Would have been better with the opposite, in which the ones with lowest engagement went to the top. It would encourage the bottom end to get more atte...
I found it excellent. :cheer: If I interpret it correctly, it feels like his meditations on his non-action and fear of getting killed in the alley dro...
This was masterfully written. :cheer: As Jamal mentions, it flows all the way until the story ends. It builds up a mystery and unravels into a beautif...
Even if there were polls I think something like that could happen later. Rather than voting while reading and engaging, it let's people relax with the...
The best middle ground would have been the order randomizing each time the page loads. That way it's not based on comment numbers or a set order, but ...
Feels like there's something today for stories that revolve around some form of post-modern take on talk shows. Like the movie "Late night with the De...
I liked this one for its simplicity. It's basically a ranting mind about a single event taking over everything like a Emmanuel Carrère or Beckett stor...
I think it's a fascinating meditation on a form of balance between mere analysis and the experience of art and creation. A form of transcendence that ...
I would imagine anyone living in this to turn in a story of hardship and the torture of existence. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37...
Installing democracy in a nation in which its people follow other moral rules for their politics is impossible. Even if you forcefully destroy what th...
Impossible to in length write out all parameters of a system that governs against what I described in here. Democracy when functioning as intended in ...
It's kind of telling that we globally are tumbling down into two sides of some polarized positions. Is there a logical conclusion at the end of this? ...
This entire thread can be renamed to Pro-American / Anti-American illusions. Because the majority of sub-topics and arguments in here are generally on...
But isn't all those things part of the spectrum of storytelling? Even in stories that focus on the good, that good is held up against the backdrop of ...
I agree with everything there. Trump and everything we see is the symptom of the modern condition. I think post-truth-ideals have taken over from neol...
I'm curious about this though... why? As I tackle things in life, I'll pass on some subjects merely out of not being that interested in them, but avoi...
Yeah, I don’t really understand the reason for it here. This is too personal for a discussion like this. Sure, it can be philosophical, but then make ...
That's why I wrote out both paths, not to propose it is, but as a form of question. You either attribute acts in society that happens out of the psych...
While the two can be different on paper, both are composed of brain states. Both are perceptive and internalized products of physical processes. Just ...
In what way does your concept of justice distinguish itself from your perception of pain? The sensation of pain or perception of magenta is just as mu...
No, but the brain state that produce concepts of justice is akin to magenta not existing as an actual physical color. It's a state of physical reality...
If the imaginary could be summed up as the result of a physical specific state of our brain and its present energy distribution, would that not mean i...
Just like how quantum mechanics basically only form a defined and measured reality when probabilities are in relation to something (the measurement/in...
Mods, rotating between them. I mean, it's probably only four times a year at most. There's not that much newsworthy and it doesn't have to be a long t...
It's very telling of the entire republican party being so ignorant and bad at speaking out against these creeps and behaviors of Trump and his closest...
Adding to this, I would also argue that there is a psychological dimension to this as well; we evaluate the mental health of people's decisions. Outsi...
I still think a newsletter would be good for things like this. Short story events Guest members/speakers/discussions Notable changes Maybe Best discus...
Trump is in a peculiar position as nominating these morons sends a signal to his Maga crowd that he's fighting back against the "deep state", but it w...
Maybe a newsletter? Isn't it possible to have the function to send a TPF newsletter for larger events, changes or stuff like that? It doesn't have to ...
Because they don't know how inflation works. They don't know these things, and since they don't know any of it, they're gullible enough to listen to s...
Originality is also a bit overrated. There's no such thing as being absolutely original, everything in art is a form of remix; the inputs of all you'v...
Yeah, I also think that there's no reason for it to be obscured to people not logged in. Even if you have to log in, the story is already "out there" ...
Style is overrated. Style is just the result of the combination of writing a story and you as an individual. Whenever you write you add "your style" t...
It's as much representative of the people as an election itself. You think they would donate to someone they wouldn't vote for? And on top of that, wh...
The map shows people's donations. There's no candidate voting by the people, the people can only vote on what the Democratic party puts forward. If th...
How do you figure that? It's not about winning the election but who's the Democrat's candidate running for office. Without Sanders, she's third, and t...
The map over donors from the public towards candidates is a pretty clear indicator of what the people want. What the Democratic party then does is jus...
The clearest increase from the 1980s is probably the rise of neoliberalism and individualism. The attention to what things that matters to people chan...
Yes, good knowledge requires perspective out of a larger amount of information from many sides of a topic. We can read short notes on politics and his...
Problem with that is that then the Democrats won't make much effort to do anything and we will have four years after that both cleaning up after Trump...
I think it would be good to have an extension in mind for this already. If the amount of stories turn out larger than expected I think it's needed eve...
As I mentioned, the only negativity I saw was related to the visibility of low score prompting reactions. But a competition can still work without sho...
I'm not fighting the guidelines at all and I'm not really saying that things should change for this year. Only that I think the competitive aspect got...
Yes, but that only tells half the story of the storyteller. The receiver, the reader, the one experiencing what we write is an interplay of sorts betw...
To get philosophical for a minute, storytelling and stories have always been competitive. It's the national story that wins which shapes history, it's...
A good video on the subject of how society transforms into post-truth. As I've mentioned, the key is the erosion of truth within society more than the...
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