quirzle

joined 1 year ago
[–] quirzle@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm more inclined to believe it's just incompetence.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

And the mods are the ones that fight the phishing scams, disinformation bots, t-shirt spammers, etc. If reddit were capable of automating those away, they wouldn't still be so prevalent.

I straight up don't believe reddit staff is as technically competent as those at Meta/IG or TikTok. They can't pull it off without a volunteer army filling in the capabilities gap.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 126 points 1 year ago (35 children)

It's crazy how reddit's run like it's a 1-2 year old startup still trying to figure out how guidelines, communication, consistent rule enforcement, etc. work.

It's becoming more and more apparent the site's success was despite the company running it, not because of it.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

That was a disappointing click, I tell you hwat.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

*waiting patiently for the rule 34 series*

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, those URLs are being logged somewhere. If they really care, somebody would've already asked for an explanation.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'll second torrentleech. Even before the rarbg closure, it's where I was getting most of the non-usenet stuff from because of rarbg's api rate limiting.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I also think it's obvious this isn't the quick fix people keep pretending it is.

Pick a totally new user? Might be a shitty mod and not able to handle the shitposting anyway.

Pick an existing mod that's willing to play ball? That's what they did with /r/piracy, which is now John Oliver themed anyway.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Frankly, if ChatGPT isn't increasing your performance significantly, you're already falling behind the curve unless you're doing manual labor.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same as usual, Qbit for DL just from different trackers?

Since no one's answered this yet: yes, but with some caveats:

  • Being private, there's a sign-up process. Usually means getting an invite from someone or catching a lucky open registration window (/r/opensignups was good for this, unsure where to look now)
  • As someone else mentioned, there's usually some rules. Mostly reasonable things, like seeding for x days or y ratio. This prevents leeching and keeps the downloads generally well-seeded for longer.
[–] quirzle@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There was a post about the large number of recent one-word five-star reviews recently. I suspect they don't want Google looking too closely at the legitimacy of their reviews.

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