superpowers are s-tier by definition, if one were b-tier it would have to just be a power

I made this simulation to show how effective attraction to a bug light can be an emergent property of a mosquito’s navigation and confinement, even though they are not attracted to light innately.

See my mastodon post.

Thanks for sending me in this direction, its been fun!

At least here in the free world we have to manually build echo chambers and “The Algorithm” does not build them around us without our consent.

a lot of it could be the no-face aspect, we where that a lot

i hope/believe that the intent is rarely malicious, that its not really a significant thing at all on that side.

lol that is a very good point

I disagree about SO, though I am not a fan of it for other reasons. Interesting thought about acting on convictions. Thanks.

I’m not upset of complaining, I’m observing and philosophizing, this has been an intellectual pursuit, thanks for the reply

no

That is the trap, isnt it. Votes are an awful metric for approval, and approval inst always needed.

What? people wont agree with me? LIES! (<-- that is a joke). I’m not offended, and i agree, i here, am a truth seeker looking for insight, thanks!

Yes, although your comment seems to me to be correct, it misses the point of the question, and the actual question has been answered quite well already by others. Surely the format is not in and of itself toxic, and I personally find it a little strange to think of a format as toxic, though I suppose one could create such a format. Rather, the question is weather the format of the website encourages or indues so called “toxic” behavior or leads to the perception there of, among groups of humans using software in the format in question. Maybe because “yearning for affirmation” is a near universal human trait and the format of the site provides its human users access to a convenient but unreliable metric by which they may measure the approval of their peers. Some of us suppress this drive for approval with to strong self awareness or self esteem or lack it entirely due to mental illness, but it is in almost every human, and of course, our need for approval is of course a double edged blade. It makes society possible, and makes us hate to take part at times.

Thanks for the advice

Eternal September

i genuinely love that i had to look that up, and i learned something! Thanks!

Thank you, interestingly the thing that prompted me to ask was a tech joke, all (4) down-votes, I removed a jab at Apple and added a picture and the the responses was positive. The lesson must be one of these: That we have mostly strong apple fans here; jokes need a picture even if it does not add anything; or people look at the vote total to decide their mindset while reading and the first vote was down by bad luck. Or some combination of these.

Maybe it depends on the kind, because when we let mosquitos in and use the bug zapper, we dont get bit. It would have to be quite the luck if it was not attracting them one way or another. It certainly works on almost everything that flies and harasses you at night. It sounds like a controlled experiment is in order.

Thanks for your reply :)

Good Take

Well hold on there, im not tryna praise them. I think we need a free and federated alternative. I only mean to say that an answer always has some verbal feedback on it.

its strange because its not the disapproval that gets me, its not knowing why. I guess the lesson is that if someone did not even say why, its not really something anyone actually cared about.