everybody on ilx complains about reddit

/r/AskHistorians is pretty good, though the questions themselves are often insufferable.

― pomenitul, Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just interpret all the questions as /r/domycollegehistoryhomeworkforme

i used to lurk on that subreddit but man that is a textbook case of the people being held back by the format. on the one hand reddit has given professional historians a bigger platform than they've ever had before, on the other hand that platform is more or less exclusively defined by people asking questions about the nazis.

w/e about the rest of reddit, but it can't be seriously disputed that the high pitched noise followed by taste's very strange! Is the peak of literature written in the english language

Most smaller platforms for historians also dominated by nazi questions too tbf

I stopped by a Hacker News discussion of reddit banning Nazis and basically people were like "but how will we come up with an objective test of good vs evil" and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

makes u think

I stopped by a Hacker News discussion of reddit banning Nazis and basically people were like "but how will we come up with an objective test of good vs evil" and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:36 PM

This one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/78v94n/nazi_forums_closed_as_reddit_purges_violent/?st=j9928grz&sh=54618731

The most upvoted comments either agree or argue other hate subreddits should be banned as well, including /r/The_Donald. There's no shortage of vile scum on the site but I'm getting tired of the whole 'everyone on reddit is a nazi' shtick.

This guy in r/writing trying to find a good final line for his sci-fi novel is the best thing happening on the internet right now pic.twitter.com/TIyVsKz68W

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 25, 2017

I don't know what to put for the last line -- maybe I shouldn't have one?

kid you're already done!

oh you have to click through to see what he’s got btw, forgot to mention that part

controversial opinion: reddit should allow these groups to stay open and operate so that ppl can more easily keep tabs on them

repeating myself from the incels talk, but allowing communities based on hate ideologies access to one of the largest userbases on the internet only results in those ideologies converting massive amounts of the shiftless, reactionary-leaning young men that make up that userbase.

cut it off at the head and you no longer have to keep 'tabs' on anyone (what does that even mean). the ideologues who actually care will slink off to stormfront or /pol/ and the zillions of impressionable users they stand to convert will continue to jerk off to rick and morty hentai or whatever they do to fill the void reactionary political activation would fill

people really underestimate the role of convenience in all this

yeah, really, i have little patience for the whole "if we don't let them promote fascism to the world, they'll form SECRET NAZI CLUBS!". first, they can totally form SECRET NAZI CLUBS anyway. second, good. people like that should be skulking around in the shadows. let them cower in shame and live in constant fear of being exposed for who they are. if we can't get rid of the nazis, i'm perfectly willing to settle for the PROUD BOYS.

controversial opinion: reddit should allow these groups to stay open and operate so that ppl can more easily keep tabs on them

Why? "Yeah, we should give these guys more power, more voice, more say, and a greater ability to attract followers, thereby increasing their influence in society."

We're seeing the results of that now, and it's stab city, baby.

Also, who the hell is keeping tabs on them? Nobody. People just get run over, stomped, and stabbed, and forgotten about.

My probably-shouldn't-be-controversial opinion is cut off their social oxygen and ameliorate the conditions that lead people down this path.

I'd close reddit down just for the endless [29,F] [43, M] detailing, as though that's relevant to the fact that the person asking the question/being asked about is obviously a complete psychopath

Xposts challop(?): Hacker News commenters are generally worse than reddit posters. None compare to the wretchedness of ilxors, of course

Thank you for helping me realize 'Hacker News' isn't some allegorical embodiment of reddit's IT community but an actual news site. I feel like a complete dunce right now.

who's got a screencap of the new wife who threw away pictures of her husband's dead wife

It's here

This might be the most monstrous thing I've read on r/relationships and that is saying A LOT pic.twitter.com/V7gUZU0d2I

— bras in the dryer (@ajlobster) October 27, 2017

dead wife is a helluva drug

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Jesus Christ

that makes me incredibly sad. those poor people. that the person who did it then starts a reddit thread about it is just extra depressing.

it's widower ffs

Rebecca 2: Rebecca's Revenge

this is generally (perhaps beside trump and rolling race) the saddest thread on ilx

https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4f3jrfs3r1qjj1zvo1_r1_500.gif

assuming that's a cigar box

A cigar box named Pandora.

https://i.imgur.com/ep8w3lw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/juuycRg.png

gross

Incels forum banned!

ha nice. on what grounds tho?

