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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com)
The most anxious day of Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's life, he says, was showing up to work on the Monday after Thanksgiving this year. The week before, he had thrown the company into a minor political crisis. From a CNBC report: After weeks being antagonized by the users of Reddit communities like /r/The_Donald and /r/pizzagate, Huffman had covertly edited messages posted by other users that were critical of him, to instead be critical of those communities' leaders. On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Huffman said he conceived this as a prank, "in the spirit of fun." "I figured, I'm just going to mess with these bullies, and I actually have the capability of messing with them, so I'll do so," Huffman said. "I wanted to do something. I didn't do the right thing, but that was my mentality." Huffman says the aftermath of this "prank," users questioning whether their posts had ever been edited without their consent in the past, was "devastating," and that he knows it will take time to rebuild trust within the community. At an all-hands staff meeting on that anxious Monday, he apologized directly to Reddit's staff and said he wanted them all to be proud to work there.
There is no coming back from this. Until he decides to leave, trust cannot be rebuilt.
If I did this as an employee, I'd be fired on the spot.
everybody head on over to voat. reddit sucks. reddit's the new digg
People who disagree with your political position are not "bullies" that you need to do something like this just because you have the capability. This thinking leads to single party police states.
Is he being picked on by bullies? poor little man.
His thin seems as thin as Trump's
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
We paying reddit users want his head on a pike; fire his ass
You could care less? Well then, why don't you?
Then redditors will realize things aren't so bad and ask him back.
I stopped going to Reddit a week before this happened. There was a palpable feeling to the website that a lot of views were no longer welcome. What happened to the freedom of speech?
I really can't say what happened to Reddit but I have some thoughts. If you go to the smaller sub reddits they are great. But anything with a large amount of people becomes ridiculously political. You can't even say anything or have a discussion without someone attempting to force you to find a source for every little thing you say.
People need to learn how to just talk to each other again. That is where my mind goes.
Throw all this BS with the people leading reddit into the mix and you're finding people are now realizing the internet has limits. Yeah we can unite behind causes easier but people are still people. Coming up with names like trolls and fake news isn't going to stop people from being people. They talk. They spread information and half the time it isn't accurate. How is that any different then what goes on in most groups at school, work every day?
This isn't some legal filing server, or your email provider. It's a fucking web forum. And one that lets you use it for free. If the CEO if a dick, take your eyeballs and go elsewhere*.
*Please
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
'The Right Thing' is not to mess with people's speech, even if it disagrees with your political views. This is SOP for the left-leaning these days, and yet they wonder why hillary lost to donald trump of all people.
Now, you have the right to do whatever you want on your platform, but that doesn't necessarily make it 'The Right Thing' to do. This isn't the first time social media has tried to modify narratives of users.
0 sympathy.
Even if he steps down, and he should, the trust cannot ever possibly be rebuilt. The precedent has been set for a leader in a social media company to edit comments at will.
Continuity and original authorship cannot therefore possibly be guaranteed without transparent check in systems (like source control) on comments for any online platform. Pandora's box has been opened and the legal ramifications will be interesting should any user ever be sued over content they "author".
Er, no, dude, it wasn't in the spirit of fun. If it were, you would have seen the criticism of you as being in the spirit of fun. But that criticism was malice, and your response was malicious. It was in the spiriting of being an asshole.
Apology rejected.
It caused enough fallout that he'd write this, so clearly not OK.
... and that he knows it will take time to rebuild trust within the community....
A person's integrity is destroyed in seconds, yet can take years to rebuild. I am not sure he can regain the users' trust in a time period he would like.
"I was just joking!"
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That sounds kinda childish to offer "it was just a prank" as an excuse.
This kind of thing doesn't happen on slashdot isn't it?
Where he banned users en masse for calling him out on his shit.
So I guess the plan was:
Surreptitiously edit the posts political subreddits you don't like
Get caught
Ban everyone you don't like in the ensuing shitstorm
Grovel a bit and pretend it never happened
Beautiful purge, shame the internet has such a long memory.
