The purpose of the fuzzy voting was to make it harder to game with bots.

I have no idea how effective it was at achieving this but that’s the reason.

Yeah but they might also get fired for it and that helps nobody.

I’m genuinely curious, what’s the alternative? Google tries to rank the “best” results, so naturally people try to game that system. How do you design a search engine in such a way that you get the better results without manipulation?

I wasn’t asking for alternatives to Google, I was asking for alternatives to the solution Google offers. Google is the largest provider, so all the SEO is focussed on them - if an alternative became the biggest provider, people would target them instead.

So if Google is to blame for their solution, what is the alternative solution?

I’d be dead.

Probably worth considering that the (admittedly subjective and difficult to measure) quality of those posts and comments has likely taken a big dive.

Sounds like she’s far better off!

In the wider context of computing and technology, “master” has historically often been paired with “slave” as well, such as old IDE hard drives that had to be switched from master to slave depending on which cable they were plugged into on which port of the motherboard. I realise that’s a bit of an odd example, but there are numerous ones.

Anyway, while I don’t think many people have ever used a branch name of slave, it’s entirely feasible to argue that any branch that isn’t master is in some way subservient to it as opposed to the master branch being the most experienced. The point isn’t to debate that the way you view it is incorrect, your view is entirely reasonable and rational but in order to be inclusive we should take all other views into account and in a very simple way, rather than debate the meaning of the word master in this specific context and telling people that they’re “wrong” for feeling a certain way about it, it’s easy to change the word and thanks to the excellent design of git, there isn’t really any downsides to it.

Plex is available in a lot more app stores than Jellyfin or Emby is. I run a plex server for friends but I use emby for my personal consumption. The reason I continue to use plex is because it’s available on all sorts of smart TV’s and semi-obscure streaming devices that Jellyfin isn’t.

At this point, it should be open sourced officially. Look at all the good that came from ID open sourcing the doom and quake source code.

It’s not like Far Cry is a particularly advanced engine with tonnes of secret sauce by today’s standards.