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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by tredre3 »

roncesvalles wrote: post #329
dionidium wrote: post #315

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And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?

Can you give us one example of a jurisdiction where a photo of a teenager in bikini would count as CSAM?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by lamontcg »

atchoo wrote: post #198
SkyMarshal wrote: post #142

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Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.

It's often not working for me in the UK e.g. "You've broken reddit" and "Can't reach CDN". Maybe it is a regional thing?

Also very common for when you post a comment that it appears to not have posted it and returns an error, then you retry multiple times and get multiple comments posted. And even if you don't get hit by one of those outages, they tend to get saved in the comments from everyone else having hit them.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by predictabl3 »

roncesvalles wrote: post #284
aw1621107 wrote: post #172

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It's worth noting that a very old user (/u/andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction/feedback/etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn't really mean much. Obviously I can't reference the comment in question right now, but I'll try to remember to circle back…

I mean it's also worth noting that spez was CEO of Reddit and subreddits like that were allowed to exist for many, many more years.

Anyone trying to lose weight and skip a meal today? Open a reddit client and do a subreddit search with "teen" as a prefix. Or don't, you know. Silly me for assuming that this had been solved after any of the various sketchy-porn related subreddit purges.

I'm not naive, user content is hard to moderate. But is it hard to say "any subreddits with these keywords go on a list for review"?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by [deleted] »

abluecloud wrote: post #330
Algent wrote: post #229

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I wouldn't be surprised if so many big subreddits being dark is causing issues around denied API calls. As for the forced reopening, beside the conspiracy this is something that could happen. It's a private company, moderator on strike are a loss of business, they would be 100% in their right to remove all the "traitors" (I'm not saying this would be a smart move, simply that if they really plan to go down this self…

where the hell are they going to fine thousands of willing users to become mods of thousands of communities, overnight?

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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Mordisquitos »

roncesvalles wrote: post #329
dionidium wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?

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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by tiffanyg »

JoyfulTurkey wrote: post #290
aw1621107 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth noting that a very old user (/u/andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction/feedback/etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn't really mean much. Obviously I can't reference the comment in question right now, but I'll try to remember to circle back…

Damn, just looked at this account signup date and mine is older than it. Feeling ancient on a Monday morning :)

Hahaha, please, son ...

Remember when Phrack was added to the LOC ... and was over 7 years old already (http://phrack.org/issues/42/1.html)?

More seriously, you really start to feel "ancient" when your body goes from "new year, pretty much the same as old year" ... to ... "new year, who removed vital organs and bodily fluids while I slept last night?! The bastards!!!"

Of course, it is a classic trope nevertheless ... and I did start to feel ancient even 15+ years ago ... but once you start noticing real changes, then you REALLY get that feel (and you know more is coming, lol): https://youtu.be/MqBNSMbEzI0

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by sarsaparilyptus »

koprulusector wrote: post #199
mmastrac wrote: post #129

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I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for. EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.

This is something I’ve seen repeated on Reddit often. Virtually any meta thread on Reddit about Reddit will have several comments containing these allegations. I can’t imagine how much time someone might need to spend to dig through all the noise to get to the truth, but it rings of something that might have a kernel of truth, given the prevalence and uniformity of such accusations. In either case, it’s easily as spe…

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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by capableweb »

jerjerjer wrote: post #322
ryanstorm wrote: post #251

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Imagine being a non-tech savvy user or someone who understands the world more literally than figuratively. That sort of message could be pretty confusing for them.

Users can't read error messages anyway.

I don't think showing "you broke reddit" for a 5xx request counts as an error message. If it was a 4xx, maybe.
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