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It was like reddit with a shinier but harder to use UI, and less racists.

by drewrv 9y ago

nebabyte 9y ago
> shinier but harder to use give it time. reddit's not done shittying up their UI - hell, they're just getting started :)
- r721 9y ago
  Yeah, did you see this? https://i.redd.it/qzl5uzte483y.png https://i.redd.it/qzl5uzte483y.png /shudders/
  - shakestheclown 9y ago
    They need to get rid of the sidebar. How often are you thinking I wish I could read the subreddit rules and moderator list constantly while I am browsing content? Obviously the sidebar content has value to be placed somewhere, but the sidebar along with 95% of custom CSS make the site even uglier than it needs to be.
LoSboccacc 9y ago
> less racists isn't that mostly a function of the userbase? any social network is bounded to attract radicals from all sides, especially one that allows anonymous users, and those are the ones that produces the highest content/user
dboreham 9y ago
Fewer racists. Or did you actually mean people who on average were less racist?
- mkl 9y ago
  "Less" is correct, and your interpretation is ungrammatical. Here is what the experts (linguists) have to say: > less has been used of countables in English for just about as long as there has been a written English language -- http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/003775.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/003775.ht...
- ClassyJacket 9y ago
  I'm amazed how large this (still small) subset of people is that suddenly can't understand the meaning of the word "less" when used for countable nouns. Strangely I've never encountered one in person, only on reddit and hackernews, and in fiction. It seems such a strange place to suddenly misunderstand what seems to be a relatively straightforward and simple use of the word. It means "a smaller quanitity of", just the same as it does when used for uncountable nouns, and as far as I can think of, it was very clear in that context with no conflict or ambiguity.

It was like reddit with a shinier but harder to use UI, and less racists.

by drewrv 9y ago

It was like reddit with a shinier but harder to use UI, and less racists.

> shinier but harder to use give it time. reddit's not done shittying up their UI - hell, they're just getting started :)

r721 9y ago
Yeah, did you see this? https://i.redd.it/qzl5uzte483y.png https://i.redd.it/qzl5uzte483y.png /shudders/
- shakestheclown 9y ago
  They need to get rid of the sidebar. How often are you thinking I wish I could read the subreddit rules and moderator list constantly while I am browsing content? Obviously the sidebar content has value to be placed somewhere, but the sidebar along with 95% of custom CSS make the site even uglier than it needs to be.

LoSboccacc 9y ago

> less racists isn't that mostly a function of the userbase? any social network is bounded to attract radicals from all sides, especially one that allows anonymous users, and those are the ones that produces the highest content/user

dboreham 9y ago

Fewer racists. Or did you actually mean people who on average were less racist?

mkl 9y ago
"Less" is correct, and your interpretation is ungrammatical. Here is what the experts (linguists) have to say: > less has been used of countables in English for just about as long as there has been a written English language -- http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/003775.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/003775.ht...
ClassyJacket 9y ago
I'm amazed how large this (still small) subset of people is that suddenly can't understand the meaning of the word "less" when used for countable nouns. Strangely I've never encountered one in person, only on reddit and hackernews, and in fiction. It seems such a strange place to suddenly misunderstand what seems to be a relatively straightforward and simple use of the word. It means "a smaller quanitity of", just the same as it does when used for uncountable nouns, and as far as I can think of, it was very clear in that context with no conflict or ambiguity.