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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.


i'm the hide all child comments button next to the göm and anmäl buttons

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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
i'm the GOD POST

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

there was some major dramabomb today where an administrator got fired out of nowhere and they had to shut down r/iama, r/science, r/games, and a whole bunch of others but i don't know why any of this happened

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

oh okay. they fired the person who organized all the celebrity amas and won't say anything about why it happened

even the other admins didn't know until they got mails asking "uh where is the ama?" from the person who called the administrator to get everything set up, and the admin said "oh i got fired today, sorry"

quote:

It's not a matter of brinksmanship, it's that we honestly can't function the same way without Victoria. They knocked down a load-bearing wall in the House of /r/IAmA.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Luigi Thirty posted:

there was some major dramabomb today where an administrator got fired out of nowhere and they had to shut down r/iama, r/science, r/games, and a whole bunch of others but i don't know why any of this happened

i checked srs and apparently they can't run poo poo without her and nobody knows why she was fired so they had to cancel some amas

not very dramatic tbh just reddit being incompetent as usual

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Cold on a Cob posted:

i checked srs and apparently they can't run poo poo without her and nobody knows why she was fired so they had to cancel some amas

not very dramatic tbh just reddit being incompetent as usual

you should check srd if you want the drama links, not srs. they shuttered r/iama, r/gaming, r/science, and some other front page ones over it

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Luigi Thirty posted:

you should check srd if you want the drama links, not srs. they shuttered r/iama, r/gaming, r/science, and some other front page ones over it

on the otherhand he shouldn't cause srd is a redditeur infested hellhole

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Condiv posted:

on the otherhand he shouldn't cause srd is a redditeur infested hellhole

i didn't say to read the comments

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


It's a coup, people. We couping up in here. Oh, sweet Jesus, yes. First they came for FPH, and I said nothing cause who gives a gently caress. Then they came for chooter and I said HELL NO, SON. You want my Victoria? You can pry her from my cold, dead GOD drat REDDITOR HANDS.

It's happening. My first coup. My first coup ever and I'm right here for it. I'm excited. Should I been excited? I'm also nervous, like a sexual kind of nervous. Anything can happen in a coup and often does and I'm in the middle of it. How fast do I start flipping cars? Right away? Do I have to ease into it? Someone let me know when I can start flipping cars, okay?

It's all happening so fast and so hard right now. I want to gif. I'm going to gif. Its a coup! Anything goes! Ron Paul gif awaaaaaayyyyyyy.

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
im helping

emoji
Jun 4, 2004

Condiv posted:

redditeur

Condiv posted:

It's a coup, people. We couping up in here. Oh, sweet Jesus, yes. First they came for FPH, and I said nothing cause who gives a gently caress. Then they came for chooter and I said HELL NO, SON. You want my Victoria? You can pry her from my cold, dead GOD drat REDDITOR HANDS.

It's happening. My first coup. My first coup ever and I'm right here for it. I'm excited. Should I been excited? I'm also nervous, like a sexual kind of nervous. Anything can happen in a coup and often does and I'm in the middle of it. How fast do I start flipping cars? Right away? Do I have to ease into it? Someone let me know when I can start flipping cars, okay?

It's all happening so fast and so hard right now. I want to gif. I'm going to gif. Its a coup! Anything goes! Ron Paul gif awaaaaaayyyyyyy.

Have you seen a doctor about your AIDS?

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970


lol were you the guy taking all of the skull posters shibes and reposting them?

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

BONGHITZ posted:

lol were you the guy taking all of the skull posters shibes and reposting them?

no

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

what's happening on reddit right now is just beautiful and i wish i joined this thread sooner

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Luigi Thirty posted:

there was some major dramabomb today where an administrator got fired out of nowhere and they had to shut down r/iama, r/science, r/games, and a whole bunch of others but i don't know why any of this happened

/r/buttcoin is private too even though i thought that was one of the more anti-reddit hive-mind sub-reddits

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

thats cause goons secretly love and use reddit

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

PleasureKevin posted:

/r/buttcoin is private too even though i thought that was one of the more anti-reddit hive-mind sub-reddits

this post gives me much pleasure, kevin

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

AtomD posted:

literally illegal in several countries including canada, i think

i just want to clear this up. everyone thinks lolicon is just illegal in Canada and Australia, or something.

no, it is loving illegal in the USA too.

i honestly couldn't show you a case where an american went to jail for lolicon, but i can show you ones where

  1. a dude went to jail for making porn where legal-aged actors (poorly) played underaged girls. it was not sold as child porn, and it was just a few lines of dialogue that said "i'm 17" or whatever, and he was in full legal compliance which was clearly posted on his sites and videos.
  2. one or more dudes went to jail for taking tonnes of pictures of his ~14 year old daughter in lingerie and high heels and selling it. there was no nudity, but under the law there doesn't have to be.
  3. supreme court cases that say states can create obscenity laws that (don't) infringe on free speech.

however, if you go to wikipedia there is lengthy claim that lolicon is legal, but there's obviously no source because it was written by someone from 8chan or something

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

OK here we go, a guy convicted, in the US, for obscene cartoon depictions of children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Handley

Optimus_Rhyme
Apr 15, 2007

are you that mainframe hacker guy?

