481–490 of 519 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine he’s just going to introduce a simple yet “radical” solution like allowing people to pay a small fee for verified status and adding the option to filter out all non-validated accounts. That should kill off a large number of the bots and sock puppet accounts.
That'll be more effective at creating a poor people exclusion zone than stopping adtroturfing/sock puppets/spam.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is pure FUD and very dangerous. Firstly, you're talking about a different sub that what I linked to, grouping these together. The subs I linked are female led and moderated, at least BFHS. Secondly, they also have large numbers of participants from a range of backgrounds with a range of motivations. The subreddits they are discussing tend to have 10s of 1000s of followers actively engaging in various levels of h…
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/theres-another-abusive-...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050.
Without being snarky, though, what's left to add? What minority is left disenfranchised?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd stay away from the latter two, like not even read it. I made a terrible life changing mistake by reading too much of these subreddits. It's user generated content, mostly by people who hate their lives, hate society and hate others, aided by the traditional media they link to. By the time I saw that reality is different and so much better than the doom I got on Reddit, it was too late.
> I made a terrible life changing mistake by reading too much of these subreddits. I don't understand. How could you make a life-changing mistake by reading the news?
So, during Brexit times, I read (and wrote) a lot of r/europe, r/ukpolitics, r/brexit. Which at the time were cesspools of doom, every little thing was a catastrophe, and I believed it. I started thinking "I need to get out", that was on my mind fucking 24/7.
Then I lost my job partly because of Brexit (drop in exports to EU, company decided to lay off a bunch of people), at which point I was convinced the UK was going to shit and I was gonna get locked in, kicked out or some weird shit.
So, yeah, I left the UK without bothering to apply for pre-settled status, just abandoned everything. Those Reddit subs played a major part in it - I've thought about it a lot and it's a reasonable conclusion.
The reality is that the UK is the best country in Europe if you speak English and like your freedoms. It has not gone to shit, and it's unlikely that it will. I know poor Brits love to complain, but they're just not seeing the opportunities. It was by far the easiest country to settle and make a lot of money in. And the food is great - people who say otherwise are either snobs who only talk about restaurants, trolling or have never stepped into an ASDA lol
Anyway, don't be a dumbass like me. Just do yourself a favour and don't read r/politics, /r/news, worldnews, national subreddits, and just most general subreddits. If you see a lot of doom and gloom, abandon it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're dancing around it. Climate change is happening because human activity is causing it, and human activity can change to reverse it, just like we reversed our effects on the ozone layer. I know you know that's true, so don't lie about it saying it's the weather and make jokes about moving when it gets bad. You don't need to inconvenience yourself, keep driving that Dodge Ram 1500 for all I care, but don't fucking…
I haven't lied once. I don't believe in what you believe in regarding "climate change", period. > you have absolutely no idea what the protests were about. Your true nature shines through. Floyd's death was an opportune event for BLM to leverage, BLM rioters then left nothing but destruction in their wake. Nothing positive came from BLM, their legacy is hypocrisy.
Is there something on this page that you don't find believable? https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
What is my true nature that shines through in that statement?
Why was Floyd's death opportune for BLM, what do you think the motivation was?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been active on Reddit for 14 years. The quality of discussion has been more or less unchanged overall, but you must choose your subreddits in order for that to be true. All of the major subreddits have gotten watered down because that's what happens when 29 million users (r/pics) are voting on comments. Communities change fundamentally when they scale up. The answer is to seek out smaller communities. The smarte…
> they were absolutely right They were right only because their goal was to increase the number of users to the largest extent possible. > everyone on Reddit criticized them for it ... and they were also right, because at the time reddit was a community for mostly tech news, similarly to what HN represents now. Creating the subreddits led to the tech part of the community to be splintered and then get more and more w…
Ultimately these days it suffers from massive mainstream adoption and use, and all of the moderation and scale problems that come with that(including the much griped about design problems and struggles to both monetize and maintain usability). But under it all it's still just a large collection of forums of all sizes, with some intermixing, but also a lot of non-mixing. If you participate in a handful of niche interest subreddits, and this is all logged into the site (where you can permanently set the old look as your UI complainers!), you will never see all the crap that's happening on the oversized main subs and it's great. Just a place for basic forum-like functionality and interest sharing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you be more specific about what you mean by "woke"?
Seeing injustices in every single thing. For example, feeling the need to constantly call out microagressions or constantly having to advertise that they are virtuous people.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have not noticed this. What is "the message"?
Generally anything that does not fit the ideologies of a typical reddit mod, and yes they will have certain belief systems, as most people do not have the time or desire to be moderating even for a few hours a day for no monetary rewards, which the average reddit mod sort of needs to have. This is why reddit leans heavily socialist/communist/anti-capitalist (moderated by people who believe moderating for free is more…