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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the point is more that without the serial comma, the last two items in the list aren't separated like the others, which (imo) feels like omitting the last bullet point in a list.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, this is gold. I'd like to think I fall more into the pedant category (except when something actually matters; then I lean towards moron).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Northern Territory has what's probably my favorite Australian flag. Idk, that shade of brown is just really cool. It's like candy.

I want to eat the flag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

…Who exactly is asking for this? AI chatbots are cool and all, but I have no idea why you'd want them in your messages app. What would you even need that for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oop, forgot to post the symbolism. Just posted that in a separate comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

When I was going through redesigning all of the U.S. state flags, this is one of the first designs I made. Here's the symbolism:

  • The colors are reminiscent of the orange, white, & blue pattern used in many of New York's state flag.

    • The blue has been replaced with the purple of the Iroquois flag.
  • The white shape in the center holds several meanings.

    • It resembles a crown to represent New York being the Empire State.
    • It points upward to represent New York's motto: "Excelsior" ("Higher").
    • It looks somewhat like tall skyscrapers because duh.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is my take on a flag for Kbin, a fediverse thread aggregator like Lemmy (and the one that I use). There isn't that much to the symbolism behind it. There's magneta because there's magenta in the logo, and there's a slash to go with the shape of the logo.

I also used this flag for the icon of this community's Kbin equivalent: @vexillology.

 
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What's that even supposed to be? Even ignoring it's… distinct shape, it seems like it was just a bad idea from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I was going through redesigning all of the U.S. state flags, this is one of the first designs I made. Here's the symbolism:

  • The colors are reminiscent of the orange, white, & blue pattern used in many of New York's state flag.

    • The blue has been replaced with the purple of the Iroquois flag.
  • The white shape in the center holds several meanings.

    • It resembles a crown to represent New York being the Empire State.
    • It points upward to represent New York's motto: "Excelsior" ("Higher").
    • It looks somewhat like tall skyscrapers because duh.
 
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While I'm never a fan of coats of arms on flags — displaying the coat of arms is what, well, the coat of arms is for — this is actually pretty solid. The background is a Scottish flag with swapped colors, which makes sense given the province literally being called "New Scotland", and the royal arms use a small set of colors that go well with the rest of the flag.

 
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, having posts automatically upvoted by OP would be great. I think that Lemmy automatically starts with an upvote count of 1 regardless of OP's vote, so I think Kbin should do the same. I get that Hot is meant to factor in activity and time, but it just feels super off for the only post in the past month to not appear. Surely a post that was made an hour ago is hotter than a post was made weeks back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Given that we're so small at the moment, why should a post need an upvote to be at all visible on the default sort? It can the only post of the past two weeks, but if there's no upvote, it doesn't get seen. It's very impractical.

And even if we go with this logic, why should the criterion for a post being seen be whether OP remembers to upvote their own post? It doesn't make sense. If you think that posts should only be seen if someone opts to go through new and give it an upvote (because otherwise it's not a "hot" post), OP shouldn't be able to do that.

Right now, we have a system where a major factor in post visibility is, "Did OP remember to click the upvote button?" It's just not beneficial.

 

This has been an issue since the beginning of Kbin tmk, but when you make a post, it won't appear under sort by hot unless it has an upvote. This means that if someone forgets to upvote their own post, it just won't appear on the default sort. There are plenty of posts I've missed because of this.

Any idea when something like this might be changed?

 
 
 
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I thought this recent Hard Drive article was pretty funny, so I figured I'd post it here.

 
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