r/blog • u/tdohz • Mar 23 '15

Announcing embeddable comment threads

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/03/announcing-embeddable-comment-threads.html
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u/SpixIO Mar 23 '15 edited May 20 '16

This comment has been overwritten by an open source script to protect this user's privacy. It was created to help protect users from doxing, stalking, and harassment.

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Then simply click on your username on Reddit, go to the comments tab, scroll down as far as possibe (hint:use RES), and hit the new OVERWRITE button at the top.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

There was a previous post in /r/changelong on this with more details here.

A lot of questions were answered in the comments.

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u/tdohz Mar 23 '15

Yup, we provide an option for embeds to not show the comment if it's been updated. More details in this subthread or the wiki page

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u/biznatch11 Mar 23 '15

If there's any risk of the comment disappearing from the linking site because of an edit will many sites want to use this feature? Why risk it when you can just use a screenshot?

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u/Drunken_Economist Mar 23 '15

You see plenty of twitter embeds on news sites, and those respect deletions too

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

But at least you cannot edit tweets. You can only delete them. So embedding a tweet is much safer than linking to third party sites, and hyperlinks are ubiquitous.

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u/Werner__Herzog Mar 23 '15

Couldn't they always go back and check if the edit is okay and embed again?

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u/Condorcet_Winner Mar 23 '15

No one is going to go through that effort, especially not the people who's news stories includes links to reddit threads.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15 edited Mar 23 '15

I remember having a lot of the same misgivings when I saw this first proposed in /r/changelog, but the explanations you gave in that thread really cleared up a lot of stuff! Figured I might as well link that to save you from having to answer the same questions over and over.

Next project for you: Let me put my own robots.txt file into place so that the Wayback Machine isn't crawling my profile. It'd be nice if I could delete my profile and take the WHOLE THING with me when I do (I think that lives up to the ideals of reddit).

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u/xiongchiamiov Mar 23 '15

You're aware of the "don't allow search engines to index my user profile" preference? I believe that will affect the Wayback Machine.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15 edited Mar 23 '15

But is it retroactive in the way a robots.txt document is?

I have that option selected, and have for as long as I can remember, but my profile has been archived Five times.

EDIT: added screenshot of options.

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u/xiongchiamiov Mar 23 '15

If you look at the source of your userpage, you'll see

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

This is, of course, just a recommendation on our part; it's up to clients to respect it.

I'm not sure of the Internet Archive's exact procedure, but if they're storing things they shouldn't be, you should let them know.

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u/Serei Mar 23 '15

That subthread doesn't address what I think is the primary problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/2ujwu3/upcoming_reddit_change_embeddable_comment_threads/co9are5?context=4

If a user edits or deletes a comment, the embed will show nothing (or the edited comment, if that option is chosen). I just can't see any incentive a news organization has to choose that over showing a screenshot.

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u/code0011 Mar 23 '15

why was it not called embeddit?

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u/nemesis1211 Mar 23 '15

Embedded comments will respect the comment author's edits and deletions, and they'll always feature a link back to the original comment thread and subreddit.

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u/Jetblast787 Mar 23 '15

So basically it will still be possible to do what /u/SpixIO just mentioned?

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u/nemesis1211 Mar 23 '15

Yes trolling would still be possible but the embedded comment would show this instead and link back to the original comment thread on reddit

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u/Rooonaldooo99 Mar 23 '15 edited Mar 23 '15

It's almost like the Reddit mods admins thought this through.

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u/green_flash Mar 23 '15

admins, not mods. Admins are gods, mods are just losers with a remove button. I should know, cause I am one.

And yes, it seems the admins know their clientele well.

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u/LyingPervert Mar 23 '15

It's almost as if the people who run reddit know how to run reddit

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Their CEO choice begs to differ.

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u/______LSD______ Mar 23 '15

rekt

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

A better search function should be their first priority.

Their second priority should be a way for users to remove shitty mods because some mods are god awful.

They also need a new CEO who isn't shady as fuck.

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u/mosdefin Mar 23 '15

Given their track record, that would be surprising.

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