The sheer fraudulence of reddit
I just visited two sites. Reddit.com is shown on the left, and redditincident.com is shown on the right.
Reddit has been down dozens of times in the last 53 days and it was never up for anywhere near 72 days.
What a joke. What a big fraudulent joke.
posted by Lou franklin at 4:40 PM
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Your blog hasn't exactly been a bastion of uptime lately either, Lou
I never strongarmed a user into creating a site that lies about that.
neither did reddit. Nice try, though.
Educate yourself. http://loufranklin.blogspot.com/2011/08/reddit-math.html
So what, big deal? Every website has been and will be down for maintance, and I don't see the bad thing in this, How does this hurt you that their downtime doesn't match with another site? It ain't causing global warming, It ain't causing wars in middle east. It causes nothing.
They why lie about it?
I don't agree that they lied, but why do you even care? It's a stupid website on the internet. Oh wait, they banned you and now you're carrying a grudge. Nevermind.
Thanks for informing us that reddit is a website. A stellar contribution.
Dumbass.
It looks like this is a problem with the guy running redditincident.com, not reddit. If that guy decides not report on an outage, then he is the one you should be upset with. Redditincident is just some guy's website. It's not really a big deal if he wants to fudge numbers on his page. At any rate, he is the guy to blame here, not reddit. Perhaps this blog post should be title "The sheer fraudulence of redditincident.com"
If you had simply read my link you would know that is not so.
Sorry, I promise I'm not trying to be obtuse here. Are you under the impression that redditincident.com is somehow operated by reddit admins? My understanding is that redditincident is an independent site run by some guy to track when reddit goes down. Do you have any information we can read that shows redditincident.com is run by reddit, and not just some guy? I'm genuinely curious.
Why won't you read the link?
You mean why won't he read the other post you made where you make the same claim as you're making here? That's hardly evidence, it's just one disgruntled man's opinion.
I contacted the owner of the site and got the information straight from him. If you go to the link, you can see that I directly quoted him. Do you not know what "a link" means or something?
Your linked earlier blog post shows that reddit contacted the redditincident guy back in August. What does that have to do with the recent outage not being reported? It may be time to accept that the guy who runs redditincident.com might just be a big kissass pro-reddit person. If he is a redditor himself, then I seriously don't think he is being threatened or strong-armed to cover up reddit's outages. He clearly doesn't *want* to report an outage, because he likes reddit. So really, your problem is with the guy who runs redditincident.com, and not the reddit admins. They put a big bold message saying their site was down. That's pretty honest.
Seriously, are you retarded? Why won't you read the link? He IS a redditor. That has been established.
Reddit contacted him and they "worked out" what constitutes an incident. They "updated the site accordingly".
Read the link, dumbass.
Facehammer is a gay man living with AIDS.
I know Facehammer is gay but does he have AIDS?
Who is Facehammer? I don't see that name mentioned anywhere in the posting.
He is a gay redditor who has AIDS.
Ok, aside from being gay and having AIDS, what else can you tell us about this Facehammer?
Why should we care about Facehammer? Has he done something we should care about? Just wondering why this particular redditor was brought up out of nowhere.
Somebody thinks it's funny to post variants of "Facehammer has AIDS" thousands of times on this blog. I filter them out so you don't see them, but once in a while one gets through.
Facehammer is an immature troll who spent the last three years of his life swearing at people on reddit. He is a pathetic loser, but I don't want this blog to become a forum for making fun of gay people who have AIDS. That's why I try to filter those posts out.
FYI:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3466025
http://www.facebook.com/nomoreredditchildporn
http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/pmaxz/meta_pedogeddon_2_has_officially_begun_find_out/
And Round 2 goes to LouF.
I didn't know you had a Something Awful account!
The SomethingAwful campaign is pretty much what forced the admins to make this decision. They were gearing up on Sunday to go big with it. It was pretty much guaranteed to be a media shitstorm. Many, MANY people were involved and mad as hell about reddit's refusal to ban kiddie porn subreddits. SomethingAwful has specifically been fighting this battle for awhile now, but they have a stronghold on reddit at r/ShitRedditSays (SRS) (along with it's sister subreddits). This group, while largely disliked on reddit, has amassed a sizable following. Pretty much anyone who has been disgusted by the cp on reddit has become involved with SRS.
The recent preteen girls subreddit was the tipping point for a lot of people. It was so blatantly child porn that enough redditors were finally able to pull their heads out of their asses and take a stand against it. Unfortunately, the large majority of redditors seem to have the attitude that free speech is important than stopping child exploitation. But with the preteen subreddit, a decent number of redditors were converted over to the anti-CP side.
The basic order of events was:
1. The preteen subreddit is created, and outrage starts forming.
2. On Friday, a thread is posted in r/wtf, declaring outrage over it. Many folks are in there valiantly defending cp in the name of free speech.
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/pj804/are_you_fucking_kidding_me_with_this/
3. On Saturday, another outrage thread is posted in Askreddit, which keeps the drum beat pounding, and more anti-CP voices break through.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/pkslu/why_do_the_reddit_admins_allow_child_exploitation/
4. On Sunday, the SomethingAwful campaign is started. A reddit thread appears in r/technology announcing the SA campaign, and blows up to thousands of upvotes almost immediately.
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/pmbyc/somethingawfulcom_starts_campaign_to_label_reddit/
It was only a few hours later that the reddit admins caved in and made the announcement. This was positioned to break huge all over the place. The shit was really about to hit the fan. It is sad that this decision was made 100% because of self-preservation, and that sexual child subreddits were allowed for so long. But it was the right decision.
You are right. It was 100% because of self-preservation. The people who run Reddit are truly horrible human beings.
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