If you care about what you say on the internet not being changed, use a digital signature.
the idea of the first amendment was that anyone can say anything on the public square, but online the "public" square is all privately owned by mostly large companies based in the Sanfrancisco or San Jose region and run by people who are predominately liberal. They are free to run their businesses as they and their shareholders see fit, but with so much of life hapnenning online, where are we supposed to have the "public square" if anyone with differant ideas gets treated badly or labeled "hate speech" or "fake news"?
If Facebook Twitter, Reddit and other leftist dominated companies run all the communications mediums, how are those who disagree to compete in the arena of ideas?
Steve Huffman has a net worth of many millions at age 33, based on nothing more than a mediocre ability for web design (judging by Reddit). He certainly doesn't seem like he is ready for a CEO position. He should count his blessings, resign, and spend the rest of his life bird watching, picking up women, or whatever strikes his fancy.
So he trolled the trolls.
So basically you're saying what he did was fine because he did it against Trump and his "fifth column." So trashing free speech is fine with you so long as it's trashing free speech you don't like. The cognitive dissonance...it burns. Why do I get the feeling you'd be singing an entirely different tune if this was a conservative forum host that censored pro-Hillary or anti-Trump comments to align with conservative viewpoints?
There's a simple litmus test you must always apply when rendering judgement on things like this. If the positions were reversed would you still feel the same? If the answer is "no" then you're not being objective enough to have a valid opinion on the subject.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yea, and Tony Hayward is sorry.
"They are destroying our 'democracy' with their conspiracy theories... When the 'Make America Great Again Neighborhood Block Councils' are formed'...
u wot m8? Accidentally spilled that kool-aid into your cup, didn't notice, and decided to take the 'holier than though' approach while dying from heavy exposure to irony, eh?
That's cool, I mean, I don't mind if you condemn conspiritards while being a conspiritard... just makes me kind of baffled really. Like seeing a unicorn; something rare and beautiful that I thought was made up until someone stapled a rainbow colored toilet-paper roll to its head. Then I knew the truth.
by resigning.
The Russian hacker thing is especially bad because I've seen how many people can't comprehend that there are no less than 3 different leaks in play here. Or especially they conflate Hillary's private email server with the DNC leaks. Yes, there probably are some emails common to all the dumps--Podesta certainly emailed Hillary & the DNC and vice versa--but they could not have been obtained all in the same way, as we will see below:
Hillary's emails
Allegedly hacked from her home server, but we have no logs of this. She turned over paper copies. Some redacted emails (on paper) were released by the FBI. This has never been fully turned over to the public (or to the people investigating Benghazi). Trump joked that Russia (or whoever) could always release these after the fact, but nobody ever has released them all, including Hillary herself. We have posts by /u/stonetear on Reddit, who was a staffer there, talking about selectively wiping emails in the right time frame. All of this is public evidence that has been seen (and archived) by many people, unless someone wants to claim that /u/Spez edited that in to make Hillary look bad :)
Podesta's Gmail account
This was hacked by a very simply spear phishing email. It's DKIM validated by both Hillary & Google's servers, so anyone claiming this is fake can be proven wrong mathematically. Google signs them with the b and bh parameters (body & body hash) so no, it doesn't just cover the headers, but the body too. And no, there is a way to revoke the keys. Go look up the selector in the DKIM header if you know how, both keys are still there as of right now.
We also have good reason to believe they fell for this, both because we can see the staff saying this is real and because bit.ly has that link being clicked on twice in the relevant time frame as you can see from their stats page for the link: https://bitly.com/1PibSU0+
That bit.ly link resolves to a .TK URL the lameness filter hates which is obviously fake. You can see it from the previous stats page if you're curious. The TK domain is Tokelau, which a territory of New Zealand, if you were wondering. The phishing email itself claims there were hack attempts from the Ukraine.
