bravogamma

Thank you, dredmorbius, for this very helpful response. dang has mentioned a procedure or system that involves making guesses for the purpose of shadowbanning. I wonder if downvotes (edit: or post flags) from special users like the ones you mention are used as strong signals in that guess-making?

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Is it also true that users with certain karma count or special permissions have more significant - and potentially lasting - downvoting weight that impacts to the downvoted party's long term reputation?

Do you have get-out-of-jail or N-strikes-and-you're-out policies? What if someone's legitimate website gets caught in this? I've also long wondered about user specific shadow bans. Can you please shed light on this?

Will you share examples for prompts that “vastly improved” your integrations?

Neat. How did you land on the 2000 figure?

Given a paper, how do you find out if it was reproduced, disproven, or failed to replicate?

Based on my quick read, “Why build Carbon?” section calls out just 1 problem with C++ which is the developer experience. Agreed.

However Carbon seems to do a whole lot more than DevEx. It’s practically a whole new language that can interop with C++. I don’t see the point in that. Would be great if someone pointed out why I should change my mind.

Questions for whoever was involved with this decision or might know:

Why was Sourcehut chosen? Any specific appealing features?

Any alternatives considered?

Why do you expect the content to precede the platform?