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Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by beeboobaa3 »

philwelch wrote: post #292
beeboobaa3 wrote: post #183

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The /r/Netherlands subreddit has been taken over by hostile expats years ago. They ban any discussion in Dutch, forcing everyone to speak English, and will delete everything that doesn't have "international appeal"

Shouldn’t the Dutch language subreddit for the Netherlands be /r/Nederland?

We have /r/nederlands but it's infested by the alt right that wanted to escape the censorship of /r/TheNetherlands and didn't care for the expat-run /r/netherlands. /r/nederland also exists, but is pretty much dead.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by Expurple »

empath-nirvana wrote: post #186
tayo42 wrote: post #87

> It's not just Reddit. Q&A forum Quora is getting a huge visibility bump in Google search results, Why? Landing on a quora page has to be the most confusing web experience in existence right now. Quora just reminds of yahoo answers but rebranded. I can't be the only one with that association and find it hard to take seriously. Assuming you can even find the content your looking for on a quora page.

I would love if I could blacklist quora from search results. I have no idea why it's ranked so highly. It's a garbage site with worthless answers.

You can do this using uBlacklist extension or Kagi search engine

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by nemothekid »

bun_terminator wrote: post #309
nemothekid wrote: post #67

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> The site would be wonderful without moderation Is this tongue in cheek? I can't tell if this is sarcasm. Reddit would be awful without moderation.

4chan is close to heaven, they do just fine with much less moderation

1. 4chan has plenty of moderation; "jannies" are regularly derided over there. This is easily debunked, posting on about crypto on /g/ will get your post deleted. /a/ pretty much has the same content as reddit.com/r/anime.

2. I believe you, like many others, conflate 4chan's right-ward overton window, with "less" moderation. moot had a saying "one man's shitpost is another man's board culture". You perceive 4chan as having "less moderation" because your world view aligns with 4chan, not because they do less moderation.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by sickofparadox »

nemothekid wrote: post #324
bun_terminator wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan is close to heaven, they do just fine with much less moderation

1. 4chan has plenty of moderation; "jannies" are regularly derided over there. This is easily debunked, posting on about crypto on /g/ will get your post deleted. /a/ pretty much has the same content as reddit.com/r/anime. 2. I believe you, like many others, conflate 4chan's right-ward overton window, with "less" moderation. moot had a saying "one man's shitpost is another man's board culture". You perceive 4chan as…

I agree and disagree. Reddit moderators often get very involved into the community and make high-visibility changes and proclamations, and actively try to influence the culture of subreddits. Janitors do delete things and ban users, but in general they are far more hands off in their curation of boards.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by apelapan »

beeboobaa3 wrote: post #183
haunter wrote: post #16

I still prefer reddit most of the time. Front page (default) subs are highly manipulated (especially anything news, politics, current things etc.) but for hobbies, video games, and sports it's still the best site. Video game discusssions especially because unlike Discord every tip, guide, and walkthrough is archived and searchable. And for sports mostly because it's _insane_ how quickly you get highlights and videos.…

The /r/Netherlands subreddit has been taken over by hostile expats years ago. They ban any discussion in Dutch, forcing everyone to speak English, and will delete everything that doesn't have "international appeal"

That pattern seems to be repeating for a lot of country subs. I guess for most people from $country, the general topic of $country is so broad it becomes a bit meaningless.

You end up with lots of expats whining about that it is hard to find new friends and the tax system is not the same as they are used to.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by theschmed »

asdff wrote: post #275
im3w1l wrote: post #270

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I just find it hilarious that old.reddit is one version, new.reddit is another, and www.reddit is yet another.

Just a few years ago they had i.reddit.com as well, which I loved as a mobile interface to be honest...

It’s still available if you append /.i to a www.reddit.com URL

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by nemothekid »

sickofparadox wrote: post #325
nemothekid wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. 4chan has plenty of moderation; "jannies" are regularly derided over there. This is easily debunked, posting on about crypto on /g/ will get your post deleted. /a/ pretty much has the same content as reddit.com/r/anime. 2. I believe you, like many others, conflate 4chan's right-ward overton window, with "less" moderation. moot had a saying "one man's shitpost is another man's board culture". You perceive 4chan as…

I agree and disagree. Reddit moderators often get very involved into the community and make high-visibility changes and proclamations, and actively try to influence the culture of subreddits. Janitors do delete things and ban users, but in general they are far more hands off in their curation of boards.

>but in general they are far more hands off in their curation of boards.

This is exactly what RapeApe did with /pol/. Because 4chan is less transparent, it feels like there's no curation; especially when what stays on the board feels like "board culture". Would infinity-chan and other boards would exist if they did their current style of moderation of silently deleting posts instead of moot coming out and openly lambasting gamergate?

4chan moderation used to be way more visible, especially under moot, because moderators actually openly interacted with the board. Now that moderators are functionally anonymous, it seems like they don't try to influence the boards, when in actuality, 4chan mods are far less transparent.

People once believed 4chan was less moderated because they stopped seeing "(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)", when in actuality they just removed the posts instead.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by mike_hearn »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #142
bogtog wrote: post #133

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> Because Reddit has horrible search Sorry, but I've heard this so often, and I just don't know what people mean. I use the search whenever I need to get something from a specific subreddit, and it just seems fine. Also, why would a major website like Reddit have such a bad search? Aren't mostly fine search algorithms freely available?

One of the big mysteries of the software industry. Not specifically singling out reddit here, since I don't even search on reddit: Why can we not simply have search functions, that at least optionally do a substring search? If I had a $currency-unit for every search that fails at this basic thing, I wouldn't need to work any longer.

Because you can't implement that with efficient data structures like posting lists.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by bun_terminator »

nemothekid wrote: post #324
bun_terminator wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan is close to heaven, they do just fine with much less moderation

1. 4chan has plenty of moderation; "jannies" are regularly derided over there. This is easily debunked, posting on about crypto on /g/ will get your post deleted. /a/ pretty much has the same content as reddit.com/r/anime. 2. I believe you, like many others, conflate 4chan's right-ward overton window, with "less" moderation. moot had a saying "one man's shitpost is another man's board culture". You perceive 4chan as…

That's not only not what i said, that's also not true. 4chan has orders of magnitude less "moderation" than reddit. And outside of literally one single part of it, doesn't even have a much different overton window.
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