@MetaAndrewT. Each new version is a tiny bit faster and has a few more features; a three version jump will be more than an incremental upgrade and the improvement to device security alone is probably worthwhile. If everything is backed up, you're out of warranty, and you'd find it relatively easy to do then I'd recommend it.
What should i do if i have been receiving downvotes on my highly upvoted posts for a few days, the user doing this knows about serial voting and i think i know the user
Consider this: To avoid serial voting detection, they have to vote in a very slow rate. If you're earning rep and participating on the site, you will easily gain enough rep to trump any effects of sneaky serial voting
@mag I had this awesome horrible nightmare inspired by The Broken Earth and Big Hero 6. The metal corestones were like the microchips in Big Hero 6, gathering in impossible amounts and impaling people, who gave a quick shriek and then went silent, impaled midair
You need to go outside that room and follow the train tracks until the junction where the rails diverge (it is close, so don't go far away). From there at your right, you should see an elevated platform with some steps, go there. There's a yellow lever (or switch) that you need to pull and keep p...
From the Wikipedia page on the trolley problem:
There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead,
on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The
trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance
off in the train yard, next to a ...
@Rob I wouldn't be surprised if, if there ever was a real life trolley problem in these days, two years later the person that made a decision would get 'cancelled' because the person(s) they 'saved' did something a part of society find unforgivable :P
@JohnDvorak I should find the studies, I wonder who the focus groups of those studies were.
Apparently it's easier on people with cognitive disabilities, but I don't find it easier at all, the information density is lower which means concentrating and keeping engaged is harder, and the letters seem less solid on the white. I have the script now on my personal PC, but yesterday on the work laptop I didn't...
Heh, yeah, having everything in Dutch would help a lot of people with cognitive disabilities from the Netherlands as well... XD There's so many things that could be done....
I get that people are upset and disagree about the change but I cannot understand why people then take that and decide that the best course of action is to be sarcastic, unproductive, and rude in comments etc.
It common sense that if you want something changed, when communicating with that person, being polite, and explaining your reasoning is the best way to achieve that. Calling names/being sarcastic/being rude just hurts the cause you're fighting for.
I usually do try to avoid calling things awful, horrible, or detrimental and try to come up with arguments for changing them, because that hopefully makes me sound less like screaming 'who moved my cheese'. I've seen your feature request @MaxD, people voting here should probably also upvote that one and write some good answers with good reasons for changing it back. I understand people may be disliking this a lot, and I'm curious to hear if they have any additional good reasons I haven't mentioned yet... but please stop blowing up my inbox with 'yuck's'? — Tinkeringbell ♦yesterday
@Rubiksmoose On the other hand, it seems even coming up with good reasons to change it back is of no use:
Psychologists have been studying the effects of text presentation methods on comprehension and speed for decades, and the information presented by W3C is based on that research. Tons of research has repeatedly concluded that information from surrounding lines of text can interfere with reading speed and efficiency, suggesting additional spacing between lines of text is valuable. That's not even just for people with cognitive disabilities, who struggle more than usual. It is true of everyone. Stop attacking the research angle while presenting nothing of your own. We're done talking about this. — animuson ♦yesterday
@Tinkeringbell Right. But that doesn't mean being rude is the next best step right? I get why people resort to it, but I think moving on to attacks just means the people being attacked are more likely to dig in further and get defensive not be more open to changing.
Fortunately we can now flag those: 'I don't like it ...' or it's wrong, type comments as 'read, and no longer needed' (with differing results, depending on the moderator) and clean out non-constructive criticism - the unresearched, or unsourced, chimer.
@Shog9 I'm aware of this duality and it's a substantial part of the problem. People care, but what they care about differs, and the people I interact with have to act within the capacity they're allowed and do as they're instructed. CMs knew the core audience of meta users & moderators important, but the company collectively couldn't put resources there—the way I recall being told it took someone finding the data that identified highly engaged users to change minds.
@Aibobot ...which I interpreted as they should consider user feedback and make their own decision on whether to act on it or not, and if not, clearly acknowledge that they read the feedback and their reasons for choosing not to act on it.
I've also multiple times dealt with CMs who ostensibly were compassionate toward actual suffering people were experiencing but the company had given them no capacity to act on it (for such a long time as to render any action almost useless, or not able to act at all ever, I don't know which).
I deal with people who do care being unable to follow through on that caring because of other groups that just don't.
@Shog9 Yes. I think reasonable bezel are great! My Pixel 3a has very nice ones that make it very easy to grab onto. I understand but am definitely not onboard with this whole trend of getting rid of them entirely.
@doppelgreener well to a certain extent, there was also (and I think there's folks better placed to disagree with me), a certain... misunderstanding of what made the CM system tick
And while I may be interacting with individuals, ultimately I am waiting on the company itself to show me it is reliably capable of letting those individuals act in the ways I want to see the company's representatives acting.
From the Wikipedia page on the trolley problem:
There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead,
on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The
trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance
off in the train yard, next to a ...
