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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by o11c on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:31AM (#44948536)
Ironically, I've replied to several people using physical thumbs up/down recently. This can be caused by several variations on voice not being viable at the moment:

* sore throat

* eating

* having another conversation

* context demands silence (often requires the question to be nonverbal somehow, but not e.g. if the context is "sleeping baby right next to me")

* noisy room (often asymmetric)

* target is deaf

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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by viridian on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:28AM (#44950397)
I use nonverbals frequently as well, but I think what 0xDEAFBEAD is getting at is more like if everyone were to walk around with a touch display hanging from a lanyard where you could like or dislike every comment. The simulacrum would cheapen the real experience by its very presence.
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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by 0xDEAFBEAD on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @12:44PM (#44953533)
Exactly. These metrics are supposed to help filter for "quality", but popularity isn't that great as a proxy for quality, and the metrics have the side effect of turning social interaction into a constant status competition.

https://xcancel.com/AliceFromQueens/status/11280356337279303...

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