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@SkepticalOne
As the only one person I do know who uses Dart to vent in general(because I am generally considered too "analytical", "logical" and "bragging" in other spaces just by generally speaking in words), I am surprised that I got to the point in the first sentence in one of the longest forum posts I have typed since the beginning of 2023.
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Just face it. I am participating here for virtual internet points on a leaderboard. I literally am. That is my drive to keep being here. I lament when I drop from 4th to 12th, and spark joy when I rise up to 2nd. I cheer in front of my monitor when I win a rated debate and analyze seriously when I didn't. Though I respect the ascended objectives of Mall and similarly where they are just here to talk about stuff without caring if they win or not, many do, including some of the experienced ones relatives like me or RM or Novice(if he is still around here, if he quits, the update is partially to blame probably).
Don't know the actual motives behind this alteration. That said, I could keep complaining, it is like a major part of my life has been sliced through the nape. It is like seeing your position at a paid company being cut forever and you can't do anything about it, if I actually know what it is like.
I anticipate a reversal of said rules. I desire no individual to temper with the developed atmosphere of this site, the environment for 2.5 years, not even the owner. If the owner did it, I will voice my opinion when I intend to so the day of return could arrive sooner than if nothing is done.
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To be fair, there shouldn't be a debating limit before ratedness at all. What if I am an experienced debater IRL and just want entertainment before my computer before realizing that I have to numb by way through 5 null ordeals before being able to be competent? If a new user creates a debate and willingly forfeits it or loses because he doesn't know what debating is like, a loss of points should be the expected outcome because look, you are inexperienced and the rating reflects what you are doing, which isn't "good" to rigid standards.
This is like as if you get 10 unrated games before your rating is affected in Chess.com, except if you are an experienced people challenging random users and once the user is an 800, you automatically get denied any incrementation of points. And that analogy is still inaccurate to whatever this site is, and the games happen in a pace of weeks, not a matter of minutes or hours. Even if adding this rule would be a bummer in Chess, it would be devastating for such a site where the rate of activity is already low.
Trust me, this new so-called "update" has literally decreased my ability to write stuff. My TOEFL score on writing, which is to be inspected by college admissions, went down from 28 to 24 due to a lack of interaction with this site(because I didn't need to, because nothing matters, not even my current debates that are going). Although it may just have been the fault of my own lazy ass, it is in of itself a baffling matter that the update which should encourage activity, actually does not encourage more activity at all!
Although the influx of new users may seem good, it is important to note that:
- Most of them aren't "Good"
- Most of them leave after 1, 2, or 3 debates and never back
The site is giving too much way to the inexperienced(and not even relatively experienced new accounts such as Weaveroffate) that at this point I am beginning to understand the motives of 2b2t elite obsidian build groups, more and more. Once again, this site should not provide any shielding to new users. Nobody on the leaderboard got high because they got shielded for 5 genuine debates. NONE. Instead of a site desperate to draw users in by making policies way too friendly, I would rather this site to be 2b2t before CampingRusher. Because in the former, it turns into a smaller-scale DDO very quickly and gets very old, even if it is just a month or something.
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Wheels. To this day we don't know who invented it. Might have been some dude in mesopotamia. Who knows. See? Nobody cares. Should we though?
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I suggest changing the default to rated, not standard. Why have a leaderboard if there is like 1 movement per month?
In competitive sites that specialize in others than debating, the leaderboard could change on an hourly basis with everyone fighting all the time. DArt's format has made this less possible because a debate usually would take weeks on end, for argumentation and for voting. Slowing down leaderboard progress is one way the site becomes irrelevant as of this percentage of rated debates.
Sometimes, I accept debates for the sole reason that my rating could go up. I am sure in this opportunistic world numerous people think the same as well. Although not disconnecting them from the site truly and genuinely, this is one way to reduce their user activity and even decrease their effort, because everything is standard and matters negligibly.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
What? The Krakatoa eruption, for example, is not caused by people.
Explosives could cause people to die without people being guilty of anything.
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@Melcharaz
And everything is a play on definitions. And nothing is inherently "legal" or "moral" until we artificially made classifications upon ideas. And earthquakes is something defined to be dangerous to people.
I am fairly sure that in some interpretations, it would be true; in others it may not be. Just asking for your opinion, if you have one.
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@DavidAZ
The answer is "good" if the moral reference is constructed upon God. That is how relative morality works. Interpersonal is not entirely equivalent with objective.
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@Greyparrot
If that fails, ban people.
Well, we have tried to ban some people in some places and we know how that turned out. If we ban all people, then it eventually just becomes something like social darwinism because some people will try to get in no matter what. Maybe by then they will look upon us past cowardly sharers with pity due to a difference in moral paradigms, and I can't say how bad or good that would turn out to be.
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@Melcharaz
Would you consider such planning due to ignorance of geological factors, stretched manslaughter? //
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@YouFound_Lxam
A. Trans-women aren't allowed to get opinions on abortion either, therefore proving that they aren't real women.
Or, that they are indeed women but still has no weight on opinions regarding uterus and similar matters.
Saying that this is absurd is like denying there are southerners who don't smoke pipes in a pickup truck with a confederate flag on it next to a field. Yes, I believe in present liberal standpoints, that "All women have uteruses" is not dissimilar from a stereotype. The overlap between (Those who are women) and (Those who have a uterus) exists, but does not prove they are exactly the same set.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Whether it is a woman and whether one has a uterus or not is two separate issues no matter independent or not.
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@TheUnderdog
Depends on which party you are "in". I believe registration is required.
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Structural statements, such as "If P is true, and Q is true, then P(Q) is true" as understood in proper context in English is probably objective, and everything that is true dependent on these structures, such as "Donald Trump was the US president", is relative.
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@RM
Out of all the things I have done, THIS is the one that broke your turtle's neck?
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Then, is such people christians, at all? Some may think no. Mostly BrotherD. Thomas.
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@RationalMadman
And if I was whining, then you are whining about someone whining about something that you have whined about. I don't know how much better that is, for anything's sake.
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@RationalMadman
So? You are the first one to complain about it. Tell me more.
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@FLRW
Thank you.
The source looks authentic, that is good. Though I am not an expert.
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@FLRW
We are lazy nerds who go on the internet to debate. How about a link to save us some actual clicks that we don't want to engage in?
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@SirAnonymous
Granted. You get a billion dollars in pennies. They cover the streets of your city, and you are arrested for creating a traffic hazard.
That's the best you can do? I would object to that. No single individual would be arrested for this. Suppose I make a deal with the devil whom I knew IRL and the devil deliberately misinterprets the request to absurd metrics(like we are doing now, deliberately) while not being any citizen, that simply would not be my fault for creating traffic hazard.
I believe a better response to that wish would be, that the requester gets mountains of money, possibly digitally(because at this point, no printer would ever print a billion in US cash in one go, for example, even if that is the amount of transaction induced), simultaneously as the economy enters a hyperinflation possibly related to this huge influx in money supply, resulting in that these money can do literally nothing and because everyone else is poorer, there is nothing they can do for you. In conclusion, I think a better response is to grant one so much money that it crashes the global economy and renders everything meaningless.
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@RationalMadman
Said someone who created multiple threads outrageous of the election results + soliciting for oneself in the next election. Do we call that spam?
None of the two classes of posts would enter my array of classified "spam" for any reason, because I don't think either are. If a post is constructive in telling something, it is not spam, as analyzed within a span of 2.5 years of me being on this site, staring at no less than 10,000 posts cumulatively. If you say this, you might as well say that Ebuc's posts are spam because he posts all those threads and we don't know what they convey until they explain.
And finally, as a academic nerd of a stereotypical asian like me, I literally don't know the first thing about games with similar atmosphere to D&D. Thanks to this post, I get to spend 20 minutes off my professor lecturing something I have literally completed the homework mistakenly one night before and can predict the next line literally thanks to that "bad" decision. So, objectively and subjectively, I consider this non-spam.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
If you find a leader who never makes mistakes, it is possibly because that he who is that leader died shortly after he took office, giving no time to mistakes. Otherwise, everyone say stupid things, especially in a slightly(considerably) questionable democracy where people are so divided one doctrine passed well inside within their party was just that the other one is wrong. Of course, being the present leader of one, you gotta bluff because at least it works, significantly. If he says everything of complete merit and honesty, chances are that there will be more people turning blue rather than red, especially if exaggeration and linguistic techniques are used at the other side.
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@Math_Enthusiast
I wish for this wish to be corrupted.
