Nope, you just can't put your finger on what's distinct now and you lack the contrast of what the future brings.

Hair styles, fashion, design, colors, music, phones and other devices, all of that will be different in 10 years.

Remember, facebook was all the rage in a different era and is now uncool. Same for twitter. That's era defining as well.

Besides, it’s GTA, it’s not like they’re gonna break much new ground in terms of gameplay mechanics that need to be kept secret.

Why Would You Say Something So Controversial Yet So Brave?

Honestly, I think it's relatively simple: eeeeveryone and their dog signs an NDA. The people working on it are excited and have to bite their tongue every. single. day. and they are waiting for the release where they can just talk about it.

Then some douche with access leaks it and so all that effort goes to waste, and they still can't talk about it, because that would make things worse. Also, if someone says something negative, they can't show the positive and defend their work.

You want some kind of decay function for when that engagement happened.

The rest is sort of up to you and depends on your math intuition a bit. If you do something like total (votes/10.000)+% relative stuff will weigh heavily until you get close to 10.000 then the votes will dominate no matter how positive the post was. But the 10.000 is arbitrary.

My advice would be to create some fake data that are plausible scenarios, (well liked, low vote), (lots of votes, medium %), (lots of votes, but old) and then you experiment with some functions and curves until you find a mix you like.

And to reward you, we’re giving you 24-hour visibility

(which is nothing special; there are 6 slots available for this visibility every day of the year for various Steam invitations).

He has no clue what he's talking about Steam in 2021 had 69 MILLION daily active users. WTF do you think is a bigger number 130.000 wishlists or getting even 1% of 69 million people to look at something in the reel?

People don't understand the size of steam or the value of that space (that one of six slots) sometimes. It's wild.

And also, THEY noticed, THEY informed him, THEY apologized, and THEY offered some form of compensation, which they legally don't have to.

I am soooooooooooooooo tired of indie devs blaming everything from the constellation of the stars to the quality of the donuts on a different continent for their game not doing well, except that maybe the game isn't that good, and also those 100.000 already sold units is the actual size of the market for that game.

Also, Hanlon's Razor applies to individuals.

A small child dropping a glass? An adult causing an accident? Sure, that's incompetence.

A company shipping a bad product that kills people? Malice, and Greed. They could afford someone to check that people don't get hurt, they profit from the misery.

Teen was third employee of city bike safety center to die in bike crash

Ah yes. It's not that A CAR crashed into her, it was a bike crash.

/s

Awful. Just awful that this keeps happening.

Bold of you to assume people have perfect knowledge of what they installed and what they use and how much.

Mastodon dot SOCIAL did, the big public instance. Mastodon the software doesn't have these restrictions.

2025 is a banger year for open source and internet freedom.

Also, updates.

"hey computer! Update!"

"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"

"y"

"ok... done!"

👌

I'm not applying but I have a comment / suggestion:

A pattern I'm seeing here, in activism and open source is that you basically want the full package right now. While I understand that that is what you need, people like that don't grow on trees.

It would be good if there was a "trainee" position for people to gain the kind of experience you are asking for. And guidance, by you to make sure they learn the right lessons. Possibly including a private-ish best practices handbook or whatever. I know that that means additional work in the short term.

Thanks for reading, all the best wishes!

(Compare to linux' kernel team asking for kernel devs and the policy of "pick any topic you'd like to work on". Do I expect a fully course on everything, bringing me from "high school knowledge" to "kernel dev professional"? No, of course not. But a few book recommendations would be great. In that case. Not sure if you can learn moderation from a book.)

Ah yes. Work that tracks you, not by your output, but by whether your mouse jiggles a statistically correct amount. Nice.