This is occupying a weird place half-way between satire, and a real thing that could be useful. As a piece of mildly offensive satire, it works as-is; as a thing that could go on a real website, it doesn’t.
On one hand: enforcing high standards can make for much better spaces, and impartial standards are great. There are some kinds of forums where requiring new users to solve a tricky math problem would be really good. There’s a real, major problem with people entering and dragging down conversations that require knowledge they don’t have, and flooding what could otherwise have been intellectual spaces with petty drama.
On the other hand, the way this is framed and presented seems unnecessarily alienating. It sets a high bar, while seeming to pretend that it’s a low bar. It starts with a checkbox labelled “I’m not stupid”, then asks a question which the majority of people won’t be able to solve. If the label was more straightforward about where it was setting the bar, in a way that was respectful to the people it turned away (while still turning them away), I think this could be used on real sites.
The tweet example indicated as “blocked” also points way past “offensive satire” to me; the description of “I can’t use this shampoo” is charitably read as pointing toward a real difference in hair-care needs which isn’t being covered by a business, plus some vent-driven/antagonistic emotional content. That’s not “unintelligent”, that’s more like “exhibiting conflict or cultural markers in a way that makes you uncomfortable”, and it aligns with culture war in an alarming way. (Of course, there can exist sites where posting such things is off-topic or otherwise outside the norm, but displaying it as connected to the ostensible purpose reads as trying to sneak in a wild claim, and the choice of example is bizarre to begin with.)
I notice that ‘ballerburg9005’ only joined today and this is their only post. My probability that this is being posted in good faith is quite low given the above. I have strong-downvoted the post.
To be honest, I couldn’t find any good post to set as a bad example.
The stupidest things I have ever read were from medical studies and on Researchgate. But I realized that this is only so because the bar was set high. The problem is that you can only really be stupid if you understand a particular thing or situation poorly, while still trying to rank yourself as an equal or above others.
If there is no particular challenge to meet, e.g. how to wash your hair, anything said really can be interpreted to have some kind of value to someone else. Even if it only concerns marginal details in the immediate personal sphere, that only fit into mindless consumerist culture, that could easily be solved by taking a more economic and sensible approach.
I will probably eventually replace this with broscience. But it is not easy to find something that is well understood by everyone.
This is occupying a weird place half-way between satire, and a real thing that could be useful. As a piece of mildly offensive satire, it works as-is; as a thing that could go on a real website, it doesn’t.
On one hand: enforcing high standards can make for much better spaces, and impartial standards are great. There are some kinds of forums where requiring new users to solve a tricky math problem would be really good. There’s a real, major problem with people entering and dragging down conversations that require knowledge they don’t have, and flooding what could otherwise have been intellectual spaces with petty drama.
On the other hand, the way this is framed and presented seems unnecessarily alienating. It sets a high bar, while seeming to pretend that it’s a low bar. It starts with a checkbox labelled “I’m not stupid”, then asks a question which the majority of people won’t be able to solve. If the label was more straightforward about where it was setting the bar, in a way that was respectful to the people it turned away (while still turning them away), I think this could be used on real sites.
The tweet example indicated as “blocked” also points way past “offensive satire” to me; the description of “I can’t use this shampoo” is charitably read as pointing toward a real difference in hair-care needs which isn’t being covered by a business, plus some vent-driven/antagonistic emotional content. That’s not “unintelligent”, that’s more like “exhibiting conflict or cultural markers in a way that makes you uncomfortable”, and it aligns with culture war in an alarming way. (Of course, there can exist sites where posting such things is off-topic or otherwise outside the norm, but displaying it as connected to the ostensible purpose reads as trying to sneak in a wild claim, and the choice of example is bizarre to begin with.)
I notice that ‘ballerburg9005’ only joined today and this is their only post. My probability that this is being posted in good faith is quite low given the above. I have strong-downvoted the post.
To be honest, I couldn’t find any good post to set as a bad example.
The stupidest things I have ever read were from medical studies and on Researchgate. But I realized that this is only so because the bar was set high. The problem is that you can only really be stupid if you understand a particular thing or situation poorly, while still trying to rank yourself as an equal or above others.
If there is no particular challenge to meet, e.g. how to wash your hair, anything said really can be interpreted to have some kind of value to someone else. Even if it only concerns marginal details in the immediate personal sphere, that only fit into mindless consumerist culture, that could easily be solved by taking a more economic and sensible approach.
I will probably eventually replace this with broscience. But it is not easy to find something that is well understood by everyone.
just pull something (and quickly) from the Flat Earth Society; https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/259821-flat-earth-society-trolls-elon-musk-claims-mars-round
is a prime example
What about the new quote?
new design without the quote looks fine.
I seem to be having a bug though/ironically am not able to solve it; I got the matrix that is F9 here https://www.dbglab.ru/en/slovar-dannykh/61/130/ (answer is 5)
My function f(x) = 5x³ + 14x² + 8x + 20 → f’(x) + x = 15x² + 28x + 8 + x = 528 is being marked incorrect.
Can you look if there is any errors in the Javascript console? Right click document → Inspect → Console (it is a horizontal tab).