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How do sites that have porn but not their main purpose respond, or do they have to? Reddit and Twitter come to mind, I've stumbled across a lot of weird stuff on both.

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Reddit had a lot of dark subs and users for a very long time, and they kinda just swept it all under the rug.

/r/spaced*cks, ViolentaCruz, others I cant recall, and the infamous /r/cannibals controversy with a reddit founder and CEO.

Yeah, weird times - not its many bots - and interestingly, in the last year, a boatload of .in India subreddits for various aspects of their culture (like IdianMotorcycles, Weird train behavior, their version of /r/idiotsincars, lot of bollywood and movie and celeb gossip subs.

Maybe need a comment filter that hides anything that a non-sequitur or perhaps comments that have < (N) syllables, words or sentences?

Fuck Spez. He's a cannibal???

> "movie and celeb gossip subs"

I haven't come across the Indian version of this, but the default page (I don't have an account) now has a lot of posts from celebrity gossip subs, and the viciousness and hatred there is worse than what I saw in radical politics subs, or even 4chan.

At least the porn and NSFW stuff was hidden. This actually what made me block Reddit from my devices.

I only browse /r/all any longer - with no account after admin fraud killing mods for policy gain... and I have a good filter-out list in RES, but yeah, .in domain submissions have spiked in the last year+

Would be cool for a toggle in prefs/RES to only include certain domain tLDs/blacklist certain TLDs -- like maybe one doesnt want to see .cn, .in, .ir, .[STRING] ?

Regardless, granularity over feed is still tedious in /r/ and RES is still a slow solution.

You can edit RES files, but avg reddit viewer (Anyone who does Not use old.reddit) just get the same crappy 'modern' UX.

I wonder about engagement times on old.reddit vs www.reddit get - I cant even look at https://www.reddit - but thats due to me customizing me data density to my view.

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

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

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Reddit should be ground/target|zero for sentiment/mind-mining (will never forget in an interview with Twitter when they were still on (howard) (near the AT&T spy room) -- Question:

"What do you think Twitter is?"

ME: "You are a global sentiment engine"

They did not like that comment... and asked me what physical publications I read to keep up on networking/DC Design/etc...

(Which I thought was ironic, except for seeing what publications they could exploit - but the truth was they wanted to usurp sentiment+discourse...

(Succeeded)

(similar with google interview (2006) "what would you say we do around here?" -- >>"Everyone thinks you're a search engine - but you're just an advertising company"

> /r/cannibals controversy with a reddit founder and CEO.

Armie Hammer?

This is true but I do wonder if this is where the interesting part of the question around platforms lies. Dark stuff aside, reddit has a lot of porn period. If challenged, I wonder if they would be able to compromise by introducing an age-verification requirement for specific subreddits. Since otherwise it seems like they'd either have to just outright block traffic from places with similar laws or go the imgur route and attempt some kind of content purge if they wanted to avoid id-ing people.

Reddit being full of porn is an open secret. I bet its not something they advertise to banks and investors.

I think they would purge rather than confirm the presence of it in any way.

i think they don't want to respond as to avoid being the crosshairs.

i'm surprised that the app stores let them on though since it isn't that hard to view it

The law says it applies if more than 30% of the content is adult content. So won't apply to reddit or Twitter at least but I could see this still leaving plenty of gray area for other sites.

Reddit is easily at least 30% porn if not 90%

[citation needed]

When I sampled pushshift dumps (before the API kerfuffle), it appeared to be about 40% of new posts.

Literally r/all before admins intentionally removed porn

I wonder if these adult sites could host a ton of non-adult content in order to get below the 30% mark. There used to be a similar law in (I think it was) NYC stores. To combat this, adult bookstores would stock tons of non-porn titles which weren't even really for sale.

Does it have an exception for search sites? What percentage of the content Google indexes is porn? Probably pretty high.

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