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Laurelai  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
>so I'm not looking to implement any "big, bold new directions" or redesigns

Then none of the reasons why I hate reddit will change.

Laurelai  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
Reddit is 4chan with an account.
GoatFood  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
Out of curiosity, how would you change reddit if you were the CEO?
dublinben  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
This kills the site.

In all seriousness, such a drastic imposed change to the culture of the site could be devastating.

Laurelai  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
If they don't do something reddit will simply implode from the growing eternal september.
dublinben  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
Having observed these kinds of users in real life, the site is providing exactly what they want from it. Just by talking about this we separate ourselves from the passive masses who consist the bulk of reddit's traffic now.
forwardslash  ·  4871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How about lists?
I think it's a good idea; I've been thinking about using some sort of bookmark managing/categorizing service for a while. Some of the first posts I shared on Hubski were ones I found months or years ago that I loved and had to do some searching for. Having lists of some sort for all the really interesting links you find on Hubski would be nice.
mk  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yishan Wong is Reddit's new CEO
TBH, I was just saying that this (IMO) is a good stance for a new CEO to take. It would be wise that he gets a better feel for everything behind the scenes before he starts making bold new changes. Of course, I don't think Reddit doesn't have its flaws. But, if improvements are going to be made, it will take some serious thought on strategy and implementation.

He should eventually be bold, but although the problems are easy to identify, the best solutions might not be.

mk  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scienceblog: Top 10 Reasons to Be a Scientist
These are awesome. I could add one to that list:

11. You publish your paper. For next few years, several other papers are published that build off of your results, but they do not cite your paper, because is would make their results seem less novel.

Actually, I could add a ton. Here's one:

12. NIH releases a exciting new grant fast track opportunity for young researchers! You spend two weeks applying. They receive 20k applications and fund three of them. You realize that you would have been better off working at McDonalds for two weeks and spending the money on scratch tickets.

b_b  ·  4870 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski March Madness
I'm in. My bracket almost always includes Sparty to the Final Four. Not gonna be any different this year!!!
War  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So, who would be interested in reviving Hubski's Anime Club?

I've seen all the classics, and I keep up with the newer stuff when I can. Would definitely be interested in being involved.

kleinbl00  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What was your first anime? Your first manga?

Ha. Whippersnappers. Speed Racer.

First one I enjoyed? Robotech. Third sequence was the only good one. Watched Genesis Climber Mospeada in my 30s and gotta say - it holds up. There are messages in it that just aren't in most anything else and it's great. Plus Yellow Belmont the cross-dressing fighter-pilot internationally-renowned jazz singer.

Funny story. The arthouse decided to show My Neighbor Totoro a few years after it came out in Japan (prolly woulda been '90, '91). We missed it 'cuz they only showed it once. But no fear, anime fans! Because three weeks later they showed Urotsukidoji.

Which, of course, is a cartoon, right? So why not bring the kids, right? 'cuz it was unrated. And it was New Mexico, and that's just the sort of shit that happens.

So I'm probably one of the very few people who has ever had the opening of Urotsukidoji interrupted by a crying baby. I'll say that the look on the mother's face when she saw what she was in for was priceless... but the ensuing two hours convinced me beyond a reasonable doubt that there's something deeply wrong with Japanese culture.

Manga? I've got the Nausicaa boxed set but I haven't quite figured out how the hell to read it. That whole backwards thing is messing with me. This is a recent purchase, like within the past year.

insomniasexx  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How does one report a spam account?

Go to the users page and filter them. Once they have a lot of filters, they will be globally filtered, meaning they won't show up in global. This is done automatically based on a number of factors, including number of filterss a person has.

If it is a comment, shout out me or thenewgreen and we'll handle it.

user-inactivated  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A year as mainstream porn producer

Nah, it's not as stressing as it seems in this text, I just focused in those aspects because it's one of the things usually not mentioned. You read about girls' experiences, mostly, for good and bad.

There was a lot of fun, many other times, and many many of the guys wanted to repeat (even after the viagra and the post-orgasm shame).

kleinbl00  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hey Hubski, what are your thoughts on scientific illiteracy?

Yeah, that's nonsensical. Sorry. No kinder way to put it.

You're saying that people shouldn't be able to discuss that episode of Cosmos about black holes unless they've read Kip Thorne's original research. This is a ridiculous standpoint. Stephen Hawking didn't write A Brief History of Time because he wanted to try something without a lot of math, he wrote it to popularize science.

The entire approach of science educators should be to demistify and broaden the appeal of exciting but not-necessarily-accessible research so that people can, say, support the Superconducting Supercollider over the ISS because the SSC would have actually done research. You don't need to read a scientific paper about the likely weight of the Higgs Boson to have an opinion as to whether or not it's worth spending $8b finding it.

Primary research is NOT intended for rhetorical pyrotechnics, nor is it intended for policy decisions. Primary research is intended to broaden the knowledge base of experts so that those experts can advise non-experts. Throwing original research into an internet pissing match simply shows that you don't know how to convince your audience - if you did, you'd explain why that original research makes your point instead of writing "RTFM n00b."

user-inactivated  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A year as mainstream porn producer

There's a whole subgenre devoted to humiliate anxious and nervous regular guys who want to make porn for the first time. A couple of experienced women and the crew act like real bitches and mock the guys until the small self-confidence of the guy crumbles.

My boss thought on this, but we couldn't afford vehicle and paying two girls for this kind of scene.

kleinbl00  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So, who would be interested in reviving Hubski's Anime Club?

That show is one endless AFI video.

That was utterly fantastic. Thank you for sharing--I needed a laugh!

cgod  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google’s AI had nightmares about the GOP presidential candidates. This is what it saw.

If I had to vote off these I'd go with cyborg master Patki.

caeli  ·  3653 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hey Hubski, what are your thoughts on scientific illiteracy?

    You're saying that people shouldn't be able to discuss that episode of Cosmos about black holes unless they've read Kip Thorne's original research.

I think it's one thing to tell someone a cool factoid about black holes you learned from Cosmos. But it's something else entirely to make strong claims about some aspect of black holes (or vaccines, or climate change, etc) and insist you're right to the death when you haven't read any of the literature. These are the situations I was thinking of when I made the original post.

    Throwing original research into an internet pissing match simply shows that you don't know how to convince your audience - if you did, you'd explain why that original research makes your point instead of writing "RTFM n00b."

Haha, true! I do have to admit I've been guilty of this (although hopefully with better language ;)). I could certainly stand to improve my public science communication skills.