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by diminoten 15y ago
There is something systemically flawed with Reddit's moderator system which precludes it from ever being an unqualified success as a social news aggregator. The primary issue revolves around the selection process for moderation. To become
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by diminoten 15y ago
I wasn't aware you even could downvote here. But even if you can who cares? I think elitism here is even more frowned upon than a downvote. But this is horribly off topic, so if you can downvote, we both should be downvoted.
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by diminoten 15y ago
She's not old enough to know the consequences of her actions on a scale with which she, by posting herself nude, is dealing. Kids kill themselves over this stuff, it's not so simple as, "deal with the consequences."
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by diminoten 15y ago
The slippery slope you describe simply does not exist. "First they took the CP, and I said nothing..." is not a valid concern, primarily because CP has always been an issue, and whenever it's come up it's always been removed from Reddi
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by diminoten 15y ago
The argument that a company might not have started if this law were in effect isn't a valid one, as the fact that a company exists in no way has an impact on whether or not something is good or bad. Otherwise, I like how you mentioned PIPA
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by diminoten 15y ago
They succeeded in exactly the same way that the IRA succeeds in bringing attention to their cause when they blow up a school.
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by diminoten 15y ago
No, they cannot voice it perfectly well, if they have to resort to stealing user information to get their message across. Their plan was not good, insofar as it caused pain for a great many people. What they did was not okay, and sho
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by diminoten 15y ago
Please don't fear them, their power comes from feeling righteous in what they do. No one's figured out how to manipulate them that easily. At least not yet, anyway.
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by diminoten 15y ago
This smells to me like a hastily conjured rationalization for a series of attention-seeking acts wrought by a small group of disenfranchised industry workers who have something to say, but they're just not articulate enough to voice it so t
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by diminoten 18y ago
WHAT are you talking about? This has NOTHING to do with race at ALL, did you not read the article? It's about giving these children something to do that's (while a little strange) MUCH more helpful to them than trying to force them to lear
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by diminoten 18y ago
I think these are the one-liners that HN is not a fan of.
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by diminoten 18y ago
Humor is ever-pervasive, and there are jokes that can inform as well as entertain. "Thats what she said" style humor probably isn't tolerated, but I suspect a good line that undermines the point of the poster is both funny and contributory
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by diminoten 18y ago
You should care less about what people think of you, and more about what different people bring to the table. To give an example, if you met Kyro at a convention or event, and he was an informative, insightful guy who happens to not like ta