Jacob Posts
zeroslayer99 wrote...
Is the search system broken at the moment? When I input a specific word it does not yield any results? I was wondering if its a bug. Thank you and waiting for your replyAt the moment forum search is not working correctly, but we just fixed the main site search (manga, doujinshi, etc) at the top of the page, so at least that's working! Hopefully have forums again soon.
Unlike last year, this year I promised to choose winners in a somewhat reasonable amount of time. But first, all participants will be getting an achievement in their profile showing that they participated in the Pumpkin Carving Contest! And I'll be adding it to everyone from past years as well. So keep an eye out for those once we roll out user achievements.
First place goes to Kitom, who won a $50 coupon for the FAKKU store! Kitom has actually participated in every single pumpkin carving contest we have done, so it's about time they won!
And though it wasn't the winner, it's worth showing this badass pumpkin from al202. Boba Fett riding a T-Rex? Fuck yeah.
And of course there are quite a few honorable mentions this year, so check them all out below.
You can see the rest of the entires here. I'd like to thank everyone for particpating, and like I said keep an eye out on your user profile in the coming weeks for your exclusive achievement!
First place goes to Kitom, who won a $50 coupon for the FAKKU store! Kitom has actually participated in every single pumpkin carving contest we have done, so it's about time they won!
And though it wasn't the winner, it's worth showing this badass pumpkin from al202. Boba Fett riding a T-Rex? Fuck yeah.
And of course there are quite a few honorable mentions this year, so check them all out below.
Spoiler:
You can see the rest of the entires here. I'd like to thank everyone for particpating, and like I said keep an eye out on your user profile in the coming weeks for your exclusive achievement!
xknight17 wrote...
I'm having this problem too...it just started recently as well, when i try to read online it goes to the first page then when i want to go to the next page i click the page yet its stays on the the same first page, but the URL says its on page two, then when i click again, it still stays on the first page but its now says page three in the URL, so on and so forth...is it a browser problem? cuz when i use mozilla and try to read online, it always crashes...What browser/operating system are you using?
Asphodel wrote...
Jacob wrote...
You're beard makes me feel so happy...
Jacob wrote...
You're
There are a lot of awesome beards here though. I'm jelly.
No no his beard is so beard THAT HE IS BEARD.
AvatarEnd wrote...
Wearing my sister's christmas gift. also, messy table is messy table.Spoiler:
Your beard makes me feel so happy...
Kadushy wrote...
Waar wrote...
Gotta say, someone giving themselves rep isn't as big of an issue as someone attacking another user's rep. The second link you posted doesn't show what happened, it just looks like a bunch of edited comments made by you.True, true. I don't care, though. It started as a rep bomb for butthurting someone. They then decided to neg me 2-4 times a day until they went for that post. After 5 or so on that post I decided to edit it each time they neg'd me since I knew they were going to aim for that post again. So I left them with a message. I guess they eventually got bored and just stopped.
All in all, hah. Feels good to find out someone being butthurt.
I looked into this and fixed what was going on.
Kona-chan wrote...
Something like this, right?https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?p=3442556#3442556
This is just you losing rep.
OminaeYu wrote...
Dear Jacob,I've been visiting Fakku for the better part of 6 years (roughly since early 2007). I've seen it go through great strides forward in terms of content, quality, and overall site design. As a web designer and administrator, I think you understand the importance of not only content, but also user interaction with content and users' interactions with each other.
With the introduction of the up/downvote system to comments, you should be aware of what is called the 'Fluff Principle', which was originally explained by Paul Graham on his website on the topic of Hacker News (I recommend reading the entire thing here: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html )
Paul Graham wrote...
The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that's too easy to upvote. If someone proves a new theorem, it takes some work by the reader to decide whether or not to upvote it. An amusing cartoon takes less. A rant with a rallying cry as the title takes zero, because people vote it up without even reading it.Hence what I call the Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it.
