Goodbye TDWTF Forums
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Gamification makes sense if your goal is to make an online repository of knowledge. Stack Overflow uses badges and privileges to very cleverly nudge people into creating good content for their site. Since it obviously works, I have zero problems with that.
On Discourse, however, I'm not so sure. Forums are different. There's much greater variety. Most are just places to come and have fun. Some want polite, to the point discussions, but not all. Yet, this is the one model Discourse presume everyone can agree upon. This is, of course, false. If you're trying to displace ALL forums, you'll get nowhere by having just one "correct" gamification strategy and expecting everyone to comply.
IMO Discourse would have been better off if the "likes" system was a plugin, and you could just replace it with a different gamification or use none at all.
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Hell, on discourse you can get normal user rights just by reading.)
I kind of like this. It codifies the wise old usenet adage about lurking for a while before posting.
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I kind of like this. It codifies the wise old usenet adage about lurking for a while before posting.
I think the habit here of attacking anyone who likes VB, or Java and a few other things, already causes that to happen.
(Seriously, UseNet? I thought your avatar was only an avatar, but now I think it might be an accurate portrait. ;) )
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@Intercourse said:
I think the habit here of attacking anyone who likes VB, or Java and a few other things, already causes that to happen.
Maybe.
@Intercourse said:
(Seriously, UseNet? I thought your avatar was only an avatar, but now I think it might be an accurate portrait. )
Get the fuck off my lawn. /racks-shotgun
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@Intercourse said:
I think the habit here of attacking anyone who likes VB,
I got attacked for disliking VB, so I'm not sure that's accurate.
I think the culture here is more everyone gets attacked for everything. It makes me think maybe the culture here is "you aren't allowed any view that you cant substantiate".
Or maybe we are all the worst.
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I think the culture here is more everyone gets attacked for everything. It makes me think maybe the culture here is "you aren't allowed any view that you cant substantiate".
There's definitely some of that, too. But there really is a diverse set of opinions about stuff, and of course a lot of the attacks are just trolling for the lulz.
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a lot of the attacks are just trolling for the lulz.
And people attacking @blakeyrat, just because it is fun. He really is a good sport about it.
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@Intercourse said:
And people attacking @blakeyrat, just because it is fun. He really is a good sport about it.
But those are mostly legit, because he is often pretty stupid about stuff.
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But those are mostly legit, because he is often pretty stupid about stuff.
@blakeyrat is?
(he also loves being pinged by
threadstopics)
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You're allowed to like VB .NET, just not any other version.
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I agree it has problems. I would ask how you would do things different. I totally won't steal and build your idea or contribute if someone else did.
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I like the DLLs Microsoft wrote to add some of the old VB6 functionality to VB.NET to keep coders feeling comfortable. There's like a 1-liner in there to check if another instance of your app is running and switch to it if so, without the VB6 compatibility DLLs that's like a 20-line fix. And being .net, you can use them in C# or whatever.
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Oh, I start every C# file with this line:
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
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Yesssssss join us
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@Intercourse said:
@blakeyrat is?
Well, the @blakeyrat we experience here is sort of the persona the person behind @blakeyrat is adopting if I recall him correctly. So it's a bit difficult to tell whether he really is stupid about stuff or just trolling...@Intercourse said:
(he also loves being pinged by
threadstopics)
He's not the only one. @mikeTheLiar certainly falls into that group as well :-)
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I wish more forums had people like @blakeyrat.
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I only charge $300/hour for trolling forums.
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I only charge $300/hour for trolling forums.
I doubt @aliceif meant your trolling...
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I only charge $300/hour for trolling forums.
@blakeyrat, she said people like you. She does not actually like you.
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@Intercourse said:
Much as I suspected. 39 days until I can exact my revenge...
Don't worry, we could flag a post or two of yours and lock you out for another 100 days.
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@Intercourse said:
, she said people like you. She does not actually like you.
Ah, one of my favorite riffs from the MST3K of Mitchell. "Mitchell, I'm looking for a man like you." Bots: "Not you specifically."
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Don't worry, we could flag a post or two of yours and lock you out for another 100 days.
Boo. That would make me attempt to beat you up in real life, get tired of trying to track you down, give up, become depressed, and drink myself into an alcoholic stupor
Fortunately, many years ago I decided to skip all those middle steps on the path to disappointment and now I just practice the last one on a nightly basis.
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Don't worry, we could flag a post or two of yours and lock you out for another 100 days.
Yeah, but you also have to get @PJH or @dhromed to agree with those flags.
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I can have @PJH do anything I sexy want