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  • ax1900krOP
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    142 years ago

    Getting recommended months and years old posts

    • @[email protected]
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      232 years ago

      That’s not what nefarious means.

      adjective: nefarious (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal. “the nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates”

      • @[email protected]
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        -202 years ago

        I never understand people who obsess with words instead of language itself, not trying to disrespect you, but it’s like you are trying to prove a point or go in too deep, when the answer is very simple. It’s all about the context. You can safely say it’s criminal to show a month-old post in “Hot”.

        • @[email protected]
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          182 years ago

          Except that nefarious is not a direct synonym for criminal. Nefarious has a subtext of specific underhanded malicious intent, whereas criminal doesn’t have the same intentional connotations.

          If one were to read about a “Criminal website”, it might have instructions on how to make a bomb or something like that, whereas a “nefarious website” is likely to be read as looking normal but stealing your information.

          By calling the sorting nefarious, OP has (likely) unintentionally implied that there is an underlying sinister reason for the issues, which is not likely to be the case.

        • @[email protected]
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          102 years ago

          I guess I’d want to know if I was using a word incorrectly. I understand what they’re trying to say, but nefarious doesn’t make sense in this context. Maybe my pedantic correction prevents them from looking dumb in the future.

        • HamSwagwich
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          72 years ago

          Because words have meanings? If words just mean anything you want them to mean then they mean nothing.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      I’ve been living in “Top # hours” for this reason. Active and Hot are weirdly…not.

    • Madbrad200
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      72 years ago

      Change sorting. “NewComments” and “Top x” are better than Hot and Active atm