wrote an article on Buddhism, it wasn't that great but I learned a lot! I sure hope that the articles were kept somewhere - there were some pretty amazing stories. Including the time that one of the contributors made a joke about killing the president and the Secret Service came to his workplace...

I remember that story.

I never posted anything on k5 though (seemed too hard/complicated to bother with), but I read it a lot and commented occasionally.

Even the trolls were quite clever and good natured there for a while before they got outnumbered by run of the mill stupid trolls spilling over from slashdot.

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by Jaruzel »

fencepost wrote: post #23

The Wikipedia page mentions that it was running on Scoop, but doesn't include that Scoop was written by Rusty as the framework for k5. Scoop went on to be used in a few other places, among them HuSi (where a bunch of core k5 folks moved to, though it's now pretty defunct as well). The most well-known site I'm aware of that used Scoop was DailyKos, which I believe started on WordPress, then moved to Scoop (highly cust…

I found a citeable reference[1] to back up your statement about Rusty being the original author of Scoop, and have updated the Wikipedia article accordingly.

[1] Wikipedia is quite strict with how cites are referenced, and unfortunately, I couldn't take your word for it!

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by userbinator »

vanderZwan wrote: post #56
firloop wrote: post #18

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IIRC, a (current) robots.txt retroactively will remove public access to the Archive. RIP.

Will it also delete the content?

I remember reading that they don't actually delete anything, even if served DMCA notices --- they just remove access to it, with the justification being that laws may change and one day allow access again. Makes sense for an archive, I guess.

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by ubertaco »

Trill-I-Am wrote: post #34
weanoob wrote: post #24

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Reddit? Conservative? Are you joking?

Conservative is the wrong word but a lot of people on Reddit hate everyone that's not a white socialist atheist anti-Zionist middle class man

"Conservative" != "Hateful". Speaking from experience, some of the most prejudiced people I've had to deal with in my life were my most liberal college professors.

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by ubertaco »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #31
weanoob wrote: post #24

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Reddit? Conservative? Are you joking?

Conservative is probably the wrong word, hateful being more correct. And it's a serious problem on reddit. The majority of redditors are generally left-leaning. But the hateful people on reddit are more organized and more dedicated. They participate in degrading the experience of anyone who doesn't believe the same as they do, and that drives some people away. Outside of the very few well moderated sub-reddits this i…

As a right-leaning, generally-conservative guy, the most organized hate I've gotten on reddit is because I'm a right-leaning, generally-conservative guy rather than being a more-reddit-acceptable left-leaning Sanders-supporting liberal.

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by stereo »

lwhalen wrote: post #35
a2800276 wrote: post #3

Sad. Kuro5hin was a great community in the day. When did this happen? Oh how I loved the ASCII art reenactment players...

I became good online friends with kitten through kuro5hin. I was very sad when he passed as well.

Kitten passed?

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by robk »

Trill-I-Am wrote: post #34
weanoob wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit? Conservative? Are you joking?

Conservative is the wrong word but a lot of people on Reddit hate everyone that's not a white socialist atheist anti-Zionist middle class man

That's called a liberal by American terms

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by nailer »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #47
draugadrotten wrote: post #16

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> Nowadays, reddit is king because it avoided the obvious mistakes of its predecessors. reddit even seem to have found a way to deal with obnoxius moderators - allowing multiple subreddits

The solution to all problems is let your users do it.

That's actually pretty spot on. I've ran popular communities that ultimately failed because we hadn't scaled moderation. As long as your content is good, scaling moderation will be the hardest thing for any UGC site, and if you don't build it fast enough the site will either get destroyed or you won't be able to work on the product due to fire fighting.

Re: RIP Kuro5hin

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Post by vanderZwan »

userbinator wrote: post #64
vanderZwan wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will it also delete the content?

I remember reading that they don't actually delete anything, even if served DMCA notices --- they just remove access to it, with the justification being that laws may change and one day allow access again. Makes sense for an archive, I guess.

Ah good, so there still is hope :)
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