Action Bastard@lemmy.world
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32·1 year agoCause they were annoying as shit, and only a small class of users even liked them in the first place.
Back in the 90s, a lot of forums would also ban your ass if you had an obnoxious signature to boot.
6·1 year agoWhy would we need to do that when there are plenty of Iraqi folk who wanted to do it already?
He’s gonna get poisoned within a month.
Depending on how many gummy worms and their manner of entrance, they will potentially expedite themselves.
Eternal September comes for all sites eventually. Arguably, we’re the first waves of Lemmy’s Eternal September for some folks here.
On reddit, reaching a certain negative score threshold would often hide your comment, meaning that your contribution to the thread would be hidden. As the site got older, karma began to be used as an initial leaping off point for participation in some communities, making down votes socially expensive for casual participants, since that slowed their ability to interact with the more restrictive communities in the site.
Convince some eccentric millionaires that its got an incredible depth of meaning, and only the truly discerning eye can see it for what it really is.
Because it allows for proper prioritization of needs, allows for the better exploitation of our surroundings (as tool using animals), and is INCREDIBLY useful for helping us try to “model” other human’s behaviors and act as social animals as opposed to just being the regular kind.
Probably the most impact “Why” question probably started occurring before we were even human and it was “Why did they do that?”
Being able to understand the motivations of other beings is absolutely fucking incredibly overpowered both in terms of cooperative action with your fellows AND destructive action against foes/food sources.