It's an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they're selling.
I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?
"Law & order" has always been code for putting [whatever marginalized group you don't like] in jail.
Named in honor of Biff Yeager, I presume. His mail-in campaign finally paid off.
Hooray, ten minutes of new Groot content incoming. (Seriously though, I'll take it.)
Honestly it's a problem with binary ranking systems across the board. Maybe if there were additional axes you could vote on, like "agree/disagree", "quality/low effort", "nuanced/trite", etc. I don't know how one would go about implementing such a thing, but until someone does, we're stuck with having a simplistic system that doesn't adequately reflect the complicated responses real people have to content.
I spent over a decade on reddit, and I learned that whenever someone did stuff like that, it was because I had struck a chord. And they usually got bored of their harassment pretty quickly when I ignored them.
Give him some slack, he's young. At least I assume so.
A) There is no hive mind. That's just you perceiving a bunch of people who happen to hold a similar opinion as a monolith, and that's an illusion. You have no data whatsoever to support the idea that they're thinking in concert or even have the same reasons for their reactions.
- Don't take it so personally. They don't know you, and they're not attacking you by downvoting you. They're simply expressing "I want to see less of this."
d) Instead of having a kneejerk reaction when you get this kind of response and immediately being defensive, step back and use it as a reflective moment. Maybe you misjudged the room, misinterpreted the potential impact of what you posted, or are simply on a different track from those who downvoted. What can you learn from it? Do you need to change your own approach, or do you need to reevaluate your audience?
You're not wrong, but think of the number of people this brought joy to.
Is it wasteful? Sure. Is it a bit of a face slap to people living paycheck to paycheck, assuming they're even that well off? Sure. But is it a net negative? Who can say? Unlike most fuck-you-money splurges, this one probably at least lightened some people's days for a moment, and that's not nothing.
Nothing wrong with that guy. Awareness is a good tool for everyone to have.
Pointing out what it is doesn't necessarily carry judgment with it, it's just facts, and you can use them however you like.
Idunno about you, but I'm going to continue calling it twitter whenever I derisively refer to it or think of it at all. If only because it would make the manbaby angry/sad.
Part of me wonders if it's an attempt to tank the SEO, so people can't search for or news or easily talk about the site anymore - because it's been nothing but bad.
Read a sidebar before posting in a community please. This is not for your support questions.
Ahh, I see. They couldn't get their shit together for April, and are pulling this out now as an attempt to placate their users.
Can't replicate living beings.
John Astin is known for his iconic role as Gomez Addams in the 60s TV show, but he almost became more famous as Gandalf in Peter Jackson's movies.
Before making it to air, Star Trek had not one, but two pilots scored by Alexander Courage. Once the first season finally went into production, it took five composers to pull it off. This episode explores the musical, financial and creative realities of 1960s television music production, as we discu...
Highly recommended podcast for anyone who loves film scores or music in general. The host is a sound designer & editor for Skywalker Sound, has done extensive sound work for Lucasfilm and Lucasarts games, and is also a prolific voice actor appearing in dozens of animated series and video games. He brings his sonic expertise to bear in analyzing the great scores of cinema and other media, from Jaws to Tron to Super Mario Bros. & Zelda. It's an incredibly well-produced show that sounds great and will always leave you feeling enriched and entertained.
In these two latest episodes, he takes a great deep dive into the music of Star Trek, the original series. It's a detailed look at an underappreciated aspect of the franchise, with archive interviews from people like Nimoy and Roddenberry, many many sound clips, and lots of insightful commentary.
One fun tidbit from this episode: Alexander Courage himself made the sound of the Enterprise whooshing past during the opening credits.
It’s pretty incredible to see the stunts that Tom Cruise manages to pull off in his movies. It’s exciting to go watch his movies because you know he is going to deliver something spectacular and these days, fans are always excited to see what kind of death-defying stunts he is going to do next!
Can't stand to run myself, but I love a good running scene in a movie, and I can't think of anyone who has more of them than Tom Cruise -- except for Buster Keaton. He's got such an incredible clumsy grace to him, if that makes any sense. Who's your favorite film runner or favorite running scene?
