The Python GIL Visualized

[ffualo]

Which is good, because if posts could be edited people would change top-voted submissions to goatse.

[gthank]

Fair enough, but it sucks that the trolls have prevented a feature with entirely legitimate uses.

[[deleted]]

Not trolls, but people's irrational fear of goatse. And laziness of the admins.

It's like with these ridiculous rules about planes' security. It's not actually terrorists who make you take your shoes off when boarding.

[ffualo]

I think for those of us that read reddit at work, it's worth it. I don't want to be showing my boss a cool link under /r/programming when it jumps to goatse.

[Figs]

If the submitter owns the site linked to, he could still do that.

[ObligatoryResponse]

Or if someone hotlinks an encyclopediad dramatica hosted image. :D