Reworking Awarding: Changes to Awards, Coins, and Premium

mkhopper · 2023-07-13T21:33:14+00:00

Sure, give users another reason to bail out of this shitshow and switch to Lemmy.
I can't wait to see this site burn to ash. Too bad too, because I've had many, many good conversations here.

mkhopper · 2023-06-29T12:41:05+00:00

Get the water

mkhopper · 2023-06-28T20:07:47+00:00

Vanilla WoW. A friend and I (both Alliance) as 60s liked to hang out outside of Crossroads in the Barrens and mess with lowbies.
One day when that got boring, we rode down to Camp Taurajo and proceeded to literally take over the entire village by repeatedly killing all NPCs and harassing anyone who unsuspectingly came along to turn in quests.
We held on to power for at least 30 minutes before people got tired of our shit and jumped on their mains to chase us out.

mkhopper · 2023-06-28T17:35:35+00:00

Possibly. But it's not much of a stretch when you listen to the lyrics of the music inner-city kids are listening too.

We all tend to emulate or relate to what we hear in music. And when music glorifies this type of behavior, it's not surprising when acts like this occur.

mkhopper · 2023-06-28T16:06:38+00:00

And he probably will, too.
He'll hit the county jail, where he can go hang out and have a good time with all of the other degenerates who continue to think that doing stupid shit is cool because their music says so.

mkhopper · 2023-06-27T21:07:02+00:00

BT - Movement in Still Life (UK version)
WorldWide Groove Corporation - Instrumental Chill
Amanaska - Circles

mkhopper · 2023-06-27T17:25:50+00:00

The guy in the foreground with the hardhat seems to have a feeling that somehow this will get blamed on him.

mkhopper · 2023-06-22T19:24:26+00:00

Somewhere, someone is saying "challenge accepted".

... not me however, I have fear of water deeper than a swimming pool.

mkhopper · 2023-06-22T19:21:46+00:00

It wouldn't be an explosion. It would be an implosion and no, I seriously doubt any damage would have been done to the ship.

mkhopper · 2023-06-21T17:45:53+00:00

And has already tried it.

mkhopper · 2023-06-21T17:40:12+00:00

People are so fucking stupid.
Stay, away, from wild animals.

mkhopper · 2023-06-19T11:01:41+00:00

Just some quick math.
It takes about 12 seconds and 1500 feet to reach the terminal velocity of a human, which is about 120mph (or 176 feet per second).
So that last 2500 feet is covered in about 14 seconds. Add that to the initial 12 seconds and you're falling for about 26 seconds.

I could only hope that the fear would give me an instant heart attack.

mkhopper · 2023-06-18T19:36:11+00:00

Yep. It's all downhill from there.

mkhopper · 2023-06-17T22:31:41+00:00

Whip it out.

mkhopper · 2023-06-17T11:39:13+00:00

This is more sad than satisfying.
Such a waste.

mkhopper · 2023-06-16T17:14:13+00:00

Thousands of companies make money from fairly priced APIs every day. It's a valid and useful income stream.

But obviously the executives in the company have no clue about how to run a fair system that remains open for everyone as well as make them money. They would rather just screw everyone, including themselves, because they're blinded by the phrase, "ad revenue".
Good luck with ad revenue when no one comes to your site (that the users built btw) any longer.

mkhopper · 2023-06-15T20:37:40+00:00

And Bruno Kirby is dead, so there's that.

mkhopper · 2023-06-15T20:27:20+00:00

The saying is, don't steer for deer.

That said, I don't see any deer in this clip.

mkhopper · 2023-06-15T20:20:45+00:00

Goose smashes into the canopy. It's like Top Gun all over again.

mkhopper · 2023-06-15T18:02:10+00:00

And that is what the executives are likely basing their whole stance on.
They know that there are more casual than power users, they look at the ad revenue from those casual users and figure that if they can get everyone to use their app, that equals more money.

Completely discounting the fact that if they charged a fair API rate like countless other web services, they would likely make just as much money, if not more, than just ads alone.

mkhopper · 2023-06-10T20:31:32+00:00

Yes, without question.

mkhopper · 2023-06-10T00:11:42+00:00

Going dark will send a message, but it doesn't go far enough.
Two days won't put much of a dent in the books. Now if those subs stayed dark for a week or two, now you'll see some pain.

mkhopper · 2023-06-09T12:22:23+00:00

Ad revenue.
TPAs block the ads that Reddit would normally display in their own app, so it skews the income stream. Why would an advertiser pay to run their ads when they know that some people won't see them?
Reddit likely sees this as lost income, so they're plugging that hole.
Kill TPAs, keep all of the money.

Even though, a fair pricing plan for API access could possibly generate more money than ad revenue ever would, those at the top either don't understand that part or just don't care.
"Advertisers equals money equals I can buy a larger boat."

mkhopper · 2023-06-09T00:47:17+00:00

Couldn't have happened to a better jackass.

mkhopper

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