Paywall Subreddits Are Coming This Year: Padded Rooms Full Of Crazies Paid For By Your Rich Uncle
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Paid subs will mean liability.
Liability means paid tranny jannies.
Paid tranny jannies means guarantees lawsuits.
I like where this is going :)
Trump repealed Section 230?
You are thinking too linearly in terms of content, curation and publishing.
Paid subs can't ban, shadowban or censor paying members' comments, if they try to then they enter a whole legal quagmire as to who holds content which can't be seen by paying members in order for its value to be judged. And that's only the beginning of that particular path.
And so qualified trannies (Or an AI quality assurance filter) would then have to be used to justify actions taken to a court of law, with a public record of events. That level of responsibility for a company on the stock market will come with a substantial monetary value.
Once there are paid people, or intelligent agents, deciding what can, or cannot, be seen by paying members of a particular sub there will be corruption - pick your poison from the many already shown to be at hand on that front!
Once corruption is provable and held to account Reddit dies.
I'm mostly just curious what anyone could possibly put on reddit that's worth paying for, and who would willingly pay money when you can get banned if you so much as offend some mentally ill tranny janny.
That right there? That right there got me instantly 'permabanned' oh I don't know, dozens of times.
It was fun for a while getting them frothing at the mouth, then just plain tiresome and boring. It's way too easy getting the violently mentally ill to do violently mentally ill things.
I will continue beating this drum, but for better or for worse reddit has become a professional technical resource for the IT industry. People are entirely too flippant about burning down a vast information repository simply because its politics are insane.
Shutting down USAID probably legitimately hurt a lot of good and charitable causes the world over that were dependent on that income flow.
Should we have kept it open to protect that minuscule percentage of value it brings relative to the horrors of the rest?
If the IT industry needs an unsecured forum like reddit for do the heavy lifting for them, then they need to rip that bandaid off and get their own shit together somewhere under their thrall.
Enjoy losing a shit ton of infrastructure as you spend years rebuilding decades worth of lost knowledge you cavalier fool.
I'm not saying "don't gut reddit", I'm saying don't ignore the very real negative consequences that will come from it.
Reddit is an Internet forum like all the others than came before it. Let me guess, you were born after 2000?
Bitch I grew up on DOS playing Commander Keen.
Behold, the mindset of why things we're allowed to get so bad.
I'm well aware of the consequences and how massive they might be, I consider them necessary removals of a crutch and a cancer that should have never been allowed to fester.
You're being dishonest.
Why? Because you think everyone must be like you or they are lying?
Intentionally misrepresenting my position and being an arrogant jackass about it. You are dishonest.
The IT industry survived the downfall of ExpertSexChange. It continues to survive the pedantry of Stack Overflow and its million subsites. It will survive the cancer that is Reddit being wiped out and will be better off for it.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Forums are dying unfortunately. And discord is a blackhole and shitty to search for answers. Reddit is a major place that has information or for troubleshooting. Basically either asking your own question or seeing if someone asked the same question.
I dislike reddit like anyone else here. But it does contain a suppository of information. Remember, reddit wasnt always a leftwing echo chamber. It loved ron paul.
Forums are dying because of Reddit. If Reddit goes away the forums get popular or Twitter / Facebook get more useful.
The entire reason that forums are dying is because no one wants to remember 20 different passwords to different sites, and the centralization that Reddit provides is useful.
Sucks that Schwartz got hit by feds
I agree that it induces shit.
People don't like hearing the truth. If there's one thing I've learned from the last decade it's that.
I dunno what part of IT you're in but most of reddit is not useful in that endeavor. Sure there may occasionally be a bit of relevant information, but the reality is you're going to be filtering 99% of the retarded garbage nonsense out. It's the same problem with the greater internet - anything remotely popular will be engulfed in a cacophony of noise from poos, grifters and idiots.
Correct me if wrong but reddit is (allegedly) a private entity so only it's owners could ever be responsible for it "burning down", no? They can donate their vast IT Library of Alexandria to archive.org or Elon Musk if it's that important.
Porn, OnlyFans might have a new competitor.
Never been banned, happy to pay. try being a decent human being?? 🤷🏿
Do you pay for Ashley Madison too? All you’re doing to talking to bots.
You're really kind of pathetic for a troll. You manage almost no engagement.
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Ah. I guess USAIDs was funding them.
So that USAID funding was cut, I see.
Well, I doubt the bots will pay for access to the paid subreddits, so there goes a big chunk of the userbase. And I doubt the average redditor can afford to pay for the paid subreddits so there goes another chunk of the userbase. So, I imagine those things will be ghost towns.
Some shady government money spigot getting cut off due to DOGE would be my guess.
Smart move on their part. All of the TDS people are not going to be able to unglue themselves reddit, introducing this scheme now we'll make them a lot more than if they introduced it 2 years ago.
Hey buddy....watch your back.
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I can make it look like an accident if that helps.
So instead of proper moderation, they'll let you say "kill MAGA" for $9.99.
I'm not a fan of reddit. Their horrible moderation structure aside, I blame it at least partially for the demise of all the niche forums that used to be scattered across the internet. These forums often had experts in the topic, and included shit that reddit bans like WTB/WTS forums for guns.
Regarding the idea of paid subreddits specifically, it's just part of the further enshitification of things. "Hey this free thing is popular, how can we monetize it?" Is the epitome of rent seeking behavior that characterizes this era of capitalism.
In this case though, I think it's doomed to failure. Unless they're going to aggressively stamp out free subreddits that cover the same topic as the paid ones most people are just not going to go somewhere and pay to get the same thing they're getting for free. The only people this is going to interest are those who hate that their own personal echo chamber is periodically invaded by strangers who don't share their beliefs.
If it's worth their money to pay so that they don't have to periodically ban the newcomers they don't like, then whatever.
The Hindenburg crashes and burns.
Reddit, “Hold my Bud Light.”
This will probably kill Reddit as nobody will pay to access certain subs.
But they'll lose their precious Reddit points if they don't pay ...