No? 1) I'm perfectly happy to say I don't like tipping in general, too. I do it because that's how we've apparently agreed service workers make any money at all. 2) I didn't explicitly say I'm in the US, altho I did imagine our tipping culture to be a bit unique, so to be clear - I also don't have much faith in labor laws getting consistently enforced here. 3) Who is getting tipped from self-service machine screens?
You can also take the smug armchair psych somewhere else, guy.
I get you, altho that I'd just report.
If we took a less spammy/insane thing for example though, like just a low quality post, I understand that. Not objectionable enough to report, and no utility in responding because it's just noise and you'd just increase the noise. And there is utility in getting rid of it (or at least deemphasizing it) because it gives space to actual discussions.
I think that's a reasonable use case for downvotes. It's definitely not the only way they are used (e.g. disagree button), but valid anyway. There are other mechanisms to sort this way too (e.g. number of likes + age of comment, so old comments with no/few likes sink - new junk still sits at the surface for a bit tho, possibly longer than if downvotes could drop em). But worth more thought for sure.
Why is that the exact opposite of what you want?
If there's something objectionable in a rule breaking way, report. Otherwise, this seems like you literally just don't want to have discussions, which is certainly your prerogative but then what exactly are you getting out of this?
Yeah, the downvotes are really unnecessary. Just a lazy way to be negative.
Speak up, report, or move on with your life. Whatever is appropriate to the situation.
Yeah I have no idea who the tip even goes to sometimes.
And really in those cases, I assume straight to the business/owner. And then it's like why am I volunteering to buy this at an additional markup?
At my exceedingly okay skill level on US East Coast servers, my queue time is <1min in quickplay. Maybe 2m on support? I'm not really playing much anymore, but not seeing bad queues regardless.
Releasing their most mild season just in time for the entire summer is certainly a choice, though.
light news day, huh
what I get from this comment is that trees are the crabs of the plant world
edit ~ oh, yes, that's actually more or less the central idea of your link and the first comparison made. I'm still working on my morning coffee...
Yeah, I think this attitude that you can't dislike dogs is actively harmful, both as an unnecessary social stigma and to dogs themselves. Like, this cultural idea that you should just have and enjoy having dogs contributes to bad dog ownership, because people end up owning dogs that they don't properly care for because they think it's what they're supposed to do, or that it'll all be sunshine and roses.
Dogs are needy pets (especially puppies, lord help me)! They need physical, mental, and social stimulation to be happy, if in varying amounts by breed/individual, and not to mention training. You gotta be prepared to (and ideally enjoy) provide these things.
I'm about as far away on the dog opinion spectrum from you as it gets - I love em big, goofy, and slobbery, and if I was independently wealthy I'd be some weirdo that lived in a mansion with an entire pack. That said, it is okay not to like dogs.
Agreed!
People keep talking about the appeal of the megacommunities on Reddit, and I'm like... were they really that great? There was so much noise to sift through to get to anything real. Having decent discussions or building communities? Maybe if you're in a small niche subreddit, but otherwise no.
yep - we could use better tools to navigate the Fediverse, but this is 100% the intended nature of the platform.
Everything's going according to plan!