If you’re feeling extra spicy, upvote someone else’s comment and reply to it. Or reply to it without upvoting. Or upvote every other comment in a chain. Have real-life arguments. Anything to simulate a struggle session.
I’ve been agitating for a while now about the active sort algorithm being broken since downvotes were removed, and a few days ago I remember seeing a post in the modlog that had a lot of comments but that I hadn’t seen on the front page. I want to test whether or not the algorithm was tweaked to deprioritize posts with a lot of comments and relatively few upvotes.
If this change has been made, o7 to the devs
EDIT: Okay maybe give it a few upvotes to get it started in the algorithm, but let it top out at like 25
Example comment for people to get mad at: Fahrenheit is a better temperature system for weather reporting than Celsius, because Fahrenheit matches human temperature perception better.
Also I really think this argument comes from, and is entirely due to, people who are used to Fahrenheit, right?
Because F is only about twice as granular as C; ignoring the 32 degree offset; a difference of 5C is a difference of 9F. People (like myself) used to F generally only “note” temperatures in increments of 5F; “low 40s”, etc. So that kind of granularity (5F variation) is easily achievable with C.
I am sympathetic to “approaching triple digits F is when you know it’s getting too damn hot”. But conversely, “when you get into single digits C, you know it’s too cold”
So I don’t really get the “human experience” thing, they both seem just as valid.
I mean I guess if you’re used to Celsius it can make sense well enough. But as a Fahrenheit user I see absolutely zero reason to say “it’s 10 degrees out” when it’s kinda chilly instead of “it’s 50 degrees out.” You have the unit conversion argument for meters, kilograms, etc, but that doesn’t really apply to Celsius. Fahrenheit feels way more intuitive since you actually experience both 0 and 100, and both feel like extremes.
But Celsius is simple. Below 0 is freezing. 0-10 is chilly but fine. 10 to 20 is slightly cold. 20 is room temp. 20-30 is slightly warm. 30+ is hot. 40+ is very hot. It’s not some random measurement of a foot mixed with the bile of a goat like American measurement systems are based on.
I don’t have time for this nonsense!
edit: #26 on active sort with 3 upbears and maybe 30 comments? Forgot to pay attention to the comment number. Edit2: 40 comments
Listen fat, I want to see you get married to one of those It Girls, one of those flappers daddy used to like, Jack. Cornpop had his main squeeze and you should too, stupid. I used to run with some bad boys when I met your meemaw, tough hombres, we used to slick our hair back with torpedo grease, Jacob. You understand, right?
You got all types of guys being where they do all the time. But when you guy- when you loo- listen man, listen man alright? It’s like when we, when you get into the oval office day one, you gotta be around who you gotta be to see. And if you’re not seeing who you wanna- who you wanna go to to be who you are all the time whether you’re Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or any other type of holiday, see, you’re not gonna- you’re not gonna- exc- excuse me, you’re not gonna- you’re not gonna excrimate what we’re trying to do with the current president. And when you’re not, when you’re not being- being- being that where you are, you’ve gotta- you gotta do who you know. Thank you.
“Listen here jack, we’re going to clean the democratic party of revisionists and liberalism! No dog-faced pony soldiers for the elite will survive what I’m planning. That mao guy was good, but he didn’t go far enough with the, you know, the thing. Come on fats, we’re going to sieze the means of making, you know, all the things!”
@LeftistJoeBiden :biden-harbinger:
P = NP fuckers
