My best Reddit experiences were where Reddit facilitated meeting people "IRL". I found my first D&D group on Reddit, made 3 great penpal friends, scored a couple dates, ..., and one romantic relationship.
I really don't know my worst... A couple times I let people get under my skin, but I eventually got good at blocking people.
FWIW, Reddit had a revenue sharing deal with rif, at the very least. Apparently when spez returned as CEO he shut it down.
Your meaning would've been clear in almost any other context, but in this case I could just imagine someone saying "it's not a serious justification, just chillax bro, we just like it". Or something equally asinine.
Does that make it better or worse to keep using it?
Neat history, I guess? Still seems to be an abhorrent label to self identity with.
NSFW subreddits don't appear on r/All or r/Popular. (NSFW posts can appear, but only from subs that aren't flagged as NSFW themselves).
So the current protest method is somewhat counterproductive. People who never took the step of subscribing to these subs likely won't see them at all.
Plus, people are still over estimating how much impact has been made. If everyone participating in the 'protests' instead deleted their accounts and moved on, Reddit would not be hurt all that much.
You know how there are posts all over Reddit (and even all over here) saying "what's with the porn on r/interestingasfuck?" or "I don't know what's going on with John Oliver"?
It's because of them that the "protests" must continue. Raising awareness is the point. Only a small percentage even know what's going on.
Reddit would love for everyone to quietly go away, they'll pretend nothing happened and move on with a small chunk of users missing but still growing.
From my understanding, they already aren't using the API.
If the spam bots were using the API, then Reddit would have been able to shut them down trivially. Part of logging in via API requires a "client ID" that uniquely identifies the creator of the app/bot being used.
They could theoretically have each bot account create its own client ID, but even that would be a pretty obvious thing to look for.
Statistically, I'd assume that the numbers 0 through ~10 appear more often in the scripts.
47 was a running gag, like what Psych had with pineapplea. (Other fruit like apples may appear more often, but just incidentally... If it was intentional they would go with pineapple.)
I like that 47 is 42 adjusted for inflation.
I assumed OP would be willing to say it it was "just" that. This being the Internet and all, people admit to way weirder stuff all the time.
When I was a Boy Scout, we often had kids who would refuse to go. It was a whole thing that we had to check on. (Along with asking everyone how yellow their pee was.)
I remember one guy was in tears on the hike out, and it turned out that he had faked out the scoutmaster by taking a walk with the TP and shovel, but not actually gone. Poor kid was barely able to walk, but kept insisting he couldn't void either.
I only learned later how serious it can get if prolonged.