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Not to mention grandfathered reserves. Redlands University has a contract with the city that it gets an allotted amount of water per year, so long as they use that much. So they do things like run the sprinklers all the time to use as much water as possible to keep their yearly allotment high in case of an influx of students.

If this fairly small college has this deal, I can only imagine what other schools and businesses have similar ones.

Boost for Lemmy does

It is not, when you open the app in the top right there are 2 filter settings. The first filter is top/all, and the second is the card view style, of which there are about 6 or so? The “Swipe” one should be what you’re looking for

Edit: sorry my mistake, it’s filter, then hamburger menu and the setting is “post view”

There’s a good reference prototype you can check, it’s from the early 2000’s featuring its debut in Malcolm in the Middle!

There may be sorting options but it’s not one that I use so unfortunately I’m not sure of anything else about it. Glad to be of some help though!

only a fraction of us are included in the steam statistics, which would make such data not very representative

And since not all users get the survey I imagine even this isn’t as accurate as it could be - I would guess at least.

That’s 12 step. Not all AA is 12 step.

This is true in 2014-2024 as well

Not to confuse you more, but with your phrasing you are correct.

If you’re up for it, or being up for something, you are interested. Similarly, if you’re down for something, or you’d be down for it, you are interested.

But if you are feeling down, you are not up for it.

The former 2, the verb is the action of being ready.

In the latter, the verb is feeling and down is the state.

For example, despite me feeling down I’m down to go out and party tonight.

Beehaw does the same. I’m not sure if that’s been the case in our instance. I don’t inherently disagree, but I’m not 100% sold either.

If there’s a clearly bad/misinformed/rude take, they simply don’t get voted on. They rarely have more than the single 1 vote of their terrible opinion/sharing.

It’s common to see +10 to +30 on a positive comment, with the comment it’s responding to at 1.

I don’t disagree that it could be a bad thing, but I think it’s about the community and its practice surrounding it as well. So far in my experience on the instance I participate in I’ve seen it be effective.

Also I’m not sure if this is a thing on Lemmy but on reddit there were downvote farmers. Downvoting could also actually encourage people to perform these terrible comments to accumulate as many downvotes as they can. Downvoting disabled removed this problem in its entirety. Reddit has this issue long before some of its other problems and it has only grown since, up til I left. I don’t know what the state of it is now, and I’m not sure how big of an issue it even is on Lemmy. It comes down to finding the line between what is preferable.

All in all, I think there are good and bad things about not having a downvote. I do think downvote disabled helps some aspects (engagement, active/trending posts) but it could also negatively influence federated content (spam, bad actors). I don’t think a comment being at -30 is any more telling than the same comment at 1 when it’s surrounded by +30 upvoted comments. However, if someone actively sought out getting downvoted, that can no longer exist.

IMO trading having bad comments be visibly negative in order to prevent the downvote farmers is a reasonable exchange