I really cannot tell whether or not you're being trolled. I think that OP was trying to make an FP joke, but my own sense of humor is so weak that I have to rely on the moderators. Sometimes they recognize humor when it hits them hard enough, but so far the OP has no Funny mod points on that one. If there was a minimal MEPR extension to karma, then I could check if OP has a history of being moderated as funny. I believe that one-byte karma is part of Slashdot's legacy from the days when storage on Slashdot was so so expensive that they didn't want to allocate any extra bytes to karma. Heck, they may have been carefully allocating each bit in the user profiles.
How is that for a segue to my search for a deeper perspective? But why is what I want to believe any better than what the Bigfoot believers want to believe?
Time to report on my own hunt for Bigfoot thumping a Bible. I studied the religious fanatics in their natural habitat. What they wanted to believe was quite interesting. But insanely stupid. Evangelicals of a militaristic stripe. Also many coppers and wannabe authoritarians. Squirrel bait. And yet they gathered in their thousands night after night and twice on Sundays to get more words to copy into their personal gospel notebooks. I studied them for some months, basically for the cost of the gas to drive out to their grand church. They also believe they could "save" me. They were wrong. They would have had better luck saving postage stamps.
That was also when I was first told "People believe what they want to believe". Quite true. Probably too true for democracy to survive in America now.
I have never heard of this Riggleman before, but he sounds like a rinosaur. Not quite as extinct as the dinosaurs. Yet. The summary doesn't say why he's leaving Congress, but the GOT probably kicked him out. That's Gang Of Trump, nee GOP, where the greatest heresy is questioning THE WORD of "He whose name need not be mentioned".
My next belief is in brainphishing. I think some people are actually using personal information to manipulate other people. For example, Q of Qanon infamy. Quite possible that scam was designed using the personal information "borrowed" from Facebook via Cambridge Analytica starting in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Not sure who Q is. I actually think Q is most likely a committee. And Q isn't sure who is being affected by the fake conspiracies, but the fake conspiracies are skillfully crafted and they are working. Qanon says what they want to believe and believe it they do, and then they act on those crazy beliefs. Roughly 80 million Americans believe "He whose name need not be mentioned" anymore is the next step on the road to Jesus. Gawd save America.
Me? I think Jesus saves postage stamps. Websearch proves me right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] That's what I want to believe, eh? Rather than believe that I, too, am subject to brainphishing.
Did you read over 500 words? TL;DR on Slashdot 2020, right? That's another part of the big problem (per my set of beliefs). Few people have time for books these days, and yet I persist in reading them anyway. Most relevant of the current crop is The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder, explaining what went wrong in Russia as Putin's kleptocracy took over. (I believe) I'd never heard of Ivan Ilyin before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] And (I believe) I get insight into an author's way of thinking by reading an entire book. And does that make me more or less vulnerable to brainphishing as I practice swapping various authors' brains in and out of my personal mental cache? Neophilia? Neophobia? Neomania? Take your pick?
Forgot one more thing I should have included. They think they are being reasonable, but their "reasoning" is quite weird. In the case of the church I studied, they regard Biblical exegesis as a kind of science, even though their "theory-justified" conclusions are constantly clashing with reality.
But this branch of the topic seems to be of little interest, so...
When it was originally implemented, it was given as a value rather than a rating. They capped it and then switched to rating because some of us had excessively high scores.
I see and thanks for the history. As karma behaves now I had concluded it was probably one byte, perhaps even limited to a Likert scale. I used to see some fluctuations up and down, even though it seems pegged out at max most of the time these days.
My "solution approach" would be to make karma symmetric with mod points, but with the dimensions cleaned up and mostly symmetric. For example, "Interesting" is an extremely vague dimension that could be divided into several more meaningful dimensions, and negativ
Trust me, some one talks about being paid $5,000 to hunt big foot, I don't accept anything that person says, likely will say anything for money.
PS nerds do not hunt Bigfoot, contrary to Hollywood et al bullshit, nerds go to college, get degrees and become professionals. It's the failed jock strap douche bags who end up in a trailer basement chasing hairy nothings, earning minimum wage and not even thankful for all the nerds who politically fight for that minimum wage, whilst they earn professionals wages.
Bigfoot trip was research? (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds a bit like "I buy Playboy for the articles"
Re:Bigfoot trip was research? (Score:2)
Paying $5k to go on a Bigfoot hunt, but then saying it was really to study the other people? Sounds a bit like "I buy Playboy for the articles"
Trust me, you are never going to find a Playboy bunny on a Bigfoot hunting expedition, it's nothing but ugly smelly nerds.
People believe what they want to believe. BFing? (Score:4, Interesting)
I really cannot tell whether or not you're being trolled. I think that OP was trying to make an FP joke, but my own sense of humor is so weak that I have to rely on the moderators. Sometimes they recognize humor when it hits them hard enough, but so far the OP has no Funny mod points on that one. If there was a minimal MEPR extension to karma, then I could check if OP has a history of being moderated as funny. I believe that one-byte karma is part of Slashdot's legacy from the days when storage on Slashdot was so so expensive that they didn't want to allocate any extra bytes to karma. Heck, they may have been carefully allocating each bit in the user profiles.
