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Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by woadwarrior01 »

DEADBEEFC0FFEE wrote: post #125
woadwarrior01 wrote: post #113

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I’d once built a Reddit with tags (or a Delicious with votes) 12 years ago. Never really took off and I shuttered it after 2 years.

I think that could be useful in a corporate environment. Did folk pollute the tags with nonsense?

Yes indeed, cleaning up tag pollution (A half way solution I came up with was to use porter stemming to stem tags) and the deluge of spam were the two biggest problems. It was a bit much to deal with for a solo coder, working part time on the problem.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by WhiteOwlLion »

est wrote: post #92
comnetxr wrote: post #50

I had an idea for a minimal change to improve a Reddit-like site, perhaps you will find it interesting: split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags: much of the content of Reddit is people reposting the same thing at various times to various subreddits, and many of the comments are people noticing that it fits into "r/whatever" instead. The default behavior should be that posts of the same li…

> split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags are brilliant idea until you have tens of thousands of them. Plural forms, hyphens or without hyphens, synonyms, i18n tags of the same thing, mis-spellings, etc.

how does stack exchange do it? they have aliases of tags that merge into the authority tag

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by chongli »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #139
namanyayg wrote: post #135

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I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site. I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?

"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the nex…

Maybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by dharmab »

chongli wrote: post #143
thrownaway954 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the nex…

Maybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.

That doesn't address any if the legal risk.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by Aeolun »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #134

Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers. I get how everyone wants a community that they can pos…

You can pay for it?

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by danjac »

Looking at the code base, it doesn't look like there's any CSRF protection in place. Not sure what other security issues there are but I'd be careful about using this. You probably want some tests in there as well. Overall looks like a promising project but you might have rushed to get something in front of people when a bit more polish would have made a better first impression.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by thrownaway954 »

chongli wrote: post #143
thrownaway954 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the nex…

Maybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.

You do that and let us know how that works out for you.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by 99052882514569 »

TylerE wrote: post #27
kspacewalk2 wrote: post #9

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You're on a site where at least half the commenters are anonymous, and evidently the discussion level here is good enough for you to stay. Conversely, Facebook is not any less cancerous because they have a real name policy. So no, I'd say the least N years have not shown that.

Psuedonymous, not anonymous.

People change these logins like gloves despite what the "spirit" of HN is supposed to be. In fact, an anonymous community that is strictly moderated for quality is better for being anonymous (or at least pseudonymous). If the average quality of contributions is reasonably high, you judge comments on their merit and aren't excessively reverent toward some and excessively skeptical toward others purely based on the contributor's history (and therefore set of beliefs). And people self-censor a lot less.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by Sharparam »

jcims wrote: post #51
throwaway1777 wrote: post #22

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Reddit and Facebook are not a single community, they are many communities some of which have a very high bar for quality, and some of which are a free for all that tends toward low quality memes and trolling.

I found that removing any community of more than 100K subscribers from my reddit experience made it much more tolerable. In the old design you could go to /r/ subredditname /comments and see an ordered list of comments regardless of which post they were associated with. It really livened things up and let you track the conversations going on given that there wern't that many new posts in a given day. That's gone with…

You can opt out of the new design and still access that.

Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/

I have disabled the new design entirely in my user preferences, so I get the old design even if I don't put "old" in the URL.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by Eleopteryx »

cc-d wrote: post #57

yes hello site's creator here there were a ton of technical issues earlier that are now 'mostly' fixed in terms of the nsfw content, the index page is basically /r/all without nsfw. marking something as nsfw in a sfw sub hides the thumbnail. this was posted here while i was sleeping... i went to bed thinking nobody had noticed my previous post and wasn't being attentive. the original post i made to Show Hn was 15 hou…

>yes hello site's creator here

I like your way of greeting

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