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Ok, this is an uncomfortable question but it might be worth talking about.

We clean our hands when we leave a public restroom. I hope you all do. But have you seen the floor in a mens public restroom? I don't understand if people's homes look like this, but there is often a puddle of piss right beneath a urinal. We really do live with animals. Maybe it's just the area I live in.

But this is the real reason why we don't eat food off of the ground. People walk into public restrooms and they track that shit everywhere. They have no other option. If it weren't for that the ground would actually be reliably pretty sanitary. A little shoe rubber that itself has only ever been on clean surfaces would be cleaner than any sponge used to wipe a table. I'm not saying we should eat off the ground if we did solve this problem. The point is concern about the ground being dirty is legitimate, but it's worth noting that it is almost only due to the existence of public bathrooms. And even if you never go into a public bathroom it is still a concern because you or your family/peers walked over ground that someone else walked over who had been in a public restroom.

I think it is ironic that we do wash our hands because our shoes probably do more to contaminate public areas than if people didn't wash their hands.

So the need is obvious. The question is if there is a solution that isn't worse than the cure.

Here is my idea. A three station set up against a wall. One is a shallow basin of sanitizer. The next is a rubber mat used to get the bulk of the fluid off. Something like [this](https://jccbs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3625-Bar-Mat-Black-Rubber-18x12inch.jpg-scaled.jpg). The next would just be a standard commercial rug. The rubber mat in between would prevent the rug from getting so wet it doesn't do anything.

I'm talking about 2 millimeters of sani-fluid on your shoe rubber. Would that be so bad? Of course the same people who piss on the floor will never use it but at least now I'm not tracking it.

Women, do other women just openly piss of the floor in your bathrooms? Maybe this is next level shopping cart theory. If you return a shopping cart it means you can build civilization. If you walk into a restroom and just piss on the open floor you can't be in civilization. If you are somewhere in between civilization can exist in spite of you despite your incapacity to create it.

Good idea? Bad idea? https://img.gvid.tv/i/3ouotsob.png

Custom sort admittedly only impacted the front page when I first put it in. Now you can use it in sub and on users.

What is custom sort. It's like 'Hot' and 'New' had an infinite number of babies and you get to select that baby like IVF throwing out all the other fetuses.

To put it another way there's an algorithm and it has factors. How new something is, how many votes it's gotten, proximity which is basically if it is similar to other things you've upvoted. Right, the same as any other site. The difference is I let you control the weights of the factors. It's like if you went to google, and google has two factors they look at, relevence, and "authority" (how much it's from one of the top 20 sites on the internet), and google wasn't giving you anything relevant to your search. You could say fuck you, just give me what's relevent, fuck your authority bullshit.

Soon I plan to add bump as a factor.

Then I also just added hidden from front, which is like "Exclude from all" here. It probably won't get used much but it is there.

And then I just added support in settings for making animated thumbnails still. By default animated gifs are also animated in the thumbnail. Personally I like it. It makes the front page more.. animated. But a few users weren't fans so now there is a setting.

https://matrix.gvid.tv

I thought this site had a top sort? Maybe I'm wrong.

Basically I'm going to be hosting a movie night for people both within and without the voat-verse every Saturday. I know this competes a little with movie goats but basically I don't think it's bad for there to be more options on Saturday and I'm really doing it for folks beyond voat inviting more than one crowd. It's also kind of an experiment on letting the crowd pick the movie from a bigger set so it's kind of a different format.

But going forward you can basically count on there also being a thing on [matrixhub](https://cytu.be/r/matrixhub) on Saturdays. 8:30pm Eastern plus hangout before whenever people want to show up.

If you do want to vote on what we watch I'm just putting the details on Matrix: https://matrix.gvid.tv/c/MovieNight/9jKAkTgV16

You do have to be signed in to see chat. But it should make it easier for people to bump into each other, and more likely that you'll get a response if you say hi.

Increasing the amount users engage with each other is what makes a site fun.