jadero

@jadero@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewing votes⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a toggle in the admin settings to enable/disable downvotes, and several instances do disable them.

  I didn’t realize that.

  Strictly as a user, from what I can tell, there doesn’t seem to be anything that resembles rampant abuse of downvotes. I’m glad that is what is visible at the admin level.

  Carry on, you’re doing great work as a community builder/manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewing votes⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long had concerns with up/down votes and like/dislike, especially the down/dislike. Nothing major, and I have no real solutions.

  My concerns are only to do with the ambiguity. There are so many different reasons why someone might vote one way or the other or even just not vote at all that I think it’s kind of weird that compiling the votes into a score seems to mostly work pretty good. That ambiguity means that it’s difficult to derive meaning from any individual vote, which I think argues in favour of keeping it somewhat private. Just because a non-admin can jump through hoops to get someone’s voting history, doesn’t mean it should be deliberately made public.

  As for keeping down votes, I’d be reluctant to mess with a system that works as well as it seems to. Personally, I very rarely downvote, as even that is more engagement than I’m willing to provide. In fact, one of the things I like about the client I use, Thunder, is that I have to long press a comment in order to vote. That little bit of friction means that I vote less often. When I vote, it’s because I really mean whatever I intend the vote to mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mentally Deranged Behaviour⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what 3D printing is for…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mentally Deranged Behaviour⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for maximum uselessness, they should not be overlapping spheres, but deform at the interface, like soap bubbles or rubber balls. As long as the spheres are the same size and modelled with the same “surface tension” or “elasticity”, the “intersection” of two sets would then circular interface with an area proportional to what would otherwise be an overlap (I think). If the spheres have different sizes or are modelled with different surface tension or elasticity, one would “intrude” into the other.

  Multiple sets would have increasingly complex shapes that may or not also create volumes external to the deformed spheres but still surrounded by the various interfaces.

  Time to break out the mathematics of bubbles and foam. This data ain’t gonna obscure itself!

  Might there actually be utility to something like this? Scrunch the spheres together but make invisible everything that is not an interface and label the faces accordingly. I suppose the same could be said of the shape described by overlapping. (Jesus, you’d think I was high or something. Just riffing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mentally Deranged Behaviour⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my first exposure to a plain text Venn diagram. Genius.