I will say at least VOAT has a sense of humor:

Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.
Reddit is melting down

Optimus_Rhyme
Apr 15, 2007

are you that mainframe hacker guy?

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

so just to summarize

someone exited from reddit staff. they still had an account, though and said they'd still help IAmA

no one knows why they exited, either fired, laid off or quit

basically every subreddit with more than 1000 subscribers self-immolates by going private so no one but admins can see the subreddit

every other subreddit vows "solidarity" with the self-immolated ones, still no one knowing why the person left reddit as staff in the first place

pretty amazing that multiple presumed adults across dozens of "respectable" subreddits could all be so stupid

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
keep us updated

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

quote:

TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly - being uncommunicative, and disregarding the thousands of moderators who keep the site running. In addition, /r/listentothis has disabled all submissions, and so has /r/picsand /r/Jokes has announced its support (but has not gone private). Major subreddits, including /r/4chan, /r/circlejerk and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, have also expressed solidarity through going private. See here for a further list.

ultramiraculous
Nov 12, 2003

"No..."
Grimey Drawer

PleasureKevin posted:

pretty amazing that multiple presumed adults across dozens of "respectable" subreddits could all be so stupid

is it? is it even vaguely surprising?

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

the mods can kill the site cause reddit is a sharing economy startup and needs the unpaid labor

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
loving unprofessional if you ask me

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
"someone got fired/left so we can't do that anymore" isn't even a good excuse for a corner cafe

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Optimus_Rhyme posted:

I will say at least VOAT has a sense of humor:



the only thing worse than being reddit is being a reddit poser

emoji
Jun 4, 2004

AtomD posted:

"someone got fired/left so we can't do that anymore" isn't even a good excuse for a corner cafe

It's a good excuse for the mods to give up if the person fired happened to be the only liaison to all the famous people who drive tons of traffic. That person has tons of relationships built up with various people and agencies that don't just transfer. The remaining mods are not unprofessional because they aren't paid mods like here on SA.

emoji fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jul 3, 2015

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

um.. they make their own subreddit, then they mod it. why would they pay the mods.

it's like hey i just made 50 subreddits pay me

emoji
Jun 4, 2004
I was being slightly facetious, Kevin. The ama person they fired was a paid admin who managed the ama talent and was uniquely crucial. Everyone else gets paid in rare pepes and has no particular loyalty to reddit itself.

ultramiraculous
Nov 12, 2003

"No..."
Grimey Drawer
i could see paying out to mods of high-traffic/default subreddits...maybe. i mean the reason for this whole "protest" thing in some subreddits is because the volunteers mods lost the only person they knew who was actually paid to deal with redditors.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


ultramiraculous posted:

i could see paying out to mods of high-traffic/default subreddits...maybe. i mean the reason for this whole "protest" thing in some subreddits is because the volunteers mods lost the only person they knew who was actually paid to deal with redditors.

they'd get paid in reddit gold and they'd eat that retarded poo poo up

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

reddit calls itself an "open platform", not a media company. they want to be more like a communication protocol and they pull this out whenever they get called out for hosting links to child porn or whatever. paying someone to use your open platform/protocol seems weird, especially when the "mods" don't really have any rules to enforce besides posting personal information.

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

PleasureKevin posted:

/r/buttcoin is private too even though i thought that was one of the more anti-reddit hive-mind sub-reddits
well yeah but it's still on reddit itself so if reddit is collapsing then they might as well help it collapse even further

PleasureKevin posted:

um.. they make their own subreddit, then they mod it. why would they pay the mods.

emoji posted:

Everyone else gets paid in rare pepes and has no particular loyalty to reddit itself.
that jailbait guy still got showered with all kind of gifts though

i think it's only the non-child porn subs that don't get paid

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'



lol if the idiots think /r/circlejerk is expressing solidarity instead of mocking them for their little temper tantrum

neutral milf hotel
Oct 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
reddit is so loving stupid

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dimebag dinkman
Feb 20, 2003

what if that person just died or whatever

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