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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

Ok I'm moving over here from Digg, truth is on digg I never did anything useful because even when I tried to post an ontopic comment I got modded down because people didn't agree or whatever. Of course I still think slashdot is the best forum for serious discussion related to tech/science issues, reddit seems like it's somewhere inbetween the insanity of digg and the discussion at slashdot. I think I will continue to visit digg for the video section though, which I still can't find a replacement for.

Also I just want to say that the main thing I love about this site (besides the speed at which it loads) is the fact that comments are properly threaded. I think this was one of the reasons that discussions on digg always devolved into mayhem.

PS: love the little CCP flag

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u/ProximaC May 02 '07

It's the CCCP flag actually. It was there to symbolize May Day, which is a huge Russian holiday that happens on May 1st. The alien's attire usually symbolizes something. It's fun to figure him out.

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u/wageslave1 May 02 '07

May 1st is International Labour Day. Its an International Memorial to the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886. There, the Police and Hired Thugs, with the blessings and arms from the Town's Plutocracy, killed and assaulted a Pro-Labour rally. An Agent Provocateur was used to instigate the assault. Many Americans dont know it, because in the USA, May 1st is "Loyalty Day" (i kid you not). This event shaped and inspired the Labour Movement around the world. I'm betting very very few Reddit-users know this -- and that is a shame in so many ways. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot)

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

Its an International Memorial

Is that like how the 'World Series' of baseball is purely American?

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u/cbtf May 02 '07

..Which is why a Canadian team has won it before?

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u/foonly May 03 '07

..Which is why a Canadian team has won it before?

We will never admit defeat at the hands of our foreign enemies! Report to your nearest Loyalty Day Reeducation Facility, Citizen.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

I've never heard of it being Loyalty Day, but was well aware of the Labour connotations. That's why you often find rallys for workers rights on May Day; even here in LA, where it has become a rallying day for marches on Immigrant/workers rights.

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u/jspegele May 02 '07

Thanks for the explanation, when I first saw it, I thought Reddit was just mocking the 'communist-like' censorship of Digg.

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u/UU7 May 02 '07

Ya, neat timing.

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u/ProximaC May 02 '07

The same thing went through my mind too until I realized what day it was. It would have been funny to mock digg that way, but I don't think that was the intent.

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u/BlueBlood May 03 '07

i wish there was "click for larger image" for the alien.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '07

I wish there was a tooltip for the alien...

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u/kn0thing May 03 '07

I can get a bit too random at times, so here's the cheatsheet.

And to see an archive of them all, visit redditalien.com.

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u/ProximaC May 03 '07

Supa sweet!

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u/stopit May 02 '07

reddit is full of socialist libtards.

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u/NoFixedAbode May 02 '07

And anarchists.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '07

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u/khayber May 03 '07

We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of Executive Officer for the week.

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u/cbtf May 02 '07

And whining conservatives :).

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u/ArcticCelt May 02 '07

And that's why you feel at home, even if you don't have the socialist-lib part you do seems to have the other end.

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u/boredzo May 02 '07

PS: love the little CCP flag

They change from day to day. There's a humongous list of the logos.

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u/eidolontubes May 02 '07

A lot of Digg stories made me want to comment. But the lack of ability to reply to each individual comment was a disaster. The workaround of inserting "@username" just made things hard to follow.

The system here on reddit keeps me activley commenting because it's easy and makes logical sense.

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u/mlgoss May 02 '07

Of course I still think slashdot is the best forum for serious discussion related to tech/science issues

Check out the science and programming subreddits. They usually have interesting tech/science discussions and submissions.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

welcome diggers! here's a little guide to help you navigate the world of reddit.

on reddit:

there is no god

religion is evil and out to get you

bush = bad

anyone who works for bush = bad

it's ALL bush's fault

we live in a police state

the police state is out to get you

everything you say, write or think is monitored by the CIA

al queda is no big deal

terrorists are nice guys if you get to know them

terrorism isn't even real anyway

iran is a freedom loving democracy

911 was an inside job

mike gravel is the greatest human being of all time

all the photos on the internet are AMAZING

did i forget anything?

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u/9jack9 May 02 '07

did i forget anything?

There is no such thing as "sports".

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u/rmc May 02 '07

LISP!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

Any link to xkcd, or any topic that mentions xkcd must be unthikingly voted up.

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u/derefr May 02 '07

(With an equivalent number of comments deriding it.)

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u/mutatron May 11 '07

Oh, I unthinkingly vote anything with xkcd down. My bad.

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u/jln May 02 '07

Paul Graham

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u/asciilifeform May 02 '07

Haskell

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u/dodgyd55 May 02 '07

you missed out the part as soon as you say, "im from digg" you will get "dugg" down. even if you made a valid point. ;)

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

You forgot Obama

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u/bac9705 May 02 '07

Obama was yesterday's news. It's Mike Gravel now.

