Can we stop this, please? Any post whining about "redditification" is infinitely more annoying than any actual incidence of that phenomenon (if it even exists.)
Yeah, ignore those people. I think anyone worrying about Reddit (or even mentioning it) is just as likely to hurt this community as those who post "fluff" stories.
Can you point me to the requests to stop? I've seen exactly one, a long time ago. I'm not personally attacking people, and I do contribute here with a positive upvote score. I don't see the issue.
While we may want to white list programming.reddit, there should be a way to keep off the fluff that prevails there. The fluff in programming.reddit are the "too popular" posts. We can flag the ones with too many points / too many comments. They scream "bicycle shed".
Great. Let them do that. The important thing is that they're not getting their message in front of whoever happens to be scrolling the Reddit front page. That's enormously more harmful.
Yeah, every post having an image doesn't help, but the same username/avatar repeated so much is a lot of noise too. If the point of a thread is 'microblogging' then it really needs third-party replies removed, and not such repetition.
Exactly, I mentioned it. But not only it's bound to go away sometime, it's also not trivial to find to anyone who's not an expert Reddit user, unfortunately.
It's a discussion forum not a standalone blog and in discussions people don't like to be ignored or silenced. Just because it's typed out on the internet doesn't change that. I do understand why people whine about people whining about votes but it doesn't make it any less grating.
However, all the current system does is penalize people who follow the submission rules (since their content doesn't get up-voted), and generate annoying comments about the "original topic" for the rest of us to sift through.
I've now clicked on this link twice because the title changed and I thought it was about something else. Then, having not looked at the comments last time because the subject matter didn't seem interesting, I saw "12 comments" I went and looked to see if I had missed something. Nope, just a lot of unnecessary meta-discussion caused by mods changing the title.
To the mods: it's annoying. Enforce the rules at submission, or knock it off and let the community decide what's interesting.
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