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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Sendotsh »

asdff wrote: post #516
therealdrag0 wrote: post #417

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I've seen this comment more recently. I just thought he was a notorious reposter. What specifically is bad about him? (I often don't mind reposts when it's a first time for me..)

'He' is probably a small team of people using that account to repost paid content. There are dozens of massive accounts like this, I wish I had a comprehensive list to filter them all without going through user history one by one.

Something like a blocklist in uBlock Origin that blocks reddit power users.

Technically you could say that Gallowboob (and similar) posts ARE ads, and warrant blocking.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by gregimba »

worriedcyclist wrote: post #662
henriquemaia wrote: post #609

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I haven't visited that subreddit on a long time, so I'm knowing this from you. What a pity. I visited on a similar reason to yours: to know how my own life can be taken suddenly, without notice or warning. Since I move around exclusively by bicycle, I paid particular attention to the videos where cyclists met their untimely fate. I've learned a lot watching those videos, since it gave me a more clear perspective on h…

Getting off topic but I always ask folks what are some more examples of unexpected things to look out for? I’ve become a bit disillusioned with cycling after 2 fairly bad crashes in about 6 months. I didn’t have a fear of metal drawbridges, having gone over a variety of them numerous times. Then I hit one that was slick from rain earlier in the day. Tires swerved like I was on ice and I did not fall gracefully. Broke…

Borrowing the phrase from motorcycling but it rings true with bicycling as well. Ride like you are invisible and every driver is drunk and out to kill you. Assuming the worst intentions from cars on the road teaches you to slow down and be prepared to stop or swerve to avoid a collision. Wet metal and bikes don't mix, motorcyclists are taught to pull in the clutch going over train tracks and man hole covers for this very reason.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

qgsrw3fd wrote: post #596
babypuncher wrote: post #230

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As soon as a viable alternative pops up that doesn't seem tailor made for racists, I'm there. So far every competitor I've seen pop up seems to think Reddit's biggest problem is their (rather weak) stance against hate speech and user harassment, and not all the actual problems being discussed here.

What part of reddit makes it tailor made for racists? The fact that pictures of members of the KKK appear when you sign up, or the fact that when you're writing a comment you're suggested to include as many racial expletives as possible?

I think you misunderstood babypuncher's comment (I did too on first reading). It's not that reddit itself is racist, but all of the reddit alternatives that have popped up ARE super racist (Voat anyone?) because they are a backlash against reddit's attempt to tamp down on overt hate speech.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by [deleted] »

ProAm wrote: post #206
ramphastidae wrote: post #198

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Also the ‘Open Reddit App’ button at the bottom of the screen. Blocks content, can’t remove for the session, and a close button that is purposefully small in order to make it difficult to click. Enraging.

i.reddit.com bypasses all this

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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by frenchy »

saagarjha wrote: post #374
babypuncher wrote: post #359

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Not really. I don't claim to have proof that there is no god. I merely assert that not existing is the default state in the face of evidence-less existence claims. There could be a god, but that possibility has no bearing on how I live my life. If you want to ascribe a set of beliefs to me, the closest might be secular humanism.

Perhaps you might consider yourself to be agnostic?

Would you call yourself agnostic simply because you didn't believe Russel's teapot existed?

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by mschaef »

user5994461 wrote: post #673
mschaef wrote: post #629

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> StackOverlow is a small website that can run in a garage on a couple of servers, and that's with a lot of margin. Maybe things have changed, but in 2016 they were running three or four dozen servers in each of two data centers: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...

I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers, looks like they have a bit more than that now. You can see that most of the servers are deployed in pairs, the minimum to have any redundancy, so they are nowhere near capacity. Another blog post stated that the servers rarely go above a few percents of usage, they are very powerful, often close to the highest specs available. I will stand by my statement. It should be largely…

> I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers,

You said a couple, which usually means 'two'.

You offered StackOverflow as "another website with Reddit's daily active users and revenue profile, but significantly higher availability" and then said this:

"I wouldn't be surprised as well if reddit was two orders of magnitude more than that"

> I will stand by my statement

I have no literally idea how to have a conversation with someone who's willing to revise their previous numbers by a factor of ten or more, say it's the same statement as it was before, and call it good.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by rchaud »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #608
rchaud wrote: post #519

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It's when you behave online like you are 15 years old. Everything about you has to scream 'enlightened contrarian' or 'devil's advocate' otherwise you'll become one of those conformists clicking their fingers to Taylor Swift and Imagine Dragons. Conversations with them are impossible and frustrating because they aren't looking to talk to someone, they're looking to talk AT someone and collect as many upvotes as possi…

so the entirety of /r/politics?

I was thinking more like r/unpopularopinion. r/politics is wall to wall with Trump posts, gets tiring within the first few minutes.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by maceurt »

yesco wrote: post #388
bleriot wrote: post #336

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A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.

You're definitely right about this, the fact that even /r/4chan isn't quarantined despite the content of it's comment section tells you everything you need to know. WPD had very strict rules imposed before the quarantine occurred and the comments weren't nearly as bad as one would expect. Frankly I think it's obvious that the entire point of quarantines is to hide away the content Reddit doesn't want advertisers to s…

I remember just last year r/4chan literally had a picture of an overweight woman drinking a big gulp getting fucked doggy style by a man covered in blood with a caption "I have evolved" as the background to their subreddit. 4chan regularly got to the frontpage of reddit and many posts were not marked nsfw. Reddit should have done something about that subreddit years ago, because that could actually turn new users off of reddit.
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