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NoReturn said:
Down-down or do you think they're gonna pull a Digg and "pivot to a new content model"?
Taking bets, though, where will redditors end up next?
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A Digg definitely. They'll move towards sponsored content and company-owned boards, as the trend has been for a while now. Redditeurs will stay because the population is too soy filled to switch to voat and doesn't like forums.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
A Digg definitely. They'll move towards sponsored content and company-owned boards, as the trend has been for a while now. Redditeurs will stay because the population is too soy filled to switch to voat and doesn't like forums.
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How's Voat doing these days anyway?
 
NoReturn said:
AH HA HA HA HA!
Calling it now, they're gonna do an Ellen Pao round two.
  1. Alexis steps down
  2. Someone is brought in to replace him, preferably someone who can get reddit some minority-representation cred
  3. New person makes changes as directed by the board/shareholders
  4. Changes are unpopular with reddit users, site gets pushback
  5. New person is fired/steps down
  6. Alexis swoops in to be the returning hero a la King Richard the Lionheart
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Nah, there isn't someone beloved in this brouhaha like the AMA coordinator Victoria, who transcribed the answers while sitting with the celeb in question, this time to rally around. When she left, they brought in a 'boon woman, /u/808andhotcakes, who barged into blackladies announcing herself and making an ass by going around the mods of subs like hiphopheads to try to get artists to do AMA's. Her name was something real white and the last name Winter. Anyway, at that time Bill Murray did an AMA and /u/808andhotcakes MANGLED the thing, to the point a kind user /u/billmurraytranslator hopped in to fix her drunken mistakes. It was hilarious and glorious, lost to time I believe.

edit: Wynter Mitchell.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackgirls...d_to_introduce_myself_hereim_wynter_mitchell/
 
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Talking about the little awards that can be given to people that make little icons appear by their post:

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Imagine how fucking pathetic reddit admins and their userbase is that they use stickers as a form of political propaganda please give me Informative, Like and Winner stickers
 
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Ashen One said:
Sure, but the admins approve of what these people do so don't expect anything to happen.


They already do that. Creating alts on Reddit isn't forbidden unless you're using them for ban evasions and such, but considering all the power mods do with the blessings of the admins nothing will ever come out of it even when they get caught. And speaking of the powermods and admins conspiring...

r/TrueRedditMoment, a sub created because r/RedditMoment was taken over, got banned 12 hours ago because it broke Reddit's rules against "creating or repurposing a sub to reconstitute or serve the same objective as a previously banned or quarantined subreddit".

The bold part is a little important because r/RedditMoment is currently public and was not banned nor quarantined at any moment. Really activates one's almonds, this one. 🤔
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There's got to be a name for this sort of thing... reddit and all the other social media sites all do this "thing" where they keep laying down more and more arbitrary (and arbitrarily precise) rules over time without ever revising, altering or removing older and potentially conflicting rules, and then selectively enforcing random portions of the rule book while ignoring the rest (varying by offender as well). Catch-22 maybe?

The above is a good example -- "you can't make a copy of a previously-banned sub" is one of those rules that "evolves" into existence (because somebody did it first and they had to adopt a new rule to ban what they did), but there's plenty of examples of subs exactly like that which haven't been banned, and this wasn't actually a violation of the rule to begin with. They just leapt to "punish the heathens!" and picked a rule from the hat to swat them with.

I guess "anarcho-tyranny" might be a similar idea, with law enforcement allowing real crimes to take place without stopping them or prosecuting the perpetrators but actively punishing citizens who act to defend themselves.

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please give me Informative, Like and Winner stickers
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I can't follow instructions, so I gave you a nice drink :drink: instead.
 
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Sinners Sandwich said:
Does anyone know Subsimulator? All posts & comments are made by bots. It's fucking hilarious.




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Omg thank you for this! I haven't had this much fun binging a subreddit in a long time. :story:

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Has anyone ever been ton r/AskHistorians? I use to go there all the time, until I realized that the mods are always delete-happy when it comes to comments. Its also funny how much bias and ignorance I've seen in some comments from supposed "knowledgeable" people.
 
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Lucille Bluth said:
Has anyone ever been ton r/AskHistorians? I use to go there all the time, until I realized that the mods are always delete-happy when it comes to comments. Its also funny how much bias and ignorance I've seen in some comments from supposed "knowledgeable" people.
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I've been there, and thank god I never got verified for my degree when I was a bigger redditeur. The place is run by horrible ideologues and I dread what they'll some day do with the dox they required to give out credential flairs.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
I've been there, and thank god I never got verified for my degree when I was a bigger redditeur. The place is run by horrible ideologues and I dread what they'll some day do with the dox they required to give out credential flairs.
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I tried asking several questions but they usually got no upvotes or replies. I've tried replying and the shitty mods deleted my comments for being deemed "inadequate".

But there are so many recycled/repetitive questions that do get a lot of attention/upvotes/replies/etc.
 
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