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UBC New President, Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon (lemmy.ca)
 

He begins November 1, 2023. Thoughts?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit-Antoine_Bacon

Canadian teen accused of vandalizing 1,200-year-old Japanese temple: local media | CBC News in c/canada@lemmy.ca
I think affiliate links should be banned or restricted from this instance in c/main@lemmy.ca
[โ€“] yjk@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While we're at it, can we ban amp links and other url tracking in general?

No punishment for doing it, but maybe have a bot to remind people.

To clarify, I'm not engaging in whataboutism, I think both of them should be banned (though maybe sometimes affiliate links have their place).

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UBC/Science Advising, and the Academic Calendar (www.reddit.com)
 

What are your experiences with trying to get help through Science Advising/using the Academic Calendar to get answers? Personally I've never used Science Advising and found all of my info through the Academic Calendar. Inspired by the linked reddit post.

[New Rule discussion] No Editorializing Article Titles. The original title of the article must be used. in c/main@lemmy.ca
[โ€“] yjk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mean to be nitpicking but if the rule is zero-tolerance I think we should clear up the edge cases. I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

  • What happens when the original title is misleading or clickbait? Personally I like how HN handles things in this case (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
  • How about if you want to ask a question about a news article as the main focus of the post, but also want to include context about the article?
  • Or if you're making the post to discuss a related topic, and include multiple articles?
  • On that note, what even counts as a news article? What if I post a link to a reddit thread about a news article?
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UBCO Engineering Prof caught doing fake research (forbetterscience.com)
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MATH/STAT having relatively high (76?) second-year admission average (www.reddit.com)
 

Was going to post a reply on reddit but realised that maybe you guys have thoughts on this situation.

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UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2021/2022W & 2021S) (Lemmy Copy) (www.reddit.com)
 

Will not repeat the body text. I'll crosspost questions here that I answer or might be answerable by lemmy's population (mostly CS program questions).

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Why do you use Lemmy? (lemmy.ca)
 

Title. With the ubc subreddit opening back up again it'll probably be much harder to enough of a network effect going unless we have some coordination with the reddit mods.

Personally I'm trying to transition away from user-hostile software and minimize my exposure to proprietary software in general. The reddit API changes didn't affect me personally but I don't want to support the company by continuing to use it. How about you guys?