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This is what I dislike about reddit. They let MrGrim in and now imgur is almost as bad as the conventional image hosts. Everytime I visit imgur, the interface h
by drzaiusapelord 13y ago
This is what I dislike about reddit. They let MrGrim in and now imgur is almost as bad as the conventional image hosts. Everytime I visit imgur, the interface has gotten more complex and now its trying to be a social photo sharing site of its own, instead of a just a simple host.
So lets say I went out and created a competing service, which is something I've considered. Now the reddit admins will ban me for violating the rules while MrGrim gets a free pass because of community politics.
Its incredible to me that reddit sells itself as being above the fray and an alternative to sites that had more patronage, when its a lot of ' meet the old boss, same as the old boss.' I suspect popular sites have a typical lifecycle. Launch, buzz, a golden period, then a decay once monetization becomes a concern, then another group of hungry 20 somethings eats its lunch.
- gagaga 13y agoReddit has never been above the fray. Look into their terrible record of admins censoring content and the violentacrez fiasco.
- marvin 13y agoI think this is an unfair characterization. The only time I'm aware that the reddit admins have actually censored anything was the /r/jailbait subreddit, which given that /r/jailbait contained lots of borderline child pornography could hardly be called a massive freedom of speech violation. (This is in fact the "violentacrez fiasco", if I remember correctly). There have also been a couple of instances where subreddits have been banned due to violation of laws (/r/creepshots), organizing voting rings (/r/niggers) and vandalizing other reddit communities (/r/gameoftrolls). I am no expert on internet history, so if there are any blatant errors in my understanding, please correct me. I understand reddit to be very strong on the principles of free speech and "lassez-faire" web policy. The same can not be said of the moderators of various subreddits, but this is not an admin issue.
- Stormcaller 13y agothere also have been subreddits banned without violation of laws(/r/pcmasterrace), or still stays while its clearly a voting ring because some of admins decided to support them(/r/shitredditsays) Dont get me wrong I like reddit, but free speech and rule enforcement? no, the site is a mess.
- gagaga 13y agoOh! The censorship I meant was more-so in regards to banning Gawker links when they outted violentacruz. I think the child pornography subreddits being banned was fine.
- mahranch 13y agoThe admins never banned gawker, a few mods banned gawker in some of their subreddits to protest the "doxxing" of reddit users.
- veemjeem 13y agoimgur is not almost as bad as conventional image hosts. I guess you haven't used any conventional ones lately that block the image after bandwidth exceeded? Also, most of the other ones are even more spammy than imgur. Imgur still allows direct linking of the image and has less ads than most of the competition.
- doughj3 13y agoWell, they kind of still allow direct linking[0] and they also no longer provide the direct link after upload. [0] http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/moved-temporarily/ http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/moved-temporarily/
- NoodleIncident 13y agoBlagh. I want to be mad at imgur for this behavior, but I can't bring myself to. Is it really bad to show people, once, what site they're being linked to? The whole "no ads, direct links" has always been framed as a thing imgur does to be nice, and in return reddit likes them. Does it matter if people who've never been to imgur before see the site once instead of a direct link?