DNC Leaks
This is alleged to have been leaked by a DNC insider. Wikileaks pointed out the suspicious death of DNC intern Seth Rich who was murdered but not robbed in the middle of the night. They have put up a reward for information on his killer(s). At this time, no one has been identified as the leaker, though there are a lot of stories quoting anonymous insiders claiming circumstantial evidence. There was also the 17 agencies of the USIC (i.e., the Coast Guard & co.) whose director put out a statement saying this was exactly the kind of thing Russia might do, but they did not give any specific evidence therein.
You can find more discussion about that here: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence-conviction/
You take all of the worst elements of the German Stasi and Orwell's Ministry of Truth and you expect to simply be forgiven after conducting a purge of the proles who forgot their place and blew the whistle on you? No. This is historical revisionism. It's totalitarian in nature and has no business in a free society. Congrats, tho, you've proven that there are still people in the world who think that Stalinism is a Good Idea that just needs some tweaking.
Once censorship is allowed who really wants to stay on a managed site?
Once topics people have put a lot of work into get banned, edited or removed?
Other really good US sites offer freedom of speech, freedom after speech and the freedom to read a comment later.
They trust their users, their users ideas, thoughts, words, comments and topics.
If a site does not like or trust its users to comment maybe the site should just publish the news, topics it likes?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Not going to argue that people might feel they lose trust from this. But the point is, he took this action because he had already lost trust. People were going around knowingly telling lies that people (CEO) were pedophiles. That kind of discourse is not the basis for trustful community which respects norms. The people who did that have zero grounds to complain because they already ruined it.
Reddit's management structure is toxic, heavy-handed, and one-sided. And I say this as a proud leftist.
Authoritarianism is not exclusive to the right wing. Left wingers can be equally authoritarian.
And a lot of the time, we forget this. We are so proud of our ideological purity that we squash those who disagree with us.
And as a direct result, they rejected us in the elections. Because we stopped being liberals and started being the Fairness Police.
Or, you can believe there were Hack Attempts, that they were made by "Unknown" but "suspected" russian attackers. While ignoring the fact that there were ALSO hack attempt(s) made by the US government on state Election Offices.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ge...
Part of the whole "Conspiracy" claim is that it doesn't need to have any evidence of truth. But, if you believe, it is part of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" (where have we heard that before???) or "Trump is an idiot for believing" if you don't.
See how that works? No proof is needed, people asking for proof are "deniers", OR .... the people are idiots and we don't need to prove anything.
Both sides try to play this game.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Yes, there was in some other investigation a claim that a RAT was found that was Russian. Problem is, it was later shown to be common to underground forums but the first analysis of that didn't know this. And then we had ridiculous things like allegedly some bank was, I dunno, making DNS queries about a Trump server or whatever that nonsense was that hit Slashdot some time ago.
Or there were some people complaining about, I think it was Guccifer's use of language saying they thought s/he was Russian? Of course, they never bothered to quote anything that someone could actually research. If it's not already clear, if someone should have evidence but they're unwilling to show anyone, I penalize their credibility proportionately. See also: Russell's teapot.
Haven't you heard? Impulsive acts from leaders are in.
Table-ized A.I.
Out of the 174 posts on this thread (at the time of writing), there are only five mentioning the words [GPG|PGP|signature|encryption]. This is Slashdot, for crying out loud -- half the thread should be talking about that stuff!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
The FBI has said it will eventually release ALL known non-classified/non-sensitive emails from H's server to the public, but has to review each one. They have already released many.
Being there are many thousands of messages, it takes time to verify that all the people, places, events, and things mentioned in them are not classified or sensitive references.
Table-ized A.I.
Huffman must go.
If reddit users don't trust the community, there will be no community. Huffman did the unthinkable by covertly editing users posts; the only way reddit can recover users' trust is that Huffman must go.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
That would be great, if not for the fact that Hillary didn't release all of the emails to the FBI to begin with. The FBI only got paper copies after a lot of them were deleted and /u/stonetear (AKA Hillary's IT guy, Paul Combetta) had done whatever he was doing in that infamous post.
