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You're not helping. Maybe try and ask a question or contribute some knowledge. This person is misinformed and all you're doing is cement his beliefs that his opponents are clueless and spiteful.
There is a difference between misinformed, and being an intentional troll.
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Oh stop being argumentative for the sake of it. You're presuming to know their gender - you don't. Therefore the correct pronoun in this instance is 'they'. Not everything is about wokeism.
> Not everything is about wokeism. It changed "they're" to "xer", looks like you're wrong.
And yes, I said 'they' because I do not presume to know their gender, unlike yourself it seems. Not because I am being 'woke'.
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> The difficult change I've seen in the past few years is the rising number of hate and harassment subs, and Reddit tolerating them. If you scroll through the top of /r/BanFemaleHateSubs or /r/AgainstDegenerateSubs you'll see how bad things have become and how unsafe the general environment is. The r/BanThisandThat subreddits are little more than morality police. Many of those posts will take statements out of contex…
Those subreddits are the only ones doing anything. Reddit is driven by user participation, including users objecting to and reporting behavior. Like how r/tumblrinaction got banned recently, the members of the sub didn't report themselves for racism and transphobia.
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Tell that to /r/conservative where I am banned from for even attempting to present an alternate viewpoint. Dissent is literally forbidden by the subreddit's rules.
There is a difference between a conservative subreddit only allowing conservatives and reddit banning conservative subreddits
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Very convenient.
What do you expect me to do? Hack reddit's Postgres databases to recover deleted comments?
There are also Pushshift-based sitewide search engines: redditsearch.io is made by the Pushshift creator but doesn't show deleted content. ihsoyct.github.io does, but is unreliable, often randomly missing some comments and posts in any one run of a query.
With the amount of constructive comments/posts removed for seemingly no reason nowadays, and the blight of users overwriting and/or deleting helpful, otherwise anonymous comments when making privacy purges, I find it now more pleasant to browse with all deleted content shown than without.
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Reddit is hijacking content by requiring it to be hosted on it's own CDN... It's one of the main reasons why they put up walls. Many reddit users are actively involved in content and credit theft as well, but no one knows about how deep it runs. In a world where creators are going unviewed from IG to TikTok, there is literally an underground repost network that literally steals and reposts content to claim credit and…
You mean 9gag surely. I thought they were the ones that stole everyone else's content, or are we just having the same conversation that we were having 15 years ago. Content theft on the internet is as old as the internet.
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My critique of Reddit isn’t so much about moderation per se, as it is about one-sided moderation. The ban of anything that opposes “the message”. It started around 2015/16 and it was very clearly visible in all subs.
I have not noticed this. What is "the message"?
This is why reddit leans heavily socialist/communist/anti-capitalist (moderated by people who believe moderating for free is more important than a real job).
Its a rabbit hole to dive into, but once you dig deeper you realize just how much political manipulation is occurring, not just in reddit mind you.
Its tearing apart society.
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> The difficult change I've seen in the past few years is the rising number of hate and harassment subs, and Reddit tolerating them. If you scroll through the top of /r/BanFemaleHateSubs or /r/AgainstDegenerateSubs you'll see how bad things have become and how unsafe the general environment is. The r/BanThisandThat subreddits are little more than morality police. Many of those posts will take statements out of contex…
Have you looked at the subs they're talking about? They're sharing collections of zip folders of girls openly advertised as as young as 13, they're stalking women via social media sending descriptions of their potential rape to their family, they're robbing women's houses and sharing their stolen belongings, they're flashing, groping and ejaculating on women in public and filming it for upvotes. Call it morality poli…
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the day the get rid of old.reddit.com I'll be gone looking for something more to my liking. The retro reddit is the best reddit.
I first started using reddit in around 2015, so I never experienced the old reddit design when it was default. I tried old.reddit.com the other day, but I found it almost unbearable. not being used to it, I found it ugly and messy and overloaded with text. it loads twice as fast, though, and doesn't prioritise images over information, so I see the upside, but I do think a lot of the commentary here is nostalgia and j…
This is, to me, the clincher. Is old reddit perfect? God no (i sometimes block certain elements to clean it up), but the information density is vastly better.
I read/scan quickly and don't care much about images. I can very quickly see if there's anything of interest on the page i'm on, and then move on to something else, or queue up a few comment threads to read through in other tabs. If there's an image, it's usually trivial to quickly zoom in to look at it rather than even bothering to load it again (hit or miss depending on quality).
It's obviously not perfect, but I don't think it's just nostalgia. I legit desire something fundamentally different that what new reddit is trying to offer. I'm looking for a website i wouldn't mind quickly browsing from the terminal using keyboard hotkeys, not something that I swipe forever on my phone with. Even on the phone though I prefer old reddit (was best on firefox for mobile with blockers but i'm back on apple so i need to look into my options.)
Someone like me just wants more text based/information dense screens that can be quickly navigated and then drilled into if i desire more information/content.
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Well if I am, that's a new name to describe me because I've held these beliefs for over 20 years. You are wrong about climate change. Ask your local weather service, the weather's not what it used to be. When the rich abandon their seaside mansions, you'll be too late, because the mountain retreats they'll go to they've already bought. No, taxing was invented to fund the government (and later expanded to counter expo…
It is a forgone conclusion that those with extreme wealth will have prime pick of location if they need to abandon their seaside locations. I'll repeat, I'll wait for that to happen (I don't have much choice but to do that, unless you assume I'm extremely wealthy). The BLM protests caused widespread destruction. Michael Jackson achieved worldwide awareness with Black or White, that was 1994 - things have only ever im…
For what it's worth, the effects of climate change are much worse than the rising of the oceans, focusing on that was a mistake of the climate alarmists. We'll have famine and war much sooner than the rising oceans will affect the rich.
Well that explains at least some part of it, you have absolutely no idea what the protests were about. They were about the police brutality that stems from the incompetency of officers bred from the American policy on police training. MJ singing about racism has almost nothing to do with that.