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Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by pacetherace »

unstatusthequo wrote: post #78
pcurve wrote: post #35

Of course, the two day blackout will not have huge revenue impact, but two week one will. And if it goes on beyond that, those who will have the most to lose will blink (i.e. Spez and investors) If Spez doesn't blink, the investors will make him. I don't think he's' going to win this one without making concession.

I do hope the mods have the balls to continue the blackout as long as it takes. This couple days is a joke. A longer strike will be noticed, especially by would be IPO investors. As it is, if this IPOs, I’ll be selling short via put options on this. Management is incompetent. Will not succeed with this anti visionary leadership.

If anything, the mods are getting a break from their stressful lives as Reddit mods.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by x86x87 »

jayroh wrote: post #136
ChildOfChaos wrote: post #73

I am a bit confused about this, do a lot of people access Reddit through a service that uses the API? To me Reddit is a website, people keep referring to it as an app, but I have never used an app for it. It works best in the browser.

The simple answer is "yes". Many many many people use Reddit through native apps and not the website.

What's funniers is that people that use an app are more likely to pay (pay for the app and by extension pay for reddit)

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Post by thr_low_latency »

lokar wrote: post #112
thr_low_latency wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.

It will be overrun by nazis pretty fast. A lot as changed in 10 years.

Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by mcbutterbunz »

shortweb3 wrote: post #147
XorNot wrote: post #122

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Eh...the real problem with shutting down Apollo is that it makes the volunteer moderators lives much harder. Those are the people who provide any value to reddit as a platform. The protest could end today, the 3rd party apps go...and if the volunteer mods go with it, then the site as a whole tumbles onto a decline that eventually kills it.

This. Have you ever seen unmoderated Reddit, it’s called 4chan.

This is actually a great way to protest. If the subreddits going dark for two days isn’t enough, start posting porn or other bad type of content to popular subs that don’t have many mods.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by willis936 »

scubbo wrote: post #179
willis936 wrote: post #172

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Tools don't seem very interesting. They already exist. I want a mirrored copy so I can find the information I want that was posted on reddit without having to visit reddit.

So, in other words, you want "longer lasting storage that can be searched even when the original goes down"? What's the difference between that and what you are imagining?

No difference, I'm just saying the tools to make such copies are not as interesting as a findable place with those copies.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by Groxx »

ian0 wrote: post #72
notRobot wrote: post #48

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Get uBlock Origin and turn on the annoyance filter to make your life infinitely better.

Thanks for this! Long time ublock user but never new about these filters

I can never decide if it's reasonable that they're off by default (they break more things, and they're not "ads") or if it's an obvious missed opportunity to improve millions of people's lives.

Either way: yes, annoyances++. It helps a lot.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

#188

Post by joshstrange »

thr_low_latency wrote: post #86
over_bridge wrote: post #11

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This point has been discussed to death already. Reddit is extremely reliant on a small percentage of users who moderate and post content. Those are the ones being impacted and complaining the loudest. The majority of users just passively absorb the work of the few.

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Re: Reddit Doubles Down

#189

Post by nocoiner »

CommitSyn wrote: post #160
nocoiner wrote: post #110

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I actually think I would have been pretty bummed by this week’s events if my long-time Reddit account hadn’t been banned last year for literally no reason. (I know everyone always says that - and then it turns out that they’re inevitably extremely enthusiastic posters about, like, early/mid 20th century German highway engineering or something similarly Hitler adjacent. The only not-nice thing I ever wrote on there wa…

On Reddit, you can say things that would be normal anywhere else, but make a small group of terminally-online individuals very upset. Something as simple as asking 1 question in 1 subreddit. That's how I got my first ban. It's what made me completely apathetic to reddit. The other bans were my fault (as in, I knew it was likely at that point) but I was apathetic at that point. Still, I appealed because they were sill…

I believe it. That said, even when trying to adopt that frame of mind, it was still basically impossible for me to identify anything I had said that would have been at all offensive or upsetting even to an extremely sensitive person.

Who knows. I still kinda think it must have just been a mistake, or maybe something I said was taken extremely, extremely out of context (and if I lack the imagination to see how, well, shame on me). I mostly just find it humorous because this is the only ban I can remember getting in almost three decades online.

Re: Reddit Doubles Down

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Post by nocoiner »

bunga-bunga wrote: post #165
nocoiner wrote: post #110

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I actually think I would have been pretty bummed by this week’s events if my long-time Reddit account hadn’t been banned last year for literally no reason. (I know everyone always says that - and then it turns out that they’re inevitably extremely enthusiastic posters about, like, early/mid 20th century German highway engineering or something similarly Hitler adjacent. The only not-nice thing I ever wrote on there wa…

> how their stance interacts with any of the privacy laws passed in the last 10-12 years. You’d be surprised how big players work around those. I asked GitHub to remove an issue from a repo whose owner blocked me. Being both I and the owner EU users, I sent a GDPR removal request. They just said they’re a “controller” and that the request would be forwarded to the owner. Nothing came of it. GitHub even has customer s…

Fascinating. Thanks for answering that aspect of my post. So similar excuse if you were to exercise a right to be forgotten? (Would that even apply in this context? Or is that what you’re describing?)
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