I’ve been asking myself the exact same thing.

The top level comment on this thread, to which you complained about graphical syntax, is discussing the MAU decline over the past 30 days.

If you start at zero, the exact same data is shown as when there is a clearly labeled breakpoint. It contributes nothing other than obscuring the data points and scope of discussion is only for the past month. You’re not making a cogent point.

Just like I said before, a 5% decline is not an insignificant drop or “very slightly declined.” Expanding the scope of the argument to show that it’s actually a far steeper decline in user engagement and then arguing the opposite point is misinterpreting the data. Expanding the scope just shows that the trends are continuously showing declining user engagement with no organic growth other than Reddit fucking up.

Showing the data over an entirely different timescale than what’s currently under discussion means nothing in this context to illustrate your point.

Starting from 0 on the y axis just means you need to change the scale, which like I said makes reading any data points incomprehensible, or end up with an unnecessary amount of whitespace.

All starting at 0 would do is ensure that you have no way to accurately gauge the data points values. It would also just compress the data to an incomprehensible smudge of a line.

The starting point is just so you can adequately see trends for both plots shown and is quite sane. I also don’t know if I could call an ~5% decline and clear trend minimal either.

Rimworld, Against the Storm, Dwarf Fortress, and other similar games.

Any game where there is no clear end and continuous engagement and problems to solve is dangerous for me.

The user above is wrong. Blocking is only one-directional and you won’t see comments and posts from them any longer, but they still see the things you posts.

Stop it. Executives don’t understand sarcasm and you’ve doomed us all!

You’d be better suited just having a user select that they are comfortable dating a trans individual because it will likely come up very early in the dating process anyway.

Forcing someone to identify as a gender that doesn’t make them comfortable is just going to result in them not using your app and is frankly kind of a dick move overall. Your suggestion would just create an app that was suited for chasers, not trans users.

This really resonates with me. It certainly feels like it gets harder to manage every year, but I don’t know that that’s actually the case. I think the reality is just that I’ve become much more aware of my deficiencies over time.

As a child I wouldn’t bat an eye at playing video games for 10 hours straight without eating or drinking anything, but as an adult I’m aware that I could be doing so much more productive things with my time. Now, if I ever feel the familiar urge of a new fixation setting in I also feel melancholic because I have to actively temper myself to the point I feel guilty if I indulge it.

Ahhh I had a bit of a, didn’t read the article, moment and that was the missing context for me. I appreciate you clarifying!

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but this referenced ad post is over a year old. There’s been “organic” guerilla marketing by advertisers on Reddit for almost a decade now. How is this relevant to the recent changes?

Lemmy is weird sometimes. A single comment actually helps boost post visibility by a lot.

Covering of the left hand with a sleeve like that for women is an element of the cultural and religious values in this books universe. It’s a proper sexual modesty thing similar to headscarves.

The commenter is being a jerk, but you’re misinterpreting the point they’re trying to make. Twitch has a had a lot of issues with rules enforcement since the introduction of the ‘Just Chatting’ section when it comes to sexual content. What’s considered acceptable has only ever been nebulously defined in the TOS really.

Because of this a lot of disproportionate bans have happened on women simply for existing, largely affecting smaller streamers because large ones generally just get a slap on the wrist. On the other side of the spectrum the rules have also allowed for a lot of loopholes being taken advantage of, like for example the hottub craze. The other commenter is not exaggerating when they are saying that people stream themselves pole dancing and doing strip teases.

Whether you agree or disagree on the level of sexualization that should be allowed on the platform, what’s considered acceptable use definitely needs to be more rigidly defined for the benefit of everyone.

How else will they push their UFO conspiracy theories? It didn’t work the first dozen times so might as well keep trying.

Personally I just block the entire community if all posts are made up of Reddit mirrors. If that’s all the posts that are there, that’s probably all there ever will be. It just clutters up my feed otherwise. There are a handful of lower post volume communities that I have mild interest in that I’ve let slide but it seems to have worked well so far.

All the options are pretty much all or nothing at this point. You can block the community the bot is posting to or disable bot posts being visible in entirety in your settings.

Without getting spoilery, A lot of the core details of him are revealed during Shallans flashbacks and through Taravangian in WoR. A lot of it is a bit more overtly confirmed in Oathbringer if you missed the hints though.

I went to his Coppermind history page for fun and EVERY citations points to a chapter of WoR actually.

It depends on what detail you’re referring to. The identity of Helaran was revealed as early as Words of Radiance I believe

I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted for this because it’s objectively a correct take. They are pricing their product at what they think people will pay for it and it’s working.

I agree with the overall consensus that the chain as a whole is no longer cheap, convenient, nor fast any longer, but they are still consistently busy almost all day long at any franchise I’ve lived near in the past few years. This is anecdotal, but seems to indicate that they know what they are doing. If you don’t like the pricing then don’t buy it at that price point. If enough people agree with you and follow suit, then they will lower their prices, deal with reduced profits, or fail as a business.