patrick.net

Hmm, wonder which Game group it was. If Pao shut down the one run by SJWs who claim they are constantly aggressed upon, while calling their anti-censorship opponents "Neckbeard Virgin Losers who should die in a fire for being CIS Gender Scum", I'd be gobsmacked.

Womyn-born-Womyn everywhere must be mad the Transphobic group shut down. They have shown they'd rather close down their multi-decade Music Festival than admit Trans people, and continue their quest to ban TG people from using women's restrooms, even if they have a functional vagina.

So, you are free to have "authentic conversations" on Reddit unless Ellen Pao decides your conversations are not "authentic"?

How can I get all those censored Redditors to come to patrick.net instead?

The only things censored on patrick.net are spam, porn, and threats of physical violence.

Looks like Kung Pao -err Ellen Pao is busy running that site into the ground. Any wonder she was fired.

Patrick says:"The only things censored on patrick.net are spam, porn, and threats of physical violence."

I thought all the comments were,,, Spam & Porn. LOL

No one censored on other sites can compete with the expert trolls on Patnet.

anonymous says

partly because she disagreed with it about growth potential.

Hahahahahahahahahahaahhaahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anonymous says

Ellen Pao is resigning from Reddit after a stormy eight months as interim CEO, handing the reins to co-founder Steve Huffman. Pao told Re/code that she wasn't fired

A lot of social-media engineering happens on reddit. It's a juicy target for anyone aiming to promote a trademark. I am nearly certain that Conan O'Brien's media team does so, and Elon Musk gets incredible fellatio there - not certain if it's through the use of shill accounts, because the demographic at reddit (20something gamers, basement neckbeards and the few women who are their girlfriends) tend to be Musk fans.

The problem is extracting money. They get a few million in ad revenue, I think, and direct some traffic to other sites owned by the same firm (Conde Nast/Advance Publications). Pao may have been trying to whore the IAmA subreddit to various publicists of celebrities and companies.

Anyone who monetizes reddit will have to do something similar to what Pao did, but with more subtlety.

so why did reddit become so popular?

so why did reddit become so popular?

The community creation ability, throw away accounts, a place for everything, and an easy way to filter to what you want to see. Eventually it got critical mass with a core crowd (20 something gamers), and boom, that was it.

Rew says

community creation ability

do you just mean the creation of subreddits, or something more than that

Rew says

throw away accounts

you still need an email to register on reddit though, right?

so why did reddit become so popular?

It's the ne plus ultra site for amusing .gifs, memes and cat pictures. Since the fundamental substance of the Internet is outrage anecdotes and justice porn, and reddit was and is a goldmine of such statistically inconsequential but emotionally provoking horseshit, it maintains a firm grip on a segment of Internet users.

For a time, the /r/worldnews and /r/politics front pages were better than mainstream media sites at prioritizing events by importance and interest, but those days are gone.

It's fundamentally a gamer and 20something demographic there now. I think League of Legends is responsible for several percent of their traffic.

HydroCabron says:"a goldmine of such statistically inconsequential but emotionally provoking horseshit,"

Are you talking about Patnet? lmao

HEY YOU says

HydroCabron says:"a goldmine of such statistically inconsequential but emotionally provoking horseshit,"

Are you talking about Patnet? lmao

Nope. I meant Republican & Democratic voters.

do you just mean the creation of subreddits, or something more than that ...

I think it is that, plus the moderation, 'ownership' feeling some have of over certain domains.

you still need an email to register on reddit though, right?

Yes, but I think to a degree you are even more anonymous than Pnet, YouTube, etc. etc. I could be wrong here. I'm a reddit consumer not a contributor.

As of January 2015, they are no longer in 520 3rd Street according to the doorman, but have moved to 548 Market Street.

Ah, fooled again! 548 Market Street is just a private PO box setup for companies that want to hide their real address yet have a fashionable Market Street addr.

So where is Reddit really located?

Interesting that Reddit is mostly young men:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/11/reddit-is-not-the-front-page-of-the-internet.html

anonymous says

Reddit deleted a paragraph known as a "warrant canary."

The paragraph had said that Reddit had not been subject to national security letters, which are used by the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance without the need for court approval, or "any other classified request for user information."

@Patrick, does PatNet have such a canary? Did it have one in the past? There were some comments about the idea.

Nope. I have had no demands for any user data. And that's a good thing.

In so far as being banned of reddit, I was banned from offmychest simply by posting in iamgoingtohellforthis. I wish I were kidding.

anonymous says

Any cursory inquiries - like would you consider it in the future - say on the grounds of national security ?

no, i don't believe "national security" could possibly be relevant to a public anonymous forum, but if one user threatens violence to another, i will go to the police myself with their email address and IP address.

so you can say "you're an ignorant asshole and i hate you" and that's fine.

but you cannot say "i'm going to find you and personally beat the shit out of you" because that is a felony.

curious2 says

does PatNet have such a canary?

good idea actually. now there is a line in the about page which says "patrick.net has never received a national security letter".