Reddit Math
Wow, Reddit seems to be a lot more stable these days, doesn't it? Take a look at RedditIncident.com.Wait, what? How did the "best previous record" magically jump from 17 to 26? How did the "Reddit has worked X days without incident" counter all of a sudden get magically bumped up by so many days?
Jim Groome, the guy who runs the site, admits "Yeah, I changed it". Turns out, Reddit contacted him because they thought he might need some help deciding what "should really count".
Now, "scheduled" downtime doesn't count as downtime. When Reddit posts "Reddit is going down in one hour from now", and then they take the site down, that is considered "scheduled" and doesn't count as downtime.
Jim, a Redditor himself, says "we worked out the 'proper' outage dates and updated the site accordingly".
Lol!! That is just classic Reddit. Instead of actually fixing their site, they spend their efforts covering up its instability. They just could not possibly get any more lame.
posted by Lou franklin at 9:34 PM
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Hey Lou, I've got a website for you.
www.onthebox.us
It's chock full of conservative christians, and they even ban all the liberal atheists that dare to have a differing opinion, so you won't have to deal with them at all!
You should feel right at home there!
Oh, and by the way, scheduled maintenance is not an incident. On the contrary, one of the specific purposes of scheduled maintenance is to REDUCE incidents that may otherwise occur.
Congratulations, even if someone was to research reddit and stumple upon this blog, posts such as these instantly and clearly show that you have no idea what you are talking about and can be summarily ignored.
I highly doubt you'll let this get through your little filter, but that's fine, it doesn't need to.
> scheduled maintenance is not an incident
Wow. What a dumbass. "Incident" means "occurrence". It means "something happened". The site going down is something.
Instead of fixing their dilapidated website, Reddit strong-armed a user into redefining "incident" to trick people into thinking that it is more stable than it used to be.
> they even ban all the liberal atheists that dare to have a differing opinion, so you won't have to deal with them at all! You should feel right at home there!
I am the one objecting to banning people who "dare to have a differing opinion". It is you - and your ilk - that would feel right at home there.
Whoosh! You missed the point by a wide margin.
Again, you show that you really have no idea what you're talking about and have at best a shaky grasp of english.
Incident and occurence are synonyms. They are words that mean close to the same thing, but are not identical. Incidents are far more negative than occurrences are.
Incidents are generally negative things, they are unexpected and unintentional, happen at inopportune times and are mitigated and fixed when they occur.
Occurrence is generally planned, expected, and scheduled.
You're trying to conflate incident and occurence to try and push your anti reddit agenda, in this case the specific claim that the site is unreliable, and it is quite painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain in their head.
As for "me and my ilk" feeling right at home there. Really? You yourself claim that reddit is full of liberal atheists, and you claim we'd feel "right at home" on a conservative christian site?
There is not the words.
Lou, when you take your car in for an oil change and tune up, do you lament the fact that your car breaks down every 3 months, because it is unavailable for you to drive?
I'll bet you don't, because that's scheduled maintenance.
No, but I don't pretend it never happened either. I don't keep a maintenance log for years and then throw it out the window one day to make the car look more stable than it is.
> Incident and occurence are synonyms.
True.
> Incidents are far more negative than occurrences are.
False. If that were so, they wouldn't be synonyms.
> Again, you show that you really have no idea what you're talking about and have at best a shaky grasp of english.
Lol!! The irony!
> There is not the words.
And I is a man.
Dumbass.
So covering up the fact that you get oil changes is "making the car look more stable than it is"? Taht is a necessary part of maintaining a car. If you don't get the oil changed, you can have real problems. A website needs regular maintenance as well. Taking your car off the road for an oil change does not mean that your car is unstable or unreliable. Same with taking down a website for routine maintenance. Reddit is a message board. It doesn't really hurt anybody if a message board is unavailable for a short time while maintenance is performed.
Obviously nobody is debating whether it "hurts" anybody if a message board is unavailable. When Reddit gets shut down permanently nobody will be "hurt" either, as a matter of fact it will be a net plus for humanity.
But saying "the site is going down in an hour" and then hastily applying some patch isn't the same thing as getting a scheduled oil change every 3,000 miles.
Why do you suppose they want to "cover up the fact that they get oil changes" in the first place?
If they aren't ashamed of this "regular maintenance" (wink, wink), then why do you think Reddit approached the guy who runs RedditIncident.com and told him to change his site?
> If they aren't ashamed of this "regular maintenance" (wink, wink), then why do you think Reddit approached the guy who runs RedditIncident.com and told him to change his site?
For the same reason Honda would approach someone running a site that said "My civic went 3000 miles before going to the shop".
Because it is an unfair representation.
How so?
Reddit could not possibly be more dishonest about this.
The site says "Reddit has worked 19 days without incident". Any reasonable person would think "without incident" means "without any incident".
If Reddit is going to strong-arm this guy into changing his under-the-covers definition of "incident" to mean "major incident", then it is only fair that the text would say "major incident".
If "incident" now means "only certain incidents" then the text "Reddit has worked X days without incident" is false. The truth is that "Reddit has worked X days without certain incidents".
So why not be honest and say that? Reddit has no business sticking their nose in the middle of this in the first place.
The reason they did so is obvious. They want to break "the best previous record" and they know they can't do it honestly because their site sucks. They know that the only way they can make the site seem stable is by lying about it.
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