Hacker News has two kinds of protections against fluff. The most common types of fluff links are banned as off-topic. Pictures of kittens, political diatribes, and so on are explicitly banned. This keeps out most fluff, but not all of it. Some links are both fluff, in the sense of being very short, and also on topic.
I don't mean to exaggerate; the content itself (translated doujinshi etc.) is not up or downvoted on, only the comments, which doesn't have any impact on content rising to the top or sinking to the bottom. However, comments under most content are almost always atrocious. It appears that some people 'gang up' and 'downvote bomb' comments that they disagree with; whether this ganging up is deliberate or a result of groupthink cannot be known without seeing if it's the same users downvoting the same comments. For example, in this recently posted translation ( https://www.fakku.net/doujinshi/sister-paradise-chapter-3-english ), a perfectly healthy download link was downvoted to the bottom for no reason other than for existing.
Users are forming pitchfork mobs out of hate and disgust for content and/or translation groups that they dislike, making it unpleasant for users who actually like the content, and more difficult for them to enjoy the content (in the form that severely downvoted comments are automatically hidden, even if they are helpful; i.e. download links). Meanwhile, unhelpful comments such as sunglasses memes, ASCII macros, and "popular opinion"/"tyranny of the majority" often get upvoted to the top. This type of groupthink has become the norm in the comments section, and while it doesn't bother most people, I think it interferes with the people who just want to enjoy the content presented by Fakku. And, let's face it: Fakku is home to many different types of people, some of whom might be alienated by the kind of vitriolic hate that shows up in the comments for fetishes that are 'unpopular'. I think this is akin to hating yaoi and traps because it's "gay".
The questions now is: how do you solve this problem? There are several approaches to take, one of which has already been mentioned. In order of least to most severe, they are:
- Comment moderation and have many moderators
- Introduce an algorithm that prioritizes helpful comments such as download links
- Eliminate the up/downvote system
- Eliminate the comments section altogether
Obviously the latter two are least desirable, as it would be unfair to all the users who want to express their opinions. I think a combination of the former two solutions would probably be best.
If you want some additional resources and ideas on how to tackle this problem, please read the following discussions:
http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/vqy9y/dear_circlebrokers_what_changes_would_you_make_to/c56x55f
http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/wprzg/to_the_moderator_is_it_too_late_to_reverse/
http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/rbwn4/rank_threads_and_the_frontpage_by_discussion/
Edit 1: clarified that the download link is indeed healthy.
I am also an avid reader of Hacker News, so the article you linked was particularly interesting. In an ideal FAKKU (where the features I intend to implement get implemented) most of the issues you pointed out should be resolved.
For example I will be bringing the download section back. This will provide a page for FAKKU hosted download links and outside download links. It will look something like this: https://www.fakku.net/manga/bird-cage-english/download And from then on there will be no need for comments with download links.
Currently comments are sorted by rank, this is not intentional. Eventually there will be 2 - 5 top comments at the top of the page (sorted by rank), and the rest of the page should be sorted by date. This will at least ensure that new comments have their chance to shine.
But there is still the issue of groups mass downvoting comments they don't like. Unfortunately we'll have to deal with this on a case by case basis and ban people when they game the system (we'll eventually need more moderators).
All in all I think the comments are for the most part good.
mechgouki wrote...
http://i45.tinypic.com/20it9uh.jpgFor almost every day in the past month, most likely the same specific user has been giving me -reps on the exact same post.
https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?p=169260#169260
This post, by the way, was made more than 4 years ago. The same user keeps coming back to -rep me on the same post whenever he can. Now I have -33 reps on that post.
Is this against the rules? Or is this perfectly legal?
You're absolutely right that this was a form of reputation abuse, which is against the rules. The user who did this was hiegen1, and for the record I have no issue outing users who break the rules.
I have reverted your negative reputation, sorry for the delay.
That message is popping up instead of the normal "FAKKU down for maintenance" page. I'll see about getting a better looking page setup.
