Uh… what do you think we do when a client doesn’t pay us for a while? We yank their access. That’s how services work, you get a few warnings that you really need to pay or you’ll lose access and then, well, you lose access.

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It’s just called moderation. Since we cannot show that it could be done better, owing to a mix of human nature, the nature of the Internet and discussions on it, and how moderation generally works.

It has now been finalized as of yesterday, from what I understand. Previously it was a work-in-progress policy change they were still unsure about, and now it’s decided that this is the way going forward.

I reckon sadly at least part of the reason will be that they are in a partnership with OpenAI, and feeding generated stuff into a GenAI breaks the model, so they need to keep SO as non-AI as possible.

Okay, and how would you address it? The limitation is easy to criticize when you can think in a vacuum about it. But in the real world, we’d need to find a way to change things that can actually be implemented by everyone.

Which usually means transformative change.

I don’t mind the difference in functionality, so much as how slow it is, which was already a huge problem with new.reddit.com. Having gone back to old.reddit.com+RES now, fucking hell reddit used to be such a snappy website. 😑

Yeah exactly, it’s all mobile nowadays, anyways. By and large “nobody” is here for the desktop experience. Sadly.

That’s not what cracking down on gig economy is. Gig economy benefits nobody except the rich farts at the top of the companies employing it. It is entirely and solely meant to increase profits of the bosses, and shoving those costs onto the country the company is operating in.

And hence changes such as these are entirely meant to move that money back. Ideally, for the employee, nothing changes at all. Their bosses buy 5 Porsche a year instead of 8, and the country has another company paying their required taxes and insurances they happened to be skirting until now.

Nice, another country where the gig economy suffers a big hit.

They need to have more countries stomp down on this. It sucks for workers, and just allows greedy C-suites to run away with even more money. Although what is missing here is doing this retroactively and making the CEO pay out of pocket all the missing money for the insurances and taxes.

Is this satire? It has to be, right? Considering your comment is entirely unnecessary?

This is smart. As pi is a non-repeating, you can even at some point start showing just the “current” digits if it ever gets too much, and will always be able to find a finite length of digits that does not match a previously user version number.

I mean it has fuck all hype except the tiniest nichey audiences, so I guess that worked out.

Personally I have been around longer than him but I used to like his stuff at first.

As I’ve coded more and more on stuff that is built not only on legacy code but specifically legacy code by coders influenced substantially by clean code… damn has this single author given me a headache like nothing else ever has.

The level of inane unmaintainability and complexity achieved by younger coders being encouraged or forced to code “clean” is remarkable.

Yeah but I’d prefer it to just flat-out be a paid-for platform then, tbh. On a smaller scale that’d be fair, bills have to be paid, but just be honest then.

Finally! All these years, I was thinking that the site was missing something and now reading about it, yes, it was clearly paid subreddits! /s

Fuck off with that attitude. Go somewhere people like you can safely exist, I recommend Mars.

How do you mean? The up-/downvotes? Like here?

How do you mean?

Do people actually look at a person’s Karma? I just see up/downvotes on stuff.

Not even just bullshit marketing, rather on making someone rich a smidge richer. For weeks and weeks of figuring out how to solve a problem that the client could solve by just not insisting they can export every single view to excel and re-import from excel “because that’s what I’m used to”.

Replace Youtube with Meetings, and it’s spot on!