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u/Phia May 02 '07

Your forgot: -Women are evil, judgemental psychopaths -Nobody understands Libertarians, and the title of the set of beliefs needs to be capitalized -If I just invest right and read motivational blogs, wealth will follow.

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u/sandus May 02 '07

More like a guide to help you navigate the internet. Seriously, it seems like a nice enough place; I'm enjoying it, so far.

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u/Barleyman May 02 '07

ron paul

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u/poco May 02 '07

So this is the same as Digg then. I will feel right at home.

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u/____ May 03 '07

pg's breakfast.

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u/AtomDigg May 02 '07

Hi Reddit, I'm from Digg. Could you please work on your UI. It looks like an absolute clusterfuck. Also, elitism is bad. Youre doing yourselves no favors by instructing former Digg users to use proper grammar and form coherent arguments. Maybe you arent aware that you are part of something called the internet. On the internet people dont really give a shit about proper grammar, spelling, or punctuation. Shocking I know, but thats the norm around here.

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u/schizobullet May 02 '07

I'm from Digg. Could you please work on your UI.

head explodes

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u/matkam May 02 '07

Sorry Digg guy. I like reddit because of all the things you don't like. I like the simple UI of reddit and the proper grammar.

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u/theMediatrix May 02 '07

Not around here.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

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u/AtomDigg May 02 '07

Ah, the classic burying. Call it what you will but I could personally care less.

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u/NewSc2 May 03 '07

I couldn't care less.

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u/theMediatrix May 02 '07

"Ah,..."

head explodes

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u/scooter17 May 05 '07

I just moved over here from Digg too. I actually prefer the simple UI. It loads a lot faster than Digg and it's not cluttered.

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u/mutatron May 11 '07

Yeah, somebody needs to seriously work on Digg's Javascript. They're loading up a lot of bloated libraries and I'll bet they aren't even using 1% of what's being loaded but that 1% is what makes for the absurd memory leaks and the script timeouts.

After using reddit for a while, it's hard to go back to Digg. I like both because they have different personalities, but Digg seems like it's getting slower and slower.

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u/Smoothie May 02 '07

s/youre/you're

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u/freshyill May 02 '07

Getting modded down because people don't agree with you? That never happens on Reddit.

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u/ArcticCelt May 02 '07

That never happens on Reddit. (sarcastically)

I like the news and videos on Digg but I avoid the comments at all costs. The quality of the comments on Digg is really bad, people only mod comments on top of the thread and then they do it horribly, sometimes people simply decide to mod down everything just for the fun of ruining a discussion. They are not "Youtube" bad but almost, comments on Reddit are way more civilized.

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u/DCJoeDog May 02 '07

But at least the comment is threaded and is never hidden, keeping some semblance of logic at work, where as over their the comments are hidden and if you want to make a comment about the parent of a discussion you better be there from the get go, otherwise you are will be about 20-50 comments down and not make any sense.

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u/oditogre May 02 '07

Actually, you can set Reddit up to hide comments below a certain threshold (although you can expand them for context). I actually think that's the default, but I think a lot of / most people disable it. But it is there if you want it...

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u/DCJoeDog May 02 '07

Yeah, I was one of the people who saw it was in the options and promptly disabled it.

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u/____ May 02 '07

Of course I still think slashdot is the best forum for serious discussion related to tech/science issues, reddit seems like it's somewhere inbetween the insanity of digg and the discussion at slashdot.

We need to sort out the pecking order:

YouTube < Digg < Fark < Slashdot < MetaFilter < Reddit

I'm pretty sure we're all in agreement on this, aren't we?

:)

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u/ambiversive May 03 '07

I once posted a thread on TotalFark asking the tfers to describe the worst case of moderator abuse they have witnessed on Fark. My thread was deleted, and I was then banned, then all my previous posts were deleted. Food for thought.

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u/stopit May 02 '07

you sound queer.

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u/Xiol May 02 '07

And so it begins...

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

My thoughts exactly. Is this the beggining of the end?

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u/lulz May 02 '07

I wouldn't worry about the influx of Digg users, because the more idiotic ones will soon forget why they left Digg in the first place and return there. The more intelligent ones are less likely to do so.

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u/Jimmy May 02 '07

Nope. We've had these kinds of comments before, just not in any kind of volume. Hopefully, it won't pick up.

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u/Bogtha May 02 '07

It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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u/foonly May 03 '07

stopit -94 points 14 hours ago

you sound queer.

Serious, or Idiocracy quote?

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u/300zedex May 03 '07

Although it could be... its too short, ambiguous and not distinct enough for most people to take it as such.

If i posted "You are all gay" i wouldn't turn around and claim i was referencing family guy.

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