Nice op-ed. I will seriously start filing such complaints with my state's attorney general.

You can't buy anything in Next Fest. It's all demos.

Many people are really bad at detecting AI at that level. And gamers get vengeful. The review process you propose would be immediately overloaded.

I released a game on steam 100% human made and still got a few accusations of using AI in reviews. Who knows how those reviews have hurt sales.

Next time I make a game I'm going to use AI in a way that helps me realize my own vision. It's really not worth keeping a line in the sand anymore since enough people can't actually tell the difference.

Revanced patcher. Totally customize the native YouTube app. Includes sponsor block by default.

Never forget that transphobes targeted a cis woman, Imane Khelif, who won gold at the Olympics. Many of the more prominent ones stand by their bullying years after.

It's always been about making women they view as lesser suffer.

There was a high school that had a thing with student journalists being silenced after uncovering sexual harassment.

Administrators are always incentivized to take the side of the perpetrator. Ultimately, administrators, like company execs or managers will not meaningfully support victims. Don't believe them if they say they will.

Were they? They took one of the most recognizable brands of the century and made something people tend to avoid referring to because it's hard to.

There are lots of good alternatives, just nothing that mirrors Stack Overflow's goal exactly. Lemmy instances, subreddits, forums like code ranch, platforms like dev.to, etc.

Stack Overflow has been nearly useless as anything other than an archive of old questions for a long time. It's a case study in how gamification can backfire.

For me it was over was before the peak as shown. The gamification that got it started in the first place eventually led to it becoming almost unusable for its intended purpose. Instead it functioned as more of an online-only augmented reality game where people worked to moderate away new questions as efficiently as possible rather than actually answer questions.

I prefer gentler hands guiding discussion rather than rigid requirements.

If flair was available on lemmy, it would be nice as an option, especially if other users could suggest it.

They were initially based on research into prediction markets. However that research, while interesting, certainly wasn't able to ...predict... what would happen when highly funded commercial enterprises with massive marketing budgets started pushing them right in the middle of an already growing gambling epidemic.

So, yes, they are now fully gambling apps with little predictive value.

One of the great ironies of these apps is that people are actively demanding they act more like gambling and less like prediction markets. For example, prediction markets require insiders to participate to function effectively. But the people using these apps, and people who hate these apps alike want to ban insiders from using them to keep them "fair". This pushes the apps even further from prediction and toward gambling.

I can imagine adding some more taxes to private education tuition, direct the money to public education. Won't end it but it will help.