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Because if you don't keep a close eye on mental patients, some of them might hurt or kill themselves or other people - sometimes in extraordinarily resourceful and unexpected ways. It's rare and overhyped, but the fact that it does happen means the system needs to account for it. Then add the usual amount of greed, incompetence, stigma etc., and suddenly the only way of accounting for that is, well, prison style.

Versioning. "This version of SharedComponent has this and that functionality" and "this version of OtherComponent requires this specific version of SharedComponent".

If you're getting stuck with significant "this has to come with for that to go" problems - that aren't literal dependencies, but arise from code wonk or poor separation of concerns - you may have some "architecture smell" that could be addressed. Obvious "usual suspects" include things (whether at a single class, component, or entire service level) that have too many responsibilities/purposes/reasons to change, and mismanaged abstraction.

Feels like no matter what the system is, no matter how simple (single upvote) or complicated it is (lvx's different votes and weights-per-community-per-user idea from elsewhere ITT - cool but not terribly practical-seeming), people are just gonna faceroll it at best, spam/abuse it as a general rule.

Possibly, maybe a tiny amount of people will even use it as intended.

Even Reddit's system (quality/irrelevant) works in theory but nobody actually uses it that way, so it's agree/disagree-or-just-fuck-you instead. You will not be able to educate users on the simplest shit ever ("upvote for quality"), let alone if there's e.g. six different votes with different nuances. Even if you did make sure everyone knew the intended way, you would not defeat the general "fuck that lol, I do what I want" attitude. Even if you did that, it would only last until some guy sees something he disagrees with, and that's a trillion times per second on the internet.

But with that in mind:

• Youtube used to have stars,
• plenty of systems just have the upvote,
• Steam has the supposedly useful "Useful/Funny/whatever" stuff
• Facebook does limited emojis in addition to upvote.
• some sites have tags apply to content (tags are love, tags are life) and each tag is then upvoted or downvoted for its relevance to that content

So, Facebook.

What do you mean? It has.

Instruments tend to have the size they do because their size directly influences what tones they can produce. A trivial example is a classical guitar vs electrical - latter is flatter because it no longer needs the space for acoustics. It is still as long, because string length is still important whether you're connecting it to an echo box or an amplifier.

Quality reference in the title though.

Sort of. What passes for "debate" often isn't as controlled as it ought to be and people don't necessarily know how it should be done - "what do you mean, 'yeah well, your mother' isn't a valid argument?!".

When it's clearly bad faith, there's no way to get any value out of that situation, so I'd be edging slowly towards the door.

Lemmy.ml is only a tankie instance to someone that thinks Marxism=tankies

lmao

Let me guess, lemmy.ml?

Try asking those who copy-paste bullshit... why are you copy-pasting bullshit?

Carlin could have a bunch of really stupid fucking takes too, I guess. What an argument.

I definitely didn't think so at the time, but I consider GoT S8 a blessing in disguise now. It has managed to take my considerable interest in the story/universe and shit on it. Absolute smithereens.

So, the fact that Winds and whatever the last one was supposedly supposed to be called are never going to come out actually doesn't bum me out anymore.