[pvnick]

Best of luck. Reddit needs a good kick in the arse. Since shortly before Steve Huffman's (Spez) return, Reddit has adopted a policy of top-down content curation - banning controversial subreddits, changing the voting algorithm to dis-favor /r/the_donald, and most recently introducing /r/popular which is basically /r/all without that pesky /r/the_donald subreddit (ffs just man up and ban the group rather than pretending to support the free exchange of ideas).

Reddit management prefers for their website to only showcase non-controversial content in order to attract advertisers. Which is their right, but I'm rooting for the disruptive upcomer that will kill that website like Reddit originally did to Digg back when Reddit was cool and stood for something.

[oridecon]

Reddit is still bearable if you ignore the frontpage/popular subs. Nothing new but it got way worse the last couple of years.

- Look at this cute dog (drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola)

- I broke my leg this morning (while holding this can of Pepsi)

- Thread that shouldn't be on the frontpage (and the top comment is: "I bet he bought it at Walmart")

- Cool drone video (literally filming an ad)

- Photo of CharmingGuyMcAbs and/or CharmingGirlMcBoobs (Positive Reinforcement)

> I'm rooting for the disruptive upcomer

Doesn't look anything like Digg/MySpace days unless they somehow find a way to kill the "smaller" communities. Even the outbound click thing (or the new frontpage) didn't made any real impact from what I can tell.

But who knows, maybe you're right and someone comes up with a killer feature. Or an UI that doesn't suck so bad that you need a mandatory browser extension (that fries your CPU).

[dredmorbius]

/r/hailcorporate

[oridecon]

Why would I go to a sub that points to obvious shills and product placements? I'm only giving more views to their images. Maybe hailcorporate was made by the same people.

(X-Files theme song)

[dredmorbius]

It's not so much that you'd want to hang there, as to observe that the problem is noted ("hail corporate" is a deeply ironic name), and fairly well documented.

In other news, Reddit have announced some changes to their spam management today.

[dredmorbius]

For those breathlessly wondering what the spam announcement was:

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6bj5de/state_of_sp...

/r/spam will be going away. Better automated tools. Moderators (usually) rawk.

[orthecreedence]

T_D is a cesspool. It's like /r/conspiracy went full Saiyan. Nobody wants to see that shit.

[pvnick]

Ok but that's not the point I was making.

[castis]

Removing T_D would result in an insane amount of backlash that I'm sure they don't want to put up with.

If you have to have a cancer, better to know where it is and keep tabs on it that risk spreading it out.

[testertesttest]

It's funny how many people here claim to support "the free exchange of ideas" but forget to mention the caveat "only if I like them".

It's almost like there's a bunch of gaslighting that makes it okay, regardless of opinion, to modify voting algorithms to promote certain political opinions.

FYI this is the behavior the brown shirts exhibited. We're not so far from those times again.

[cholantesh]

If the ideas in question include abhorrence to free speech and opposing ideas to the point of silencing those that express them, is it still all right? Because T_D has regularly demonstrated that these are some of their core principles.

>FYI this is the behavior the brown shirts exhibited. We're not so far from those times again.

Top-quality Godwinning.

[castis]

I hope that wasn't a critique of my behavior, I never claimed to support a free exchange of ideas.

I'm having difficulty determining who (if at all?) you have an issue with?

[dredmorbius]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance