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

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Post by lamontcg »

washadjeffmad wrote: post #139
bena wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 r…

> "remember Russian people are innocent, it's just Putin we hate!"

That's pretty much gone in the comments section on r/politics.

The vitriol directed against Russians is often over the top now.

As someone who remembers the hatred towards Russians by the American Right during the 80s that is fairly disturbing to me.

Of course the Hacker News threads which try to play down the consequences of a nuclear exchange with Russia are probably worse.

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

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

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…

"Better question, and this is something I see time and again, how do sites missing such basic functionality even get any funding to start with? "

By abandoning ethics and building a moat so that those with ethics can't breach the moat.

"In the early days, reddit's community was built up thanks to hundreds of fake profiles created by the site's co-founders, according to Steve Huffman (coincidentally, a reddit co-founder). To make the site look populated and diverse, Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, the other founder, would submit links of their own choosing, each time under a new username."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...

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

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Post by actionablefiber »

nameisname wrote: post #136

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.

I find that using the Old Reddit interface with RES on desktop, and Apollo on mobile, more or less eliminates the icky parts of the Reddit experience.

The catch is that both of those usage modes are pretty much at the mercy of Reddit Inc., which could decide to "deprecate" them at any time they see fit. And given that Reddit Inc. seems to be planning an IPO, I imagine that those will both be on the chopping block sooner rather than later.

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

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Post by sascha_sl »

JetAlone wrote: post #48
sascha_sl wrote: post #45

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There's also certain people with very vocal fanbases who do this. Sometimes I'm rather happy Twitter added the feature to restrict replies to your follows.

I feel horrible whenever I sense a need to block somebody. It's occasionally people I know who are too far gone into desperation and self-loathing/contempt to deal with anymore. The other much more rare case is people who 1) open with 2) insultingly irrational/inconsistent 3) vitriolic hostility. In that latter case, I can live with any two, but not all three. For a lot of people the criteria for 2) is pretty variabl…

I've been pulled into the frontline of a culture war, so I've become pretty liberal with who I block, including using chainblocking on people who encourage harassment of others.

It occasionally hits the wrong people, but it's the only way to make twitter usable for me. It's not my failing.

It's of course all against the twitter rules, but twitter moderation is horrible and these people have also learned to speak in code. It's not "kill yourself" anymore, it's "join the 41%".

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

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Post by stimpson_j_cat »

dogleash wrote: post #207
stimpson_j_cat wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest change came after the migration from Digg, which would have been about 5 years prior. the_donald brought a lot of a younger users and white supremacists. I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though. Certainly no noticeable shift that night.

>I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though. What? You haven't noticed social media marketing on reddit?

I've never heard someone say "the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift." Not sure what your comment about ads is related to.

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

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Post by wtf_is_up »

rjh29 wrote: post #197
vinnymac wrote: post #193

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In other words, the most valuable dataset (the majority of the data) is not yet searchable.

I expect post-2020 is the majority of the data given Reddit's exponential growth. But definitely pre-2020 is more valuable.

Any data to suggest that the past 2 years have generated the majority of reddit's data? I've been a user for a decade and it doesn't feel like this is the case to me.

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

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Post by wtf_is_up »

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.

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

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Post by Melatonic »

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…

Reddit search has always been laughably bad - it is quite amazing that for the biggest and most popular forum on the internet they have not worked harder on this. Reddit should have the BEST search on the internet.

Or hell - can they not just pay Google and embed a customized version into their site?

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

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Post by Melatonic »

raldi wrote: post #189
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…

It's also a lie because "everything" on reddit is still not in fact searchable; buried in the comments on the announcement post, they admit that pre-2020 comments are still not indexed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/u3oz2x/whats_up_wit...

LOL This is ridiculous. The majority of Reddit is Pre-2020 !

Or as I like to call it - The Before Covid times. BC. Surely there's no other acronym that uses those two letters. 2018 BC was a good year for me personally

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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