sbagel

> WoW printing $7B per year in profit

Do you have a source on this $7B a year profit figure? I've tried to find it and can't find anything even close to $7B revenue let alone profit going back to 1994.

Loot boxes/gacha games are the modern day cigarettes. Harmful, addictive, marketed to minors and very lucrative. Rest of the world needs to catch up to Belgium and Netherlands in banning these.

The profits being made from loot boxes targetting children are staggering and there are powerful well funded lobbyists working to keep it that way. For some context, FIFA the football governing made $766 million in 2021, EA FIFA Ultimate team (an egrerious example of loot box monetization) brought in $1.6b in 2021. Child gambling is very lucrative.

unless they've changed their policy on this you can email support and say you don't have a phone number and they'll re-active your account, has worked for me in the past.

100% and in many cases communities like HN are worse than sites like twitter because it has upvotes and downvotes which effectively drowns out and silences marginalized voices. You can't downvote or flag a twitter post preventing others from reading it.

I mention flagging because users here regularly flag opinions they strongly disagree with in mass as a way of removing them from discussions to great effect.

HN culture is arrogant and overly pragmatic which is especially egregious when dealing with nuanced topics. At least on twitter you can find takes from different viewpoints of a topic, not the monoculture hivemind created by social sites with upvotes and downvotes.

Zero references of any users suspended or banned in your linked source.

Posts were removed for 'Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made' which is very different from discussing the possibility and calling for further investigation.

> Facebook in February began the ban on claims the virus was man-made or manufactured as part of a list of misleading health claims that aren’t allowed.

During that period with the widespread dangerous misinformation spreading all over socials (questioning mask usage, recommending false treatments etc) it's easy to see how this was caught by that web.

Still waiting for a citation of your claims of 'censorship on their platform on anything related to the lab leak theory for more than a year.' or users being suspended for discussing it, not asserting it, which are very different.

Citation needed. Please direct me to any user or accounts banned or suspended for discussing the lab leak theory. You're the one rewriting history here.

The amount of wildly delusional oppression complex in this thread is staggering, HN has really gone downhill.

On the media 'not taking it seriously' - because there was no evidence whatsoever outside of conjecture and it was being pushed heavily by misinfo merchants. No grand conspiracy. Skepticism is a good default approach to take for info heavily pushed by such sources with no solid evidence.

There were tons of articles and threads on it everywhere including HN, no one was being silenced, give me a break. The oppression complex is really out of control, as if people were being visited by the secret police and forced to immediately cease all discussion about the lab leak theory. It just had no credibility due to lack of evidence. As more info comes to light it's being given more credence, simple as that.

Really seems many want to feel like they've been oppressed and silenced when that couldn't be further from reality, reaching absurd levels of delusion here.

A large contingent of modern sports journalists are predatory in that they aim primarily to get an out of context outrage-bait quote or soundbyte to drive engagement with no concern whatsoever for resulting fallout or hate directed towards the competitors.

Applaud Osaka for this move and hope it opens a dialogue about the relationship between media and competitors and the harms of gotcha journalism to drive engaging headlines as it relates to mental health, especially for younger competitors.

Studying income inequality in the US by gender and age group while completely ignoring race feels wrong when it's such an impactful variable, especially considering it's getting worse over time.

In 2016, the median net worth of non-Hispanic White households was $143,600. The median net worth of Black households was $12,920. Between 1983 and 2013, White households saw their wealth increased by 14%. But during the same period, Black household wealth declined 75%. Median Hispanic household wealth declined 50%.

https://inequality.org/facts/racial-inequality/#racial-incom...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disp...

Users getting so offended by this comment are hilarious. He didn't create this system, if you were in a similar position tasked to get attention for a client or business you could take the high road of not using proven social media tactics and fail miserably. The sanctimonious take that he's a 'manipulative asshole' for playing the system is laughable. Don't hate the player hate the game.

Agree with the 'needle eye' being smaller but

> One could argue that a story that makes it to the front page today is much higher quality

This assumes that quality of content is the driving factor in success on Hn or any social network which isn't the case. Timing, attention grabbing title and an engaging subject are arguably more important.

Reminded of a great NPR podcast from years ago: a man with dark thoughts (about hurting his wife and child) goes to several therapists and is presented with wildly different often polar opposite techniques and approaches to helping him. One therapist even stopped returning his calls. Worth a listen/read.

https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928124/dark-thoughts

These options do not disable executable logging. That information is still collected with all data collections options disabled.

Discord does not give users a choice to opt-out of their wildly invasive data collection methods including logging executables running on your system while the desktop client is open, not just games. This data alone is very valuable.

Comment from a 2019 support thread "I am pretty flabbergasted that people aren't making a bigger deal of this than they are. Discord actively monitors your executables, but the larger concern for people now seems to be its inaccuracy in identifying them as games. As if to say "make it better at identifying games" instead of "stop scanning my programs"."

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600307...

the cookie debacle really illustrated how toothless and futile current regulatory attemps are, the industry simply side-stepped the intent of the legislation and that was the end of it. It seems the cookie notices are annoying by design to guide public opinion against future regulatory attempts. "See what they made us do? Don't regulations stink?!"