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Lampsacus posted:Oh god I just remembered I had a reddit account circa. 2005ish. I think I deleted it in 2009 out of embarrassment of how bad the site had got and that was literally a decade ago now how is this website still a thing Uh maybe because it's the front page of the internet ?
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Lampsacus posted:Oh god I just remembered I had a reddit account circa. 2005ish. I think I deleted it in 2009 out of embarrassment of how bad the site had got and that was literally a decade ago now how is this website still a thing same
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Feb 2, 2019 03:58
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Mustached5thGrader posted:Lots of redditors are mad about the big fat ugly guy who devotes his life to constantly updating Wikipedia getting made fun of on twitter for being fat and ugly by a woman. They truly believe him to be a hero I agree with them. That guy is contributing to society for free.
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Feb 2, 2019 05:07
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Mustached5thGrader posted:Lots of redditors are mad about the big fat ugly guy who devotes his life to constantly updating Wikipedia getting made fun of on twitter for being fat and ugly by a woman. They truly believe him to be a hero quote:A Wikipedia administrator — a volunteer community-approved position that gives him special technical capabilities — since 2015, Pruitt works mostly alone but does belong to a few virtual Wikipedian teams: “WikiProject Virginia,” centered on the commonwealth, and “Women in Red,” launched in 2015 to increase the number of biographical entries about women. Pruitt aims to create hundreds of pages about lesser-known female artists, like 19th-century sculptor Joanna Quiner. In Wiki-speak, he’s an inclusionist, believing that information should be liberally added and retained, as opposed to deletionists, who focus on removing content that doesn’t meet Wikipedia’s “notability” standard. Sounds cooler than a random twitter hater.
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Feb 2, 2019 05:44
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Holy poo poo, wtf. This dude is literally a serial killer in the making. https://reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/alo7j9/lungs_as_eyes_intestine_smiles_rat_testicles/
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Feb 2, 2019 13:56
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Holy poo poo, wtf. This dude is literally a serial killer in the making. He’s passionate about what he does 
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Feb 2, 2019 15:03
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He's got a website, and before you ask, yes the pencil case made from a rat is sold out. https://worldaroundewe.com/
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Feb 2, 2019 16:56
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zakharov posted:Karma doesn't do anything right? Some subs have a karma minimum before you can post but I think that's it. It's a number, some people have more of it, others have less of it. Enter a target demographic that's predominantly male and 18-40, boom there's your sellable pissing contest resource. e: I mean if that's bizarre, what are fetishes? there are probably people right now wanking to pictures of girls putting bread into toasters.
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Feb 2, 2019 18:07
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down n out posted:Sounds cooler than a random twitter hater. Like a broken clock Reddit might actually be right this time, less this guy is quietly horrible like everyone.
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Feb 2, 2019 19:27
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https://snew.notabug.io/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/ame4x6/netflix_has_had_the_same_logo_animation_for_five/ GallowBoob, one of the most infamous reposters on the site (and conveniently enough, mod of every sub that he spams in) posts what is obviously an ad for Netflix. All comments pointing this out are deleted by him, and thread is locked after a meltdown. They then say they are contacting the admins to ban everyone "brigading" the post. Drama ensues.   Reddit, home of free speech (when it's talking about nazis and pedophiles only) 
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Feb 3, 2019 02:13
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https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/amj342/as_a_black_guy_i_dont_really_care_if_a_white/ This was definitely written by a white alt right guy
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Feb 3, 2019 09:33
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gbs but from 2004 posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/amj342/as_a_black_guy_i_dont_really_care_if_a_white/
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Feb 3, 2019 12:38
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How much better would Reddit be if you could only down vote?
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Heath posted:How much better would Reddit be if you could only down vote? The same I imagine. Fake points make everyone stupid and do poo poo they don't need to do because NUMBER GO UP. It would just change to whomever is closest to 0 is king/queen of poo poo mountain.
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Feb 3, 2019 19:51
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That's the thing. If everyone starts at zero, everyone starts at the top of the hill and can only go down. I don't know how it would work in practice but it would sure put a grind on the "found a copy of NES Batman in grandma's attic +42,749” posts
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Feb 3, 2019 20:10
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Feb 3, 2019 21:57
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PancakeTransmission posted:Looking through their posts, they might be black, they are definitely incel. So their opinion should be void anyway. Even if he is black, it's still a terrible opinion. There's a whole right-wing media sub-industry for finding black people who are shamelessly amoral, brain-broken, or some combination of both who will parrot right-wing talking points. I'm going to say this guy falls into the second category.
