u/BlockOfDiamond

What if someone moved to a an exoplanet planet hotter than the eutectoid temperature, and then built their house out of austenite?

Why do some people write:

if (x > 10) {
    return true;
} else {
    return false;
}

Instead of:

return x > 10;

Performance aside, I think the shorter version is actually more readable due to not having as much visual clutter to parse, and is the most direct way to express the intent of "return the result of the comparison."

However, some people write the first version. Why is that?

I have noticed a large portion of posts, particularly from new users, are reposts from months or years ago. Sometimes they comment on their own posts, but the comments themselves are plagiarized top comments from the original post they stole.

Another pattern I often see is crossposts from newly created subreddits, often "shopping" related, whose stated purpose has nothing to do with "oops" related posts.

The purpose of r/oops is NOT to drive fake engagement with low-effort recycled content.

To help keep posts original and authentic, I am considering a few things:

• Instituting account age/karma requirements. Normally I am opposed to this sort of thing, but a LOT of the new-user posts are karma farming bots. New user posts would be held up for review.
• Banning crossposts, or writing an automod script to only allow crossposts from whitelisted communities.

But what are your thoughts on these? Is there anything else we could try?

P.S. Thanks to everyone who reports inauthentic posts. Keep them coming.

Although I could get behind (partial) tuition refunds, I disagree with "student loan forgiveness" due to one simple reason: They are unfair to people who paid out-of-pocket, worked through college, or already repaid their loan. If college is too expensive, college is too expensive for everyone, not for people who just so happened to choose to take out a loan.

I tried creating a world in Beta 1.7.3 with seed 404 but there is no gravel pit in sight. Is b1.7.3 the right version?

A lot of people seem to like AI over Stack Overflow for programming questions because AI will politely answer your question without judgement no matter how "stupid" your question is. But I like the "judgement"! My problem with AIs is that they are "yes men" who never tell me if something is genuinely a stupid question! Like the thing I might be asking to do could be a terrible or outdated idea and I would want a human to say "Seriously? You are still doing that in 2026?" over "Sure! Here is the code!" And if AI is always "overly agreeable" that makes the agreeableness meaningless. But if people on Stack Overflow are telling me something is a good idea, knowing how judgemental they are, I know they mean what they say.

So lately I have been using "Trash" as a removal reason against posts that are totally obvious why they are being removed. The removal comment is just "This content has been removed as trash."

Do you think that is a good idea?

What if you build a house out of solid Fe3C? Would that be a good house building material?