JohnnyEnzyme

No, I mean…
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I’m European-based, for better or ze wurst.

Like-- what do we HAVE across these matters, eh?

Ah, excellent.

I love it!
However, many of those shows seem to be set in SE Asia, which is generally not the specific theatre we envision when we think of The Dark Ages, right?

I don’t know that I would personally make so many specific conclusions or necessarily group individuals together like that, but… as individual points I’ve no doubt that they do accurately describe various types of thinking and character.

I would also tend to think that if that whole package of characteristics does indeed describe lots of people in academia who happened to want to teach, then they’d either have to work to become better human beings, or get sort of ‘locked-in’ to being shitty, unpopular professors. Which could of course greatly impact their career upsides. *shrug*

@DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works

Apparently I was not qualified to have ideas because I’m not a professional scientist, so it’s guaranteed that my theories are trash right out the gate.

I sometimes get the sense that so much of the harshness of such replies come from active students in academia, not so much from professors and TA’s, etc. Probably multiple reasons for that, but one of them might be that they’re smack in the middle of a ‘this is the right way to learn and do things!’ process and mindset.

Whereas most teachers would probably be much more inclined to say something like “okay, let’s break those ideas down, shall we?” But already being teachers, they’re probably plenty occupied with such, and not as much of a regular online presence. Or something like that, haha…

May I burn in hell, but that’s in my top 3 also, along with Google and WP.

I also remember a version where there was an easily heard male chorus that sang a sort of repeating refrain of “rah-hoo, rah-hoo, rah-hoo, rai!” as LL sang the main lyrics.

In the main versions of the song I’ve heard on YT so far, it’s much fainter. *shrug*

I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you’re just pulling ‘best of’ content from elsewhere.

So-- IMO it’s generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I’ve seen, most community founders don’t necessarily realise that, and aren’t actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).

IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the “ALL” feed. Whereas for example, that’s almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!