Inciting violence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/reddit-incel-involuntary-celibate-men-ban?CMP=share_btn_tw

The community was banned this week after Reddit updated its site-wide policy to prohibit content that “encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or group of people”.

“Communities focused on this content and users who post such content will be banned from the site. As of November 7, r/Incels has been banned for violating this policy,” said a Reddit spokeswoman.

reddit: now officially a volcel-only community

https://kotaku.com/ea-defense-of-star-wars-battlefront-ii-becomes-most-dow-1820396527

i guess people are really that upset about having to play a videogame to unlock a videogame character

there was a similar system of grinding for the prior game which wasn't horrible because locked items/characters weren't necessary, but at the same time, joining a game as a new player two weeks after release only to get instantly killed by weapons and characters you have no access to really feels like a scam, especially when there's a little "pay real life dollars to unlock this right now!" caption

Eh, I'm with the Redditors on that. This isn't something I'd ever play, but I'd be pretty unhappy if I paid 60 bucks for a game only to find out that parts of it are locked away like that.
I don't know if the game's marketing made a big deal out of these characters, but I suppose they kinda have to be, given the franchise.

I think I would mind less if you /couldn't/ pay your way out of it, but HAD to "achieve" it. (In fact, my most played game, The Binding of Isaac, has exactly such a system, though it's not a multiplayer game.)
The whole microtransaction thing doesn't make sense to me outside of games that are otherwise free to play.

but I'd be pretty unhappy if I paid 60 bucks for a game only to find out that parts of it are locked away like that.

yeah...but what about, for example, the final mission of grand theft auto, which is locked until you play for a few dozen hours and finally get to it?

but at the same time, joining a game as a new player two weeks after release only to get instantly killed by weapons and characters you have no access to really feels like a scam

i agree that it sucks, but this is a very common scenario for new players playing online games. these days i kind of assume that when i first start playing i will just get murdered over and over again while i try to figure out how to equip pants or whatever. it's one of the reasons that online games usually really really suck (hot take) imo, unless you're 14 years old

the 'getting slaughtered by high level players' thing could potentially be fixed by balancing the game, better player matching, etc.

but the 'parts of the game are locked until you play a ton' is a fundamental feature of videogames. it's just that there's now an option to skip past all that by paying cash, which is really lame, and in order to incentivize people to do it they made the unlockable content part of the game require even more effort to reach without by purely playing the game.

that is fine, it’s the part where you can pay more money to instantly unlock shit, on a game that cost $60 - $80, is bad

either make it pay-to-play or just make me grind

https://media.giphy.com/media/Uj735LXIo8fAc/giphy.gif

lame

the image i mean. loot boxes are fine.

yeah...but what about, for example, the final mission of grand theft auto, which is locked until you play for a few dozen hours and finally get to it?
Well, it's a single player game, so I think that's fundamentally different. The single player experience is in its nature an arc, while (most) multiplayer gaming is more about quicker variations and improvs on a familiar theme. In this Star Wars™ game, you're in theory meeting other players on the same "level" as you. I don't know enough about the game to know if these characters amount to much more than a different player model though. (And I do like the idea of having 15 Darth Vaders jumping around trying to choke one another!)

And I can't say I've seen single player games allowing you to pay to skip ahead. That would strike me as pretty gross, too. The adventure game genre had something kinda in line with this, like the Sierra Entertainment tips hotline. Some of those games had some insane puzzles that led people to suspect they were trying to force them to use the hotline.

I'm not 100% against all sorts of additional costs though. I bought the DLC for XCOM, for instance. The original game felt like a complete experience on its own, while the DLC was a significant addition to it.

polyphonic if yr against grinding i dont kno what to tell u