The Great Zoltar predicts Reddit's future
Readers of this blog know that RedditIncident.com used to accurately track how often Reddit goes down. (Hint: a lot!)
That was until Reddit abandoned any shred of dignity they had left, contacted the owner of the site, and told him to change his site to make Reddit appear more stable than it is.
Thanks to Reddit's arm-twisting, their recent widely-publicized downtime somehow doesn't count as "an incident" in the "days without incident", so they appear to be on the verge breaking the record for days without an incident.
You can criticize Reddit for many things: lying to their users, their house-of-cards architecture, underage porn, racism, subreddits for pictures of dead children, etc. But you can't criticize them for lack of creativity. That is definitely a novel way to break a record.
Instead of fixing their site not to crash every day that ends with "y", they devised a strategy to break their uptime record by not counting downtime.
Brilliant!
It's hard to imagine any site being less ethical than that, so I wondered what could be next for Reddit? Could the site possibly get any less stable? Could they possibly find more brazen ways to lie?
I called in an expert on this one. I have provided The Great Zoltar with coins and Zoltar has provided me with the depths of wisdom.
The Great Zoltar predicts that there will be a post on Reddit - probably made by an admin's sockpuppet - that will hold RedditIncident.com up as proof of how stable Reddit has become. Zoltar predicts that Redditors will pat themselves on the back for breaking a record that they didn't break, and that Reddit knows they didn't break.
Anybody dispute Zoltar's prediction?
That was until Reddit abandoned any shred of dignity they had left, contacted the owner of the site, and told him to change his site to make Reddit appear more stable than it is.
Thanks to Reddit's arm-twisting, their recent widely-publicized downtime somehow doesn't count as "an incident" in the "days without incident", so they appear to be on the verge breaking the record for days without an incident.
You can criticize Reddit for many things: lying to their users, their house-of-cards architecture, underage porn, racism, subreddits for pictures of dead children, etc. But you can't criticize them for lack of creativity. That is definitely a novel way to break a record.
Instead of fixing their site not to crash every day that ends with "y", they devised a strategy to break their uptime record by not counting downtime.
Brilliant!
It's hard to imagine any site being less ethical than that, so I wondered what could be next for Reddit? Could the site possibly get any less stable? Could they possibly find more brazen ways to lie?
I called in an expert on this one. I have provided The Great Zoltar with coins and Zoltar has provided me with the depths of wisdom.
The Great Zoltar predicts that there will be a post on Reddit - probably made by an admin's sockpuppet - that will hold RedditIncident.com up as proof of how stable Reddit has become. Zoltar predicts that Redditors will pat themselves on the back for breaking a record that they didn't break, and that Reddit knows they didn't break.
Anybody dispute Zoltar's prediction?


16 Comments:
And it will all happen on June 30, 2011.
Seriously, just put up your own site for tracking reddit incidents. You could define "incident" however you want, you wouldn't have to respect the reddit admins' wishes. I could make an exact copy of the reddit incidents site in less than an hour, it's not that complicated. You could advertise it as an "unbiased" site for tracking reddit downtime. Just a thought, you should really consider it. You could even make a new blog just for the purpose, and just make a post every time reddit goes down.
Sorry, LouF, but using the Amazon failure as an example of Reddit's failures doesn't work. As you can see by the article you linked to reddit wasn't the only web site to go down that day. Amazon screwed up a lot of web sites!
Has "Reddit worked 024 days without incident"?
Yes.
If the site going down for 40 minutes isn't an "incident", then what would be an "incident"?
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That seems like a breach of doctor-patient confidentiality to me, Doctor.
Something makes The Great Zoltar sense that another prediction is coming true...
I've got to hand it to Zoltar. He was right again!
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jibnk/by_the_gods_it_has_happened/
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/h43cx/ladies_and_gentlemen_we_have_a_new_record/
Lol!
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