To be honest, I rarely noticed the votes tally. I think the bot just applied a flair to the post eventually? It wasn’t that relevant to me. I could see from the comments what the top posts were saying. For most posts, it’s usually obviously leaning in one direction, anyway. I always went to the comments for the discussion and drama, anyway.

I do think the existing voting options are good. And think that all top level comments should contain either a clear vote or INFO, because I think the sub doesn’t really work if people aren’t voting in some way.

One rule of perhaps interest is the not accepting your judgement rule. I’m not sure if I care for that rule in the late subreddit. On the surface, it makes sense, since why post here if you’re not going to accept the judgement? But I think we have to be honest here. The sub exists because it’s amusing. The cases where OP doesn’t accept their verdict can be quite dramatic and fun in a certain sense. That seems like it’s conductive to the true goal of the sub. Also, I’d rather have an OP that argues against everyone than one who never replies (especially when there’s so many requests for info).

I’m sorry, are you saying you indent the braces? Cause if that’s not unintentional, those are both horrifying!

Yeah. It might not be some massive move, but it does mean something. It’s great to see your employer, other possible employers, your local politicians, your municipal services, and even just random businesses that you might use (or not) show that they’re accepting, especially when the status quo is to keep quiet to satisfy bigots.

If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.

If they work without payment, they’re not your employees. And reddit isn’t a registered charity either.

It is their site so they can technically do what they want, but it makes them assholes and is not “ok” as you put it.

Reddit definitely has better features. It’s not even a competition. The reason we’re here is because of the Reddit administration and because of future potential. Eg, the apps are so new right now that Reddit’s official app is better. But in a couple of months, that won’t be the case anymore.

You often don’t get paid or don’t get paid nearly enough. Too many people like paycheque to paycheque to be able to do that.

And in extreme cases, you can get sequestered, where you’re expected to basically put your life on hold for the duration of the trial, which complete bullshit and feels as if you’re being punished.

You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

Tiktok is the absolute worst at irrational censorship. It’s a shame because the site is immensely popular and that means it is full of very interesting content. Yet, this is far from the first unreasonable thing they’ve been removing. It’s well known how Tiktok users came up with alternative words to circumvent words that were likely to get their content removed (e.g., “unalived” instead of “killed”).

I also like to draw analogies to other age restrictions. If they’re allowed to drive a car, literally the most dangerous thing they can do in terms of causes of death, then how can they not be responsible enough to vote for their leaders?

We also have no qualms about sentencing 16 year olds as adults if they commit a bad enough crime. This one strikes me as society knowing 16 year olds are perfectly capable of being responsible but we just give them a bit more leeway.

And personally, I’ve met plenty of 16 year olds that are better informed about politics than a number of adults I know.

I just want my r/dndmemes equivalent the most!

Yeah. The unethical bots will just use scrapers, as they already do for the many websites that don’t offer APIs. They’re already violating ToS, so they don’t care. Ethical ones won’t have that option (at least not past the fairly low quota).

I know some phones had already did this, but I always liked the idea of support for using your phone as a TV remote. The phone has replaced so many pieces of hardware that it feels silly that TV remotes haven’t been replaced yet.

I also specifically wish Chrome supported extensions on mobile. Firefox does it. Why can’t the biggest browser do it?

Lol, exactly what I was thinking. I can’t imagine a Reddit admin posting something like this.

That’s exactly what I thought. I saw the post before the sub and thought “what is this, did r/antiMLM open a Fediverse sub?”

I don’t get what the alternative is supposed to be. You can’t make stuff like blockbuster quality movies on ads and/or donations alone. And between ads vs subscriptions, ads are iffy because you end up with sketchy or unethical advertisements. Plus ad blockers make it hard to sustain a business on just ads.

In an ideal world, nobody would need to “make a living” and we’d be able to offer more services for free. But we don’t have that ideal world. Musicians, animators, writers, programmers and more all need to get paid somehow.

It’s admittedly annoying how fractured subscriptions get, though. I miss when Netflix was the only streaming video subscription I needed. Now there’s half a dozen major services and they all want exclusive contracts to show certain movies and TV.

Personally, I’m happy to pay for the stuff I use a lot. Which includes stuff that I don’t even have to pay for (eg, I donated $20 to kbin). It does suck for stuff I only want a little of, though. eg, I don’t have any news subscriptions because I only check news sites here and there and it’s almost never the same site, too (mostly I get linked from sites like this). I want to see subscriptions become a bit more centralized, spanning multiple sites to account for this.

That is so sad.

(alexa play despacito. Do we still do that?)