Also, we know now that they use a bunch of aliases that make it hard to tell who is who. Here's a short cheat-sheet of those I happen to know. All of this is easily discovered by reading Wikileaks, so every item is an open secret at this point to anyone who cares to find out. I'm sure I forgot a few so feel free to correct me. This is interesting because sometimes there are subpoenas / FOIA requests that only target specific email addresses or names.
Hillary Clinton
hrod
HRC
Evergreen
Chelsea Clinton
CVC
Diane Reynolds
Anthony Wiener
Carlos Danger
It all must be Ellen Pao's fault. Somehow.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Doesn't block the above ad! Absolutely terrible!
Why don't you include all the negative reviews that you have been keeping in your dossiers of everyone that responds to your ads?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Wikileaks trying to glom onto his murder was one of the biggest reasons I stopped trusting them.
Its yet another variation on the bullshit "clinton murders" conspiracy theory and not only is it intellectually bankrupt it is demeaning to Mr Rich himself, making his death into a tool to diminish his own work and political beliefs.
If you're saying there's no proof that Clinton is in any way connected, I'll agree with you. If you're saying we know who killed Seth Rich or why, I'll have to disagree. There are public facing surveillance cameras all around that area, many of which have been mapped out by volunteers. Somehow, his killer or killers have thus far avoided being identified on any of them, though it's being actively investigated. Wikileaks lost their source and then a DNC staffer happened to die. There are enough staff that this could be simply coincidental and it's not clear that even Wikileaks knows who its source was with any certainty. We won't really know anything about this until the actual killer(s) are caught.
You can mistrust Wikileaks' motives all you want, but the email I linked to can be verified cryptographically. It's not like all the Wikileaks docs are even harmful to Clinton. They actually did have an analysts report claiming there was some video causing unrest in Benghazi at the time. We're not able to find any other evidence to support that, but they did actually have a reason to believe that particular claim, even if it appears to have been incorrect in hindsight. Also, they've started leaking items related to Trump now, but that hasn't really been noticed yet.
Users will not trust Reddit headed by someone that edits their posts "because I can" for any reason whatsoever. This is more than a relatively innocent screwup. This is clear fraud and violation of the fundamental nature of Reddit. FIRE!
> Everything else you wrote is bullshit conspiracy theory
Everything else? Not going to be specific, just going to write off everything?
I said we don't know who killed him and why. Surely you're not actually contradicting that part? Look at the police report, there's just not much there.
Are you contradicting the part where I said there are security cameras in the area? Here's a nice list of them and maps. You can walk all around Flagler Place & W St. NW and look at them if you want. The linked thread has a picture of each one. Feel free to post your own photos showing the cameras aren't where they are shown to be.
Now if you're saying the killer(s) were found on camera, contrary to what I said above, well, the only source I can find claiming that is Fox News and there's been nothing public about it since then as far as I know. Should I be taking their word for it? Is that the point you want to argue?
I can go over DKIM cryptography if you want or pull the keys for you directly from the relevant DNS servers (they're still there... for now). Anyone who tries to tell you they've modified those has apparently hacked both Google and Hillary, or broken DKIM's cryptography. Do you need a lesson in exactly how to pull the keys from the DNS servers? Would you like to look at the RFC? Should we discuss what non-repudiation means and why it's important here?
But it's probably the Wikileaks thing, right? All I've said is "this is what Wikileaks said and why." I can only really go on what they've said, which is that they don't know who their sources are exactly. This implies that the only way they know a source is gone is that they cannot contact them any longer. There are surely many ways for this to be purely coincidental and I've said as much. But that puts you in the position of not disagreeing with something I said, but something I said someone else said. And they certainly did say what they said, you can go read it on the Wikileaks Twitter account if you wish.
Perhaps you are you disagreeing with the parts where I said Clinton didn't actually lie? You weren't very specific, you know. I pretty much have to guess here.
So please identify the specific item(s) you're disagreeing with here. I have specific, public sources that I have linked to. And if you're going to natter on about conspiracies based on "literally no evidence" please actually talk about the evidence I have presented instead of pretending you can't see it. Or make sure you disagree with claims I've actually made, not something someone else said.
