I don't understand the kids with their reddits
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- spinn
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I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Someone linked me on reddit (which was cool) and it got an irritating number of down votes (which was not). But after looking at it a couple times I realized the number of downvotes changes most times I reload the page. Does that make any sense? I kinda still don't get the kids and their geegaws and jimjams these days.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Are the changes random or are they trending in a specific direction? Because if the number of downvotes is constantly increasing when you reload the page, that's probably an error in judgement rather than software.
But yeah, I don't understand reddit, stumbleupon, digg, et al. either. Back in the good old days, if you wanted to show someone a man's gaping anus you pointed them to goatse.cx, none of this fiddling around with things like http://metal-bird.on.nimp.org and suchlike.
But yeah, I don't understand reddit, stumbleupon, digg, et al. either. Back in the good old days, if you wanted to show someone a man's gaping anus you pointed them to goatse.cx, none of this fiddling around with things like http://metal-bird.on.nimp.org and suchlike.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
No, I griped to my friends about having 6 downvotes, then I went back to the page and there were 4. I was like, uh, someone changed their mind? Then noticed reloading shows 5, 4, 6, 7, 4 again, blah blah.
Seemed like an odd and obvious error for something as used as reddit, so I thought maybe there was just something going on there I didn't understand.
Seemed like an odd and obvious error for something as used as reddit, so I thought maybe there was just something going on there I didn't understand.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Maybe it just averages? Does it show up votes too?
Honestly I have no idea.
Honestly I have no idea.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Clearly it loves the number 4, but also showing the downvotes increasing.
And like a maiden in a victorian tragedy of love, every time you refresh the page, it must choose.
And like a maiden in a victorian tragedy of love, every time you refresh the page, it must choose.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Webcomic idea: personify the internet.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
I said webcomic idea, not youtube video idea.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
I've seen webcomics where that happens, I just can't be bothered to trawl through an archive.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Yeah, but a whole webcomic based on that idea. I think it could work.
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And I think it could be terrible depending on the author.
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Fix'd, and agree'd.Cirtur wrote:And I think anything could be terrible depending on the author.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Yeah, they don't give you a completely accurate view of the votes on reddit. It's to discourage people from doing wacky voting shenanigans.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
Weird, so they're inaccurate on purpose? That's...hm. Well I guess that's a way to discourage cheating...make your results not really necessarily mean anything.
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Re: I don't understand the kids with their reddits
It's the same with the US election.