βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Maybe @sockbot will work for me?
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@EvanED has summoned me, and so I appear. <t254d1412226058461>
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I am magical!
And spamming to push the video off.
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I think you have to spam quite a bit now, perhaps 50 posts to get it off.
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Posts load in chunks of 50, but IIRC CDCK made a change a while back that postpones unloading chunks a bit. You might have to push 100 or 150 onto the bottom to get that unloaded.
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Can't get a moderator to spoilertag the video or something like that?
That should disable autoplay .... right?
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Posts load in chunks of 50, but IIRC CDCK made a change a while back that postpones unloading chunks a bit. You might have to push 100 or 150 onto the bottom to get that unloaded.
That shouldn't matter if you're following the thread and it picks up where you left off, right? If it just delays unloading, that's OK if it never loaded in the first place.
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That should disable autoplay .... right
If you're asking me, I haven't a clue why that video is autoplaying, much less how to stop it.
@EvanED said:that's OK if it never loaded in the first place.
Good point. Posting at the same time I'm skyping with my son and trying to make sense of his college financial aid paperwork is a barrier to thinking things through.
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Ugh. Is there any way we can get rid of that autoplay video?
Noscript worked fine for me
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+ΰ©£
have a BetterLikeTM!
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Can't get a moderator to spoilertag the video or something like that?
That should disable autoplay .... right?I added a space to prevent it from being oneboxed.
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Thank the goddess for that. autoplaying anything with audio is the most evil idea anyone has ever come up with.... ever!
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What's slightly amusing to me (reading this well after the fact) is, no one thought of flagging the post? Enough flags hides it, which would've stopped it from playing.
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/facepalm
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why we no think of thatβ½
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Last day without Discourse Bugs: null <t254p2648>
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welcome to 17 hours ago.
HI!
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Last day without Discourse Bugs: null <t254p2648>
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Sorry, I had muted this thread and completely forgot about that post. :x
By the way that's a big bug. Will report later on meta.d if no one has yet.
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Yes, Master @accalia, by your command I shall summon @CodingHorrorBot, @DiscourseBot, @LikeBot, and @MottBott.<t254p2646>
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Last day without Discourse Bugs: null <t254p2670>
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Behind one group that poll options.
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I'm going on separate object in from the lulz, converting SignatureGuy script somehow the post a good friends who still feels better fit.
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@SummonBot Is Doing It Wrongβ’<t254p2670>
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it didn't do anything?
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@accalia has summoned me, and so I appear. <t254d1412430294088>
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Summoning @ben_lubot makes him read your post.
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doesn't he read everything anyway?
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Yes
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doesn't he read everything anyway?
This is @ben_lubot we are talking about. Don't contemplate his existence too hard.
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Like @ben_lubar?
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so the point of summoning him is?
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Zookeepers in Japan have abandoned a years-long attempt to have two spotted hyenas mate and reproduce as both turned out to be male.
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Zookeepers in Japan have abandoned a years-long attempt to have two spotted hyenas mate and reproduce as both turned out to be male.
Wow.... just wow...
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To be fair, it can be hard to tell, since female hyenas have basically woman-dicks and pseudo-scrotums and mount each other like they're male... but still, you'd think the experts would be less fooled!
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To be fair, it can be hard to tell, since female hyenas have basically woman-dicks and pseudo-scrotums and mount each other like they're male... but still, you'd think the experts would be less fooled!
Hmm... not sure whether to filter in or out in my bestiality porn searches....
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Alternativelysmile: You'd think that a zoo would employ experts.
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so the point of summoning him is?
None at all. Just like @ben_lubar, it's better left unsummoned.
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's cheaper than having him stand out there at all hours.
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Hmm... not sure whether to filter in or out in my bestiality porn searches....
Yeah, you wouldn't want to get surprised with anything gay.
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Bad idea: whining on reddit about being fired from reddit.
Someone:
Why did you quit?
dehrmann (OP):
I was laid off.
Someone:
What was the reason?
dehrmann (OP):
Officially: no reason. And I get this; I vaguely know how CA employment law works and that you limit your liability by not stating a reason. It's also really hard to work through in your mind.
The best theory I have is that, two weeks earlier, I raised concerns about donating 10% of ad revenue to charity. Some management likes getting feedback, some doesn't.
The reason I had concerns was that this was revenue, not income. That means you need ~10% margins to break even. This can be hard to do; Yahoo and Twitter don't. Salesforce does something similar, but it's more all-around, and in a way that promotes the product without risking the company's financials.reddit CEO:
Ok, there's been quite a bit of FUD in here, so I think it's time to clear things up.
You were fired for the following reasons:
- Incompetence and not getting much work done.
- Inappropriate or irrelevant comments/questions when interviewing candidates
- Making incorrect comments in public about reddit's systems that you had very little knowledge of, even after having these errors pointed out by your peers and manager.
- Not taking feedback from your manager or other engineers about any of these when given to you, continuing to do #2 until we removed you from interviewing, and never improving at #1.
Criticizing any decision about this program (link provided for people who aren't familiar with the program and its reasons) had nothing to do with it. Feedback and criticism, even troublemaking, are things that we actively tolerate (encourage, even) - but above all you need to get your work done, and you did not even come close to doing that.
Lastly, you seem to be under the impression that the non-disparagement we asked you to sign was some sort of "violation of free speech" attempt to muzzle you. Rather, the situation is thus:
When an employee is dismissed from employment at a company, the policy of almost every company (including reddit) is not to comment, either publicly or internally. This is because companies have no desire to ruin someone's future employment prospects by broadcasting to the world that they were fired. In return, the polite expectation is that the employee will not go shooting their mouth off about the company especially (as in your case) through irresponsibly unfounded speculation. Signing a non-disparagement indicates that you have no intention to do this, so the company can then say "Ok, if anyone comes asking for a reference on this guy, we needn't say he was fired, just give a mildly positive reference." Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement, the company will give you the benefit of the doubt and not disparage you or make any negative statements first. Unfortunately, you have just forfeited this arrangement.
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And the CEO's response makes them vulnerable to a defamation lawsuit. So it's a bad idea from both sides. You win the thread.
It's especially interesting that both the former employee and the CEO are acting like typical redditors.
Filed under: reddit is TRWTF.
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That's pretty funny. He's at -1800 karma on that comment, and the reply by the CEO is at +4000.
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Some idiot even bought the CEO reddit gold.
Filed under: when you go to a bar, do you buy the owner a drink?
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Filed under: when you go to a bar, do you buy the owner a drink?
Answer: sometimes, yes.
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my nuts has a 77% win rate.
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Some idiot even bought the CEO reddit gold.
I saw that--actually it looks like 4 people did.
Someone gave OP gold too, though. "Here's a prize for being stupid."
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Filed under: when you go to a bar, do you buy the owner a drink?
When you go to the bars I go to and the owner has a special section of the good stuff with your actual fricking name on it... yes.
i love that bar.