“I don’t know enough to have an informed opinion about this” is an admirable stance to take.

When it’s a cop-out for not wanting to be politically informed, it’s a crappy place to be. It can sound a lot like “I don’t know and I don’t care”.

There’s a difference between a claim and conjecture

Why would you want to also make Stack Overflow worse?

They get a lot of workers from places like Indonesia

I think the issue is that most people live in cities, where populations tend to me more diverse. Then most polls probably also end up disproportionately asking cityfolk. So the polls ask people who live in areas with disproportionate numbers of immigrants (relative to non-urban parts of the country), and they forget how many non-immigrants are outside the cities.

Different meaning, though!

Mozilla FirefOS?

I don’t think this chart applies to cats

Meanwhile, men are actively making themselves less desirable to women by becoming more conservative

That’s probably more commonly accepted. I defer to whatever my team is doing, but for my own files, I wouldn’t want things like UsStudentList or USStudentList which both look wrong to me.

USstudentList looks right to me, and if that’s wrong, I’m okay with being wrong! Haha

Camel case, but with a twist – if the next word is about to start after a capital letter, I’ll have it lower case.

topSecretFBIfile.txt for example

From the title, it sounds like something that any keyboard shortcut enthusiast would be able to extrapolate to their own shortcuts. But if yours are custom, then it’s more like a fun fact about yourself.

That seems pretty misleading…

Someone can hate Windows for their own purposes while still acknowledging that it may be the ideal OS for the average consumer

I think the phrasing isn’t the best. I think he needs an “is what” before “hurts children” in the first paragraph.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/79890338

I used Backlogery, but Backloggd seems to be more popular nowadays. That forum discussion mentions a few others, too.

If you play retro games, then you could also look into RetroAchievements, which will track more than when you simply beat a game. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for all games though.

For more modern games, you could also use Achievements to track what you beat.

As for keeping track of what games you WANT to play… it’s called buying them! Don’t buy games you don’t want to play, haha

Seriously though, you could go through your Steam library and add games you want to play to a playlist, or sell physical games you wanted to support but don’t want to play.

But for multi-platform stuff, check out the linked forum post

As long as people aren’t breaking the rules regarding hate speech

Hate speech and threats of violence are what the article is about.

So if you agree that rape threats and certain words (that constitute hate speech) are ok to ban, then you’re in agreement with the article and other people saying “People shouldn’t need to grow a thicker skin”.

Unless you’re against hate speech, but in favour of threats of violence, but I don’t think you are just because you didn’t explicitly say it, haha

You want players who are invested in winning.

Yes. Players who are invested in winning. Not players who have poor emotional regulation or social behaviour and are invested in being assholes.

It’s called sportsmanship. Yet some online games sound worse than middle school sports games… probably because, for years, nobody got punished for acting like a middle schooler who can’t control their emotions or behaviour.

As for your statement on toxicity preventing you from playing multiplayer doesn’t seem true. There are plenty of games where you will never see toxicity and you still don’t play any of them so that can’t be what’s stopping you.

I’m fascinated by how you know so much about the games I don’t play! Lol

Given the choice between an online community with assholes being moderated away and an online community without asshole moderation, I’m going to choose the one where assholes get warned, muted, and banned.

My favourite subreddit had a rule, “Be Civil”. I much preferred that sub over ones that didn’t have that rule (or one like it). Too many people don’t know how to behave in public forums, and those people make the internet a lot less pleasant. See Facebook and Instagram comments if you’d like some examples.

I don’t play many online games, except with friends exclusively, or where there is no chat (especially voice chat). If there were games that had moderated communities that banned assholes, then I’d be more likely to venture into that world…and maybe I’d even start turning on my mic.

None of those were direct successors, though