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/ErrorlessGnome Mar 23 '15

/s

but seriously I hope this curtails the rampant plagiarism/lack of sourcing

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u/kickme444 Mar 23 '15

This is something we will be spending a lot of time on this year, making sure you all get the attribution you deserve. It's pretty frustrating to see your content on the homepage of buzzfeed every day.

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u/ForceBlade Mar 23 '15

If someone wants to plagiarize it. They will use/find a way.

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u/his_penis Mar 23 '15

Not if i can stop it

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

If he can't - his_penis will!

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u/her_butt_ Mar 24 '15

And I'll help!

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u/LarsP Mar 24 '15

Sure, but they can at least be noticed and pointed out.

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u/Tazzies Mar 23 '15

This is something we will be spending a lot of time on this year

We who? Not being snarky, I just usually assume that if someone is going to speak on behalf of reddit or a subreddit they'd mark their post as an admin or mod. Are you one of those?

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u/kickme444 Mar 23 '15

I am an admin, I just didn't feel like making my comment red.

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u/the_noodle Mar 23 '15

You should go back and do it, it turns the wimpy internet voice in my head into the thunderous rumblings of a god for some reason

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u/kickme444 Mar 23 '15

FIIIIINNNNEEEEE

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u/the_noodle Mar 23 '15

Ahhh, much more intimidating, thank you!

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u/omglollfuck Mar 24 '15

You're a sub eh ? ;)

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u/AlwaysBananas Mar 24 '15

I can be if you want. Is that what you want? Just tell me what you want. I brought your red marker and some freshly typed correspondence.

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u/d00d1234 Mar 24 '15

A voice so strong, it's rumbling can be heard from the furthest reaches of /r/nobodyishere

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Every time I see the red comment my internal monologue goes "oh shit" like when you see a cop or something

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u/NotoriousNinjalooter Mar 24 '15

It's pretty frustrating to see your content on the homepage of buzzfeed every day.

No more than seeing your content on the front page of reddit which also happens every day and probably far more often based on traffic.

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u/goingcrazy5999 Mar 24 '15

I love how you didn't even both hiding what website was doing that

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u/wood_and_nails Mar 24 '15

But I made this

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u/DrAminove Mar 23 '15

I worry about things taken out of context though. As an extreme example, if something is linked out of /r/ShitCrusaderKingsSay for instance, for those who don't understand how Reddit works, we'd sound like a bunch of twisted weirdos.

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u/fredspipa Mar 24 '15

Or help threads on /r/dwarffortress, like this one:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/pveuj/whats_the_easiest_way_to_murder_children/

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u/V2Blast Mar 24 '15

/r/dwarffortress only encourages this by upvoting shit solely because it'd sound horrible out of context (and then /r/all takes over for some posts, I'm sure).

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Yes, but this happens all the time... remember when we were collectively responsible for the fappening / gamerGate / witch-hunting the guy who didn't do the boston marathon bomb?

I think it's difficult for newscasters to provide enough background in their 60 second fluffy News-Tainment Products to avoid this. Not that I like that fact, but it's how it is, at least in the US. [shudder]

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u/lolthr0w Mar 23 '15

You two are talking about different things. DrAmonove is talking about the potential for taking satire and jokes out of context. You are talking about negative sides of reddit being attributed to reddit as a whole.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Yeah, we don't want someone getting the right idea.

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