Should we have downvotes?

2021-03-05 - Friday - 09:07 PM - Blurt | Hive Blog

Yeah. Several things mentioned here. One, people struggle. Two, people can do things like join Hive, Steem, Blurt, etc. Third, jerks come like you said. Bullies crash the party. That's why we can't have nice things so to speak. Fourth, people upvote which is good.

Sadly and strangely, fifth, people, some being dolphins and whales and maybe even sharks, come in and they sometimes begin starting trouble in the neighborhood. They cause problems like I said in number three, they crash the party. But specifically, they flag, they downvote.

That brings up the debate regarding whether or not downvoting should be allowed or not. This post in particular would be a good argument or rebuttal to the failure or the problems of downvoting. This is a good example. I don't like downvotes myself. I'm not going to absolutely say there should never be downvotes. I don't downvote people.

This article here is a good highlight to why we should have no downvotes or to how it can sometimes be abused. I guess there would need to be an alternative to downvotes or other systems in place to counter spam, trolls, abuse, trafficking, child porn, illegal things, very bad things, imaginary hate speech so to speak (I might be joking about this one), etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, and/or perhaps maybe not. I don't know exactly as it is possible the free market can counter bad things to some extent.

Or in some ways, you can't exactly always and completely stop bad things. Downvoting may be there in part as a desire to stop bad things. And I think that is nice. Downvotes can stop bad things and it can also stop good things and good people as mentioned in this post. So, that is where the debate is. What is the lesser of two evils, the potential evils of downvotes or the potential evils of not having a way to downvote anything at all?

I was unable to post this on Blurt. Maybe the comment was too long or maybe it is just technical difficulties for a particular app of Blurt World.

Should people make appeals via Discord?

10:05 AM - Discord Server

I would encourage people to appeal the way I do. When I appeal via Discord and other websites, I also copy and paste what I write, generally speaking, to text files. I end up turning what I write into separate comments, posts, articles, to post to Hive, Steem, Blurt, etc. Is not the way I do it not common sense for enough of the people? The things I do is a natural progression and reaction to many things, a counter, a rebuttal featuring backup plans in particular.

Agreed, the philosophy of Believe All Women is generally misaligned advice.

I was a little slow, I get it now. I can generally guess acronyms. Sometimes a little slow at guessing. But once I learn one, then I am likely to not forget after that.

Via Android, you can go into the settings, go to apps to uninstall Facebook.

Facebook is awesome.
I love Facebook like I love Microsoft.
I've been able to disable apps like Google on my phone. I uninstalled Facebook. But I don't know if it might still be there.

Android seems to drain excessive power from my phone and that is why I may try to root Android off and try other operating systems.
Municipality

I love Apple.
I love Oranges too.
Are you saying I have to include a photo when talking about my computer setup?
Instead of including a photo, I simply described the kind of setup I had.
I thought a photo of my Lenovo Yoga laptop was not important because anybody could Google to see a photo of it.
My setup is not cool like that of others. So, in other words. There is nothing to see. Therefore, taking a photo of my boring laptop would not be worth it. My setup is not cool enough. Therefore, it is like I am a loser.

Discord Fun

02:11 PM

That guy blocked 'Commander P0P SPQR !P0P#1337 me on Discord. It is so pathetic that he would do that. He pretends to help people but then bans people for not posting a photo that was not worth it. Reminds me of when I was in prison in 2012 for stopping a false 911 call. It is quite insane what people do.

I am just a crazy Ubuntu user.
I described my setup because photos already exist of my setup.
My setup was visually unappealing to the eye and also self-explanatory. Images of it already exist when you Google Lenovo Yoga 510-15ISK.
The answer is you can only delete tweets you made.
Twitter is different than Facebook in that regard.
Hiding things is not the same as deleting them.
I love censorship.
Playstation probably has a better layout for RAM than Nintendo would be my assumption even tho I'm a Nintendo fan, not sure how it would compare with X-Box.
Specifically, can you even replace RAM out of Nintendo consoles, machines, would be my question. If not, then at least Playstation has that option, something is better than nothing.
In the 1990s, SEGA Genesis and the Super Nintendo had expansion slots. In the same spirit, the idea of replaceable RAM is all about expandability.
Nintendo was working on a CD option with Sony but then Sony ended up releasing an independent unit, The Play Station.
I am talking about expandability.

I didn't know about any Nintendo mice. Well, not sure exactly but that does remind me of Mario Paint.

Sega was successful with expandability when they came out with the Sega Channel which was a unit that was attached to either to the Sega Genesis or it might have been the Sega Saturn.

Game Genies were cool.

Agreed, they didn't do very well with expandability.

There would have to be a way to create modified versions of the NES games in order to enable 8 players mode or more perhaps via a PC emulator. Better yet, make it playable online. For example, imagine 100 people around the world playing Super Mario Bros 1 simultaneously where you share the screen and interact like as if it was World of War Craft or Minecraft but with Mario instead and just 2-D.

I do have all the NES games on my computer.