14159th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

[tutuu]

U cant fool me im a genius

[Atlas]

@Daeron

[katze]

thread presence is cute but there arent very many benefits to enabling it for mafia games. but it did lead to amusing moments and as a social feature it is v good

it existing as an optional tag (primarily for cookie thread) is an ideal world; but there’s no world where the staff should willingly reenable it while a known exploit still exists and if i had to guess it might be a discourse issue outside of zugs power to fix (but i might be wrong there)

i dont think likes are really that bad for mafia games tho? theres obviously some potential issues but but honestly having a button to like acknowledge “ive seen this post” without making a post is immensely underappreciated

im sure if someone wanted to abuse tf out of likes they could but to be blunt if someone wanted to cheat in a mafia game i think using likes is… one of the worst ways to do it lol

plus removing likes means you’re basically killing willow and soweli. this is a consequence that i believe some people would take issue with. although now that i say it out loud, maybe it’s a good idea

[soweli]

@katze

plus removing likes means you’re basically killing willow and soweli.

Ash would survive because he is built different

[katze]

anyway i opened cookie thread to laugh at how soweli was reading an old ass thread based on her liking a bunch of my posts from it but it turns out it had sparked from cookie thread discourse which is amusing

@soweli

Ash would survive because he is built different

he’s got gacha he’ll be fine

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

@Arete

I read an excellent research paper last year that goes over this issue in much more depth

the authors’ position has issues (they spend far too much time talking about the logistical challenges of making this kind of architectural change to the website, which orange or any of the other nerds can tell you are actual relatively easy changes to make), but they brought up some valid points that I’d like to share

first, Eliza liking posts brings up the general morale of the forum, since most people appreciate the small surge of dopamine received when they receive a like, so limiting her likes would be detrimental to the overall site morale

second, the site crashing due to an integer overflow as a result of Eliza liking too many posts is extremely unlikely to occur, as there must be posts to be liked (i.e. even though Eliza is capable of liking so many posts that it crashes the site, there must first be that many posts in the first place)

third, even though such a change is ‘just a prank bro,’ and would be reverted after a 24 hour period, studies have shown that Eliza can experience withdrawal symptoms when she’s unable to instantly like posts, which would be extremely detrimental to her health

[tutuu]

Ooh yes i should open the thread

[ElizaThePsycho (Willow)]

this is still so peam

[Atlas]

None will be as good as the first one. You can give up if you wanna.

[Atlas]

[I’m out of ideas and thus I will not be winning the next ones.]

[soweli]

yea i like liking posts for a lot of reasons but you can (theoretically) just simply not like a post & you’re also like. pretty aware of what liking a post means to people at least angleshooting-wise. ok i admittedly got a little bit concerned about which posts i was liking in beatings 5 but. Whereas typing isn’t discrete & it’s also really hard to not form ideas of what town/mafia’s typing patterns are like and thus you are kind of bound to appeal to them

[May]

@Arete

sorry if this is a stupid question, but have you tried waking up in the morning, showering, eating breakfast and getting to school/work on time? to my knowledge these are the principal elements of what makes a functional human being in today’s society and I think you would benefit from setting aside some time to make sure you do all of these things correctly. you don’t have to get everything perfect, just start with Mondays until you feel like you can add more days each week

(this is a joke btw)

[May]

I was sooo overthinking about likes in beatings 5

[tutuu]

I was lurking in fam4 at eod and then i accidentally liked a post that made me laugh and then i quickly unliked but i got worried i got seen so I forced myself to post and i got executed. Its not hard to misstap on mobile while scrolling. I had one of my posts liked by Litten who was a spectator in a recent game while I was alive, on accident im sure

[soweli]

i have somehow deleted posts on accident at least twice so yea fair

[Atlas]

bleh i hate my roleplay post from drabble duel

[Atlas]

it’s unreadably bad

[Atlas]

i mean the post that was written as a roleplay post, not the act of roleplaying posts which is kinda the whole concept

[Atlas]

hold on im not stable and exhausted but

[May]

@katze

i dont think likes are really that bad for mafia games tho? theres obviously some potential issues but but honestly having a button to like acknowledge “ive seen this post” without making a post is immensely underappreciated

Yeah I think the only one that really matters in practice is how easy they are to misclick