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Wellness Wednesday for December 21, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Agreed that it's difficult to properly judge a comment without its context. @ZorbaTHut can the janitor page posts be tweaked to include their parent comment?

It's actually kind of a pain to do :V But yeah, I'll probably add support for it, it'll just take a while.

You're welcome to open the Context link in a new window; that's what I've been doing.

How is the janitor system working? I actually find it fun in an odd way. I like the hamsters.

I don't really know yet :V Right now I'm just collecting data; I'm planning on going and analyzing stuff to see if I can put something together that's usefully predictive, but right now it's Christmas and I've been kinda busy.

There is a lot of data, though. More than I was expecting! In that sense, it's working really well - I was worried people just wouldn't care and that is definitely not a problem I'm having.

Yah, I'm suddenly reading comments I'd normally have skipped. Might be healthy.

If only it were more gamey. I'd like to know how the algorithm rates me.

Same! I’m curious if I’m in line with the mods decisions. People might complain if that becomes too obvious though who knows.