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[TheExodu5]

So...Reddit is basically an unreadable version of Digg?

 

[elrechazado]

damn nah man I've said the same shit and I am totally disinterested in redditt; devo's stance on the site doesn't necessitate a feeling of superiority

have you considered that you might be in attack mode when you should be in a different mode. perhaps friendly mode

I'm not sure you know what the word attack means, but ok? Added to the list of people compelled to let us know that they dont go to reddit. Thanks!

The sopa comparison in the op is terrible btw.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Why do people feel morally superior and smug in mentioning they nev go to reddit? It's a news aggregation site basically, beutmyou'd think it's a combo of stormfront and a my little brony fan site to hear people try to here people try to be the first to disavow ever having been there.

fucking this.

I never go to reddit, but it gets irritating to see all these people seemingly have some kind of epileptic fit at the mere utterance of the place. But not before telling everyone in the thread how little they care about reddit.

What did they do exactly?

 

[KHarvey16]

Never been to reddit. If the domains that were banned are guilty of spamming and being a little underhanded, the temporary bans fit the crime.

 

[Loofy]

Website promoting should be a bannable offence. Its like if there was a gaf member that only made katy perry threads, and they made a thread everytime she released a new single...

 

[Big-E]

If Reddit is the filter for the internet, GAF is the filter of Reddit and in turn makes it the best filter of the internet.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

I feel like one of the few people who doesn't even bother with Reddit.

I don't bother with it either. In fact I've visited it once.


I'm morally superior now?

 

[RiccochetJ]

Nope. I'm saying I see reddit discussed a lot on other forums so it feels like a lot of people use it. Apparently I was wrong, quite a few folks here don't. What's with the hostility.

Probably the hostility is because of your first post:

I feel like one of the few people who doesn't even bother with Reddit.

It's the equivalent of saying "Who?"

 

[elrechazado]

fucking this.

I never go to reddit, but it gets irritating to see all these people seemingly have some kind of epileptic fit at the mere utterance of the place. But not before telling everyone in the thread how little they care about reddit.

What did they do exactly?

I think it's time for a hipster gaffer meme pic - reddit style. That would be meta as hell.

 

[Korey]

Apparently those sites were banned because the sites themselves were actively spamming reddit and are temporary (although indefinite) until reddit feels like they deserve another chance.

Not censorship.

 

[Yaboosh]

Never been to reddit. If the domains that were banned are guilty of spamming and being a little underhanded, the temporary bans fit the crime.

The problem is it hurts the users along with hurting the offending site.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

If Reddit is the filter for the internet, GAF is the filter of Reddit and in turn makes it the best filter of the internet.

I use Reddit to see new hardware deals or steam sales. It works well for that kind of thing

 

[Seraphinianus]

It's the equivalent of saying "Who?"

i do believe that qualifies as "Who?"

 

[MIMIC]

I.....really don't see a problem with reasoning of their policy. Although it's sure to be abused (like how the article in the OP mentioned how users could intentionally get sites banned)

 

[cashman]

The only time I see reddit discussed here, is when people talk about how shitty it is or how people don't use it.

 

[elrechazado]

Okay, you're right - you were actually being passive aggressive. You made an assumption about someone else's attitude, took offense, made an observation paired with a "lol," and ultimately came across as a whiner.

Quit being fucking sour. Maybe I'm a bit on edge because everybody's been attacking Devolution and it's getting old (no defense force, this schtick is just getting old like the attacks on Gaborn's thread titles did).

I feel like I am one of the few people who doesn't even bother with devolution.

 

[Levyne]

People argue about the dumbest stuff.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

The only time I see reddit discussed here, is when people talk about how shitty it is or how people don't use it.

Or to say that everything in the OT comes from Reddit

 

[DTKT]

heh.

Reddit is a good site for quick news/interesting content. I'm not sure why would anyone feel "superior" about not using it.

I bet 1 internet buck that someone said the same thing about GAF.

 

[wenis]

reddit is only good for gonewild and that's it.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

So...Reddit is basically an unreadable version of Digg?

And there's a nasty streak from the links posted around here. Don't fall into that cesspool.

 

[jediyoshi]

The problem is it hurts the users along with hurting the offending site.

Wouldn't be really effective if the offending sites weren't affected.

 

[Holy Wars]

Do they ban ********.com, **********.com, ************* or *****************?

 

[RiccochetJ]

I use Reddit to see new hardware deals or steam sales. It works well for that kind of thing

I like Reddit for the pictures that people take. Some of them are pretty damned amazing. I also like the Aww area. So many animals getting saved from dumpsters!

 

[NawidA]

Go take a look at /r/politics/

The very first article is the same article that Opiate had to lock over here. Ban certain sites but let sites like Think Progress continue unabated? I really wonder what the motivation was on their end.

What is wrong with Think Progress?

 

[Yaboosh]

Wouldn't be really effective if the offending sites weren't affected.

Of course. Just pointing out that it isn't a perfect solution.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

I think it's time for a hipster gaffer meme pic - reddit style. That would be meta as hell.

It's about as asinine as posters who click a clearly marked WSHH link and then have a mental breakdown crying for the place to be banned and then a youtube link of said video so they don't give that awful site hits.

And the equivalent of posting that who gives a shit macro, who cares, so? Isn't that bannable?

 

[Seraphinianus]

i like zombo.com better than both reddit.com and neogaf.com

 

[Air]

The faster the site falls the better . I do like their science section though.

 

[TheSeks]

None of those sites I visit, so whatever with the ban.

