You know we have a real problem in our society when these women haven’t been able to come forward with these allegations until the press have contacted them.

If they fear coming forward after being assaulted by someone who is hardly discreet about being a sexual predator, what must it be like for the victims of more outwardly respectable public figures?

Touché

Even if this isn’t the most dangerous of challenges it’s still incredibly pointless and uninspired. Are there any that aren’t?

I’ve not seen a lot of coverage of this in the English press but his mother also shut herself in a church and went on hunger strike to protest the mistreatment of the poor boy.

If the only people defending you in this type of case are your mother and Woody Allen then I think you can safely assume you’re in the wrong.

These challenges are awful in absolutely every way. It’s hard to think of a more senseless way to go.

Are there any social media “challenges” that are actually funny, entertaining or creative rather than just being unpleasant and/or dangerous?

I’m old enough to remember having to do this myself. Unfortunately I’m also old enough to have completely forgotten why.

Yeah, I’m saying they shouldn’t, but plenty of them do. They use geoip or location services to work out where you are and then use that to send you to the local site or the site in the language that they feel is appropriate for that location.

If you’re really lucky they then make it difficult (and sometimes practically impossible) to switch.

Besides the problem you’ve highlighted for countries with multiple languages, you also have immigrants, people on holiday, multilingual people, VPN users… And it’s not great for your SEO either.

The correct solution (as with languages on websites) is to auto-detect but then make it super easy and obvious how to change if the auto detected version is not what the user wants.

Also if any web developers out there are reading - don’t use the user’s location to determine the language/region they want, and especially don’t force it. I have no idea why so many websites do this but those responsible deserve to permanently have small amounts of sand in all their socks.

We’re not entirely rational creatures so even though logically we may know it won’t be the finished product, it can still massively impact how something is perceived. First impressions can always make a big difference no matter how much you try to rationalise them away.

I don’t know what tears of the kingdom is, to be honest, so I can’t comment about that.

I just commented something similar, asking for examples of when piracy is unethical, because I couldn’t think of any myself, but your example of leaking is really interesting.

I can see how pirating/leaking an unfinished work could be really harmful to the creator and I know that would feel horrible if it happened to something I’d created.

I’m not sure why there’s so much acceptance of (and even enthusiasm for) early leaked unfinished products.

I’m not sure I can think of any examples of unethical piracy, except maybe bootlegging for sale as mentioned elsewhere.

I don’t believe that piracy hurts anyone, so I can’t understand any arguments that it’s unethical.