JcDent

FM-100-2-1 is a an easy read

Then make tagging less chaotic. We're doing global feeds because there's no other unification, and a year of active community growth has not, and will not, solve that problem through healthy tagging culture. Under the current system, people will still be confused and left out when they're trying to opt in, and have no easy means of doing so.

There should be some kind of standardisation of tags for some things, because the current method of just hoping the community does it? Is not working, and has not stabilised into a healthy tagging culture at all, regardless of the global feeds. It's evident in any other attempt at a 'main tag', for which there are almost always half a dozen other tags that are trying to basically be the same tag.

Constantly having to put an unknown number of tags to try to cover one specific thing (a game, for instance) is preventing healthy tag culture I dare say MORE than the global feed is, and the feed only continues to be useful because it's one of the few tag types the community HAS standardised.

Hell, it's preventing the growth of healthy community cultures by way of keeping them obfuscated and fractured, with no indication of tag popularity other than the woefully uninformative tag suggestion box that appears.

If I want to tag a thing about Morrowind, what do I put? Morrowind? The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind? TES3:MW? Any of the other possible variations? No one should have to write them all out in every case - that's just a bad system. It's not conducive to good community when you don't know how to even access that community, and woe be unto new users who have literally no way of figuring it out unless they fumble through the site for hours to try and glean what to do.

I don't know what the best way to do that is, but I do know that the global feed will not die by you trying to make it unpopular. It will die by better tagging systems so we're not constantly dividing and hiding topics by sub par tagging.

Insulting global tag users is just insulting people who want a better solution but literally cannot make one on their own, because they do not have the tools. And we don't do that shit here.

I wanted a general, extremely uncurated wall from the get go as a vehicle for finding new people, new subjects, and generally avoiding work.

I guess I'll have to go look into the arguments against global feed to understand what drives a view that's entirely opposite of mine.

If anything, I resent having to add global tags so that the stuff I write would be shared with more people.

Gah.

I am a philistine, an uncultured rube.

I don't care about poetry.

It's the less snowflakey riff on my usual snowflake quirk, not listening to music. I started putting stuff on play recently with the idea that it siphons off enough excess brain power to keep me from getting too distracted from the work I'm doing.

But while I have some poetry pieces that I like to some degree, it's usually tied to what they represent, like this bit from Milton's Paradise lost, a work I haven't read:

Witness this new-made world, another Heaven
From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view
On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with stars
Numerous, and every star perhaps a world
Of destined habitation

See, I like it because, having my faith formed, for the longest time, by the online protestant reaction, it refutes its anti-scientific bent. Here's Milton describing the creation of Earth and mentioning that, oh yeah, the starts in the sky? Likely surrounded by planets to be colonized.

So while I got scared into shying away from any news from space, Pope has been considering baptizing aliens while the Pope's astronomer was saying that aliens may not even need salvation and that astronomy can lead you to loving God even more.

Meanwhile, I like some bits of Yeat's The Second Coming because it was used in the kickass trailer for Hostile Waters: Anteaus Rising:

Late post, but...

Man, if our retirement homes are going to be anything more than the one bunker area that they could spare that's not overgrown with mold, we will have come out on top.

It's like 30 more years to my retirement, 30 more years of climate change and related crises.

Maybe I'll get shot in a riot protesting installing automated turrets on the wall around Europe, idk.