Reddit would break if they banned imgur and other meme/shit-stain sites however, since that's about all reddit is: le rage faces XD!

 

[Wolf Dawgz]

I feel like one of the few people who doesn't even bother with Reddit.

That's because most NeoGAF topics are spin-offs of Reddit threads. Believe

 

[Derrick01]

I never even heard of reddit until we had that thread here where they announced they were taking away their borderline child porn section. Figured the place was nothing worth writing home over, until I realized we get most of our stuff from them.

 

[Seraphinianus]

That's because most NeoGAF topics are spin-offs of Reddit threads. Believe

yeah, i see most of the stuff on here after I see it on reddit. neogaf is kinda slow these days. kind of a dinosaur news aggregator with a different kind of hivemind to discuss it.

 

[noah111]

Reddit's pretty damn huge, but i've never really been a user/viewer or whatever.

 

[AlimNassor]

half of those sites spammed their respective subreddits. I know the science websites were always spammed like crazy. Physorg gets a lot of flak for their articles.

None of those sites I visit, so whatever with the ban.

Reddit would break if they banned imgur and other meme/shit-stain sites however, since that's about all reddit is: le rage faces XD!

Reddit is not one board. Go away from /r funny or /r gaming or any of the big huge popular ones and you won't be seeing rage faces. But hey generalizations are okay, are they not?

 

[JABEE]

did you read your own OP? It says they were banned for hiring spammers to promote content on reddit. Whether their apparently new policy is good or bad, it has nothing to do with the content or legitimacy of the banned sites.

on that note, did anyone in this thread read it?

The information about why the ban was handed down wasn't added until a later edit.

 

[samus i am]

did you read your own OP? It says they were banned for hiring spammers to promote content on reddit. Whether their apparently new policy is good or bad, it has nothing to do with the content or legitimacy of the banned sites.

on that note, did anyone in this thread read it?

Nope too busy letting people know that they don't post on reddit.

 

[ameratsu]

What's wrong with the actual policy? Reddit alleges that these sites were unfairly gaming the system. I mean, the premise of reddit is that the community decides what is "seen" or at least what becomes popular. If spammers are gaming the system for personal gain that needs to be addressed. I would love to hear how gaffers would address this issue.

The only problem I see with their approach is that people could use this policy unfairly against sites. For example, maybe some group doesn't like a site -- whether it be a competitor, trolls, or those with an axe to grind -- couldn't they get a site banned through submitting links to that site and upvoting them using shill accounts, as is currently being done by spammers for companies that pay them?

 

[T.M. MacReady]

I'm on reddit all the time just as equal with GAF. The websites banned, I could give two fucks and appreciate the mods trying to clean up the place.

Seriously.

Gaf hates reddit for whatever reason and expresses great pride in not going there.

The good thing about Reddit is you can customize it to subscribe to stuff you actually care about, like baseball, movies, memes you actually enjoy, local stuff, etc.

You're not forced to read the immature bullshit or circle jerk atheism posts or anything.

 

[Fusion Pizza]

Uh, what the fuck?

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

So basically.... it's like GAF.

See?

http://www.********.com

Yep. Websites that cheat don't deserve no visits.

 

[elrechazado]

It's about as asinine as posters who click a clearly marked WSHH link and then have a mental breakdown crying for the place to be banned and then a youtube link of said video so they don't give that awful site hits.

And the equivalent of posting that who gives a shit macro, who cares, so? Isn't that bannable?

Yeah it's kind of funny that the first 8 or so responses would get banned if they had said the same thing they did but in a slightly memish or banned way. I carry no water for reddit, but geez, talk about thread shitting in the first ten replies or so and on and on.....

 

[jakershaker]

What's wrong with the actual policy? Reddit alleges that these sites were unfairly gaming the system. I mean, the premise of reddit is that the community decides what is "seen" or at least what becomes popular. If spammers are gaming the system for personal gain that needs to be addressed. I would love to hear how gaffers would address this issue.

The only problem I see with their approach is that people could use this policy unfairly against . For example, maybe some group doesn't like a site -- whether it be a competitor, trolls, or those with an axe to grind -- couldn't they get a site banned through submitting links to that site and upvoting them using shill accounts, as is currently being done by spammers for companies that pay them?

Yeah I'm not sure what people are getting upset at. Reddit moderators are doing their job.

Failure to address shit like this is one of the reasons that digg went under.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Damn, what's with the reddit hate? Thought gaf loved that place?

Just for copying/stealing thread ideas.

 

[Steelrain]

I feel like one of the few people who doesn't even bother with Reddit.

That's because you are one of the few people that don't bother with Reddit.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Just for copying/stealing thread ideas.

More like GAF OT threads are usually taken from Reddit.

 

[SouthernDragon]

GAF is my Reddit.

 

[Nappuccino]

Does this mean that Reddit will finally go the way of Digg?

Because jesus, I hate that place.

 

[Amagon]

It's about as asinine as posters who click a clearly marked WSHH link and then have a mental breakdown crying for the place to be banned and then a youtube link of said video so they don't give that awful site hits.

And the equivalent of posting that who gives a shit macro, who cares, so? Isn't that bannable?

Yeah it's kind of funny that the first 8 or so responses would get banned if they had said the same thing they did but in a slightly memish or banned way. I carry no water for reddit, but geez, talk about thread shitting in the first ten replies or so and on and on.....

And I thought I was the only person to see the thread shitting going on here. Thank you!

 

[RiccochetJ]

Does this mean that Reddit will finally go the way of Digg?

Because jesus, I hate that place.

If you don't visit, it's like it's not there!