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What do you do when your favorite programming language has a fascism problem?

Addresses how to respond when a programming language community faces extremist influences.

Heating

68

signal score

as of 2d ago

Too early

trajectory — needs a few more snapshots

Why this scored 68

every term, weighted
Velocity+38.3 / 40 max

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+19.8 / 25 max

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25 max

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+10.0 / 10 max

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.0 / 30 max

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite68.0

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Signal history

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