As you may note, my posts above did not say that Clinton did anything to Seth Rich, nor have I alleged any direct evidence thereof, I just pointed out that people, like Wikileaks, have been suspicious, which is demonstrably true however much you hate them for it.
A few months ago, our CEO lost badge access to our main data center. That was his pride and joy, and now he needs an escort in, because his job doesn't involve any requirement to work inside the room.
If you are a content provider, you probably need one or two people who are capable of editing any post, so that you can fix problems. However, there is no way that the CEO should have that kind of power. The fact that the CEO can just randomly edit content anywhere on the site, without auditing or accountability means that there is a culture out of control.
There is no legitimate reason the CEO of a company should have administrative access to that data and editing privileges in the first place. Not once you have more than three employees anyhow.
I'd question why the capacity for an administrator to directly edit all users post data exists in the first place when you already have options to delete or hide the content. If there isn't the function built into the management interface and someone is directly editing the database contents, that's even worse.
The whole thing reeks of complete dysfuction at an operational level. No CEO should have that kind of access in the first place, let alone after they've demonstrated they can't be trusted not to use it recklessly.
it's illegal, mispresenting and .. stupid.
"editing" opinional content is the worst thing ever a content publishing site can do. how about game reviews? movie reviews?
instead of editing he should have posted that everyone who believed in pizzagate were stupid as fuck.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
You "know" incorrectly.
You mean how I told you repeatedly that the power usage of a DNS server doesn't seem to effect the wattage on my computers nor routers?
You are malicious and are the very antithesis of the cure you're claiming to be.
Considering you were wrong about about "knowing" about who is behind those posts, it's not suprising you're wrong agin.
I'm afraid, Mr. Kowalski, your hosts files will not protect you from clarinet hackers.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Oh, this is one of the "elitist" that GOT CAUGHT doing something that if it were anyone else, would be saying off with their heads. Now that the tables have been turned, he wants forgiveness?
...and earned....
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
I actually explained to you how the local dns cache on some linux distros are actually fully blown DNS servers and with a slight modification it does what I told you too.
Yes! Sometimes we get new hardware, like routers and refactor how things work at home. What an amazing ability! I'm not trapped in the past using hosts files like you are. You can't even acknowledge that your stuff doesn't even work on game consoles (speaking of which, I'm getting the Switch when it comes out), mobile phones etc.
No it doesn't, otherwise the wattage would increase in my equipment.
P.S.=> The problem is, I know your secret, Mr. Kowalski. You see, I can speak Polish and I know you're really Mr. Smith, or should we say... Agent Smith. No matter how many sockpuppet agents you send, you will never win.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Hey look, it's full of Windows 2008 issues, an operating system that ended mainstream support in 2015 and I specifically mentioned "Linux distributions" that already included a DNS server by default as a resolver, you go in the completely wrong direction.
Wrong, I have disproven this repeatedly by showing you that blocking an entire domain is a one liner in a DNS zone record, meanwhile it's taking almost a terabyte of a file to generate all possible subdomains for just one domain that, even on your preferred operating system, won't load and breaks.
Again, I told you when I stopped the DNS server, I saw no drop in wattage in my socket wattage reader, at all.
You forgot to mention how Windows won't load hosts files as large as the multi-GB ones I generated to block just ONE entire domain.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
It's the only thing these assholes will understand.
I could care less what happens to them.
Unless you live in opposite land, please fight the stupid and say "couldn't care less", because that is what you actually fucking mean.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Okay, I stand corrected. As I understand it, eventually ALL (recoverable) emails on the server were put under subpoena, and thus subject to judicial review. Now, whether the personal emails will all be released to the public and/or 'Ghazi committee, I don't know. I see no reason why the Ghazi committee or public needs to know about her yogurt and yoga and thus see no reason why a judge would approve publication of such.
Table-ized A.I.
Agent Smith, as per usual, you are drifting from topic to topic. The fact is, your solution isn't blocking your own ads. You've proved in your recent replies to me how you keep dossiers on everyone and try to use them against people. You are one of the most malicious advertisers I've ever encountered.
