Well, at least some of my more embarrassing submissions are now gone forever.
RIP Kuro5hin
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Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit is overwhelmingly "normal people". Mean spirited and "toxic" is normal people. Go look at twitter, and tumblr and facebook. They all have the same thing. These sites didn't chase normal people away, they attracted them.
> Go look at twitter, and tumblr and facebook. As much as I despise how close-minded and backwards society is on average, this particular argument doesn't hold. What you see on a social networks is not a likely to be valid data-point for what the average person is like; at the very least it will be heavily biased. SMBC has a very concise explanation: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939 Of course that's just nice a hy…
More rather, people arguing on the internet are moreso what the average person is "like".
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar WildeRe: RIP Kuro5hin
#133I used to post there when I was a lot younger. I'll miss it, but only its early days. It had decayed so much that it should have been shutdown a long time ago.
I used to see some kuro5hin usernames I recognized on Metafilter, but for the most part I think they've left that site (or been purged, you can never really tell).
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that Reddit is gradually turning into 4chan. Every time I see /r/all, it's a little more mean-spirited, a little younger, a little more toxic. Outsourcing moderation and libertarian ideals all sound nice, but when the rubber hits the road it gradually chases normal people away. Reddit just did it it slower because the strengths of their platform and content overwhelmed it... but it's getting there eventually.
I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
I don't really go for reddit either for similar reasons. It's not so much the left/right thing, just the general lack of maturity.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that Reddit is gradually turning into 4chan. Every time I see /r/all, it's a little more mean-spirited, a little younger, a little more toxic. Outsourcing moderation and libertarian ideals all sound nice, but when the rubber hits the road it gradually chases normal people away. Reddit just did it it slower because the strengths of their platform and content overwhelmed it... but it's getting there eventually.
I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
It's funny you mention this, but Reddit was always this way. Nobody remembers this now, but two election cycles ago, Reddit was the Internet epicenter of the Ron Paul reLOVEution that was about to take over the world. That's when I got tired of Reddit.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit is overwhelmingly "normal people". Mean spirited and "toxic" is normal people. Go look at twitter, and tumblr and facebook. They all have the same thing. These sites didn't chase normal people away, they attracted them.
> Go look at twitter, and tumblr and facebook. As much as I despise how close-minded and backwards society is on average, this particular argument doesn't hold. What you see on a social networks is not a likely to be valid data-point for what the average person is like; at the very least it will be heavily biased. SMBC has a very concise explanation: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939 Of course that's just nice a hy…
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Missunderstood parent poster
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that Reddit is gradually turning into 4chan. Every time I see /r/all, it's a little more mean-spirited, a little younger, a little more toxic. Outsourcing moderation and libertarian ideals all sound nice, but when the rubber hits the road it gradually chases normal people away. Reddit just did it it slower because the strengths of their platform and content overwhelmed it... but it's getting there eventually.
I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
Left wing? I don't bother with Reddit because they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. Left-wing definitely not.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#138Google's cache has approximate 480 story pages still in its cache. The Wayback Machine won't show any results for the site because of its current robots.txt. It'd be great if someone could scrape these pages and provide them as an archive. I am not sure how to do that without running afoul of Google's terms-of-service. List of URLs: https://dpaste.de/YbEq/raw
I would love a copy of that!
Since I have diaries here: http://k5.semantic-db.org/diary-slurp/161942--archive-diarie...
I regret not scraping the stories too.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
You can just go to some other subreddit with a right-wing hive mind instead. Problem solved.
You actually can't. Lefty types show up in pretty much all the otherwise good topical sub-reddits and signal and get their upvotes. There will be some utterly irrelevant aside with Trump bashing, or whatever, on thread about single cylinder engines. There are some guys upthread here arguably doing it, for example.
Ask the lefty signaler to shut up and stay on topic and you get downvoted or even deleted.
Reddit is dominated by entry-ist lefties to the point it's too annoying to read.
Re: RIP Kuro5hin
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
Left wing? I don't bother with Reddit because they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. Left-wing definitely not.
Reddit is absolutely a liberal dominated forum.