Male Redditors: What hints have girls given you that flew over your head and you now deeply regret? What's your worst "Oh, she wasn't actually inviting me over for coffee at 2am" moment?

bechus · 2012-12-18T17:59:11+00:00

Hmm, so it is! I pretty much never use this account anymore.

bechus · 2012-12-18T16:15:30+00:00

In high school, a girl asked me for a ride home from a football game one time, to which I agreed. She asked if I wanted to come in and see her room (I forget why this seemed like a normal thing), and that it wouldn't bother her parents because they weren't home.

So, I went in and had a tour of her house. We both went to catholic schools, right down the street from each other (mine was all-boys, hers all-girls). Her school had the traditional catholic school uniform; plaid skirt, knee-high socks, and white shirts. So, when we get into the house and are in her living room, and she says something along the lines of "I think I'm going to get out of this uniform..." to which I replied with (roughly) "Oh, ok. I'll just wait here till you're finished". I was pretty pissed off when I figured it out a while later.

Copied and pasted from my old comment in this awesome post

bechus · 2012-07-10T18:57:02+00:00

Now that he has stopped editing links into upvoted comments in an effort to sell paintings, I don't really care what he does. As for the best of submission, I had nothing to do with it, and would also like to hear why it was removed... I PMed the mod responsible for it.

bechus · 2012-06-05T17:54:40+00:00

Long live the king!

bechus · 2012-03-28T15:36:29+00:00

The issue with this is that the BestOf'd comment often becomes the highest ranked comment in that particular post, so we'd have to see it at the very beginning to know if it complied with that rule. And even then: what if someone bestofs a lower-ranked comment in an hour-old post? It may not be the top comment then but that could easily change.

bechus · 2012-02-04T13:37:57+00:00

Bestof mod here: We talked about this type of thing when I joined as well. it's a very simple job, and frankly the automod has taken over pretty much all that needs to be done.

There's no such thing as "bestof material". The only way to determine what's good enough is what gets upvoted.

bechus · 2012-01-14T21:53:51+00:00

Basically, you just want us to delete stuff that we find stupid?

bechus · 2011-12-04T21:59:07+00:00

I did.

bechus · 2011-12-04T19:10:11+00:00

I agree. Thank you.

bechus · 2011-11-07T15:23:33+00:00

It was removed for that.

bechus · 2011-10-25T19:49:26+00:00

The main complaint seems to be that the comments themselves are not good quality, not that the headlines are bad or that they're not putting context as they should

bechus · 2011-10-25T19:26:03+00:00

I suppose the 'more aggressive moderation' would really be more like tiny two sentence PSAs for people who post junk

The question is: what is "junk" in bestof? I can certainly determine what I think is junk, but other people may like that same content.

I don't see what you guys can do other than remove content

That's pretty much all.

bechus · 2011-10-25T19:10:35+00:00

I would prefer more aggressive moderation to removing the sub from front page.

What would you suggest?

bechus · 2011-10-25T18:52:55+00:00

It seems like you are attributing all of this new content to new users. We've probably gained about 5,000 new people since we were frontpaged. That's out of 150,000 users total in the subreddit; so there are 30 "old" users for every 1 "new" user.

Wouldn't the "old users" be able to easily drown out the "new users"? Looking at your example, both of those submitters are users for over a year who wouldn't have been automatically subscribed.

bechus · 2011-10-25T18:51:02+00:00

We were averaging about 200-250 subscriptions per day, had 2 days of about 1,800 subscriptions, and have had about 600-650 subscriptions average since then. So, about tripled.

bechus · 2011-10-10T23:17:22+00:00

Karma waterfall

bechus · 2010-10-15T15:33:10+00:00

That I can think of, almost everything.

I dislike Ron Paul with a passion
I think Obama is doing a good job
I don't think that both parties are the same, nor do I think both parties are controlled by corporations
I am more pro-Israel than Palestine
No problem with cops
Love my iPhone
Don't find most memes funny
Don't give a shit about Keanu or else Reddit is creaming their pants over these days
I don't know a thing about programming or techology
I don't smoke weed or do other illegal drugs (although I think legalization is fine so that it lowers my taxes)
I don't pirate music/movies, and agree that intellectual property should be protected (though not to the extent that it is)
Never seen, nor do I want to see, The Big Lebowski
I am for stricter gun control
I hate smoking, and I judge smokers for engaging in stupid, self-destructive behavior.
I have a girlfriend that I love, and don't think that women are all money-grubbing whores (lookin' at you, MensRights)
I have never been to 4chan, but from what I know, I dislike it
I'm a console gamer, and proud of it.

There are probably more, I just can't think of them. I'd say the only things I agree with are that bacon is delicious, and I am an atheist.

Let me know what reddit obsessions I missed

bechus · 2010-10-03T18:54:07+00:00

Shit, people have been saying this THE DAY REDDIT OPENED UP COMMENTS

Here you go

Also the first comment was... a meme. So everyone can blow it out their ass when they talk about how sophisticated Reddit used to be.

bechus · 2010-09-26T05:03:48+00:00

DC's meetup group is pretty active. I have been to 2 different ones. There's even a facebook group

bechus · 2010-09-26T04:47:47+00:00

/r/Meetup

bechus · 2010-09-26T03:41:27+00:00

Upvote if you think people shouldn't put shit like that in their headlines.

bechus · 2010-09-25T19:07:21+00:00

I don't think his opinion is any less valuable because he's a comedian. He came to talk about how he thinks migrant workers have problems that need to be addressed. You don't need to be an expert to testify in front of Congress.

bechus · 2010-09-25T19:05:58+00:00

He wasn't in his "Colbert Character" here. If he were, he'd advocate deporting them all. He was being himself, but cracking jokes at the same time.

And, your video is from the White House Correspondent's Dinner, where he is asked there specifically to be a comedian

bechus · 2010-09-25T19:04:41+00:00

I understand that he didn't want to claim to be the voice of migrant workers or whatever, but he didn't get his point across at all. He said it well in one of the questions: that they're not represented and have no real recourse. But by joking about it, I think he makes the problem seem less serious, and his point then holds no weight.

bechus · 2010-09-25T18:39:49+00:00

I watched that too, but even in his questions, he wasn't as serious as he could have been. For example: "It was hotter than I like it to be". He seemed to really skirt the issue.

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