I think that was their point. If not, it’s a good one. The argument could be made that the devs think that their experience, though lesser than BG3 in scale is equal to it in overall value, when you add in quality of writing, worldbuilding, game mechanics, etc.

I think that’s unlikely to actually play out in practice, but it’s perfectly consistent with what they’re saying here.

By analogy, I could buy a setting book like Paizo’s Lost Omens: Shining Kingdoms. Or I could buy an adventure like Claws of the Tyrant, and there’s no particular reason to expect the former must cost more than the latter.

They’re partly trying to put a good spin on it, but I really appreciate that most of this article is trying to be transparent and open about the fact that their game just isn’t the same scale as BG3.

you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work

The truth is I don’t want “top month”. What I really want is “best result, filtered by this month”. But unfortunately that doesn’t exist, and in the absence of that, I use “top month”.

There’s this meme of ‘why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of’.

That’s just Gell-Mann amnesia applied to chat bots.

It is incredible how docile the cat was during that whole thing.

This doesn’t have anything to do with sort ordering though, which is based on time and votes. Text search is just a filter on top of sorting.

That doesn’t feel like how search should work. It should be ranking results that fit the search query better higher than ones that fit it less. Regardless of how the search is done, that should remain true. So if you’re using trigram matching, instead of a binary “does the comment contain 80% of the trigrams in the search query”, it should be “if it contains 100% of the trigrams from the search query, rank it higher than something with 90% match, which is higher than 80%.” Or maybe not that precisely, but something so that more relevant results appear above less relevant ones.

Without doing something like that, it’s just…not very useful. Which is the observed behaviour of search on Lemmy right now which started this whole conversation.

Eh, I don’t think it’s that surprising. Getting a list of comments on a post vs getting them from a search term are very similar operations, so it doesn’t make too much sense for these to have different queries in the backend

Sure, but one would have thought that the ordering in a search is fundamentally different from the ordering in other places. Because you want something that contains the words you’ve searched for near each other to appear ahead of a post that has those words scattered at random because it’s a 500 word essay. You want exact word matches prioritised ahead of entirely unrelated words that include the same characters. Like “enum” should turn up your comment, but rank a comment that contains the text “renumbers” much more lowly. A particularly smart search page might keep “enumerate” high while rejecting “renumbers”, though.

Of course, it’s true that at least in the current latest release, Lemmy fails at all of this. I hope 1.0 is at least fixing some of it?

the subreddit’s spam queue

Oh that’s really interesting. Tbh I had forgotten that existed. As a moderator I never looked there. I would only ever look at modmail or at the modqueue. Partly because those are what Toolbox surfaces.

There are a few possibilities.

Shadowbanning is a Reddit feature where you can see your comments, and mods of subreddits you post in can see them, but nobody else. Mods can manually approve it, but usually won’t (in part because they won’t usually even see it unless they happen to stumble across it: it’s not displayed anywhere for them to check). If anyone other than you tries to go to your profile, it will appear as though your account does not exist.

Automod is very popular. It can remove things based on keywords or phrases, based on the age of your account, or based on how much karma your account has. If automod removes something of yours, it is the same as if it was manually removed by a mod. It will be visible to you, but anyone else browsing the thread will just see “[removed]”. However, your account page will still be valid. The redesign might have changed things, but on classic reddit, comments removed by mods or automod will actually still be visible on your user profile, even to other users. There is the option for mods to reply letting you know something was removed and why, but with low karma limits they usually won’t do this, because part of the point is to kerb spam, and letting spammers know they’re not getting through defeats the purpose.

A third option, probably not happening here, is removal by Reddit’s Anti-Evil Operations. This is at least ostensibly manually-reviewed, so if your stuff is removed instantly it’s probably not this. Things removed in this way will not be visible to anyone, not even mods. I believe you’ll receive a message from the admins letting you know, but I’m not sure. AEO has a habit of making really bad calls, like removing obvious jokes or idioms that just happen to contain one or two words that, in isolation, could look like threats.

Slight correction, it’s just inside the studio zone. Studios wouldn’t prefer a place that requires them to pay more!

Yup. You should be paid from the moment you’re required to arrive until the moment you’re allowed to leave. That includes

• Getting changed into uniform, if there’s a reason the uniform couldn’t have been worn in (e.g. special safety gear, full body character costumes)
• Any security or bag checks
• Turning on computers

At least the search function is still better than Reddit’s

I actually don’t agree. This is one area where Reddit’s centralised nature is a benefit, because it makes it super easy for Google to index and return results. On-site search isn’t great on Reddit, but at least Googling for stuff from Reddit works really well.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html#sorting-comments

That’s a page that really shouldn’t be relevant, and it concerns me if it is, because the search page should not be working on the same ordering logic that comment pages or the front page use.

Anyway, I mainly only use the “top month” option as a proxy for what I really want, which is “filter by posts/comments in the last month”, usually because I’m searching for something I saw recently, and I have a rough idea of when it was posted.

Searching by “posts” on Lemmy is actually superior to searching on PieFed, though searching by “all” or “comments” on Lemmy is absolutely borken

Ah, that makes sense. I’ll try to pay attention to which I’m doing, because my most recent search used only comments, but was absolutely useless.

Here’s a search I did just now. Despite trying to restrict it to the last month (“Top Month”), none of the results on the first page are within the last month.

Here’s a search I did just now. Despite trying to restrict it to the last month (“Top Month”), none of the results on the first page are within the last month.

Out of interest, what is search like on Piefed? Lemmy’s is all but useless. Even filtering by “last week” will show me two year-old posts and comments, regularly that don’t actually include the word I’m looking for.

The article says “Mississippi and elsewhere”, so I assumed all sorts of bans were fair game for discussion.

As for your second point, I genuinely don’t really care all that much. Take my solution and require platform vendors provide a parental controls API and require websites and apps call it. From there, whether you legally required parents to set up parental controls, you strongly suggest they do it, or you just leave it there as an option doesn’t matter as much. Maybe different places can have different laws.

The important thing is that parents should at least be given the tools necessary to be able to do this.

Ne t’inquiete pas, je suis un dumb-ass la plupart de temps.

Je suis en train de apprendre aussi le français, la même que @grue@lemmy.world.

It honestly woulda been funnier to clumsily edit the meme in Paint than to sincerely fix it from source.