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Pro free market is more of a libertarian thing not a conservative thing.

The only thing is they integrate things like pocket and they're putting some other things in soon.

And we've traded it for a sea of advertising and astroturfing.

Almost none of those things you listed are extremist right wing. Politics are way too polarized and you're proof of that.

I'm not even sure what you mean by anti-feminist but I'll guess "hate women and their rights", which I'll say leftists are guilty of disrespecting and sending threats to conservative women with "incorrect opinions".

And anti-democracy is a funny point to bring up because a lot of far leftists from reddit are very pro communist and hate democracy.

On top of all this, you lump in anti-left and anti-liberal with your other categories of "evil", making anti-right and anti-conservative the good guys. Your bias is showing, and you're alienating political moderates in the center. This is why people are not voting the way you want them to.

anything right of the center is now considered extreme right wing views

They knew what they were doing. They most certainly reached a point where they realized they wouldn't deliver on the hype and speculation they were generating, so they had the option to either tell people before launch it to dial back expectations, or to double down to sell more and assume people will get over it. They even went as far as not send out review copies before launch so their fans had no warning to cancel their preorders.

This is not the first or will it be the last game to fail to deliver on promises, but the game was practically designed to sell around broken promises. The backlash was understandable, and simply more than they expected. My surprise is that the article doesn't read of regret for making poor decisions but more of victimhood like they didn't deserve the backlash.

The biggest thing they didn't consider about is the fact that there's a large subset of gamers that have tons of time but not a lot of money, so the money is incredibly important to them and when they're duped into buying something like that which drastically didn't deliver, they have a lot of time to spend to make other peoples lives miserable. Just imagine how angry these people got.

I have it on my other monitor while I develop. I don't divert full attention to it, I'm just listening then periodically tune in when I'm in thought or need a small mental break.

That paper I imagine terrifies Reddit. They depend upon their users to create and engage with content, if they're willing to leave to create and engage elsewhere they then become another Digg.

This was done with small "hate" subreddits too. Imagine they did that with some of the largest controversial subreddits, that would probably make half the users pack up and go.

The comments here have this mentality of "there are people with different opinions from me, why don't these websites deal with these opinions". It's dangerous thinking that can be applied to your opinions.

The internet always worked this way. There are the cesspools, maybe things you don't like, but if you don't feel like engaging with these communities you simply keep going. Problem with these social media forum sites is that as much as you don't want to engage/debate with these communities they still use the same website as you so its unavoidable.

This is why centralizing these forums onto one website was a bad idea, blame that. Because now, there's too much money involved and excluding people of certain political ideas or whatever means you lose a substantial chunk of userbase, which means users would depart to another website.

I never said it doesn't happen. You're the odd case and of course there's someone who had adblock installed for them. I just said "unlikely", because they went out of their way to install the adblocker.

This is probably not an arms race ad companies want to play. Someone who has an adblocker installed is unlikely to be respective to ads, and by installing an adblocker they currently are opting out of from the ad vendors metrics. which is better than adblock vendors trying to feign ads loading or "interest" in the ads, such as addons like https://adnauseam.io

So its debatable even they would win the ad arms race, but they would also lose credibility in their own metrics as the easiest solution will be to start fooling ad companies that their ads are loading.

Have you seen the left as of late? They have just as many bigots if not more. They're universally completely intolerant that the person they didn't vote for won the election. They also have rather interesting opinions on white people on the country. If that's not bigotry I don't know what is.

pretty much this. its why there was a lot of h1b visa abuse. top 0.01% doesnt want to pay a lot for tech workers but the demand is high, so increase the supply of tech workers.

You're the one who is making that connection, not me. I never implied it.

I'm not going to berate the guy for doing what he thought was right, but reading this news doesn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling. Just mixed feelings.

Like I said, from a black and white legal standpoint it was the right move.

But so much was lost from not simply uploading it somewhere from an internet cafe.

It enters the same ethical flexibility as things like wikileaks in my opinion

We could of had enthusiastic fans see the inner workings of such a beloved game and tons of articles around the technical details, but instead we protected the intellectual property rights of a billion dollar corporation. Strictly by law, it was "the right thing to do", but it was a real missed historic opportunity.

To fix this "problem" they've been spending money on human moderators to filter content, tags, and ban people. They're spending money on employees to remove discussions and eyes from the site, which counter intuitive if their goal is to become profitable, nor does it solve the problem ultimately.

It probably is a good hack from their perspective. Just think of all the "back hacks" windows has.

Disagreed. The name "altright" itself is now banned. You can no longer make a subreddit named that so effectively, the speech and beliefs are now banned under the guise of TOS violation. Usually when moderators misbehave they tend to trade out moderators, they made a special exception to make sure the subreddit isn't remade. They also tend to selectively enforce these rules on subreddits that dont align with their own political views.

You can always start one that isnt called "altright" but you're less likely to get eyes on it which may be the entire point.

They're well within their rights to ban whomever they want, but they should be upfront about deleting subreddits that dont align with them politically rather than this game they're playing finding some TOS reason to remove an entire topic from the site. It doesn't make sense otherwise to punish everyone for the actions of a few.

nothing, its just indirect political crap

this makes me wonder how many of their hires actually add value rather than just consuming company resources

Having worked with monolithic legacy codebases that they likely have, it has gone through hundreds of developers who dont work for the company anymore that created a bunch of spaghetti code means its a huge effort required to make sure that none of their other services break when they implement such changes. Also, management HATES when dev teams do this because it isn't "new stuff" thats immediately visible to their bosses nor the end user.

If anything goes wrong with the password update, users get angry, lose faith in the services, stress, a few people get fired maybe, etc etc. On the other hand, letting it stay old and crappy just everything stays just peachy, and nobody is the wiser that the entire system is a house of cards. Until the day someone hacks the database of course... which happened so its "now" a problem.

They're not going to begin to take security seriously even after this incident. They'll do what they need to right now but there's no auditing and their users don't normally care about this sort of thing, therefore the management won't care either.

Can you blame them? Oculus & Facebook started acting like an abusive monopoly before they even had the monopoly.

the problem that the article describes is that an incorrect email was entered at sign up, and the user gets invested in their account, all for it to get hijacked by original the email account owner down the road. Expiring an unconfirmed email solves this.

There's still many other possible scenarios but I think it generally does what the author wants in a not so annoying way.

better idea:

if user doesnt verify email within a few days, that email "expires" and is removed from the account. Add a message to nag the user to add a proper email to their account.

this removes the edge case mentioned in the article and reduces sign up friction.

It reminds me of the music/movie industry in terms of how these adblock detectors mimic something like DRM. Anyway the problem is with the business model. People are installing adblockers in response to more aggressive advertising, and then the ad companies get more aggressive because of it. It's a never ending cycle.

do you think the same about HN? your email isn't even asked for here.

That's the kind of site they're running though. Make your own community with relatively lax rules and freedom of speech, even if the speech is low brow. Kind of like some of the *chans.

If that's not what they want to have (as its clearly making the CEO on edge), why not enforce some strict rules? The people they don't like will simply flock to other communities that will allow it and it becomes their problem.

I dont think anything, it was a genuine question and I'm out of the loop. I don't go to reddit much so its the first I've heard of this.