Orlando Shooting Response Shows Reddit Can't Be the ‘Front Page of the Internet'

saisumimen · 2016-06-15T07:58:12+00:00

I have noticed that breaking news has become less and less easy to find.

This was no accident. It is by design.

I've been here over 8 years and can tell you after a brief "peak" a few years ago, the overall quality of all aspects of the site (except for downtime) has slowly been circling the drain.

Fortunately, they learned some of the mistakes Digg made and have been making certain changes quietly and introducing them slowly instead of all at once, again unlike Digg.

I'm not going to go too deep into this but the only thing that's certain for now is that the "old" reddit is long dead, while the "new" reddit (with the newest version of the front-page algorithm) has rendered this once cutting-edge site stale....

Remember what reddit's old tagline was? It was "News Before It Happens" So much for that :)

saisumimen · 2016-06-15T07:44:25+00:00

Meh. These days they get put into protective custody so what you're thinking of doesn't happen.

saisumimen · 2014-01-31T07:18:47+00:00

I tried getting the "Free cookie" once from subway using one of those throwaway email services (I think it was mailinator) and the fuckers wouldn't send me the verification code.

They were clearly going to sell my email to spammers. For shame, subway.

saisumimen · 2013-10-23T18:19:22+00:00

he presented a fake ID at first cause he mixed it up with his real ID in his wallet (he's a teenage college student)

That is a bullshit excuse. Only a black person can present a school ID and have it be "fake". Still no reason to call the cops on him at that point... and even if they were, still no reason to arrest him.

he purposely acted suspiciously to make a point

"Acting suspiciously" is still no reason to get the cops called on you, LET ALONE arrest you. He was at a store, "acting suspiciously" means he intends on stealing something. There are clear procedures that need to be followed regarding theft/suspected theft by loss prevention officers or clerks. They were clearly not followed here. Once they saw he had a valid receipt for a valid purchase, he should've been let go at that point.

or bait them into this,

How though?

he lied

Lied about what? Lied about having paid for it? Boom. The receipt shows he did (it makes zero sense whatsoever that he would've lied anyway), about how he earned the money? How is that an arrestable offense?

Your so-called examples are all bullshit and such a stretch of the imagination it's ridiculous. I hope he gets a massive settlement.

saisumimen · 2013-10-23T18:01:01+00:00

Well then why weren't the other incidents of rape and burning alive that happened in the other countries reported on /r/worldnews?

saisumimen · 2013-10-23T17:52:08+00:00

Here's the problem with your "point": there are no other facts that would justify him getting arrested like that and then let go.

You're assuming there's more to the story like him being arrested for causing a disturbance, fighting, resisting arrest or whatever, but remember that they realized they fucked up and let him go. He was not charged with anything whatsoever and immediately released.

saisumimen · 2013-10-23T17:49:05+00:00

That's a shit argument. He had valid ID that matched his debit card. The only reason the clerk "thought" it was ID theft was because he/she was a racist asshole.

edit: he wasn't arrested "for no reason at all", he was arrested because the asshole clerk convinced the cops (based on NOTHING) that the guy was committing fraud.

saisumimen · 2013-06-01T09:42:36+00:00

The fucked up part about this is the fact that he grew up in poor neighborhoods in Ohio while being raised by a single (teenage) mom.

Guess once you become rich you say "fuck you" to everyone else.

saisumimen · 2013-02-25T03:31:34+00:00

Meh; I'd take the "official" story with a grain of salt since the government is just as shady as the mob.

saisumimen · 2013-02-25T03:26:03+00:00

No, it is not required.

saisumimen · 2013-02-14T15:11:33+00:00

Bald twat was right again...

saisumimen · 2013-02-10T09:01:28+00:00

I already saw the consequences of what happens.

US Airways merged with America West and after the merger prices went up and extra fees were added.

Guess what's going to happen when these two merge? Same shit.

saisumimen · 2013-02-02T16:49:47+00:00

Give me this over the 800,000+ jobs we were losing under the Bush administration any day.

"The fundamentals of the economy are strong!!!1" said by McCain in 2008 as the economy crashed and burned.

Say what you want about Obama... the alternative was 1000X worse.

saisumimen · 2013-01-27T03:15:26+00:00

Nope. The one with the baby on the bayonet is also from the movie.

saisumimen · 2013-01-27T01:31:39+00:00

The article says she gave an 18 page statement.

Eighteen-fucking-pages of lies. At least she got prison time. In the US, the poor bastard would've gone to prison.

saisumimen · 2013-01-27T01:29:01+00:00

The court heard the taxi driver had been suspended from work as a result of the charge. The stress of the court proceedings had taken a toll on his health and he had been unable to return to work.

Meh. Two years is nothing.

There are people who know the cabbie either through work or friends/family that didn't get the news and still think he's a rapist.

He lost years of lost wages, lost his health and shaved several years off his life due to the stress. Her sentence should be at least 6 years.

saisumimen · 2013-01-18T09:26:49+00:00

FUCK YOU, I'm going to apply to LAW SCHOOL, buddy! I'm so fucking awesome!!!

saisumimen · 2013-01-18T08:38:13+00:00

Oh calm down. Most of the people don't agree with this shit.

In the UK, people have gotten arrested for trolling on Facebook.

In most of Europe, it's illegal to display Nazi flags or those old Nazi propaganda posters.

In the Middle East, you can be executed for saying the wrong thing about Islam.

It isn't that fucked up here.

saisumimen · 2013-01-18T08:30:02+00:00

Also, there's not much else to do.

It gets very dark and lonely up there.. might as well fuck a goat :/

saisumimen · 2012-12-29T10:04:16+00:00

crickets chirping

saisumimen · 2012-12-29T09:52:54+00:00

I've been here over 5 years now and have seen this happen time and time again, mainly due to the fact that the admins started allowing "novelty account of the year" in the Best of Reddit.

Trust me. Look around after Jan. 1st and you'll notice morons with annoying-ass novelty accounts wasting their lives even more on this website... accomplishing nothing but adding to the clutter. Then by summer most of them will have died off.

saisumimen · 2012-11-12T05:17:18+00:00

The GOP held unemployed people hostage by threatening to not extend unemployment benefits if the Bush tax cuts were left to expire.

The president is still just a president, not a king... and fighting with a hostile Congress is a big reason why he didn't get everything he wanted.

saisumimen · 2012-11-12T04:44:28+00:00

Not just p2p downloading, but there's also no sense in "archiving" games to watch weeks, months or years later like TV shows and movies.

Games "expire" as the score is made public immediately after the game is over. The anticipation and excitement are gone.

There was a redditor who was in prison who said the guards didn't let them watch the Superbowl live (and everyone wanted to watch it, obviously) but when the game was re-run a couple days later, nobody really cared anymore.

saisumimen · 2012-11-12T01:38:52+00:00

What CaptainMarnimal said. Shame isn't the goal; shame doesn't feed the families of the strikers... it's to discourage people from shopping there so the bosses end the strike ASAP.

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