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Feb 3, 2019 22:58
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Holy poo poo, wtf. This dude is literally a serial killer in the making. as someone who has loved many pet rodents in my life, this was a rough click for me.
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Feb 3, 2019 22:59
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Heath posted:That's the thing. If everyone starts at zero, everyone starts at the top of the hill and can only go down. That’s a decent enough idea I think. A negativistic forums culture that's quick to criticise and slow to praise its members would surely produce some great content oh wait that kind of sounds like SA, I'm guessing most people would rather go get cheap validation from other dumbasses on reddit than put up with that.
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Zidrooner posted:That’s a decent enough idea I think. A negativistic forums culture that's quick to criticise and slow to praise its members would surely produce some great content oh wait that kind of sounds like SA, I'm guessing most people would rather go get cheap validation from other dumbasses on reddit than put up with that. I'm very glad that we don't we use downvotes here and we just straight up say "Hey OP, you and your opinions are poo poo, gently caress off."
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There is no way to fix Reddit (removing karma entirely, upheaving the mod system) that doesn't incite a mass exodus to the next site that promises instant validation and a modicum of power for people who spend 12 hours a day on the site to moderate
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PancakeTransmission posted:There is no way to fix Reddit (removing karma entirely, upheaving the mod system) that doesn't incite a mass exodus to the next site that promises instant validation and a modicum of power for people who spend 12 hours a day on the site to moderate Isn't this exactly how the Digg->Reddit exodus went down? Every time I think about how to fix reddit I end up just inventing The Something Awful Forums.
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Kraanerg posted:Isn't this exactly how the Digg->Reddit exodus went down? Every time I think about how to fix reddit I end up just inventing The Something Awful Forums. Only imagine how reddit would look like with a  paywall and no Karma system though.Even though they'd probably just all go to Facebook or some other site, as long as they can sell their rodent body parts glued to stuff or have people that insist that they're a nice reasonable person in a comedy way.
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Goons Are Great posted:Only imagine how reddit would look like with a Well at least that dude was getting absolutely demolished in the comments tho.
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Goons Are Great posted:Only imagine how reddit would look like with a "Fixing" reddit would involve—or even be synonymous with—a mass exodus of redditors. I prefer SA but I've come to regard reddit as the wretched hive of scum and villainy I sometimes visit for various reasons.
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There will never be good opinions or people on Reddit because Reddit is the public bathroom stall of the internet, except there’s child pornography right next to the racial slurs and crudely etched dicks.
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Ripoff posted:There will never be good opinions or people on Reddit because Reddit is the public bathroom stall of the internet, except there’s child pornography right next to the racial slurs and crudely etched dicks. Didn’t we already get reddit in trouble for child porn once, is there enough of it back where we need to do round 2???
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gbs but from 2004 posted:Didn’t we already get reddit in trouble for child porn once, is there enough of it back where we need to do round 2??? I'd bet good money on that chance of that being 100%. I feel like they wrap themselves in so many layers of abstraction and dog-whistles that it'd take a lot of energy to explain what they're up to to the average person.
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Nah gently caress that keep people who willingly refer to themselves as Redditors confined to reddit.
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Kraanerg posted:Isn't this exactly how the Digg->Reddit exodus went down? Every time I think about how to fix reddit I end up just inventing The Something Awful Forums. Digg was more like the CNN homepage with an upvote system than a straight easy-bake forums platform, and IIRC it went down doing the exact same poo poo Reddit's doing now with promoted content and obvious shill mods hijacking the curation system. i don't think anyone is like, consciously there for the upvotes or going to flounce if they disable them, but all the karma whoring stuff is a big part of the gamification that keeps people coming back day after day even though nobody there likes each other and everyone's an idiot. It's the same basic thing every other successful social platform uses, cause it works to keep people coming back posting pictures of their tits for the precious validation of three button-clicks from anonymous strangers. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:...the exact same poo poo Reddit's doing now with promoted content and obvious shill mods hijacking the curation system. What I find funny about reddit is how perfectly it demonstrates the inevitable conclusion of the libertarian/ancap political ideology redditors purportedly love so much—it’s exactly what you get with no moderation/regulation and no one likes it but they can’t make the connection between cause and effect. SA, with its paywall and strongly enforced moderation, is arguably a more “free” platform that the average redditor says they want but can’t bring themselves to accept is only possible under a structure that their entire identity is predicated in hating.
