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Reddit is on its way down. It's been overrun by power-tripping mods, and there's no way to appeal a perma-ban ! I've been banned from /r/india for just commenting on another sub (/r/chodi, which was recommended by the app itself!); banned from /r/worldnews for disagreeing with the herd. The moment a decent, democratic discussion forum comes along, I'll jump ship to it.
Just create a new account, problem solved.
Reddit is on its way down. It's been overrun by power-tripping mods, and there's no way to appeal a perma-ban ! I've been banned from /r/india for just commenting on another sub (/r/chodi, which was recommended by the app itself!); banned from /r/worldnews for disagreeing with the herd. The moment a decent, democratic discussion forum comes along, I'll jump ship to it.
What do you mean by democratic? Are you thinking of some kind of election system to replace mods, and if so have you seen such a mechanism work anywhere else on forums?
Also, make it hard to perma-ban someone with over 100K karma points, especially in regional subs (like /r/india, etc.); you can change your interests, but you can't really change where you are from. If nothing else, force the mods to actually justify bans; and one subjective offense should not be enough to ban someone.
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Hiring, they are on a hiring tear.
But that's precisely the question: why are they hiring?
I am the hugest fan of reddit. . . it will be interesting to see if they can increase revenue without impacting the user experience negatively.
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That demographic is most sought-after by advertisers because it is the easiest to influence. The ads work better on them. For whatever reason, maybe just because they've seen more ads, older demographics are harder to reach.
This is absolutely not true. Setting aside product market fit, older demos are better, ideally conservative.
Imagine the person saying "don't believe everything you read in the news" Is that an older person talking to a younger one, or vice-versa?
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Taking in $400M at this stage is already a pretty sure sign of failure and that they don't know how to run a business. Probably too many MBAs busy optimizing their career ascendancy to be concerned with pesky details like competently securing revenue streams. It's not that hard to show ads to self-selecting niche audiences.
“It’s not that hard to show ads to self-selecting niche audiences.” Perhaps not. Honest question though: Have you tried, at scale?
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Yes. With this system it would be important to verify identities on sign up. I think verifying phone number would largely resolve the issue (SMS short codes don't work on VOIP phones). There many other levels to reduce fake accounts that can be added if problems begin to occur. The main issue is the more difficult sign up is, the less people sign up. It's a balancing act. With any voting system you have to detect the…
> SMS short codes don't work on VOIP phones My experience is mostly with Google Voice, but I've not found that to be true. Years ago that was the case, but these days, I've encountered by few that don't work.
https://support.google.com/voice/thread/1592118/wellsfargo-s...
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Do you have any source of this? Not offhand, but I've heard of users getting temporary suspensions for using the word, although I don't believe there's an automated rule site-wide. It's also completely useless Not entirely. Sure, if you're a dedicated attacker trying to tell a specific target to kill themselves, there's not much I can do about it; you'll acquire an aged account with decent karma and find a way to do…
> Not offhand, but I've heard of users getting temporary suspensions for using the word, although I don't believe there's an automated rule site-wide. Merely for using the word? this seems like a myth to me. Various subreddits would obviously ban for it if used as a direct insult, but banning any use of it side-wide seems unlikely. > If you're just a regular person going about your day and say something stupid, an au…
It does seem possible they may have banned an individual user for using that word.
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That is really interesting. Is it 8% of all users, or 8% of PC users ?
Sorry, to be more precise, I'm seeing in total roughly: - 6.8% old reddit - 5.8% mobile web - 72% new reddit - 15.6% reddit apps
I personally use the reddit.com address, but have opted out of the redesign. I wonder if you can track that with reddit.
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whats lemmy? Googling around all I found was articles about the motorhead singer and some weird dead forum from the 2000s about lemmy koopa
Probably https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy