Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That...

[Takhisis]

I agree.

*chuckles*

Assume they agree with none of it. They just like how you look while saying words.

Which is why I don't like the Facebook-y nature of Xenforo with its badges and likes and, hey, it actually has enabled Twitter and Facebook plugins right below this box on my screen!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

While I agree with giving Takhisis things for free, I would rather we had the earlier system where people were actually forced to reply to a post rather than simply hand out likes.

I mean, seriously, this ain't Facebook.

It's the MEMBERS link right at the top of the page. The page used to work so much better with vBulletin, incidentally.

Stop infracting people!

Agreed, vBulletin was much easier to use. There are a lot of things I can't even see anymore, or have to go on convoluted searches to find it.

*chuckles*

Which is why I don't like the Facebook-y nature of Xenforo with its badges and likes and, hey, it actually has enabled Twitter and Facebook plugins right below this box on my screen!

There are ways to get rid of those plugins so you don't have to see them.

 

[Dachs]

You know what I liked about late-model vBulletin CFC?

On the subforum page, you could click on the number of posts in a given thread, and it would give you a breakdown of number of posts by each poster in the thread, and if you clicked on that number - say, Takhisis | 214 - you'd be brought to a search page with all of that person's posts in the thread. It was much quicker than the current system, which forces you to use the actual search bar.

Most of the other stuff is better in Xenforo, though.

 

[Takhisis]

Most of the other stuff is better in Xenforo, though.

!!??

 

[Lohrenswald]

I really wish people stopped reveling in stupid "nostalgia"

 

[Snerk]

Member vBulletin?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

At least we still had the social groups and I wouldn't have lost half my visitors' messages (including the cat pictures people thoughtfully sent me over the years), and wouldn't be in the place where it would take a week to find specific PMs because we can no longer sort them into folders.

 

[Ryika]

So there is this fake, satirical interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez which I thought was pretty hilariously. Found it because there's this buzzfeed article in which the author treats it as if it were a genuine attempt to mislead people and not a satirical piece.

So I had a look at the comments section of that article, and it too was full of people who thought the interview was edited to look real. Some people however gave me some hope and said that it's clearly satirical, but then people told them to read the comments on the facebook page.

So I did, and after a few of those and found that people do indeed think it's a genuine interview I was painfully reminded that the world is full of stupid people. There is no hope for humanity.

 

[Synobun]

Describing it as satire is willful ignorance, tbh. Not sure you can lord yourself over the "stupid people" when you treat that video as just a joke.

 

[Ryika]

Describing it as satire is willful ignorance, tbh. Not sure you can lord yourself over the "stupid people" when you treat that video as just a joke.

It clearly is satirical with the way it is cut. It takes comedic breaks, it cuts the content in a way that makes the situation seem intentionally awkward.

 

[Synobun]

It is a joke in the same way that following a fat person around with a tuba is a joke. Possibly amusing, not 'serious', but obviously intended to be harmful in some capacity.

A conservative comedian making 'jokes' that portrays a dastard 'socialist' as being unqualified and terrible serves a very clear purpose.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

It's CRTV, not the Onion.
It's not a funny accident that people think that it's a real interview.
Their entire raison d'être is deception and conservative propaganda.

 

[Ryika]

A conservative comedian making 'jokes' that portrays a dastard 'socialist' as being unqualified and terrible serves a very clear purpose.

Satire can have a very clear political agenda, that doesn't disqualify it as such. Most of the political comedy you find in mainstream Left-wing US media is satire with the clear message that "Trump is an idiot!".

The deciding factor of whether it is political satire is very simple: Is the video presented in a way that makes it clear that it is not a real interview, or is it trying very hard to seem like a genuine interview?

 

[cardgame]

That message is being broadcast by trump himself, not left US media. They're just reporting the facts on the ground.

 

[Ryika]

So I logged into my old Youtube account that I had stopped using around ~5 years ago, and it's freaking hilarious to go back in time and look at all the cringy videos that I "like"d back then. Annoying Orange, Pokemon Skits, Atheist videos... surprisingly, they're still entertaining. People say you get more mature when you get older, but I'm, like, 15 now and nothing has changed compared to when I was 10!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So I logged into my old Youtube account that I had stopped using around ~5 years ago, and it's freaking hilarious to go back in time and look at all the cringy videos that I "like"d back then. Annoying Orange, Pokemon Skits, Atheist videos... surprisingly, they're still entertaining. People say you get more mature when you get older, but I'm, like, 15 now and nothing has changed compared to when I was 10!

If you were 10 when you joined CFC, you were 3 years too young, and would have required your parents' consent.

 

[Synobun]

Has anyone ever actually abided with COPPA? I sure didn't.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Has anyone ever actually abided with COPPA? I sure didn't.

Some forums have rules that anyone joining has to be at least 16, to avoid problems of younger kids joining and some parent getting irate because of some age-inappropriate discussion that might be going on.

There was an issue that happened on the Cheezburger site awhile back with someone impersonating an underage celebrity. Some refused to believe it was an impersonation for weeks, but the whole thing drew in a lot of under-18s to our particular corner of that site.

Part of the fallout of that (after the impersonation was discovered and the guilty party banned from the site) was that some of us made it known that we would not accept any friend requests from anyone under 18. I've still got a queue of requests that won't ever be answered (once you say no, some of them just keep persisting, so if they stay in limbo they can't keep asking). I'm not sure what part of "No friend requests from anyone under 18 will be accepted" isn't plain enough.

 

[Ryika]

If you were 10 when you joined CFC, you were 3 years too young, and would have required your parents' consent.

I did many things for which I was waaaaay too young in the past, but thankfully people always pretended not to notice, hah!

But I'm pretty sure you know I was joking.

@topic:

Got a new mechanical pencil because with my old one, the lead kept breaking. I wasn't sure whether it's my fault or whether it's because of the pencil, but it doesn't happen with the new one at all, so now I know it was the pencil's fault. Not sure what's the cause though, but I assume the end is a little bit wonky (too little to see it move) so when I applied pressure to the pencil, it applied pressure to the middle of the lead and broke it instead of stabilizing it. That cheap quality crap pencil has probably cost me lead in total value of 10 Euro or so.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Dangit! When i was 10-12, i had to use my moms computer and access the internet through a 33.6k dial up modem. And i could only do that if my brother wasn't on the internet with his computer that had a blazingly fast 56k modem. Didn't get cable internet until i was like 13-14.