meh

meh

Can’t really give you any good advice, but I have noticed /r/Minnesota has a “Weekly Moving to Minnesota Mega Thread”. Hate to point you to reddit but it seems to be a pretty active sub, and there appears to be a dedicated DMV portion.

I completely agree every instance should be tailored to the needs of their individual community.

It was not my intention to weigh in on the pros vs. cons of downvotes, I checked out the thread to see what others thought of a ‘key Hexbear feature’; the main reason I made the post was to push back against what I felt was an unfair criticism of Hexbear’s content.

Kinda got a little meta as I was forming it in my mind and I ran with it.

anyone can submit an emoji for consideration, it’s pretty rad!

I would have downvoted your comment.

However, I’m posting from Hexbear and cannot downvote; I am forced to type out ‘this is a post that is the opposite of good’. And tell you why, first a brief preface.

I didn’t come here to argue or make waves, I don’t care what other instances do in general, but I saw Hexbear mentioned and I thought I would check it out the discourse.

As someone who has used Hexbear for years, I think removing downvotes has been beneficial at best and not an issue at worst. As others have said, you can still tell the difference between a +25 likes post versus a 1-3 like post, at a glance.

The specific reason I am “downvoting” your post is because you said -

… otherwise wrong opinions that otherwise threaten to poison the minds of learning comrades.

I see this kind of poison frequently on hex bear and frankly it does not encourage anything but low effort, lower the bar emote spamming which does little to measure actual community opinion (a dozen idealists may upvote a bad comment while only 3 people bother to put down bear emojis which are clunky anyways and amount to discourse clogging “same” comments which add nothing.)

I would like to disagree with your description of “poision frequently posted on Hexbear”. I do not know what you are referring to, or what your definition of “frequently” is, the mods there are swift and diligent. This caught me off-guard, really don’t know what you are referring to.

Secondly, at Hexbear there really is no spamming of the “downbear” emoji, infact I forgot we had that until a few days ago, some would say we have too many emojis (+2000).

Thirdly, I am not trying to further the great “Hexbear Rift” with needless trolling, quite the opposite, just wanted to disagree with statements I perceive as false.

I’m glad we are federated, I do like looking at more content. Downvote me to the Marinara Trench, I won’t see it! Thanks for coming to my FED talk!

Valid caveat.

Came here to say learn to cook and always check Youtube before you give up.

Once talked to a younger kid who had just moved out, they were complaining that the cost of a BLT sandwich delivered to their house everyday for lunch was a crazy expensive 9ish dollars at the time, roughly their hourly wage. Yea, of course it is. 7-9 dollars will buy all of the ingredients to make that yourself all week (2015 dollars).

Youtube can teach you a lot more about cooking than a recipe and vague instructions alone. This is a fun channel I discovered during Corona Quarantine.

In addition, always check Youtube for tutorials/DIY videos before you call any repair service, even if it’s covered by your rental agreement. Couple winters ago I was able to kick-start our furnace instead of waiting for the landlord to do something. You can practice on someone else’s stuff before you get your own place; or, if you don’t feel confident trying to fix it yourself see what should be done by whoever shows up.

Edit: and also have a box of cash you never touch, one day you will need it

Entire books have been written on this subject, always know where your towel is.

Sokath, his eyes open.

the Hexbear.net instance got defederated alot recently, I guess that caused a commotion or some sort of hullaballoo.