Wish granted. It is just granted because it is corrupted, and the two are not inherently mutually exclusive at all cases.
I wish that I get 2nd place in the upcoming test at school. Not 1st, not 3rd, just 2nd.
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Black holes. They are pretty big. I used to think such things couldn't be possible until they are photographed. I wasn't antiscience, I was just very young and wasn't educated on the subject.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
1.) Having a unique ID on a ballot is unverifiable unless that unique ID can be correlated with a particular citizen. Such a correlation violates the secrecy of the ballot.
Not having this is mind-blowing. In China, everyone has an ID card with a number. When they buy something, they enter the number.
Just this would remove at least one category of rigging.
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@zedvictor4
For as long as money is the One True GOD that governs the success and progress of humanity..
Not exactly.
I believe Jesus promised poor people bread if they follow him and his faith. Does that mean Bread is christianity? No.
Money is not God, but rather it is what makes people believe in God. I remember at the olden times where the church sells indulgence for money. For the sole reason, it makes money even more dangerous than God.
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Why not just use punch cards or something? Or like the answering sheet of multiple choice on SAT?
You fill your in your ID number on the top, it looks something like this:
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Instructions are printed and the same instructions are posted in the form of a video online.
The same precautions are used to prevent you from voting deliberately for some other voter. Only the first card per ID counts and illegitimate ID numbers are not counted.
Then several spaces representing candidates are presented. You color it in and that means that is who you vote for. The cards then go through several readers(the ones used to grade the SAT exams, like that), several is used to reduce variability.
What you are left with is semi-automated ballot reading and definitely less error. The prominent issue is if the machines break... But that is less a problem than employees falling sleep.
The important question would be, Is this already being used? I am not old enough to vote, so I don't know.
The more important question: Would such designing tasks be the concerns of "political engineering"?
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@zedvictor4
Depends on who uses it and how it is being used. Being decentralized, if bitcoin is an actual commodity with daily purpose instead of intangible currency, it would be considered an anarchistic, libertarian left thing rather than right. Sadly, the investment nature of bitcoins induces people to save it rather than spend it or donate it to wider society on a large scale, increasing the wealth gap as opposed to decreasing.
Then, is Big Brother "right" at all? I mean, he is a class, everyone else is possibly the same other class. Authoritarianism is not inherently left or right, unless even the air is protected by the robo-army of the leader because it is considered his property and others ought to not trespass into it, then it is incredibly right. That is what happens when you turn commodity into money in that direction. That is what NFTs are doing. We want the opposite if we want equality. Most of us buy stuff, not turning stuff into virtual numbers on a machine, and money would be more productive turning into stuff than auto-accumulating on itself.
Nobody want money itself. Money buys happiness, but it isn't happiness. What we do want is the power to use money to turn into commodities, but as you get too rich and paranoid to be among the people(the proletariat, correct me if I used the word incorrectly) enough you forget why you want money. Paypal and Visa and even bitcoin are just tech to make it easier for money to turn into stuff.
Why am I ranting on economics and money? Possibly because I just finished my Economics assignment in high school. That said, embracers of tech is good, bootlickers of corporations(or in this case, corporations themselves) granting themselves the name of embracing technology is not. That is what makes it good when Jeff Bezos published Facebook initially and worth Boo-ing when he briefly went to outer space without the mindset of an astronaut. Possibly the same with Elon Musk.
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Sometimes I make fun of the American way on some stuff when it is funny. Because it is funny, it just is. You guys make fun of it too. #1 is implicative of exactly that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Can't open the video for geographical causes, but the title seems like the combinations of at least 2 fallacies. I don't know what fallacies there are, but I know one when I see one.
Stupid is as stupid does. I don't know if this faction is any better if they decide to title with whatever this is. American politics really is the shitshow it is.
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@TheUnderdog
If some conservatives actually attempted thinking as an alternative to whistling with pride under their red hats and above their American pickup truck driver seats, would they still be conservatives?
I know I am stating a stereotype, but everyone knows that some of them are only embracing such stereotypes proudly, going only righter and righter as time passes.
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@TheUnderdog
You vote because you trust the electoral process. Otherwise, don't vote in the elections that you think are going to be rigged against you.
The null hypothesis for all voters is that the voting system is fair. They assume so if they vote.
