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by hoopd 11y ago
Having somebody throwing chairs will ruin your dinner party, so is the person who's only going to look for an excuse to police how others speak.
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by hoopd 11y ago
I feel bad posting it because it's a leak but it informs the conversation.
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by hoopd 11y ago
This isn't how we behave here.
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by hoopd 11y ago
When Barbara Walters switches networks viewers and celebrities follow her because they like and trust her, people feel the same way about Victoria.
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by hoopd 11y ago
A discussion between an admin and the science mods leaked: http://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/3c4x6h/leaked_...
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by hoopd 11y ago
4th comment from the top of the thread and we've already reached Godwin's Law. Have you ever wondered how the electorate becomes uninformed? Certain information is declared off-limits because of what it might make people think or
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by hoopd 11y ago
I don't believe you understand what this is an instance of. I never once said the mods are employees. I pointed out how much what they do would cost if you had to pay people to do what they do. The "debate" is over how valu
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by hoopd 11y ago
The value debate is old and captured in the Diamond-Water Paradox. The TL;DR is that market value and inherent value are different. As you said, mods are being paid in intangibles. If you log in to a website several days a week to fulfill
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by hoopd 11y ago
That's why I didn't say "market dollar value" or "market value". The challenge is to ballpark a lower bound for the value that reddit has received from the mods over the years. If you're dying of thirst a
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by hoopd 11y ago
Perhaps you should refamiliarize yourself with the commenting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by hoopd 11y ago
People only leave when there are places for them to go. There's no reason to get sidetracked with a debate about how value is defined, it's a simple question.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Please don't call my ideas "horseshit" and then tell me I'm the one doing myself a disservice. You seem to think you have a pretty strong grip on things so you tell me: ballpark, how many hours of work do you estimate ha
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by hoopd 11y ago
If each subreddit with over 10,000 subscribers (all 2,000 of them) required just one hour of moderation per day and reddit had to pay $8/hr for it, that would cost them over $5 million/yr. If each subreddit with 30,000 or more sub
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by hoopd 11y ago
Starting an impossible fight to sanitize the thoughts of the 3.5 million people who log in everyday guarantees an endless supply of controversy. It's also a controversy Pao wants them to be talking about, she gets to control the conve
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by hoopd 11y ago
That r/askscience stood up shows there is mistreatment happening and it's probably widespread. That r/shitredditsays is celebrating shows that mistreatment has not been happening to them.
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by hoopd 11y ago
It's clear what's going on: sanitization of discussion (making it a "safe space") and monetezation.
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by hoopd 11y ago
I have a strong suspicion that in the same way new CEOs and managers like to do 'spring cleaning' of their staffs that reddit might like for the mods with the old-reddit mentality to leave so they can be replaced with new mods mor
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by hoopd 11y ago
Explaining the site shut down would be this: "Over the years we've evolved a business model that depends heavily on hundreds of volunteers who work in exchange for site privileges like banning people they don't like. Some of
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by hoopd 11y ago
Is it necessary to write 1,400 words? It's too much to go through line for line, you're completely missing the point and I'm not spending any more time on it. Here's a different approach. Read about the history of dish
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by hoopd 11y ago
Which post addresses which concerns? Unless I'm wrong you're arguing that Uber is safe and efficient because market forces made it so. It's efficient because of technological advances and it's safe literally to the exte
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by hoopd 11y ago
The quality of my arguments remains fairly constant over time, the reactions to them depend heavily on the politics involved.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Well, I'm not the one who brough up levels, but ok. Post mortem: That's a tricky tactic you used and I fell for it. All I was saying is ESR is most definitely a technical person, I didn't realize that by extension I was de
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm not going to discuss TV movies. But let's look at the other ones, shall we: 2004's Kinsey. Kinsey's a hero to the social justice movement, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey#Perso
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm having trouble telling if you're trolling or not, a musician and a convicted murderer are on the same level as Bill Gates? You dismiss ESR because he doesn't show up in git history that only goes back to 2005? I've
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by hoopd 11y ago
I don't follow the kernel enough to know why things are the way they are. > `git log --author='Eric S. Raymond'` On which repo? The current one only goes back to 2005. ESR is common name, this is the first I've heard
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm just pointing out what's happening. The bad thing is that we're biasing our culture in a particular direction and pretending that we're not. "Diversity selling" is the product of a massive intentional cult
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by hoopd 11y ago
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/CREDITS crtl-f "raymond"
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by hoopd 11y ago
Feel free to contribute to the conversation. Perhaps you could familiarize yourself with parent comment's assertion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_marxism ) so you can say "Here's why I disagree
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by hoopd 11y ago
If it wasn't clear when I say "I'm noticing a pattern" I'm talking about recent history, as in the last twenty years not the last hundred. I'm looking at what we're doing now , your way only tells us if
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by hoopd 11y ago
Agreed. I've noticed a pattern of attempting to mythologize as many females in STEM fields as possible while simultaneously looking for any excuse to attack males for their sexism (or whatever else you can find.) I take this as a sig

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