Nie wolno.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
He didn't do anything "against Trump", I seriously doubt Trump has any knowledge of what's going on; at least not until now. Technically, the only time something is a 1st Amendment "free speech" issue is when the censorship is by the government, not by a private entity or corp. Regardless, the situation "over all" is not "fine". If it was such a big deal to him, he should have just killed off the thread, accounts, etc instead of manipulating the posts.
But if these users are followers of KeK, then this is a good lesson on using Chaos magick. There will always be repercussions that manifest like this. You might get your digital reality to break through IRL, but there will be a personal cost to pay eventually. The "Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will" is full of pitfalls and deep shadows.
I said "when", implying something that might happen in the future. It's not a conspiracy, I'm not claiming that anything like that is happening right now. Just that, looking over how "strong personality" type of governments go, it's highly possible. At the moment Trump isn't controlling any of this on social media, at least not via Reddit that I know of. Steve Bannon, on the other hand, is a pretty rabid racist who IS a "conspiracy theorist" and uses social media...does he specifically use Reddit? I don't know. Micheal Flynn Jr. referenced #pizzagate, which is from Reddit, and WAS General Flynn's Chief of Staff. That's no conspiracy, that's out in the open off Twitter: "Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it'll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many "coincidences" tied to it."
Trump could reign all this in, before it grows into manifestation again. The "Followers of KeK" are playing with fire in a metaphysical, occult sense. This too follows the same lineage as Welteislehre, Sangue e Spirito, and other "background occult movements" that form around authoritarian leaders.
People can check my posting history and see that, that is not all what I do.
How on Earth am I supposed to know when you're around or not? You're being ridiculous.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Nice off topic post, but let's get back to the topic since you insist so much on it.
Your solution does not block your ads, which happen to be by a malicious advertiser that collects information on users in dossiers and attempts to use it against them, as can be seen above with your posts.
I don't care if you are salty about some of my posts, but that is the reality behind it. You are that which you claim to be protecting people from.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
You have no idea what trolling is. You confuse baiting, flaming and trivial dismissal as trolling. Here is something you should know, APK -- I have yet to even try to troll you.
I can clearly see you are incapable of decent reading comprehention, which means any sort of interesting troll would be completely wasted on you. You can't even grasp the thought experiments in our previous discussions.
Now, back to the subject, since you insist:
Your solution does not block your ads, which happen to be by a malicious advertiser that collects information on users in dossiers and attempts to use it against them, as can be seen above with your posts.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
You think I fantasize about making an application that edits a text file and have some PC magazine in 1999 award it top utility of the year award or proud that some megacorp paid me to write a document for them?
Haha, yeah, I guess I could never be well known for writing a very specific text editor for editing a very specific file!
I think it's funny because you only prove my point every time you post it.
Now back to the subject at hand:
Your solution does not block your ads, which happen to be by a malicious advertiser that collects information on users in dossiers and attempts to use it against them, as can be seen above with your posts.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I don't fish for compliments and base my entire value based on what other people say.
Name calling, so witty!
I just read YT's comments you linked. Yeah, sounds pretty much what you do with every other argument. YT isn't wrong.
Following what YT says about you not answering, I have to restate this:
Your solution does not block your ads, which happen to be by a malicious advertiser that collects information on users in dossiers and attempts to use it against them, as can be seen above with your posts.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
lol, I see. You give yourself some wiggle room in your wording to say "I am not one of those conspiritards". I am not going to defend anyone's actions but my own and from what I can tell with your last two posts; you are looking for conspiracies that conform to your notion of biased reality. The best conspiracies are the ones with grains of truth sprinkled throughout.
I don't think the US is immune from nazi escapades but I am optimistic that the checks and balances, separation of power, and the prescient fear of tyranny built into our system of government will make such escapades difficult to say the least. Crying wolf over and over again does more to enable tyrannic escapades than a populist like Trump because when that shit hits the fan, no one will listen to you. Case in point. Trump. Romney was sexist because 'binders of women'. Anyone who didn't' vote for Obama is racist. Anyone who didn't vote Clinton is sexist. Trump is a nazi with brown-shirts. If you wonder why people don't listen to news, there are a few safe bets.