How is that for a segue to my search for a deeper perspective? But why is what I want to believe any better than what the Bigfoot believers want to believe?
Time to report on my own hunt for Bigfoot thumping a Bible. I studied the religious fanatics in their natural habitat. What they wanted to believe was quite interesting. But insanely stupid. Evangelicals of a militaristic stripe. Also many coppers and wannabe authoritarians. Squirrel bait. And yet they gathered in their thousands night after night and twice on Sundays to get more words to copy into their personal gospel notebooks. I studied them for some months, basically for the cost of the gas to drive out to their grand church. They also believe they could "save" me. They were wrong. They would have had better luck saving postage stamps.
That was also when I was first told "People believe what they want to believe". Quite true. Probably too true for democracy to survive in America now.
I have never heard of this Riggleman before, but he sounds like a rinosaur. Not quite as extinct as the dinosaurs. Yet. The summary doesn't say why he's leaving Congress, but the GOT probably kicked him out. That's Gang Of Trump, nee GOP, where the greatest heresy is questioning THE WORD of "He whose name need not be mentioned".
My next belief is in brainphishing. I think some people are actually using personal information to manipulate other people. For example, Q of Qanon infamy. Quite possible that scam was designed using the personal information "borrowed" from Facebook via Cambridge Analytica starting in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Not sure who Q is. I actually think Q is most likely a committee. And Q isn't sure who is being affected by the fake conspiracies, but the fake conspiracies are skillfully crafted and they are working. Qanon says what they want to believe and believe it they do, and then they act on those crazy beliefs. Roughly 80 million Americans believe "He whose name need not be mentioned" anymore is the next step on the road to Jesus. Gawd save America.
Me? I think Jesus saves postage stamps. Websearch proves me right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] That's what I want to believe, eh? Rather than believe that I, too, am subject to brainphishing.
Did you read over 500 words? TL;DR on Slashdot 2020, right? That's another part of the big problem (per my set of beliefs). Few people have time for books these days, and yet I persist in reading them anyway. Most relevant of the current crop is The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder, explaining what went wrong in Russia as Putin's kleptocracy took over. (I believe) I'd never heard of Ivan Ilyin before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] And (I believe) I get insight into an author's way of thinking by reading an entire book. And does that make me more or less vulnerable to brainphishing as I practice swapping various authors' brains in and out of my personal mental cache? Neophilia? Neophobia? Neomania? Take your pick?
Re:People believe what they want to believe. BPing (Score:2)
*sigh* Subject corrected for me.
Re: (Score:1)
Ah, so you took my advice [slashdot.org] and fixed your problem... And still you complain. What are we to do with you?
Public masturbation of 167322 (Score:2)
Z^-1
Heh, you're funny (Score:1)
Eh, whatever, glad I could help out. My services are always available to those in need
Have a nice day :-)
Public masturbation of 167322 (Score:2)
Z^-2
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Forgot one more thing I should have included. They think they are being reasonable, but their "reasoning" is quite weird. In the case of the church I studied, they regard Biblical exegesis as a kind of science, even though their "theory-justified" conclusions are constantly clashing with reality.
But this branch of the topic seems to be of little interest, so...
Re: People believe what they want to believe. BFin (Score:2)
Karma was at least two bytes in 2000, as I exceeded 1024 (a 10 bit value) and may have reached 1400. Memory is vague.
Re: (Score:2)
How do you find the exact value? And such high values don't seem consistent with the fluctuations I've seen.
And yet I think it would be much more valuable if you could see exactly what caused the karma. How many Funny mods, etc.
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When it was originally implemented, it was given as a value rather than a rating. They capped it and then switched to rating because some of us had excessively high scores.
Does karma have a future? (Score:2)
I see and thanks for the history. As karma behaves now I had concluded it was probably one byte, perhaps even limited to a Likert scale. I used to see some fluctuations up and down, even though it seems pegged out at max most of the time these days.
My "solution approach" would be to make karma symmetric with mod points, but with the dimensions cleaned up and mostly symmetric. For example, "Interesting" is an extremely vague dimension that could be divided into several more meaningful dimensions, and negativ
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Trust me, some one talks about being paid $5,000 to hunt big foot, I don't accept anything that person says, likely will say anything for money.
PS nerds do not hunt Bigfoot, contrary to Hollywood et al bullshit, nerds go to college, get degrees and become professionals. It's the failed jock strap douche bags who end up in a trailer basement chasing hairy nothings, earning minimum wage and not even thankful for all the nerds who politically fight for that minimum wage, whilst they earn professionals wages.
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You got that backwards. The subject of TFA was talking about paying $5,000, not getting paid.