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

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Post by cc-d »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #33

How will you avoid- > John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately. If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat w…

Internet fuckwads are fine as long as they stay limited to their own communities.

What you and I deem a 'fuckwad' will vary greatly. While somebody spamming 'hitler did nothing wrong' is certainly a fuckwad, it is only an issue which this fuckwadry is exposed to those who were not expressively looking for it.

I see zero issues in fuckwads congregating if they stick to themselves.

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

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Post by cc-d »

aeneasmackenzie wrote: post #48
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #33

How will you avoid- > John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately. If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat w…

This is limited: what about all the people who like the unique community that formed on anonymous imageboards? There's no posturing or attempts to build a reputation. You just throw out your piece and it stands alone.

Agreed.

With psuedoanonymous sites like reddit it's trivial to be anonymous anyway by rotating alt-accounts. This just streamlines the process.

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

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Post by scrollaway »

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…

You're kinda describing Tildes (tildes.net).

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

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Post by cc-d »

Rotdhizon wrote: post #23

Almost every single action signs me out. Creating a sub gives back an 'invalid' error message', which then signs me out. Have clicked on less than 10 links and have already been exposed to bestiality images. This post in question has been up for half an hour, where is the moderation?

I am the only 'moderator' and I was asleep whenever this was re-submitted without me having any fore-warning.

The technical errors are fixed now. I went to bed with the site reconfigured, not worrying too much because I thought this post was a dud.

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

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Post by cc-d »

Smithalicious wrote: post #15

I think this "reddit-with-4chan-features" approach is more viable than 8chan's "4chan-with-reddit-features" approach, since I don't think the imageboard model is very compatible with the "community-run boards" feature. It's also a good thing that (it appears that) this website is "fresh" and apolitical rather than coming forth from a political rift in another community (e.g. 8chan, gab, voat). I'll definitely be foll…

>EDIT: I do have some problems with this rule: "Nothing that violates US law, or anything that would be considered 'gray area'." What is a 'gray area' is, itself, a gray area. I don't think the rule itself needs changing, but it would be good if it was supported by some examples of things that people might want to do but you won't allow.

Loli/shota porn mainly. Other forms of borderline cp. The problem is, specifically stating 'hey don't upload THIS CONTENT', will result in people specifically uploading that content to buck the rules. I'll probably still add the clarification.

The gray area clause allows operational leeway.

>EDIT2: Another issue: in a lot of fonts, Ieddit (with capital i) looks very similar to leddit (with lowercase L), which is a derogatory term for Reddit on 4chan (and possibly elsewhere) (owing to the shitty rageface memes which use the word "le")

I see a lot of people suggesting this. tbh I kind of like teh association with the "leddit" term, I find it amusing. From a ui perspective, the /i/ might make more sense though.

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

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Post by cc-d »

threwawasy1228 wrote: post #45
Smithalicious wrote: post #15

I think this "reddit-with-4chan-features" approach is more viable than 8chan's "4chan-with-reddit-features" approach, since I don't think the imageboard model is very compatible with the "community-run boards" feature. It's also a good thing that (it appears that) this website is "fresh" and apolitical rather than coming forth from a political rift in another community (e.g. 8chan, gab, voat). I'll definitely be foll…

I think that the point of the gray area is to differentiate themselves from the kinds of things that went on at 8chan without getting banned. None of them were technically illegal but many were abhorrent regardless.

Correct. Mainly loli/shota porn, and other forms of content that was borderline-cp.

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

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Post by tzs »

iikoolpp wrote: post #37

> Anonymous /r/beastiality 6h > Dogs knotting women (www.com) Really, who expected anything else?

...and there is no /r/bestiality. Come on, people...if you are going to make a forum for your interests, at least learn to spell the name of those interests. The word comes from the Latin word bestia.

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

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Post by cc-d »

Smithalicious wrote: post #15

I think this "reddit-with-4chan-features" approach is more viable than 8chan's "4chan-with-reddit-features" approach, since I don't think the imageboard model is very compatible with the "community-run boards" feature. It's also a good thing that (it appears that) this website is "fresh" and apolitical rather than coming forth from a political rift in another community (e.g. 8chan, gab, voat). I'll definitely be foll…

I added additional information to the rules clarifying what the 'gray area' clause was aimed at.

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

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Post by cc-d »

siquick wrote: post #32

Based upon the first few posts, this probably isn't a great idea.

This was re-submitted here when I was sleeping, and I was the only admin. I went to bed thinking my submission had not been noticed, leaving my site misconfigured thinking it did not matter.

The technical issues and most of the offensive content has been taken care of.

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