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> Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were Is that really a reliable metric for activity there? Genuinely curious. What if more content is being published and popular posts don't get as much voting because of the churn? > before the exodus Exodus to where, exactly? A few thousand users switching to some obscure alternative isn't much. Sure, people left Twitter, but Threads and Bluesky are way bi…
I left for HN. Not going back.
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He said he was modifying the content to add useless messages and song lyrics. How is that not trolling and just plain juvenile behavior?
>He said... That was me. I know there are a lot of comments and replies to comments here so it's easy to lose track of who did what to who. I think if you read my replies in this thread you can begin to understand why it is not trolling or juvenile behavior, it's just me exercising control over the content that I posted, on my own time, following all the rules that reddit established when they launched. This is a fea…
If you don’t like a restaurant, don’t go. Don’t go there and shit on the tables.
A restaurant was also “meant” for you to go in. But not make the experience worse for everyone else because you don’t like it anymore
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Yes if you are 12 and posting to 4Chan it might be funny
Since many of your replies are referencing my post I would just like to add that I am not 12. I'm closer to 9 (in dog years). I grew up a long time ago, maybe before you were even a sparkle in your parent's eyes and a new name on the family Christmas card.
Did you also go back to the old Usenet groups that you use to post in and pollute the few rensining good ones with useless garbage?
If you are that old, you should know better
Reddit is such a toxic hole anyway. It's all posturing, stupid cutesy language, and victim mindset. I'm so glad the site got awful as the content - we're all better off without.
Good Ukrainian War info, though
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probably the cabal of mods that run the more popular subreddits. I deleted an account because of that; I had posted in one of the antivax subs about how stupid people in there were being and the popular reddit mod cabal sentenced anyone who posted ever in a slew of those antivax subs to "bans" and if you used a different account you were "ban evading". It's a petty power play by very small minded people to hurt those…
I'm not sure that one who purposely goes into subreddits of topics one disagrees with to throw insults and start arguments is exactly a model user, in fairness.
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tens of millions a day, I sometimes wonder why people take on these false "people are still using __________?" when they know that people are still using twitter and reddit and facebook. Do you have any explanation as to why one would act pseudo-shocked? Is there a point?
(Not OP) I legitimately thought reddit the site had died and gone full ghost town. My use of reddit has almost always been as a knowledge resource, and that had been totally destroyed with these API changes. Like, very often I have a technical question, search it+reddit and find a seemingly helpful thread with most of the comments deleted. It's logical to assume that most people who also engaged with reddit like this…
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>He said... That was me. I know there are a lot of comments and replies to comments here so it's easy to lose track of who did what to who. I think if you read my replies in this thread you can begin to understand why it is not trolling or juvenile behavior, it's just me exercising control over the content that I posted, on my own time, following all the rules that reddit established when they launched. This is a fea…
Then if you don’t want your content to be there…delete it instead of making a worse experience for everyone else. If you don’t like a restaurant, don’t go. Don’t go there and shit on the tables. A restaurant was also “meant” for you to go in. But not make the experience worse for everyone else because you don’t like it anymore
However I found recently there are websites that have every single one of my old comments accessible and I'm sure reddit itself does to. Once you comment it's there forever.
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>He said... That was me. I know there are a lot of comments and replies to comments here so it's easy to lose track of who did what to who. I think if you read my replies in this thread you can begin to understand why it is not trolling or juvenile behavior, it's just me exercising control over the content that I posted, on my own time, following all the rules that reddit established when they launched. This is a fea…
Then if you don’t want your content to be there…delete it instead of making a worse experience for everyone else. If you don’t like a restaurant, don’t go. Don’t go there and shit on the tables. A restaurant was also “meant” for you to go in. But not make the experience worse for everyone else because you don’t like it anymore
There's really nothing to see here. This is standard expected behavior baked into reddit from day one. Not even /u/spez or /u/kn0thing wanted everything they ever posted to be perpetually available. They had multiple discussions early on about how some of it might appear years down the line.
I'm not making reddit worse for anyone. I'm the guy who saw the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" sign and made sure I wore my best t-shirt and a pair of boots so I could enjoy the facilities.
The only ones who might get their feelings hurt are those who are actively using reddit content to train their LLMs or those who decided to invest in reddit's IPO and who see any modification of posts as potentially damaging the value of the content.
In the end, it has always been my content and their aggregator. The shear volume of traffic they have seen makes anything that I do functionally irrelevant.