If evidence of riggedness is apparent to them, it means the election failed them after them voting, not before. If they are pessimistic about voting beforehand, obviously they would not vote.
You make a fair point, but it concerns nearly no one. It is like trying to calm a group of angry sports fans when their team had blown the whistle and called it a day way lower than their league with "if your team is not gonna try anyways, why not just keep working and not come to the game". I believe this is one of the cases where "nobody cares" can be applied reasonably.
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If I recall correctly, this would be your first time to be old enough for voting.
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Suppose we define:
Public void getFirstPronoun(){
return pronounFirst;
}
Public String assignAttribute(Gender a, String b){
String temp = a.getFirstPronoun();
temp = temp + “ is a “ + b;
return temp;
}
For example:
assignAttribute(intel_06, “debater.”);
This will return:
He is a debater.
Also:
assignAttribute(a1, “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa$%^&*^%$%^&aaa”);
Returns:
aaaaaa is a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa$%^&*^%$%^&aaa
That is exactly how we should use pronouns when weird ones such as that resembling the attributes of an attack helicopters are used. If one’s pronoun is Nor/mal, we should expect terms like malself and “nor who speaks” to be used with that kind of subjects as the receiver, at least. If they fail to use such terms in their day-to-day life in place of such as “he”, “she”, “they”, etc. then they are a hypocrite.
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@Best.Korea
Public class Gender{
Private String name;
Private String Gender;
Private String pronounFirst;
Private String pronounSecond;
Public Gender(String s1, String s2, String ss1, String ss2){
name = s1;
Gender = s2;
pronounFirst = ss1;
pronounSecond = ss2;
}
//Other methods not shown
}
In this case, I am an object that can be created by:
Gender intel_06 = new Gender(“Intelligence_06”, “Male”, “He”, “Him”);
However, it is also possible to create:
Gender a1 = new Gender(“aaaaaaa”, “aaaaaaaaaa”, “aaaaaa”, “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”)
In which we shall use the strings as according to the positions in which they are being defined in and placed in.
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That is what happens when you let an old man be the president. Honestly, Presidents don't have to be 35 years old, but an age resembling Obama would simply be better in general.
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@TheUnderdog
I don't know, maybe white supremacism is commonly held more from right individuals than for example leftists.
Maybe? I mean, what is "right" and what is "left" is defined by who is associated with it, possibly. Spectacles are just spectacular single pieces of glass, but they have since been a symbol of the bourgeoisie because rich people have them on.
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I wish I had a wife, let alone one to beat(although that is questionable).
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Let me guess, you are going to think that I am not in a marriage and should 100% not wish for it. If I did, props to myself for saving the space for an entire forum post.
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This debating site is competitive in the sense that it has a leaderboard that updates almost every Debate. When the default is rated.
Usually, back then, there was a symbol for when a debate is unrated. That is fine. Now what? The site telling me that the default is unrated?
I could live with it, it is just that this is not of the spirit of this site anymore.
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@Best.Korea
Because optics.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Hitler was a good leader in many specs, if you ignore that he was one of the biggest racists and genociders in human history.
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@attackingandrogynusandy
Without profile pictures properly loading, I almost thought you were Zedvictor.
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@Best.Korea
I consider the people in dark triad area to be evil.
Exactly, that is what you should expand on. Write your own essay if you really will.
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@Best.Korea
Owning a car should be a crime since sooner or later you are going to run someone over.
Living should be a crime since sooner or later you are going to do some sort of harm to something. Now kill yourself. Don’t actually kill yourself, but see how fragile this kind of argument is.
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I have come to a conclusion that nothing matters so I have to still act normal because nothing matters. All the motivation I have for anything spectacular is solely due to that I want to without necessary reason.
Thanks so much for this site for making me realize something like this, hopefully I will make real stuff with whatever the hell this is.
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Oh actually, even if these are intrinsically explained, it doesn’t make them “evil”. I mean, would you call RM evil?
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Being tall has benefits, that is why some short people(possibly including me) would probably like to be taller than they are.
However, I don’t see a reasonable correlation. Until there is actual scientific basis intrinsically explaining how being short makes you evil, I will regard this a coincidence or even experimental variation not suitable for rejecting the null hypothesis.
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@DebateArt.com
Make the default rated-unrated option from the dropbar to be unrated. New users wouldn't notice but upon people pointing it out they would make it rated every time probably.
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