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  • morphballganontoMTGMaking Magic - Lessons Learned, Part 8
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    7 days ago

    If Elesh Norn declared they were going to invade every plane, Jin-Gitaxias would have internally thought “what a stupid idea” and then talked her down to only invading 5 planes at a time. He would have suggested they start with those planes that are particularly rich in artifice and zombies, as those would be the most valuable assets in continuing their conquest. He would have proposed they start with just Innistrad, Amonkhet, Kaladesh, Alara and Dominaria. He would advise that with those planes under their control, they’d be better equipped to take on the others. He might even suggest Norn lead the invasion of Dominaria, as a treat.


  • morphballganontoMTGMaking Magic - Lessons Learned, Part 8
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    Me: Okay, the Phyrexians invade the Multiverse. How many planes do they attack?

    Them: All of them.

    Me: All of what?

    Them: All the planes in the Multiverse.

    Me: Aren’t there an incredibly large number of planes in the Multiverse?

    Them: Fine, they attack all the planes we know about.

    Me: But how many planes will we see in the actual set?

    Them: As many as we can.

    And THIS is why the set wasn’t received so well. Who are “them?”

    Jin-Gitaxias would never have gone along with such a poor invasion strategy.











  • My ability to downvote posts in a community should not depend on the mod of that community being ok with it. “This is my community, and I don’t want downvotes” would only be an acceptable attitude if seeing the community at all was opt-in, but it’s not. Everyone sees everything unless they’ve already blocked the community or user.



  • After I participated in the other thread, I thought of a couple more scenarios where downvoting is useful:

    • “this post is low effort”

    Downvoting is a useful feedback tool to say hey OP, I have given your post an amount of my time that your low effort post did not earn. Try harder next time.

    • “we don’t need yet another community for this topic”

    If a person creates a new community for a topic that already has one (or more), to get around the community blocks that users have already put up, that’s functionally very similar to ban evasion. I’m tired of blocking repeat communities. If I see a person make a new community for a topic that is practically identical to one that exists, a downvote is warranted.

    I’m not telling you my opinion should overrule the other arguments here, but it’s better to have all sides present so it’s not just an echo chamber.



  • morphballganontoLemmy NSFW@lemmynsfw.comDo you want downvotes? (POLL)
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    26 days ago

    Yes I like having downvotes. I use downvotes to notice trends of spam so I can better identify who to report/block.

    That site sabotages the back button, fyi.

    ALSO the downvote disabling feature never worked as intended. It only blocks lemmynsfw accounts from downvoting anything, lemmynsfw or otherwise. THIS account could already downvote anything federated.