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

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Post by BlueTemplar »

jotm wrote: post #40
BlueTemplar wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If Anyone reading this thinking of joining reddit Just don't > there are hundreds of niche subreddits which are frankly quite awesome They are condoning reddit by continuing to use it ---- There's another comment that points out that reddit screws up search engines results in order to get more front page hits. Just how long will it need to be pointed out that platforms are evil, and anti-Web, and you should be shun…

It's sad, but few people these days put in the minimal effort to set up a forum. Or sign up for one. Reddit is the easiest free way, but you pay the price in the end, and it's very high.

Related is how both storage and processing is very cheap these days, and yet you don't see many ISPs providing an out of the box experience featuring a mini-NAS, Nextcloud server, e-mail server, website server (including a personal blog and a phpBB forum ?)... on their modem/router boxes !

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

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Post by at_a_remove »

Miner49er wrote: post #133
site-packages1 wrote: post #109

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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.

/r/bigchungus (pictures of fat Bugs Bunny? wha?)

/r/mgtow

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

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Post by ravenstine »

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

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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…

Though technically it wasn't banned, r/star_trek recently got locked from having new posts, and only just the other day became unlocked because the mod agreed to not allow discussion related to r/startrek.

Wait, huh???

r/startrek, without the underscore, is the official Star Trek community. r/star_trek is an alternative community created because r/startrek is very hostile to anyone who doesn't just slobber over anything Star Trek.

So people would join the alternative community and bring up why they got banned on the official one, or how people were being ridiculous in general on the official one.

But I don't buy that there was any meaningful amount of brigading that was happening. I think the official community, being its pious self, didn't like that people were exposing the mods for being arbitrary and condescending, or that anyone was exposing the likely possibility that they were highly controlled by ViacomCBS.

When it got locked, for all intents and purposes it was banned, if not temporarily.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Miner49er wrote: post #133
site-packages1 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by syrrim »

cush wrote: post #154
groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

Scale. Basic stops being basic at their insane scale.

Basic was previously provided by an external service called pushshift, which was free to use and allowed searching individual comments.

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

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Post by recuter »

chaosbutters314 wrote: post #140
mherdeg wrote: post #131

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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

What is wrong with you chaosbutters.

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

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Post by z3c0 »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #126
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.

Are you saying the DNC primary is to blame for reddit's content policies?

I don't know if that's exactly the claim they are making, but I can certainly attest to their timeline. It was a day-night shift from "Bernie or Bust" to "Eww Bernie Bros are gross". Putting my own politics aside, I was more shocked by the sudden, very drastic shift in narrative. It's really hard to believe that it was organic. It wasn't even a "maybe we should support Clinton now that Bernie is out" narrative, which would have been more believable. It was a "Bernie supporters are sexist" narrative.

In the months leading up to the DNC primary, reddit was a battleground between Correct the Record[1] and /r/The_Donald. After the primary, it felt like every post on left-wing subs was inline with the narratives that CTR had been pushing for months. Before the primary, there was quite a bit of resistance to CTR, even from the left-wingers. That evaporated over a single night.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record

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

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Post by Gareth321 »

boesboes wrote: post #157
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.

As someone who has been using reddit and frequenting r/all for over 10 years orso, I dont know what you are talking about. Either make you point, or just don't make such comments. They add nothing.

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

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Post by czechdeveloper »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #97
czechdeveloper wrote: post #53

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I use Reddit long term and /r/all was always bad and you should find your subreddits to care for.

How do you discover subreddits if not by browsing /all? I mean I for one don't know what I'm missing.

Just to note, some subreddits decide not to appear on /r/all, so even there you're missing stuff.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

jerkstate wrote: post #125
site-packages1 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

the most recently banned subreddit to my knowledge was about disagreement with public policy for covid lockdowns. the ability to protest public policy is essential to a functioning democracy.

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