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Re: Minus

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Post by silisili »

abeppu wrote: post #17
maximp wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like that time-based mechanism much better. The karma/engagement-based stuff would just let popular people post more :)

I think this is still bad, because it heavily encourages people to post stuff that others will respond to, which isn't necessarily what's honest, authentic, valuable, etc.

Posts, as they are not a response to anything, in my head wouldn't use a credit unless the post tags someone.

So if you want to write mean things, do so in your own posts without bothering others' discussions.

Re: Minus

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Post by bastawhiz »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #7
lord_and_xavier wrote: post #4

Yeah wordpress doesnt scale. hug of death

I don't like Wordpress either, but correctly configured it's not that much worse than a static site.

But the sites that are slow or performance sensitive often aren't just static sites. If it's more than just a simple CMS to you, you need to be enough of a WordPress expert that you probably don't need WordPress in the first place (or you're just using it for the themes or plugins). Weird WP performance cliffs are hard to avoid for dynamic content and "correctly configuring" either means rolling a custom solution or getting neck deep in your infra—both of which smell a lot more like engineering than not.

Re: Minus

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Post by itisit »

Y_Y wrote: post #19
abeppu wrote: post #16

I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…

What about a low-bandwidth Twitter, where posts load immediately, but at 2e-3 bits per second, so that it takes two weeks to load the whole thing.

Call it "Loris"

Re: Minus

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Post by rzzzt »

Y_Y wrote: post #19
abeppu wrote: post #16

I love this as an idea, but I suspect as a user, I would use either zero or one posts. I do like the idea that the platform can actively disrupt the "addictive" patterns that develop elsewhere. Other things I've wanted: - Instagram with an ML layer that auto-rejects pics with faces or text. Landscapes, vistas, animals, architecture etc all would be welcome. - high latency Twitter, where no post is viewable until at l…

What about a low-bandwidth Twitter, where posts load immediately, but at 2e-3 bits per second, so that it takes two weeks to load the whole thing.

The combination of your ideas would be Mars rover Twitter: 5-20 minutes propagation delay, 160-800 bps bandwidth using the X-Band High-Gain Antenna - https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...

Re: Minus

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Post by axelroze »

johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #14

Interesting idea, but what's stopping someone from creating a second account?

Inconvenience. With the second account one has to re-friend all the users from the first account. Also it would lead to bad social standing as by re-friending it will be obvious they are breaking the 100 posts per person per life rule. This could even lead to automatic bans by studying the connection structure.

Re: Minus

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Post by axelroze »

silisili wrote: post #12
rzzzt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Token bucket! But perhaps a microtransaction system would also fit neatly in your scenario. >:)

I thought about that, but still unsure. Want to be an asshat? Pay a dollar and get another credit.

That won't stop organizations with lots of money unless the cost for more credits raises exponentially. Everyone will have to stop when millions and billions get into play.

Re: Minus

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Post by toast0 »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #7
lord_and_xavier wrote: post #4

Yeah wordpress doesnt scale. hug of death

I don't like Wordpress either, but correctly configured it's not that much worse than a static site.

I've only run one wordpress site (and reluctantly), but I found it very hard to configure correctly. I was very happy when I was able to convince my boss to replace it with a much simpler blog system that only supported exactly what we needed.

Re: Minus

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Post by zuppy »

lord_and_xavier wrote: post #4

Yeah wordpress doesnt scale. hug of death

you couldn’t be more wrong. wordpress is one of the easiest apps to scale, put a varnish in front of it as you mostly have static content. you can go even further, move the comments to an external tool and you can have a very long cache.
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