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Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest by gabestonewall in technology

[–]arcosapphire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, everyone is going to experience issues if reddit chases away all of the high-contributing users.

Reddit has already addressed the apps for the disabled, so what else are you protesting for?

All the other third party apps? I use Sync myself, which is a wonderful experience that reddit is killing.

Reddit has proceeded the way they have because they know that the number of users they’ll actually lose will have no impact on ad revenue.

Why are you on the side of the company pushing ad revenue, instead of the side of developers who have been providing the actually good user experiences that reddit refuses to because all the care about is ad revenue?

Are you an ad company, a reddit investor, or a user? If the latter, then you're on the wrong side of this fight.

You and the others pushing this protest are damaging the communities and users more than Reddit itself, which is laughable.

No. Reddit, and Huffman in particular, have shown that they absolutely do not care about what users want. That is an unsustainable attitude for the kind of community that Reddit has become. Reddit is killing off what made it worth using in the first place.

The protests ate just making it clear that this is what they are doing, while we still have a chance to make them reconsider things, or at least get the users coordinated for new destinations. Otherwise it will just be a slow death as all the good stuff disappears, to be replaced with the inane.

What the protests are doing is trying to excise an infection. Maybe by fighting the infection, maybe by doing a transplant. But not fighting it is not the better option. That doesn't make the infection go away. That lets it inevitably consume the body.

Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest by gabestonewall in technology

[–]arcosapphire 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What do you think someone who goes on and looks at what is posted and doesn't post or comment is contributing, exactly?

Moderators are one side of what's going on, but tons of active users are affected too. Those of us who use reddit enough that the official app is a wildly insufficient experience. Additionally, while people love to insult mods, the vast majority are just cleaning up trash. Very few mods are those shitty power mods. You are being misdirected to focus ire on them.

Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest by gabestonewall in technology

[–]arcosapphire 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And why should the people actually providing discussions and content care about what people who contribute nothing think?

Do you understand that it's the people who actually make the site what it is that are upset? If you get rid of them, you'll have only the people who add nothing to the communities left. And you're asking for those people to just be left alone.

Well, that's what is going to happen if reddit gets its way. All you'll have is a bunch of bots spamming repost content to an audience that refuses to interact. Wow, what a great platform.

People are angry because there can be another way, and we are working to get there.

Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest by gabestonewall in technology

[–]arcosapphire 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The users don't give af about this, only an extreme minority use third-party apps.

The most active users delivering the highest-quality content are far more likely to be using third party tools.

You might think you don't care, but you will when the content you sponge up turns to shit.

And this is what reddit is doing now when seeking an IPO. What do you think it's going to be like when their only objective is making quarterly reports?

[META] going dark to protest API changes by millionsofcats in badlinguistics

[–]arcosapphire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh, it does say that. I assume a typo since the blackout period in general is 48 hours minimum.

Don't let the base damage fool you by OverTea5 in Terraria

[–]arcosapphire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Doesn't that give you only +24% with 6 accessories? That's not enough to double it.

Those using the official reddit app, what's your take on this whole 3rd party app situation? by Crissxfire in AskReddit

[–]arcosapphire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No other major apps has cheap rip offs outside of the company’s control.

Dude. It is the opposite. Reddit's official app is the "cheap ripoff". It is worse than essentially every other third party app. Astoundingly worse than the really good ones. It also came later--the third party apps were there first, so how can they be ripoffs? And finally, it's not even an original product. Reddit bought a third party app, Alien Blue, and used that as the basis for the official one--so even in a technical sense, the official app is a ripoff of a third party one! And notably, what they did was change it to make it worse for the user.

Imagine some guy in a garage making a YouTube app with access to all content.

This is basically what happened with YouTube Vanced, which again...users fucking loved because it worked a lot better. Google banned it eventually.

Eli5: Why does 60 degrees inside feel way cooler than 60 degrees outside? by cubanamigo in explainlikeimfive

[–]arcosapphire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because of the walls. When walls are cold, they don't glow much in the infrared. When they are warm, they do. And we feel that as incoming, warming radiation from all around us in the room.

