Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they'll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.

Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.

No "it was a different time" excuses wash yet.

No.

There's no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.

Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it's not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they're just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.

...actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don't go to. But that's just them.

I would love to know more without having to actually research who this guy is.

With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)

I think you're pretty much on the money as far as sources go (and on the matter of letting things grow organically while it's still a small community) - something specific about multiple posts though:

When news breaks, it’s exciting, and everyone wants to post. This can mean discussions getting fragmented.

I think @Noit@lemm.ee or @NuPNuA@lemm.ee has been in touch with you about long-running megathreads already - in the politics sphere, at least, these do tend to absorb a lot of the "oh god what's Suella done now" and "but why can't we election now boohoo" chatter. That in turn tends to mean that little things and breaking news naturally gravitate into them, which helps keeps things tidy.

As an added bonus, as a community grows, they also serve a really useful purpose in letting people form a picture of who the people on the other side of the screen are, and keep the pixels humanised, if you see what I mean - which is particularly important when discussing Serious Business like politics, of course.

So in conclusion, I think you should do megathreads in the politics space; thank you for attending my Thread Talk.

That is indeed the system.

Ah, the state of the gender paygap. It's 2023 and still a woman can't be fairly compensated for tanking an essential public service into the ground smh.

Indeed, give them no quarter.

Tories practically exist to fellate the landed gentry - they'll come for yours too given half a chance.

I think this sounds reasonable.

Very probably too little, too late, but hey ho.

Me, personally, I'd one hundred percent fall into the power trap and just ignore it all and jump in the chopper to go and do a bunch of hookers and blow in international waters.

But I'd like to think that better people than me in that position would, y'know, use their power and influence for good.

For my money: yes, you should use an IDE or something like one, but not because you're "missing out" - rather, because a plain text editor will limit your progress.

There are (still!) people around who think it's some sort of badge of honour to only use text editors, but in reality, this means they miss the syntax errors and typoes that we all make because we are human, and end up wasting hours looking for them when an IDE would let them see them.

You wouldn't turn up at a cookery school saying "I'm to still a beginner, so I'm only going to use this pair of scissors" - specialised knives and utensils are part of the chef's toolkit, and becoming a better chef is just as much about learning to use them effectively as it is about memorising recipes. It's the same with programming.