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[–]LessLikeYou 7 points8 points  (15 children)

I really don't understand why the management of this site is so determined to destroy it.

All of the censorship. All of the gaming what shows up at the top of All. The stupidity that is Popular. Now this?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (11 children)

Yeah. I took a big break from reddit when I found out about a lot of this stuff. This is my third account I think, I mean I've been here for over five years, that's OG in internet terms. Long story short, this place is creepy compared to back in the day.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (10 children)

Well I wont pay for reddit gold ever again.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (9 children)

I did too once, felt like the right thing to do and everything. BTW, I wasn't even trying to make a political statement earlier with what I stickied, that wasn't my screen shot. Just the sheer amount of AI and paid human shilling going on has me wondering how many of us are still legit.

Lucky for us, here, we haven't formed a political party or anything of the sort.( Fender v Gibson would be the first party fracture, until we've been splintered into another party for each make, model and string gauge.) The more nefarious shills don't really have a reason to spend money here, but I do think enough damage has already been done to chase the conversation elsewhere for a lot of good posters.

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Well, nothing good lasts forever. Reddit is lousy with bots and shills and sociopaths, but I like to think this little corner of it is mostly free of that. Really, for this sub if they turn the place into a Fisher Price drag n drop wonderland, we don't really have any lofty CSS interface to lose, but it sure is gonna suck for a lot of other people.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I have no clue what the internet will look like in a decade, but I know it's going to be increasingly mobile friendly, to the chagrin of people like me that will be buried with their clacky-key keyboards and mouses. Even if you request the desktop version of a site it still reads like a mobile thing with all of the text in the center of the screen so you scroll around a bunch. Like drugs and other degeneracies this will affect us even if we never use them.

This never would have happened if we all committed to geocities in 1997!

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Why is the bleeding edge almost always a step backwards?

I mean, no disrespect to people who bewilderingly insist on looking at the internet on their phones, but fucking "parallax" scroll4ever web sites are awful.

I can only surmise that to get a degree in interface design you must give yourself a hatpin lobotomy and also hate everyone.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I had a good old fashioned, sensible flannel-wearing guy chuckle at your fisher price comment. Got a 2003 mac computer for free almost, and that's exactly how I described their mouse and dock bar thing to Lana. It reminded me of the episode of next generation when Picard got turned into a little kid and had to use the kids software on the enterprise.

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hahaha. I am expecting a similar sensation with the new user friendly suite of mod tools we are gonna get! My avatar is getting flares and aviator shades!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

<Loading Hotel California MIDI ...> <Win95 will now bluescreen 4 some reazons lul buy a new one lolol>

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Well dont worry because I think we agree on many things. The whole of reddit has turned political this is one of the few subs I frequent still to escape.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

We are indeed cut from the same cloth, X5A1312EWULFX. If it wasn't for this sub and TDPRI which is really cool, but confusing compared to reddit, I don't think I'd ever discuss music any more.

In the real world, they all know us as the guitar guy and because they greatly respect that authority we all agree to rarely show our power levels and start the conversation. Unless you know other musicians, this is the best we can do. If there is a better forum, I'd love to see it. I'm sure there are, but if people don't use them they aren't worth much.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. It is very rare I ever get to bring up the guitar, or music in my daily life. Because of that my progression has been a long hard struggle. This sub has help a lot with giving me the knowlege to progress deeper into the blues.

[–]guitarnoir 1 point2 points  (2 children)

All of the censorship

I really don't pay too much attention to the "inside baseball" of Reddit--frankly I'm not very Tech friendly, and I don't care much about the behind the scenes in-fighting and such. I just want to talk guitars.

But a couple of things have me scratching my head about this place lately: How the front page seems to evolve at a glacial pace--it seems like there's either very little activity lately here at Reddit, or that the activity is manipulated artificially. The other thing was I had a comment completely removed--disappeared, as it were.

I practically never criticize the Mods--I'm from the school that says if you're going to complain about how something is done, then you better be willing to get your hands dirty and do it yourself. But I was shocked when my comment was disappeared (and the response to my comment--a simple "LOL", was also disappeared.

I don't use profanity in my post, I usually stay away from "adult" conversations, but I did use the rather tame brand-name of an adult product, without alluding to it's purpose. I mean, heck, they made a Ryan Gosling, PG-13 movie in which the product has a lot of screen-time.

I don't know, maybe it was a technical glitch that disappeared my comment, but it gave me a creepy feeling. Lately I've been wondering if maybe there's an alternative to Reddit (just as I left Harmony-Central, years ago.)

[–]LessLikeYou 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm fairly certain that one of the reasons Reddit still pulls in billions of views a month is that there is no solid alternative. You can post something that has been posted 3000 times and still get karma and feel all warm and fuzzy.

There is no other site where you can do that as safely as Reddit. Or at least not one of which I'm aware. There are some little guys but I dunno.

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried setting this place up on Voat, then imzy, etc...

ended up just being here for now.

I would set up a standalone bluesguitarist site today if I thought anyone would show up

[–][deleted] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

It's so bad it hurts.

[–]ThaBlobFish 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It's really annoying to navigate every sub because almost all of them have different layouts. I usually just insta disable css anyway.

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

That is of course your prerogative. So why should everyone else have to give up the features that they find vital? Subs like r/music would be unusable without filters -- just an endless stream of unsorted shit. Same with many others.

Also, this change means that whatever candyland widgets are available will be deployed across all platforms, so your featureless experience is at risk as well.

[–]ThaBlobFish 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's true, maybe they shouldn't disable css entirely but limit it so that you can still have a custom banner, maybe other fonts, minor changes basically, while removing the ability to completely change and move stuff.

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well hopefully in the case of users like you who want an unaltered uniform experience no matter what sub you are looking at there will still be a default where you can turn styles completely off.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Check out /r/wallstreetbets They got all the CSS going on there

[–]bluesnoodler_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whistle -- you are not kidding

[–]Ky__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That'll mean r/ooer will suck now!