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So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by dredmorbius »

inigyou wrote: post #450
dredmorbius wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just leftists. It's polarization generally, with scale. The mid-range views leave. The extremes remain. Often a sub / moderator bias selects for one polar extreme or another. This is where HN's (generally) political-neutral moderator stance, maddening as it often is to both sides (see dang's many, many, many, many comments on perceived bias), seems to have largely succeeded. Neither side dominates, and the m…

HN definitely removes political extreme views.

Almost always by user flags rather than moderation removal, no?

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by benoau »

account42 wrote: post #28

I noticed they logged me out when I happened on a link recently. I don't think this change will make me log back in. The value of the site has already crashed, now the only question is which site will manage to capture the mainstream link/image discussion next. > This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans. This hasn't been true fo…

When you do log in you will probably see that accounts all but require a verified email now, if you didn't set one up your account will be frozen until you do a password reset FoR sEcURiTy which necessitates adding an email lmao.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by von_lohengramm »

a2tech wrote: post #563
edoceo wrote: post #315

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Any ideas to mitigate?

Inside of Reddit itself? Not with the tools we're given from Reddit. We know Reddit has internal tools to block spam/bots, so I believe what we see is the most sophisticated ones (they're not too sophisticated mostly, but they're not the zero effort bulk spam that reddit catches easily). Something that would make things far easier for mods would be if the posters hashed IP was shown/made available to mods. Thats most…

I'm curious what you've found the troublesome subreddits to be. I think I have a pretty strong idea what they are, but some validation would be nice.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by al_borland »

zacharycohn wrote: post #566
tdeck wrote: post #536

I always wondered how Reddit justified the old.reddit effect. If your new design is so awful that a large percentage of users refuse to use it, and prefer the (more performant!) version from more than a decade ago, shouldn't that be a strong signal that you've made some mistakes? Why not try making the new version more appealing by investigating and fixing the issues that cause people to use the old one. I guess cred…

I mod a reasonably popular subreddit for work, and, looking at the stats as a die hard old reddit user, I was floored at how few of us there really are.

Most people accept what is given to them and won’t go through the effort to change it.

Are there any stats on account age as well? I wonder if Reddit figured the old Reddit user problem would be solved through attrition as people naturally left and new users join the site only knowing the new interface.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by tsss »

a2tech wrote: post #563
edoceo wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any ideas to mitigate?

Inside of Reddit itself? Not with the tools we're given from Reddit. We know Reddit has internal tools to block spam/bots, so I believe what we see is the most sophisticated ones (they're not too sophisticated mostly, but they're not the zero effort bulk spam that reddit catches easily). Something that would make things far easier for mods would be if the posters hashed IP was shown/made available to mods. Thats most…

> remove posts from people that have posted in identified subreddits

So you're actually censoring opinions, not fighting spam, just like every other reddit mod.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by vovavili »

malfist wrote: post #567
vovavili wrote: post #542

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Reddit redesign strikes me as a convenient excuse to enforce infinite scrolling by a company looking to IPO.

Reddit has already IPO'd

I was thinking from a timeframe when redesign was introduced.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by tsss »

whycome wrote: post #286
ksd482 wrote: post #225

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The discussion quality is unbelievably shallow in most of the subreddits. Unless it's a niche and technical subreddit such as mathematical topics, bio science subtopic, the discussion is quite shallow and in some cases simply misinformed. For e.g., a recent question about "is this person racist?", everyone jumped on the bandwagon and said "yes!", "100%", "obviously" without citing any sources. They simply paraphrased…

Looking at the conversations tied to movie fandoms has been fascinating. People treat movie franchises like a religion.

It is essentially religion. Politics too.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by inigyou »

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #515
inigyou wrote: post #436

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It's just the "drink verification can" meme, and could have linked to any site but chose Reddit...

I am debating an appropriate response, but maybe just an answer is not exactly what is called for here. What do you think a meme is? What function does it serve?

A meme is a unit of information. It serves no function, it just is. Like life itself.
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