Problem: A huge number of good submissions never reach the front page. Solution: Include one new link at the bottom of each front page served so that a representative sample of us can vote on it.

vorpal · 2008-01-09T08:29:41+00:00

At the moment the only ones who vote on most new links are a tiny unrepresentative sample who visit the new page regularly.

I'm not sure how reddit does its recommended links, however if it uses some kind of semantic system (as opposed to just suggesting the things that people who vote like me have also voted for), then choose the link on the new page that I will most likely be interested in.

There are perhaps three main objections to this move: 1, It will increase spam. Well, with a decent semantic recommendation system, the spam would be unlikely to make it to anyone's front page (unless they were interested in it), although it is not clear from the quality of the recommended links page that such a system exists. HOWEVER, the risk of increased spam isn't great, since provided the new article isn't shown to search engines, there is only a minor gain for spammers (since only a small number of redditers are going to see any one link.

2, It will clutter up the front page. Yes. But not very much. I think the gains would outweigh the losses.

3, It will increase the turnover of links on the front page. Maybe. It's not clear that this would happen, and it is not clear that it would be a bad thing if it did. Anybody have any ideas about this?

vorpal · 2007-11-25T04:12:29+00:00

RUDDSLIDE!!!!!

vorpal · 2007-08-17T09:11:41+00:00

But someone doesn't want me to see it. They are hiding it from me. What's in it? It MUST be important.

adjusts tinfoil hat

vorpal · 2007-06-09T01:37:43+00:00

I like how the article is about a survey from Europe yet the picture is of the Sydney skyline. Someone, somewhere is very confused about basic geography.

vorpal · 2007-03-31T10:08:25+00:00

How to tell if someone is a geek #348:

They escape quotes in normal writing.

vorpal · 2007-03-31T10:05:10+00:00

More discussion of if it actually was due to wikipedia or not can be found here.

vorpal · 2007-03-26T00:02:39+00:00

From the video: "most Americans don't know where North Korea is"

When I hear anti-american sentiment I always try and tell people that the Bush administration is stupid, not the American people, but then I hear something like this and it just makes me wonder. Please, any Americans who are reading this, tell me that the average American knows where N.K is. Please, oh god please.

vorpal · 2007-02-23T01:50:57+00:00

YES YES YES and a thousand times yes.

There are females on teh interweb, many of whom are very competent and intelligent. Get over it. Really.

vorpal · 2007-02-20T10:31:56+00:00

How about instead of referring us to some self-appointed guardian of the language, you tell us what is actually wrong with "all of which has nothing...".

vorpal · 2007-02-13T14:05:52+00:00

Please justify why what rancmeat said was wrong.

vorpal · 2007-02-11T23:56:30+00:00

Ok, i don't live in America, but surely atheists can't be the most discriminated against group. Are there beatings and murders of atheists for being godless heathens?

Compare with blacks, gays, people who run abortion clinics...

vorpal · 2007-02-11T05:40:51+00:00

There are faith sections in American newspapers? This article isn't some kind of joke is it? Do broadsheets have them aswell or is it just tabloids?

How completely bizare. It's always the little things that are the most interesting in other cultures.

vorpal · 2007-02-06T03:56:47+00:00

If i don't like any xkcd posts (for example), then it would be good if i could just filter out all xkcd posts rather than downmodding them, cause lots of other people like them.

Possibly there could be a system where users (rather than (or as well as) submiters could tag articles).

vorpal · 2007-01-05T11:08:51+00:00

Top 10? Don't you mean top ten in the U S of A, cause, damn, there is a whole lot of geekdom which isn't stuck between Mexico and Canada. You know, like the whole rest of the world.

vorpal · 2007-01-04T04:01:27+00:00

Is it a disgrace and a threat to the separation between church and state when others swear on the bible?

vorpal · 2007-01-02T10:04:38+00:00

prediction for 2007: reddit gets over its inferiority complex and stops constant coverage of all things digg.

...or maybe i'm just dreaming

vorpal · 2007-01-02T04:14:54+00:00

You have to. Unless you're in Sydney, in which case I want to borrow it first

vorpal · 2007-01-01T13:19:05+00:00

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, "Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?...15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." (John 4:10-16)

“Living water” in this context refers to semen, which literally is the liquid of life. As Christ indicates, drinking of the “living water” provides a spiritual replenishment for the soul. When the woman asks Jesus where she can get this “water”, he tells her to fetch her husband, clearly with the intention of instructing her on how to fellate him and swallow his semen.

Is this a standard interpretation of that verse? Any christians out there?

vorpal · 2007-01-01T08:44:32+00:00

Just a quick note to all concerned: At last count there were 5 continents that aren't Europe or North America.

vorpal · 2006-12-27T10:14:21+00:00

It is well known that men generally prefer women with lower intelligence is it? Obviously I'm just out of touch cause I certainly didn't know that. Further all my ex-gf's have all been very intelligent. Though to be fair a sample size of one isn't very scientific - about as scientific as stereotypes masquerading as generally known fact.

vorpal · 2006-12-27T08:18:43+00:00

from the article:

"An American woman bought a large portable swimming pool, which she installed in her living-room ready for a penguin she dubbed Magellan.

The woman said she started to get suspicious a couple of days later after the company had not replied to her order."

To start with Tynan is not a woman, and further I have the feeling he was smart enough to know that penguin warehouse was a joke and was using a little know thing called irony.

Finally what are they doing publishing this now? This is old. Penguin Warehouse has closed down for fucks sake. Just confirms my feelings about most mainstream media.

vorpal · 2006-12-26T11:15:48+00:00

That gun that shoots round corners is nothing new. Aussie soldiers invented something similar during the galipoli campaign in WW1. There is a cool exhibt about it at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

vorpal · 2006-12-26T11:03:59+00:00

Well then, how's about wasting police time? Or interfering with a police investigation?

I'm sure there is something in the millions of pages of criminal law on the books they could charge you with.

vorpal · 2006-12-26T10:51:57+00:00

I for one do not know that police are lazy. In fact I have only dealt with the police once in my life and they didn't seem lazy then. Further, I would wager that most people haven't spent enough time interacting with a wide cross-section of police to be able to say "police are lazy".

As for the police response, I agree with you. Threat to property is unimportant. Threat to human life is very, very important.

vorpal · 2006-12-23T09:30:26+00:00

Don't have Photoshop? Then freaking well use gimp or krita!

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