Poll: Anyone following the meltdown on Reddit?

/r/yes/no/meh

  • /r/like

    Votes: 23 20.4%

  • /r/dislike

    Votes: 9 8.0%

  • /r/meh

    Votes: 81 71.7%
  • Total voters
    113
thep02 said:
Bit presumtive of others to think people who express a dislike of reddit's format are too thick to navigate the pile of *****.
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Go to page 1, press ctrl+f and search "layout" and click through the comments. Do the same for page 2, 3 and 4.

They're not expressing a dislike. They're saying "I can't get my head round / work out / figure out".

Being unable to work out threaded comments makes you an idiot. That simple. Having a personal preference that you don't like threaded comments, good for you, have a biscuit.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Go to page 1, press ctrl+f and search "layout" and click through the comments. Do the same for page 2, 3 and 4.

They're not expressing a dislike. They're saying "I can't get my head round / work out / figure out".

Being unable to work out threaded comments makes you an idiot. That simple. Having a personal preference that you don't like threaded comments, good for you, have a biscuit.
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Not true at all, I'm saying I fully understand how to work it but think its too crap to bother.
 
JOSH86 said:
Many reddit fanboys insulting people who don't like the layout.

Another reason I don't reddit.
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Freefaller said:
Calling people morons or idiots or special for not liking the layout of reddit is pretty pathetic.
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There's a definite difference between refuting the fact that it is badly designed and impossible to understand (what I was doing), and directly calling people morons because they don't like something (not what I was doing).

OhEsEcks said:
The community is what made Reddit what it is. It relies on user submitted content. The past couple of years Reddit has slowly been ****ing users. Since they hired Pao, they've been pushing a political agenda in my opinion. They banned the subreddit Fat People Hate, after people complained. But there are far more odious subreddits that remain and are currently still active. Why was Fat People Hate banned and others not? I imagine Pao has a few fat friends bending her ear. It presents itself as a website for free speech, so either ban them all, or reinstate FPH. Pao also has a history of being a bully in the work place, is married to a scumbag and when she was fired from her last job for being incompetent she took them to court claiming they fired her just because she's a woman.
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I understand your point in general, but to me the whole 'political agenda' theme seems very thin and overblown. Can you name one thing aside from banning fatpeoplehate that they have done to oppress their users?
 
thep02 said:
I'm pretty sure I'm also talking for all the others in the thread as non of them has struck me as being thick in the past.
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Well then, do what I said in the first place regarding going to the first page and searching for "layout" then get back to me.

I can save you the trouble though. Only Mr Joshua came out and said (paraphrasing) "It's not hard to understand, just ****". Everyone else seems to have an inability to work threaded conversations.
 
dl8860 said:
I understand your point in general, but to me the whole 'political agenda' theme seems very thin and overblown. Can you name one thing aside from banning fatpeoplehate that they have done to oppress their users?
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Search google for "reddit censorship". On the internet you're either free speech, or you're not. You make a community based on the concept of free speech and have a community build it into what it is, you cannot decide to start censoring people because it makes your VC's or sponsors uncomfortable.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Search google for "reddit censorship". On the internet you're either free speech, or you're not. You make a community based on the concept of free speech and have a community build it into what it is, you cannot decide to start censoring people because it makes your VC's or sponsors uncomfortable.
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/r/jailbait? obviously that's in a different league, but the point is that a line needs to be drawn somewhere. Perhaps fph was a step too far (personally I don't care that much either way), but I think it trivialises the concept of free speech when you say you are either for it or against it.
 
dl8860 said:
There's a definite difference between refuting the fact that it is badly designed and impossible to understand (what I was doing), and directly calling people morons because they don't like something (not what I was doing).
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The fact is that while obviously not "impossible to understand", it is the visual equivalent of dragging some very long and jagged nails along a particularly texture blackboard. It's not easy on the eyes and very distracting.
 
Richdog said:
The fact is that while obviously not "impossible to understand", it is the visual equivalent of dragging some very long and jagged nails along a particularly texture blackboard. It's not easy on the eyes and very distracting.
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Took me about 10 minutes to get the hang of it. I find it very concise as it makes it easy to drill down to parent comments or disregard child comments in threads. I wish OCUK would switch on threaded view.
 
Yeah I hate the layout as well, setting posts to newest makes it as logical as possible because I'm used to bulletin boards being one poster after the other not some random order.

But I basically only go on reddit to view the original post/source/news material.
 
Reddit only needed a trigger to blow up over admin meddling / ignoring of complaints.

Quite how they didn't spot that this would be a pretty obvious trigger, I have no idea. It's about the most bizarrely run of any website I use.
 
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