Oh wow, misread this as Stellaris including for the first couple sentences in the article and was so confused

For anyone who was confused by what "vote to propose" means:

If the FCC issues the notice as expected on October 19th, the next steps would be a public comment phase followed by issuance of a final rule. This process could result in a final rule restoring net neutrality requirements around spring of 2024.

People used to use this attack in League of Legends a decade ago. If they're losing, they guess someone might have Skype open; and moreover, that their Skype is the same as their summoner name. Then they get an ip address and ddos the entire lobby, causing the game to crash (I think it happened in one of my games maybe once, but I didn't really play ranked other than team ranked).

Also, since all pro & semipro players had each other added, this was possible to do at any time during online tournaments (which was most tournaments - TSM invitational etc). So there were always rules that ddossing was disallowed. But it did happen.

Known ddossers were more hated in the community than known flamers, but a few people who did it "reformed" and went on to be pro players anyway.

Controversial opinion maybe, but /r/AskReddit, when they introduced the rule that you couldn't put a story in the question. I absolutely LOVED reading whatever wild story someone had that prompted the question, and then reading the thread only if the story was interesting. Then they didn't want that to be the point of the sub and that ruined the magic for me. So I left.

/r/PointlessStories filled that niche though, and it never decreased in quality.

If you aren't already a really good writer, Gammarly Plus will make your work worse because you'll accept everything it tells you, and most of its corrections (compared to regular Grammarly) are straight-up wrong. It ignores your voice, your audience, your tone, your context, etc.

That said, my work pays for Grammarly Plus & I put work-related blog posts (which will end up public anyway) through it. I like the plus version because:

1. It forces me to really reread everything, because it highlights fucking everything. Often I will make changes unrelated to what it's saying.
2. It often highlights things that can be improved, but not in the way it suggests.
3. Sometimes, it's actually correct.

But usually it's wrong. For example:

• It tells you to remove passive voice 100% of the time. This is straight-up incorrect. For example, if you're writing a post in which you talk about a new feature or patchnotes, you will use passive voice all the time. Sometimes the object of the sentence is actually the most important thing.

• It often says "be more confident!" and then removes any nuance in your writing that you were using to soften the blow of something, or to make something sound more exciting, or etc.

• It always tells you things like "don't use the word interesting! don't use this other word! they are too common!" Well...

  • Using random fancy words is an anti-pattern. Keep on saying "interesting"
  • Sometimes, this word in question is LITERALLY A TECHNICAL TERM IN YOUR FIELD. STOP TELLING ME NOT TO REPEAT IT.

• It always wants me to say "So," at the start of every sentence. Jesus shut up. This is a thing I'm trying to REMOVE from my writing because it's a bad habit.

Anyway. I'd say it's right about 10% of the time, max. Would I pay for it? Hell fucking no. Am I using it since it's already available? Yes, absolutely. But I'm not accepting many of its changes.

Again, though, REGULAR Grammarly is usually right. Unless you have code snippets HAHAHAHAHAHAHA have fun having your Python code proofread for the rule "comma goes inside the quote." lmao. Literally they could ignore everything inside triple backticks, but do they? No.

good human

Here is an anonymized set of screenshots from a magazine that I moderate, feel free to share if you think it's helpful

edit, huh this preview has a forced aspect ratio? that's not cool, well click it to see the original

ah, seems kbin-only

I think you messed up some copy-paste reformatting there

Honestly, save it. It's a nice reminder of a time that was. That time is no more, but times change. Treasure the time that used to be.

Not only this, but most people here creating magazines (including myself) probably have no desire to mod some of the communities they've created. I know I don't. If the reddit mods want to take it over I'm gonna sigh a huge sigh of relief and give it to them without a second thought. (except for the single one where I actually was the mod, lol)

greetings from /r/alot

here is an alot of people