Stop conjecturing "might" and "when" to get the conspirtard high with wording to avoid the conspirtard nuttery.
That's not really a fact. You have such a tiny portion of users in there. I'm a /.er and I don't even know your code and I imagine I won't like it either if I do see it.
On slashdot? Probably not. But, I don't exactly consider Slashdot an authority on anything, it's specific individuals that fulfil that for me - You aren't really an authority on anything in my eyes. Besides, even if I did care for compliments and base my entire value based on what other people say, /. wouldn't be the first place I'd even look to get that value.
Now, as you have gone off topic again, let's go back on topic:
Your solution does not block your ads, which happen to be by a malicious advertiser that collects information on users in dossiers and attempts to use it against them, as can be seen above with your posts.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
If someone posting verifiable facts makes you uncomfortable, it says more about you than it does about me.
I'll feed you a bit more troll. I'm not "looking" for any conspiracy. All people's notions of reality are "biased". My extrapolation of potential future events is based on history; it's not my fault that historically groups like that tend to form around divisive figures such as Trump.
As for "checks and balances", that ideal has already been destroyed in this instance by the denial of allowing a sitting President to place a Supreme Court justice. That is a fundamental part of "our system of government" that was blocked. I agree with you about the group mind conditioning about "crying wolf"; that too is part of how the Followers of Kek work by placing their charged symbologies into far-reaching public views.
Your logical fallacies of implying what I said includes anything about Romney, racisism, Obama, Clinton, etc is atrocious. Your claiming because other people said ABC, and what I said resembles ABC, then we are both implying XYZ is also true. I don't think, and have NEVER claimed (in my last two posts here, on any post I've ever made anywhere, or IRL) that "anyone who didn't vote for Clinton is sexist" and your committing a false attribution. Personally I think she was a horrible choice for a popular election candidate and has too much baggage and an inappropriate (the nicest word I can think of) public demeanor to be President. I've never even given a second thought to Romney's "binders of women". SOME people didn't vote for Obama because they ARE racist, but I would never postulate that is the "main" reason people didn't vote for him. Most who voted against him did so based on his past political agenda and stated policies; only a few where taken in by the "birther" conspiracy stuff. Unfortunately, the main public proponent of that conspiracy is now President-elect.
As for conjecturing specific words, the words "might" and "when" aren't even IN my original post. That's your conjecture, not mine. Just like your logical fallacy of associating my "conspiracy" prediction with other people's assumptions of past candidates. As for my prediction, there are already incidents happening of people getting confrontational with others in regards to Trump's statements. Just do a search of "video trump supporters" with "visa" "deportation" "airplane" etc. These are the seeds of the "5th column" vigilante group I was originally speaking about. They have yet to sprout into a true organization; I can only hope those "checks and balances" can stop that from happening.
nom nom nom nom. trollololol. Feed me Seymour. Although, that plant could be a great troll mascot.
The Senate not confirming an appointment isn't destroying a fundamental part of our system of government. It is one of the checks and balances and there is no specific reason to have 9 judges and there has been varying number of judges on the court at various times. Obama nominated and the Senate gave advice "no one from you" and refused consent. Both branches have to agree to get a new judge and if one refuses consent all that means is that we have 1 less judge on the court until they can agree. It's only an issue for a 4-4 vote split which just means that the lower courts ruling stands.
I was using Romney Obama etc as examples of wolf crying that has partly led to Trump. It wasn't something I was specifically pinning on you except for wolf crying and I probably botched conveying that. Trump is a reaction, a bad one at that, to the failure of media (that cried those wolves the most) and the left (that created those wolves).
Those vigilantes are a minority and on both sides. Just like people beating up Trump supporters for voting Trump. When something actually happens that is dangerous I will be right there to fight it to defend those checks and balances but your first comment was really over the top.