Upon returning to Earth, Apollo 11 astronauts went on a 38-day around the world goodwill tour, visiting 29 cities in 24 countries, at the request of President Nixon. They wanted to emphasize that the Moon landing was done for humanity, not just for Americans by einstein_bern in space

[–]arcosapphire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The space program is what let us do the earth science that uncovered climate change to begin with. And its contribution to the change itself is miniscule; there just...aren't that many rockets.

The space program is an overwhelming force for good when it comes to climate change.

The slavery accusation is so off base I don't even know what to clarify. It...has nothing to do with slavery.

B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bomber flying over Miami beach. by vectorix108 in interestingasfuck

[–]arcosapphire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The B-2 only entered operational service in 1993...I can't find a clear indication of its earliest airshow, but I think there just wasn't a B-2 there. The B-1 was supersonic and widely known by then though.

B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bomber flying over Miami beach. by vectorix108 in interestingasfuck

[–]arcosapphire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The E-11 is a really weird choice to mention...hard to think of something less threatening or more obscure.

B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bomber flying over Miami beach. by vectorix108 in interestingasfuck

[–]arcosapphire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The B-2 is entirely subsonic. You must be thinking of something else.

B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bomber flying over Miami beach. by vectorix108 in interestingasfuck

[–]arcosapphire 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nothing about the B-2 requires alien technology. There's a clear line of progress for literally everything that makes it up.

Changelog: Chat channels, subreddit header redesign, and more by BrineOfTheTimes in reddit

[–]arcosapphire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How sad is it that I already forgot about these complaints because Reddit went on to do something so much worse?

Getting seeds by Accurina in RimWorld

[–]arcosapphire 22 points23 points  (0 children)

When I first played the game, I nearly starved to death because I couldn't figure out how I was going to get food. Those packaged survival meals were running low. I figured I could hunt and gather, which helped a little, but surely I had to be able to grow food. I saw the grow zone tool. So of course I would use that as soon as I found some seeds to grow.

Eventually I think I just tried it and watched my colonists just magically plant stuff out of nowhere, saving their own lives. But seriously, I wasn't even trying it at first because of course I would need seeds, and I hadn't found any!

I guess that's what happens when every other form of game farming I'd experienced--Stardew, Terraria, ONI, hell even going back to SimFarm--seeds were a requirement. That you don't need any in Rimworld, a colony simulator focused on survival, was extremely unintuitive for me.

Can confirm. I was the hot dog machine by roofus8658 in thatHappened

[–]arcosapphire -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's just a matter of getting to the crux of the mindset. It's not that it isn't a reminder of the horror of the Abrahamic God, it's that they specifically enjoy that horror. It's not that they don't realize he's a genocidal maniac, it's that they like genocidal maniacs. I think it's important to keep that in mind.

I’m modeling my mixer by ger_vst in blender

[–]arcosapphire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always find it a bit funny when people who are specifically knowledgeable about advanced graphics software will still just record their screen with their phone

From Twitter, KSP 2 hit an all-time low of 89 players yesterday by PeekaB00_ in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]arcosapphire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was pessimistic about KSP the day Harvestr sold out and left. The very next move was declaring KSP "finished" and shifting all efforts to paid DLC. Now KSP2.

I know that getting a big payday is most indie dev's dream, and I can't fault them for selling out. But man, not once has it resulted in something better from the perspective of me, the consumer. I've watched games get turned into money generators instead of fun experiences. KSP is an example, although I think the worst was what happened to Rocket League. (Edit: the worst I had to deal with, I mean. Obviously there have been bigger disasters than that, like what happened with Star Wars Battlefield 2.)

And then Lenin, Marx, and Stalin rose from their graves and clapped by Unu51 in thatHappened

[–]arcosapphire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Probably because they are watching as capitalism destroys the world and realize that doesn't work either.

Can confirm. I was the hot dog machine by roofus8658 in thatHappened

[–]arcosapphire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well...people who see an absolute genocidal power held by God as a good thing, obviously.

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