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by oridecon 3327 days ago
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).

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/r/hailcorporate
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)

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.

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.