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Help me...find some new websites with interesting content to hang out on.

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I'm bored with my usual haunts, and am looking for things that are unusual and quirky; bonus points if there's a discussion board or busy comment section, too. Pretty much "family friendly" only, please.

The original help.com site was always busy, and I don't think for a moment there are fewer people needing help.

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So it follows this new version just isn't being "found" or isn't showing up when people are looking for answers.

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Everyday I want to crawl into a hole and be alone.

I think the "secret" is to always be the most kind person in the world to yourself. Others will be critical, so that's a role you don't have to play. Instead, just always think of yourself as your own favorite child, and think kind things.

- written - voted for by Araz, BananaLlama
Am I asking a question?

DragonLady wrote:
But...I think everyone is benefitted if they wait a few years and spend some time just being grown up and free first.

Agree 100% [/quote]

(nods) I do believe it's important to be 100% free, not "wait and see" free. So that's why I'm an advocate of putting the hard truth on the table right away, letting the cards fall where they will with time and circumstance. When one builds the life they want, the right person to share it becomes easier to recognize.

- written - voted for by Araz, PepperJ
The original help.com site was always busy, and I don't think for a moment there are fewer people needing help.

I think we active members may have another method to help to make it better, but it will take some time & a bit of work.

Each day, we need to each start a topic that starts with "help me"

"Help me I'm bored" or "help me plan a party" or "help me choose a new car" or "help me with _______" whatever.

We can move up in the search engines for keywords if they appear often enough, and "help me" is probably the one most important for people who are really needing help. If we attach it to a variety of different topics, we can be more assured of being found by those who are looking.

- written - voted for by WritetheHeroine, Rockster160
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It's up to YOU. If you want to try to continue it, ask the others what they think and decide what to do from there. Stick with the same group? Start another group of your own? If you don't want to continue, let someone else take the helm and find yourself another hobby.

- written - voted for by Lano
Advice needed.

Change the self-defeating voice in your head to one that never, ever, ever abandons or judges you.

You choose the way you speak to yourself, and when you change that, everything else changes, too.

Instead of "oh, what a loser I am" make it "okay, that didn't work; I'll try again". It might take some time and practice, but you can do it.

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AI is actually pretty cool.

Yeah; as an amateur artist I do know all too well how difficult it can be to get hands and fingers right.

Yes; garbage, garbage out. Exactly...and if it keeps re-consuming the same garbage it previously put out, it will be useless in ten years.

Traffic...well...most websites depend on traffic to survive, whether to sell ads or products. I do agree click bait and deceptive pages are a terrible curse, but I don't see AI making it better any time soon. Rather, I see the day when NOTHING on the internet can be trusted to be real. Worse, many of the other sources of information and news are beginning to rely more and more on AI...thus leading us into a world where the only genuine, real-life experiences are those that are unplugged and off-grid.

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AI is actually pretty cool.

The other problem I see with it is that providing a quick overview of the information available is making it redundant for users to go to the individual websites where that information is stored.

Human makes website, with information for visitors to bring traffic.
AI searches website.
Human sees little or no human traffic.
AI slowly consumes web so fewer and fewer humans make websites.

My son was telling me AI image generation is eating itself, too. AI makes an image of a person with 17 fingers, that image is stored somewhere on the web, another AI bot trains on it...and eventually every image of humans has too many fingers.

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AI is actually pretty cool.

I've asked it for help finding old books I remember from my childhood.

I'm on the fence about it. I like the idea of a supercomputer able to search all the world's libraries and such for answers to all kinds of questions, but I'm against coding for any kind of agency or self-aware behavior. I've never been a big believer in the climate change narrative, but believe if it hasn't been a human-caused problem in the past, it certainly will be now we're tearing up our pristine farmland to install solar and wind farms to power data centers that require more energy to run than what is used by the entire rest of the state. Why did I spend half of my life being told to drive less, use less water, recycle, etc.? All this while being openly warned it is likely to cause the extinction of humanity -and possibly all the life on the planet. Why have we spent so much time, energy and money looking for life on other planets while killing the life on this one?

IDK...but...yeah, it's fun to ask it for help finding info that otherwise seems impossible to get.

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I need help.

I'm glad you're okay!

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is this place still alive?

soco wrote:
I'm still above ground for a little while longer. Original member too.

It's good to see you!

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