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Well 10% of the front page of the internet, and they do have 20% of the world population. There is no way China would allow Reddit to operation in China, and there is no way China would allow a western company to own a significant percentage of "the front page of China".
Reddit's slogan is "the front page of the internet". I think he's referring to that.
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I have been here rather longer than you, and not noticed a decline in the time period you’ve identified. I do note however there seems to be a tendency in all communities for people to think it declined since they started using it.
I started about 4 years ago. While I haven't really noticed much of a decline in comment quality, I think I have noticed a trend towards articles from large mainstream publications making it to the front page. Having said that, the front page as I write this is full of TechCrunch, so it is very possible this is confirmation bias ;-)
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My advice would be to treat it like a tool: look up what you need, ask questions when you need to, but ignore it the rest of the time.
It's not Stack Overflow; Reddit is designed to be visited daily and 'engaged' with. That said, I do go to Reddit first when I'm looking to answer questions like HDD recommendations or things to do in my city. That's because searching Google for it will give me nothing but awful content mill blog posts stuffed with affiliate links and SEO-optimized keywords ("Best USD Hard Drives in 2019"). On Reddit you actually get…
I don't care how it's designed. It can be used as a tool.
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My advice would be to treat it like a tool: look up what you need, ask questions when you need to, but ignore it the rest of the time.
Its a tool covered in weird gunk and makes your hand feel dirty every time you use it. The website is slow and bloated and filled with mountains of JS and tracking
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> My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all. I don't understand what you mean here. It sounds as though you have a black list versus the superior option of a white list (in this case)? Surely it's better to let in what you want and ignore everything else by default versus…
I feel qualified to chime in because this is the way I use reddit, too, with similar numbers of filtered subreddits. There are two reasons to do it this way. The first is that you never find smaller subreddits you might like with a whitelist. The second is that reddit will not actually give you a whitelist of subreddits. It instead picks a random 50 subreddits among your subscriptions and limits itself to those. That…
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You register an account, unsubscribe from everything, and then subscribe to what you want. That's a white list. I don't know what this 50 limit is you mentioned... never run into that. My "Home" screen contains posts from every sub I'm subbed too...
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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.
Not really in Metafilter's case. It's norms changed under the feet of a significant fraction of its long time community members. I also wasn't talking so much about norms than a rather narrow range of orthodox opinion.
To put it in HN terms: think of it as a forum where it's orthodox to love Ayn Rand, think in Objectivist terms, and a transgression to voice anything but the most indirect critical perspective of her or her ideas. You might not realize it because there are tons of great threads about other things, but God help you if you venture the opinion that the government should increase mandatory taxes to fund assistance programs for the poor.
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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 :)
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> they are just keen to buy/cheat/steal Nationalistic swipes are not ok on HN. Please don't post like this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: looks like we've had to warn you about this before. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, so can you please take the spirit of this site to heart more? Obviously we can't have people slurring other countries or peoples and have this forum remain ci…
Are you seriously considering banning someone when pointing out the obvious? This is clear censorship and not in the spirit of this forum to ban someone when they point out known transgressions or very clearly known problems. China's IP theft isn't some conspiracy theory: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-deploys-new-tactics-to-curb... To say that China steals is not a fallacy or an exaggeration in the slightest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html
You don't have to read all that, but we do need you not to post any more comments like you did upthread. Blowing up inflammatory territory does no one any good.
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I feel qualified to chime in because this is the way I use reddit, too, with similar numbers of filtered subreddits. There are two reasons to do it this way. The first is that you never find smaller subreddits you might like with a whitelist. The second is that reddit will not actually give you a whitelist of subreddits. It instead picks a random 50 subreddits among your subscriptions and limits itself to those. That…
> The second is that reddit will not actually give you a whitelist of subreddits ??? You register an account, unsubscribe from everything, and then subscribe to what you want. That's a white list. I don't know what this 50 limit is you mentioned... never run into that. My "Home" screen contains posts from every sub I'm subbed too...
https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204579749-Some-...
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> * The introduction of Reddit Gold, then the introduction of Reddit Silver - originally a joke, now a real thing Why is this a problem? You're not forced to use it or interact with it. It's just a way for reddit to make more money, which I have no problem with. old.reddit.com going away is a legitimate fear that I share, though.
The day old.reddit goes away is the day I stop using reddit, period. And I'll be sad about it. Smaller subreddits are just about the last bastion of the communities I so enjoyed in the BBS/early internet era. But the new UI is, frankly, a dark-pattern shitshow. And I don't use that term lightly.
Me too! I'll be super happy about it, though. Will break my reddit addiction and principal time sink once and for all. The new design is just so visually disgusting to me I get a palpably negative reaction to it. So cartoony and spaced out, so much less information, even the concise views make everything look like it was obviously designed for mobile and to be like instagram. It's gross. The whole reason I read reddit is for the good discussion and comments. Part of the reason I like HN and craigslist is they're simple and not a visual overload.