Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC

confounded wrote: post #69

carboy wrote: post #3

I’m done with Reddit. It was a nice ride, but now it’s officially over. They’ve been trying to turn reddit into Facebook, a personal data vacuum, but now it’s going to get ugly. Considering the valuation, remaining as an unpaid moderator for a reddit sub, is absolutely crazy. Hopefully all the mods up and leave, nothing like letting others get rich from your free efforts.

At least the APIs mean it’s possible to have third-party open-source clients.

I remember having 3rd party Twitter and FB apps in 2011. That didn't last long.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:03 PM UTC

scottydelta wrote: post #149

Reddit was outraged when the users heard that Reddit was going to take $150M from Tencent but now there is not a single mention of it on the frontpage even after they took double the earlier reported amount. I cannot help but think if it's the Reddit's censorship is in play here.

> I cannot help but think if it's the Reddit's censorship is in play here.

For sustained outrage, it needs to be something that cuts to core of everything Reddit treasures. Take away their ability to harass and ridicule overweight people online and you will have a war on your hands.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:06 PM UTC

arman_ashrafian wrote: post #152

bluetwo wrote: post #133

Where are the youth of this generation and why are they not creating the next killer platform?

Im a CS undergrad right now and in need of a side project... I'll start right now :) But for real, the idea of Reddit seems perfect to me its just way to popular now. Maybe a platform where you need to pass some sort of quiz created by the mods of the different communities in order to post/comment? I could see this having lots of issues though. Also I don't really mind reddit going to shit ever since I found HN a few…

> Maybe a platform where you need to pass some sort of quiz created by the mods of the different communities in order to post/comment?

FB groups have had this ability for a while. I'm in one (a meme page for a semi-popular TV show) and to keep the quality of conversation high, new members have to answer 3 questions about stuff from the show correctly to join.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by doorbellguy » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:08 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #242

doorbellguy wrote: post #214

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Let me clarify : I did not say this was the "only' thing that distracts teens. Your passive aggressive statement shows that you're having a bad day and want to be rude just for the sake of it. Good day.

Personal attacks aren't ok here, even when another comment crosses into incivility. In order for HN to be the kind of forum we're hoping for, it's necessary that we all have the patience to wait out the first surge of anger that comes up when somebody posts something unfair. Believe me I know it's not easy. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thank you, I tried to be as civil as possible when typing out my reply. Still I appreciate you chiming in.

>Believe me I know it's not easy.

IKR! Seeing rude comments like that outta nowhere really grinds gears. Please let me know if you have banned me :)

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by marktangotango » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:08 PM UTC

mrhappyunhappy wrote: post #119

wvenable wrote: post #104

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I've been using reddit for 12 years and the quality of the site has gone down considerably in just the last few years. The trolling, bots, and hate speech seem to be rampant. There has been a concerted effort for certain ideological groups to take over popular subreddits like country and city specific subreddits to push a specific agenda. All this happens while plenty of other niche subreddits go on as usual. I'm sub…

Reddit has become a platform to manipulate public opinion. I have witnessed some very strange things on Reddit where I presume a company, government agency or malicious groups take over a subject and comments to steer the opinion. It’s easy to spot. Personally I treat Reddit as a place for humor and occasional insight, but mostly humor.

I’ve seen this as well, try posting anything negative about Monsanto or Epic Systems.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:17 PM UTC

atomicUpdate wrote: post #110

anfilt wrote: post #93

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People used to host forums dedicated too a topic. Forums are still a thing... Reddit, is just a forum of forums... Why do we need centralized forums anyways?

Because they are a million times easier to browse when all on one site and there (usually) aren’t any worries about cross-promoting different subreddits. It also makes it a lot easier for knowledgeable people to poke their heads into a random thread and offer an opinion compared to going to another site. Unfortunately, all of that was a lot better 10 years ago.

> It also makes it a lot easier for knowledgeable people to poke their heads into a random thread

That rarely happens in practice. Knowledgeable people's comments have to be made at the right time in a post's popularity window (It is usually the opposite situation that is true. A certain post hits the Reddit front page (usually a meme or political post), and all of a sudden the community is overwhelmed with new subscribers, who are either trolling/brigading because they don't like the content, or simply bringing down the quality of the conversation by posting more memes etc., because that's what they think the sub is about.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:28 PM UTC

ardy42 wrote: post #189

throwaway46e21 wrote: post #154

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Metafilter

Careful about that one, though. Unless your views are orthodox for the site, you'd better enjoy walking on eggshells if you want to post there.

That's how it should be. Too many people start posting on forums without any respect for the norms of the place. That worsens the experience for everyone.

Those whose criteria include "their commitment to free speech" usually have an ax to grind about something, which would explains if they've been banned from other places before.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

puranjay wrote: post #89

Maybe they'll use that money to finally teach their engineers some CSS media queries and build a mobile website that isn't completely trash

The only thing they're likely to be engineering is that nested div monstrosity FB uses to obfuscate sponsored posts from adblockers.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:31 PM UTC

doorbellguy wrote: post #230

x3n0ph3n3 wrote: post #225

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Go to /r/all and count how many posts are his.

Wow. That is a lot of effort being put for internet points. That person seems to moderate a lot of communities too!

It's usually not one person. Reddit accounts with very high levels of karma (upvotes gained from popular posts) are often bought an sold to companies selling products. u/gallowboob is an example of a Reddit influencer, even if a great deal of his posts are pics/gifs of animals being cute.

Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by thosakwe » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

thosakwe wrote: post #197

abnry wrote: post #20

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This is very good advice. One of my most upvoted Hacker News comments was saying that creating an account and whitelisting the subreddits you want to read is a tremendous improvement on reddit. Funny thing to me is that it is really hard to isolate yourself in this way on Twitter. I've spent a lot of time trying to do this but politics always seems to leak through. One thing that has helped is by turning off retweets…

Twitter’s content muring is useless in that it still shows quote Tweets if anyone you mute in your timeline. I have POTUS, Tomi Lahren, and several others blocked and muted, yet they still appear in my timeline because of the infamous “slam dunk quote tweet” phenomenon. It’s not just hard to filter things out on Twitter; it’s downright impossible.

content muting^

thanks Autocorrect