That’s a good question. I don’t know.
Just speculating, the upvote/downvote does help a user know what is expected behavior and some understanding to build from.
It also provides a rich incentive to post because “number go up” feels good.
I’d love to know YouTube’s data on hiding the dislike button. It wasn’t great for viewers, but it may have had an effect on creator satisfaction. But I don’t know for sure.
I can strike up a conversation with most strangers in real life pretty easily.
But online? There’s almost zero context. Even something as simple as the weather makes a load of difference for the small talk that can develop into richer conversations later.
Online social anxiety, especially forums like this one where you get a grade (the upvote/downvote), is very understandable.
I tried all kinds of things to get Stardew Valley on my Mac to work with an XBox controller, and just gave up eventually.
The XBox controller works fine for everything else, just Stardew Valley doesn’t work with it :/
Gonna follow this thread in case you find someone with a solution
Yeah! It’s what makes being an adult great! I can choose to spend time with my friends.
Do you go to the movie theater by yourself?
The comment does not miss the point. You’re thinking from the perspective of a consumer, not a business.
Without Epic, World of Goo 2 would not exist.
If I was World of Goo’s developers, I would much rather have a job than not.
I find it so frustrating you’re being downvoted for a sane opinion.
I want Lemmy to succeed, but the userbase can be so mean :(
It’s just a tv show. I went to watch parties for Legend of Korra, anime, movies, and board game nights.
I’m not sure there’s much more to get
A watch party for people that like the television show and fandom surrounding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
My wife and I are huge nerds
I met her at my university’s Brony club. I sat next to her because she had a sketchbook open. I brought out my own sketchbook and struck up a conversation.
We had a two-year courtship and have been married for 6 years now.
You know how hand sanitizer kills 99.7% of germs?
The current strain of tumblr user that survived the porn ban leans more aromantic/asexual. With less competition this new strain has thrived, and can solely focus on its main food source: fandoms for obscure media.
The English language is missing a gender neutral term for a cow/bull.
Cows are female
Bulls are male
Steers are castrated bulls
Cattle - the term for multiple cows and/or bulls and/or steers
It’s odd because every other animal with gendered language has a gender neutral term. Take chicken for example.
Hens are female
Roosters (or Cocks) are male
Capons are castrated roosters
It’s so nice to have a word like chicken to describe all these animals. But no word for that exists for cow/bull in English.
The writer of the tumblr post above either didn’t know the right word to use would be “Bull,” or the writer wanted to make sure they were understood so used the word Cow. Which… linguistically at this point may have become the gender neutral term for this animal because people need one.
Cow is such a common word, and bull is so uncommon that to be understood by everyone, cow might just be the best word.
Though anyone with knowledge of animal husbandry would be baffled because by the strict definition cows are always female.
I’m sorry you had to learn this nightmare language.
They’re trying to solve one of the hardest problems in Computer Science: Naming things.
What do you call the framework, or design system—that thing that’s not quite a glossary of the terms—we’re going to use to describe the meta conversations around design?
“Design language” encompasses the colors, spacing, tokens, typography ramps, general rules, and all the other fiddly bits to unify on so that the more interesting parts of design and user experience can happen.
Naming things is hard :/