You can spew ads and shit wherever they’ll let you, doesn’t enrich the environment by default.

I get what you mean, but I’m still unconvinced of Reddit as a meaningful platform.

If you feed stray dogs, you end up with a neighborhood full of dogshit everywhere you step. Bill them; if they don’t pay, talk to an attorney.

Not sure how big of a priority this is for the team that runs it, but I would probably use it 20x more if it was ran competently.

Without fairness, there’s really no easy way to talk about strategy.

This is really his website at this point. The rules are mainly just his tools for shaping the content of discussions and submissions to his liking.

A decade ago it was different. I mean, he was still way overbearing and biased, but I don’t think it really had the same power-steering effect on the shapes of discussions as it does today. Over time, this is where we’ve come to.

Most programmers don’t really seem to understand that programming isn’t really their job. It’s an illusion. Their job is to create value to the shareholders. That’s not really that much fun, and once the joy of writing and reading code is slowly squeezed away from their position is when those with sanity still intact start thinking “Man, I ought to get the fuck up out of here and find a real job or something.” The really lucky ones are outdoorsy folks that can afford to do the homesteading thing, or are willing to forego the immense compensation that tech work so often allures them with.

Just my two cents. I was blessed to retire in my thirties, so I could be entirely out of touch, though I hear many things.

If that sounds fucked up when I say it like that, consider what assumptions you’re making, because that’s literally YOUR argument here.

I’m sure there’s slack plugins for what you’re suggesting, though. Not sure how useful it’d be since most big ticket items would be in the brief each day and the smaller ephemeral stuff gets resolved with slack messages or chats.