stephaniek
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A solution to this issue is already in the works! See the comment from lucyPagebound for a cool update 😊
Original post: I've noticed that posts that don't meet forum standards (for example because they're ephemeral like "Reading for my book club!" or lack context like "What?") are moderated mainly through downvotes without explanation, which feels a little passive aggressive to me and maybe discouraging or confusing for new users who haven't carefully read the guidelines.
Sometimes somebody explains the downvotes with a comment about forum standards, but I think it'd be better to have a consistent way to give feedback and deal with posts that should've been comments.
One solution could be to automatically delete posts that reach a certain threshold of downvotes, like -3, with a notification directing the user to a page explaining why their post was removed, reminding them of forum standards, and encouraging them to try again. This standardized message would help create clarity, cut down on conflict, and be easy to scale for a large number of users. And if a user's posts keep getting downvoted and removed from the forums, they can ask for more guidance in the Pagebound Club.
The downside is that some downvoted posts are interesting but upsetting to people who disagree with the sentiment. However, I love the positive vibe of Pagebound, so removing downvoted posts, even if they're interesting because they're contentious, would be fine by me. But I'm curious what other people think!
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A solution to this issue is already in the works! See the comment from lucyPagebound for a cool update 😊
Original post: I've noticed that posts that don't meet forum standards (for example because they're ephemeral like "Reading for my book club!" or lack context like "What?") are moderated mainly through downvotes without explanation, which feels a little passive aggressive to me and maybe discouraging or confusing for new users who haven't carefully read the guidelines.
Sometimes somebody explains the downvotes with a comment about forum standards, but I think it'd be better to have a consistent way to give feedback and deal with posts that should've been comments.
One solution could be to automatically delete posts that reach a certain threshold of downvotes, like -3, with a notification directing the user to a page explaining why their post was removed, reminding them of forum standards, and encouraging them to try again. This standardized message would help create clarity, cut down on conflict, and be easy to scale for a large number of users. And if a user's posts keep getting downvoted and removed from the forums, they can ask for more guidance in the Pagebound Club.
The downside is that some downvoted posts are interesting but upsetting to people who disagree with the sentiment. However, I love the positive vibe of Pagebound, so removing downvoted posts, even if they're interesting because they're contentious, would be fine by me. But I'm curious what other people think!
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
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This book felt like an obscure BBC documentary narrated by a nostalgic British woman ostensibly tracing the origins of dark Christmas tales but actually living her dream of traveling around Europe.
Pleasant but basic, I thought, until the final chapter which examines why and how dark traditions are often associated with ancient paganism, even when there's no evidence supporting that. Her points in that chapter were so strong, they made the whole book worth at least four stars.
The most important takeaway for me was recognizing how people of all times have used horror to create mirth, so it's natural to give a joyous celebration a dark side. "There's too much fun in the monsters for them to be solely representations of a genuine fear, too much joy taken in the subversive excitement of rampaging through the night, whether as a witch, Krampus, or snapping monster... It all seems to be enjoyable, a bit of a scare, a license to be wild for the night."
Ironically, the worst horrors have arisen not from scary monsters, but from bigoted people who condemn dark tales out of self interest, like clergymen trying to retain control. In essence, you know you're dealing with real darkness when monsters are forbidden as evil rather than celebrated, even during Christmas.
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We are in strange waters here, where all the usual considerations may be reversed - where illness may be wellness, and normality illness, where excitement may be either bondage or release, and where reality may lie in ebriety, not sobriety.
I love this nuanced, wholistic approach to medicine, recognizing how neurological conditions can have positive sides like creativity and originality, essential to a person's identity, so the goal of treatment isn't necessarily "normalcy" but increasing wellness, defined by life satisfaction and fulfillment rather than neurotypical behavior.
0Post from the The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures forum
1000 years ago, women dreamt of powerful nights spent running free, reveling in the darkness with a gang of other women, drinking, carousing, maybe even murdering, all while it seemed they were asleep next to their husband.
Can we trade in Santa Claus for Holda? Because this is really all I want for Christmas
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[Saint Lucy] turned down a suitor because she had promised her virginity to God. Sounds like Lucy was desperate to avoid a 4th-century hetero marriage because she was queer or tired of men. But sure, let's call her a saint.
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Didn't expect to be so touched by these stories! I love how Oliver Sacks explores the meaning of life and identity via neurological anomalies like retrograde amnesia.
But empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being. Perhaps there is a philosophical as well as clinical lesson here: that in Korsakov's, or dementia, or other such catastrophes ... there remains the undiminished possibility of regeneration by art, by communion, by touching the human spirit: and this can be preserved in what seems at first a hopeless state of neurological devastation.
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Didn't expect to be so touched by these stories! I love how Oliver Sacks explores the meaning of life and identity via neurological anomalies like retrograde amnesia.
But empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being. Perhaps there is a philosophical as well as clinical lesson here: that in Korsakov's, or dementia, or other such catastrophes ... there remains the undiminished possibility of regeneration by art, by communion, by touching the human spirit: and this can be preserved in what seems at first a hopeless state of neurological devastation.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
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The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Sarah Clegg
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The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
Sarah Clegg
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Very fun! Also deeply disturbing. I'm glad this book is unique because if this format were a whole genre of books, I'd read every single one and be plagued by nightmares, yet regret nothing.
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Very fun! Also deeply disturbing. I'm glad this book is unique because if this format were a whole genre of books, I'd read every single one and be plagued by nightmares, yet regret nothing.
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This book is a peculiar mix of horror and pleasure. It gets creepier and creepier but I also keep getting dopamine from picking up clues and unlocking things, so despite dreading whatever disturbing thing I'm going to witness next, I can honestly say I'm having a great time.
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Sarah Clegg
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