If you're feeling extra spicy, upvote someone else's comment and reply to it. Or reply to it without upvoting. Or upvote every other comment in a chain. Have real-life arguments. Anything to simulate a struggle session.

I've been agitating for a while now about the active sort algorithm being broken since downvotes were removed, and a few days ago I remember seeing a post in the modlog that had a lot of comments but that I hadn't seen on the front page. I want to test whether or not the algorithm was tweaked to deprioritize posts with a lot of comments and relatively few upvotes.

If this change has been made, o7 to the devs

EDIT: Okay maybe give it a few upvotes to get it started in the algorithm, but let it top out at like 25

  • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Example comment for people to get mad at: Fahrenheit is a better temperature system for weather reporting than Celsius, because Fahrenheit matches human temperature perception better.

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Also I really think this argument comes from, and is entirely due to, people who are used to Fahrenheit, right?

      Because F is only about twice as granular as C; ignoring the 32 degree offset; a difference of 5C is a difference of 9F. People (like myself) used to F generally only “note” temperatures in increments of 5F; “low 40s”, etc. So that kind of granularity (5F variation) is easily achievable with C.

      I am sympathetic to “approaching triple digits F is when you know it’s getting too damn hot”. But conversely, “when you get into single digits C, you know it’s too cold”

      So I don’t really get the “human experience” thing, they both seem just as valid.

      • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean I guess if you're used to Celsius it can make sense well enough. But as a Fahrenheit user I see absolutely zero reason to say "it's 10 degrees out" when it's kinda chilly instead of "it's 50 degrees out." You have the unit conversion argument for meters, kilograms, etc, but that doesn't really apply to Celsius. Fahrenheit feels way more intuitive since you actually experience both 0 and 100, and both feel like extremes.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          But Celsius is simple. Below 0 is freezing. 0-10 is chilly but fine. 10 to 20 is slightly cold. 20 is room temp. 20-30 is slightly warm. 30+ is hot. 40+ is very hot. It's not some random measurement of a foot mixed with the bile of a goat like American measurement systems are based on.

          • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            You'll never catch me defending any American system that isn't Fahrenheit. Fuck feet and pounds.

            Memorizing "32 = freezing" is a small price to pay for 0 being very cold and 100 being very hot. Do I look like a glass of water to you?

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Still rather have my measurement system actually based on something. Also I've used Celsius all my life so.

              On a related note the only good American measurement system is horsepower because it sounds cool for race cars. Saying your racecar has 1000 horsepower is much cooler than saying that it has 740 kilowatts.

              • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Hot take: "Actually based on something" doesn't matter. Hell, feet are more actually based on something than meters since a foot is pretty close to the length of some people's feet, whereas a meter is based on 5x10^21 lengths of hydrogen atoms or some other unusable bullshit like that. But I agree that it mostly boils down to what you were raised with.