Bozicus

Irritating people looking for answers is part of the point of the deletion. They can and will find answers somewhere else, and if they keep finding blanks on Reddit, they will start ignoring Reddit search results. That is what will hurt Reddit, not just having less data to sell through the API. ... and don't worry, everything on Reddit is backed up somewhere else anyway, if you are desperate for a specific post or comment.

You can also do this if you request "desktop site" on a mobile browser.

I've been wondering how much of this is him just losing it over Christian Selig getting (well deserved) public attention for Apollo, while no one is praising Spez for "creating" Reddit. I think he's convinced himself that it's his work (assuming he's done any) that makes Reddit good, and that Apollo is good because Reddit is good, so now he just has it in for Selig. That's not how any of this works, but Spez seems to have that typical Silicon Valley entitlement syndrome that makes techbros think they're all that and a bag of chips, and everyone who doesn't love them is bad and wrong.

Unironically, yes, that would be a cool experiment. But I don't think you'd have to wait two years for something amusing to happen. Bots don't need to think before posting.

Thanks, now I am just imagining all that code getting it on with a whole bunch of other code. ASCII all over the place.

Just like corporations! [/s]

I've already had to switch from the visual ones to the audio ones. Like... how much of a car has to be in the little box? Does the pole count as part of the traffic light?? What even is that microscopic gray blur in the corner??? [/cries in reading glasses]

Username checks out, lol.

In case you thought Google was doing this for users, you should know that this "Perspectives" thing has been in the works for months, they just thought now was a good time to bring it out. Unlike Reddit, Google has a really good PR team.

I had a similar approach for most purposes, though I am too lazy to block sites that way. But I did use to go to Reddit specifically for skincare product reviews, because there are things I like to know before I buy that are not easy to find elsewhere. (And I don't mean honesty, just a few details that aren't necessarily on the label).

I think the point there was not that there wouldn't be divisions, but that it was going to be extremely unequal. Your term "break on lines" sounds like "we are going to split into equal-sized sovereign nations along opinion lines," when it's really going to be one main group, with the extremists flaking off into their own little private dumpsters.

That's true, Reddit has its hands full with red pandas and John Oliver pics. They'll probably let gradual rule changes slide for a while. Forbidding brand mentions might actually kill r/SkincareAddiction, since it's mostly product reviews and people posting blurry pictures of gnarly abscesses they believe are pimples.