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All Things Tom Scott

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An unofficial community dedicated to all things Tom Scott.

Rules

1. Professionalism

Tom holds a high standard for his content, and we should maintain that as his fans. There isn't a strict definition for this, but in general, just use common sense and be polite. Disagreements are fine, but be respectful and keep it strictly to the topic at hand -- no personal attacks, no "straw man"-ing or any other bad-faith agruing. Bigotry will be banned without hesitation.

2. Relevancy

This community is about all things Tom Scott. Of course, that's its name. But specifically, it's about Tom Scott the YouTube channel, and associates. That includes friends like the TechDif crew. Outside content featuring or about Tom is also welcome.

What is out of scope is Tom Scott the person. Anything digging into his personal life or history is strictly prohibited. That's a big part of why he wanted the subreddit taken down, so let's show that we can be better than that.

3. Moderator discretion

Without trying to list out every bad thing you can do, again, just use common sense and ask yourself if Tom would approve. If Tom isn't likely to approve, neither are the mods, even if the rules don't explicitly prohibit it. Even if nothing is going wrong yet, we may also preemptively stop conversations that look like they're going to a bad place. I'm not trying to micromanage y'all, I just want to keep every nice and tidy so Tom doesn't get upset with us.


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This is an unofficial, fan-run community. [email protected] is not associated with or endorsed by Tom Scott, Pad 26 Limited, or any of their affiliates.

Tom, we are committed to preventing a repeat of the issues that you faced with your subreddit. However, if you still do not want this community to exist, just send a message to WeirdAlex03 and (after verifying you are you), this community will be closed, no questions asked.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I find it hilarious, how everyone's impressed about Tom being able to interpret hex codes as colors in the mattress highlight.

With me working as a software engineer, I'd expect all my colleagues to know the color pretty intuitively. Makes you easily lose track of what's impressive to normal folks, when you're constantly surrounded by extreme nerds...

[โ€“] WeirdAlex03 3 points 1 year ago

I think this is a great example of "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." To us, yeah it's pretty easy to just break it up into the separate R/G/B channels and guesstimate by how much of each there is. But to those who just see #fe2c6d as a meaningless string of numbers and letters, you must be a wizard to get a color out of that!