fedosyndicate

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The problem is scaling. If it takes say, 30 seconds per name, but the number of n is very large, then if you ban say, 1000 dudes a day then the 30,000 seconds becomes a requirement of 8 hours of mod explanations (collectively) per day. It's a scaling issue, in short.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These guys are even more paranoid than many smaller instances about user names that appear to be randomly generated. Your own user name, as others in this thread suggested, would easily trigger their auto-ban rules. And a human moderator would take one look at the name and think the same thing.

God damnit, it took me until now to actually read their username. It's the youtube URL for the rickroll video (ending in XcQ). I think you're right though - it was obviously autogenerated originally and only took on its current meaning via Youtube's use of the string.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I didn't realise this was a Political Compass thing but the colors of the backgrounds check out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember installing PC adblock just for Wowhead because even though they have great info (just about all the quests and dailies in WoW) they have so many ads and video popups. Haven't really looked back since.

I haven't gotten around to doing adblock for my phone, and so whenever I do visit those sites, I get really annoyed by everything.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It's funny, many wikis moved off then-wikia to Curse's Gamepedia family and then they just merged back again, kinda sad :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

To anyone that hasn't seen the mythbusting thread it was pretty damn shocking: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yxqq9S14NxbCQBDfO0lq3xYL8IWrGLSeE47u7X1sUVo/pub

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Well, Germany is officially a Federal Republic, it does make some sense they would join a federated universe :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I guess we know he's been doing some weed already. ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, video ads are the popup ads of our days. Just as intrusive. Money corrupts :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Apple spent a lot of investment getting the thing going, but it is certainly still a modern powerhouse. Even if worldwide iOS has a smaller marketshare than Android, Apple is huge in Japan, the US and UK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's definitely something to be said for classic simplicity!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, I mean I'm using up 8 gigs of ram with 10 chrome tabs open, 16gb is definitely starting to look a little lightweight than I'd like at the moment. I built my PC in 2020 with 16gb and around the end of 2021 I ended upgrading with two more sticks, just to keep things running smoothly!

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