fedosyndicate

The problem is scaling. If it takes say, 30 seconds per name, but the number of n is very large, then if you ban say, 1000 dudes a day then the 30,000 seconds becomes a requirement of 8 hours of mod explanations (collectively) per day. It's a scaling issue, in short.

These guys are even more paranoid than many smaller instances about user names that appear to be randomly generated. Your own user name, as others in this thread suggested, would easily trigger their auto-ban rules. And a human moderator would take one look at the name and think the same thing.

God damnit, it took me until now to actually read their username. It's the youtube URL for the rickroll video (ending in XcQ). I think you're right though - it was obviously autogenerated originally and only took on its current meaning via Youtube's use of the string.

I didn't realise this was a Political Compass thing but the colors of the backgrounds check out

I remember installing PC adblock just for Wowhead because even though they have great info (just about all the quests and dailies in WoW) they have so many ads and video popups. Haven't really looked back since.

I haven't gotten around to doing adblock for my phone, and so whenever I do visit those sites, I get really annoyed by everything.

It's funny, many wikis moved off then-wikia to Curse's Gamepedia family and then they just merged back again, kinda sad :(

To anyone that hasn't seen the mythbusting thread it was pretty damn shocking: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yxqq9S14NxbCQBDfO0lq3xYL8IWrGLSeE47u7X1sUVo/pub

Well, Germany is officially a Federal Republic, it does make some sense they would join a federated universe :)

Well, I guess we know he's been doing some weed already. ;)

One thought that's already occurred is more dedicated efforts to grow communities that are useful to minority individuals or may attract them to use this site.

That sounds like a great idea, although not without its challenges (as an example, finding people both from those groups, and also willing to invest time into the community as leaders/mods). It would be very hard to found a community like that without finding someone who closely knows what that community needs and what would draw the group to a given social media platform; but if the process was done right their participation would certainly be a big draw for the site!

[edit: on re-reading, the sentence that followed it that said "I think there's outreach to be done" is clear, even if I think the words could have been ordered better for flow, and connect this more directly and closely to the "unfortunate" comment.]

The charitable interpretation of it is that we need to be intentionally welcome and aware of POC in the community

~~Yeah, I think as written it implies too much to be interpreted unambiguously. I agree, the charitable interpretation is "we need to do more" but that's an inference that is drawn from my pre-existing understanding of beehaw's management and vision, and maybe a sprinkling of trust in their intentions.~~

~~Without explicitly stating "unfortunately we failed to reach minority communities," my feeling is that it leaves a lot of room for accusation of other parties for the "unfortunateness" of the situation or misreading of future intent, and personally I think that just leads to unclear communication.~~

Yeah, video ads are the popup ads of our days. Just as intrusive. Money corrupts :(

Heartily recommend this Computerphile video with some history and background about Ethernet and a bit about where the name came from!