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gbs but from 2004 posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/amj342/as_a_black_guy_i_dont_really_care_if_a_white/ I feel like 90% of that subreddit is basically just white alt right dudes trying to pass off their lovely right winged opinions. There was a post this week about someone who was supposedly gay saying that pride events were stupid. People dug through his post history and found out that he was basically a racist incel.
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Kraanerg posted:What I find funny about reddit is how perfectly it demonstrates the inevitable conclusion of the libertarian/ancap political ideology redditors purportedly love so much—it’s exactly what you get with no moderation/regulation and no one likes it but they can’t make the connection between cause and effect. SA, with its paywall and strongly enforced moderation, is arguably a more “free” platform that the average redditor says they want but can’t bring themselves to accept is only possible under a structure that their entire identity is predicated in hating. To a point. We have baked in prejudices of our own, as well as gradually changing standards. For example, if a poster here tried to make a thread about how child porn might actually be a social good he'd be universally shut down. Every poster would condemn him and he'd be lucky if he just ate a probation instead of a ban. If not banned he'd be redtexted forever. Even a "well what if it is just simulated child porn and no actual children are hurt" would a firm NO. If you're at the stage in development where making a provocative argument just to see what happens (ie trolling) seems fun, child abuse is a landmine in SA that you may not see coming. Likewise we have standards that have changed over time. If a rockstar poster from 2003 was caught in a time warp and accidentally posting to SA2019 he'd probably be banned with a quickness for all the ironic racisim, homophobia, and transphobia, because sometime in the last 15 years we've realized that being ironically lovely is still lovely. Even the EVE goons had a cultural revolution a few years ago and toned it down. Haha, remember that time SA crowdfunded degrading scat porn? Yeah, that probably wouldn't fly today. To an internet libertarian having some discussion topics off limits is intolerable.
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i, too, have been thinking a lot about making a reddit-like social media platform that exports the best parts of SA and explicitly markets itself as not being a "free speech" platform. i have the technical skills but none of the other skills needed to do such a thing. we should really do it though the world needs this and now is the time. dont think anyone wanted an 'anti-free-speech' platform in the 2010s but we're clamoring for it now. DONT THREAD ON ME fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:i, too, have been thinking a lot about making a reddit-like social media platform that exports the best parts of SA and explicitly markets itself as not being a "free speech" platform. i have the technical skills but none of the other skills needed to do such a thing. Go too far in the other direction and you wind up with mumsnet dramatically clutching their pearls all day every day. Who knew forums could be so complicated!
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Virtually every thread discussing how a forum "should" operate always ends up at these same discussions about what makes a forum good, and we keep coming back to "well, whatever SA does." Of course none of us can speak truly authoritatively about what is good about SA since we all pretty much grew up with it, whether we were members since inception or not, so we're all biased toward it, but I think it is saying something that virtually everyone we've chased out of here has gone on to poo poo up some other part of the internet. In my personal brain poisoned internet narrative, SA is sort of like the locus of internet culture, and whether it actually "created" anything is questionable outside of a few definitive phenomena like impact font memes that can be positively traced back here. Everything seems to pass through here at some point.
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SA is honestly the internet to me. Reddit through an ad-free client is for super niche stuff, porn (which is sadly constantly driven to the same boring conventional beauty crap due to upvote culture), and laughing at bad opinions. Facebook and similar sites are poison to be avoided, and just about the only other site I regularly visit is slickdeals
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AnimeIsTrash posted:People dug through his post history and found out that he was basically a racist incel. A common theme in that subreddit emerges...
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Sentient Data posted:SA is honestly the internet to me. Reddit through an ad-free client is for super niche stuff, porn (which is sadly constantly driven to the same boring conventional beauty crap due to upvote culture), and laughing at bad opinions. Facebook and similar sites are poison to be avoided, and just about the only other site I regularly visit is slickdeals I know people say this all the time but I genuinely don't know what I would do without SA. Reddit and Facebook are actively revolting to use. I actually stopped using Facebook at all and it very suddenly alleviated a lot of depressive symptoms I was experiencing - my life actually got better as a result. That's not even an exaggeration. Even when I occasionally pop on to FB once a month or so I can feel the weird oppressive aura of it and immediately get off. The weirdest thing is that people on my friends list I see in person ask me constantly if I saw something they posted, even my own mother, who knows I don't use the service. I haven't posted a single word since 2017, but people don't even seem to conceive that I just don't look at it. I don't know if that means I'm also a white noise Facebook poster and nobody notices my absence or if it's just such a firehose of bullshit that you couldn't notice someone simply vanishing from your front page.
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