I’d argue that blocking people, even over petty disagreements isn’t exactly wrong. I am a strong believer in curating one’s own experience, which is generally the consensus on platforms such as Tumblr; and arguably the biggest strength of strong tagging systems.
With this particular post, I don’t know if I’d say it’s ‘power tripping’ per se, but more of an unfortunate byproduct of a particular user’s outsized presence.
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Yeah, that’s true. Thinking about it more ‘just block them’ only really works if they aren’t most of the platform. I make most of my posts to encourage discussion, and I don’t see repost bots doing much to that end.
I promise 🙏 forgive me?
Oh yeah, no, that shouldn’t happen.
sorry, my page reloaded while editing and I assumed it hadn’t sent.
Does blocking not work? I’m not the biggest fan of repost bots myself, but they exist for a specific purpose (however tenuous their ability to achieve it may be.)
Does blocking not work? I’m not the biggest fan of repost bots myself, but they exist for a specific purpose. There are times when you have to take efforts to curate your own experience, also.
Makes sense, they were in dire straits before Morrowind, and well, Microsoft is Microsoft.
It was an assumption based on the only similar staff perspective I have heard of, my apologies.
I can only go off of what I’ve heard directly from Bethesda devs, who from what I’ve seen generally have the attitude of ''he is a great boss who has been given too much to handle as the studio got bigger." You’re probably referring to the ‘seagulling’ post which, afaik, was a 4chan post without a source.
From what I’ve heard, Bethesda and Obsidian have always been great places to work. I hope Microsoft isn’t ruining that for the devs. Hopefully the increasing union presence in Microsoft will bring worker interests back into consideration.
“I wonder what will happen if we put all of our eggs in the same basket?” - Famous basket-dropper.
I’ve always struggled while drafting how to reduce email fingerprinting. I know so few reliable alias providers, and many of those end up on blocklists. I’ve been considering a layered approach with a domain tied to my real life identity, and aliases for things not tied into my real self, but I’m not sure how to solve things satisfactorily.
Did they? I was under the impression that was just the only real option at the time, not that they had any real love for the engine itself.
I’m usually a strict advocate for Bethesda keeping the Creation Engine in use, but for a spinoff by a different studio? I wouldn’t mind seeing how a different approach turns out.
Absolutely, it’s wild how thoroughly these people manage to debase their stations.
I’m not sure I like the idea of equating public servants (as misleading a term that may be in this case) to celebrities. I’ve never heard of either of these people outside of the realm of politics, and it just seems like that alone shouldn’t qualify them as such.
Yes, sexual harassment is unethical.