TIL: Today I Learned

[Arakhor]

I know, right? I managed to find an unannounced spoiler for The Force Awakens in a Life is Strange discussion thread, literally hours before going to see the film.

 

[Samson]

TIL that the financial industry use GPS as a fancy clock:

The technology [GPS] is also widespread in financial services, with transactions often driven by algorithmic trading, which requires timestamps at millisecond to microsecond level. This form of precision timing also requires traceability for audit purposes.

 

[Lexicus]

I'll say.

I'm sorry, maybe I missed something...where is the public shaming in what you linked to?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL I learned that https://forum.rpg.net, a forum literally ten times more active than CFC, keeps an active, public list of infracted posts. (Just spent like an hour just perusing them and I have to say, I've a newfound appreciation for Civfanatics.)

That's one of the ideas that has been proposed for here - not naming names, but listing the infractions and what was done about them.

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL, Humans got crabs from gorillas.
I'd rather not learn how.....

 

[hobbsyoyo]

TIL, Humans got crabs from gorillas.
I'd rather not learn how.....

The same way we likely picked up HIV, by eating them. And no that's not innuendo

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL, Humans got crabs from gorillas.

And syphilis from grizzly bears.

 

[Snerk]

And poor taste from eagles.

 

[Mouthwash]

I'm sorry, maybe I missed something...where is the public shaming in what you linked to?

Do they really get to bring up legal concerns from outside the site? Also, they wound up just banning the guy entirely on the grounds that "his presence would make females uncomfortable." All it took was unproven allegation.

 

[Synobun]

Seems odd that they would be so public about staff resignations/removals. Was there some sort of public uproar before this asking for his removal or anything like that?

 

[Lexicus]

Do they really get to bring up legal concerns from outside the site? Also, they wound up just banning the guy entirely on the grounds that "his presence would make females uncomfortable." All it took was unproven allegation.

Yeah I mean...I'm pretty okay with that as stated. It's a website.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Thing that struck me as weird is that they have such a list of infractions when they don't even have an "off topic" type board. All those infractions seem to come from people who have differences of opinion about games.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Game debates can get pretty heated, thus nasty, thus infractable.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Game debates can get pretty heated, thus nasty, thus infractable.

Yeah, I got into some hilarious fracases on the old BethSoft boards, but I never could take it seriously. Until I got banned for Steam bashing, but that wasn't about a game, per se.

 

[Mouthwash]

Seems odd that they would be so public about staff resignations/removals. Was there some sort of public uproar before this asking for his removal or anything like that?

Haven't investigated.

Thing that struck me as weird is that they have such a list of infractions when they don't even have an "off topic" type board. All those infractions seem to come from people who have differences of opinion about games.

What are you talking about? They do, and quite a few of the infractions are politics-related.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

What are you talking about? They do, and quite a few of the infractions are politics-related.

I didn't see it, and the three infractions I sort of randomly picked out where of the "if you like game A you must be an idiot, because game B is better" variety. Guess I'll look again.

Edit: So, to access their version of off topic you have to be a logged in member...no lurkers allowed. It doesn't even show on the index.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Seems odd that they would be so public about staff resignations/removals. Was there some sort of public uproar before this asking for his removal or anything like that?

Some game site owners have no problem breaking their own rules or otherwise acting unethically when it comes to spilling RL information about members they consider to be a problem.

I haven't read much over at rpg.net, so I haven't noticed if that's a site that routinely does this.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The Path of Exile forums can get very nasty, especially in terms of language, Most of the vitriol is directed at the game developers for whatever a poster is unhappy about. And since the game gets major updates and changes three to four times a year, the complaints are ongoing. Personal attacks against others are usually ignored unless you accuse them of scamming others in trade deal, then they just delete the name of the accused from the post. On some occasions, a poster is banned. I've never seen an infraction and very few closed threads. The OT Trump thread there was finally closed after several thousand posts because it got too nasty. The language is very family unfriendly.

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL, if I understand info below correct, that there were in 1732 AD Britain not minimum wages for some kinds of jobs, but maximum wages.
I guess to protect the ruling class from outbidding each other on the free market (without a bottom minimum wage !?).

page 623
A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the ..., Volume 7,Delen 1-2
Door James E. Thorold Rogers,Arthur G. L. Rogers
https://books.google.nl/books?id=nFYngVZFT8sC&pg=PA622&lpg=PA622&dq=hedges+with+stones+history+plowing&source=bl&ots=31l1bR-bqu&sig=FQ5v2yfMucWGKnvv9Zd5mqv6OZE&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCmpm794bZAhVHCMAKHaTqBxUQ6AEIPzAI#v=onepage&q=hedges with stones history plowing&f=false

 

[Ryika]

TIL I learned that https://forum.rpg.net, a forum literally ten times more active than CFC, keeps an active, public list of infracted posts. (Just spent like an hour just perusing them and I have to say, I've a newfound appreciation for Civfanatics.)

My god, these forums are a TREASURE CHEST of insanity that needs to be looted.