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Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by mherdeg »

fareesh wrote: post #52

Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.

One of my favorite ways of discovering niche content has been browsing /r/all/gilded and taking a look at the variety of highlights throughout the site that never make it to the front page or other kinds of publicity.

I dug in there one time and found a fascinating obituary for a user on a subreddit for people living with addiction -- full of some touchingly personal and weirdly public stories. Following the user's profile from there taught me about the wild world of the "opiate roll call" subreddit (a thinly veiled Craigslist for drugs) which was at the time flourishing. Fascinating stuff.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by VerminOctopus1 »

easytiger wrote: post #105

Hardly worth it. I one designed & maintained an archive of certain subreddits. Now nuked for various reasons. The modding to craft a narrative and ban dissenting right think is so pervasive (and even the admins banning individual wrongthink comments) that what you see on the site doesn't represent what people posted. It's toxic beyond repair.

Would love to hear what those “certain” subreddits were!

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by Miner49er »

site-packages1 wrote: post #109
dandellion wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it's also never happened to me, but I know what they're talking about. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen.

I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a…

/r/chapotraphouse wasn't any worse then say /r/conservative or /r/politics, but it got banned.

/r/DarkNetMarkets. Just for discussing DNMs, AFAIK.

/r/shoplifting

/r/stealing

/r/beertrade: for trading beers

/r/gundeals for a bit. Several other gun buying subs are still banned.

/r/fakeid

/r/scotchswap: for trading Scotches

/r/cigarmarket

There's more, too.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#134

Post by crtasm »

toomim wrote: post #11
shmde wrote: post #6

Off topic: If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit you can navigate it two ways without getting engaged(also enraged) with the the scum and filth and rage-baits that is r/all or r/popular. 1). Use old.reddit.com, create an account ( it will bait you to enter your email, but its not necessary to proceed. ). Go to subreddits that you want to follow, there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly qui…

And you can install the "old reddit redirect" extension in chrome to make this automatic.

If you're logged in to reddit you don't need an extension, just set it in the options.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#135

Post by approxim8ion »

bruce343434 wrote: post #86
MauranKilom wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I looked at the graphs, it was something like a single-digit percentage of users that are still using old.reddit.com, and shrinking.

How? The site is so slow and unresponsive, as for threads it hand-picks like 3 comments at best, you have to click to see all and it still won't show all. How and why do people put up?

low visibility for the option to revert to old Reddit.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#136

Post by nameisname »

I have not actively used Reddit in over a year and am better for it. Their design is one of the most hostile I have seen in a website. I wish it was an area that allowed for competition because someone needs to give Reddit's head a shake.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#137

Post by fintechjock »

bombcar wrote: post #130
fintechjock wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

site:www.reddit.com/r/whatever_subreddit "whatever you are searching for" Works for me every time. I haven't used Reddit search in 10 years. I'm at a loss for why anyone would want to read Reddit comments in the first place though. At least on one of the top 100 subs.

Even for private subreddits? Severe doubt.

That isn’t a problem faced by the vast majority of Reddit users. What I posted is a workaround that has been available since Reddit was founded and would be useful for the average user to know.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#138

Post by _v7gu »

site-packages1 wrote: post #109
dandellion wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it's also never happened to me, but I know what they're talking about. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen.

I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a…

2balkan4u was nothing but making fun of the ingroup for the atrocities and other bullshit their contries were pulling

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#139

Post by washadjeffmad »

bena wrote: post #127
dandellion wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it's also never happened to me, but I know what they're talking about. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen.

I also know it happens. And I'm also mostly like "Yeah, that makes sense". X: They keep banning my favorite subreddits Y: Like /r/programming? X: No, not that one Y: /r/movies? X: No Y: /r/lego? X: No Y: /r/nfl? X: No Y: Well, which ones? X: /r/letsmockminoritiesanddisabledpeople

The concern is with the subs, users (including mods), and behaviors that are miraculously exempted.

For instance, reddit has a raging hardon for Sinophobia, but Asians in general aren't treated as a protected human class. Incredibly vile, vitriolic content and comments get huge acclaim as long as you frame anything Asian as being tacitly un-American.

Look through the Olympic speed skater threads, or the recent "the result of Chinese lock down policies" video that's just a compilation of Asian people committing suicide, totally unrelated to lock downs.

I get nobody wants to feel like they're surrounded by closet xenophobes and ethnopurists, but all it takes is seeing the collective blind-spot in "remember Russian people are innocent, it's just Putin we hate!" versus "makes sense, Chinese are all freedomless brainwashed moral aliens" to drive home how rotten it is.

This is just one example. Terrible behavior by megamods going unacknowledged and unaddressed weakens the platform, and reddit stoking the tribalism that makes people feel like they're safe and powerful there lends itself to harmful extremism. It's like nationalism is okay as long as it's not white nationalism.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

#140

Post by chaosbutters314 »

mherdeg wrote: post #131
fareesh wrote: post #52

Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.

One of my favorite ways of discovering niche content has been browsing /r/all/gilded and taking a look at the variety of highlights throughout the site that never make it to the front page or other kinds of publicity. I dug in there one time and found a fascinating obituary for a user on a subreddit for people living with addiction -- full of some touchingly personal and weirdly public stories. Following the user's p…

/r/chonkers is the holy grail of reddit. I was sad it took me 10 years to find that subreddit
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