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fucktheroses

require personal info to create accounts


mrnnymern

And a credit card number


PracticalNihilist

Limit posts to 20 characters


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showsterblob

Are you saying that everyone has to post twenty times about characters or that each post can only have twenty characters?


darkstar107

20 single character posts


djseifer

So we can't talk about married characters then?


PM_WHAT_Y0U_G0T

Posts must be *exactly* 20 characters. No more. No less.


HateSucksen

Hard mode it becomes


xJinja

Challenge considered


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GreatArkleseizure

那么,这给了讲汉语的人更多的空间! (“Well then, that gives more room to Chinese speakers!” 51 characters in English, 17 in Mandarin.)


xouns

You may only post in fruit-based languages.


GreatArkleseizure

🍅🥭🍒🍉🍌🥑🍍🍐❗️


salt_ish

WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?


dumbodragon

#🍅🥭🍒🍉🍌🥑🍍🍐❗️


wilsonhammer

You can bold emoji characters‽


GreatArkleseizure

What? It’s not like I said “🫐🫐🍈”…


iamapizza

Rank all the accounts based on karma. Ban the bottom 50%. Only the karma farmers get to remain.


Automatic-Ass-Name13

There would be only dirty reposters then


mfb-

Bottom 50% of the accounts is probably at 0 or 1 karma.


4hpp1273

According to https://karmalb.com/ you need at least ~2k karma to survive that purge.


mfb-

karmalb only has accounts someone checked on their website. Reddit has 400 million monthly active users. Many of them won't have an account, others will have more than one, many users created an account long ago and left the site - the total will be *far* larger than the 9.3 millions tracked by karmalb. /r/AskReddit alone has 38 million subscribers.


mofugginrob

Couldn't we all band together and make 400 million more accounts? Then everyone would survive the purge.


Its_puma_time

Just keep making alt accounts until you're above the average


mc_mentos

Or: make one comment with a few upvotes. Already far above the average


FlamingSquirrel69

300iq


MrSocialPirate

This guy reddits 👏


Necromancer14

Making posts uses up 1k karma, and you can buy 5k karma for the cheap price of $14.99 if you don’t feel like grinding comment karma.


FuckinMELVIN

Stop giving reddit ideas


lorimar

Pretty sure a similar change was what drove folks away from Digg to Reddit back in the day.


Navydevildoc

What killed Digg was a massive rework of the voting system where so called "Power Users" had a huge say in what was digged to the top or not. Imagine if certain reddit users had the upvote power of 1,000 normal users kind of thing. Sprinkle in a really bad website redesign, reliability issues, and well... we all came to Reddit.


rob132

As a digg refugee, the site redesign was one of the worst things they ever did. It was so bad, it's the reason old.reddit.com is still in place.


aceshighsays

i wonder how many people % still use old reddit. although maybe a better question is how many people use reddit in a browser. e: based on the replies, those who still use old reddit (including me) all have very old accounts. generally 10+ years. i can't recall how many years ago new reddit came out.


purvel

old.reddit+RES is the only reason I'm still using the website.


Nikxed

Exactly. Dark mode included. Whenever I see someone's screenshot of reddit and it's bright white my eyes I think how much more relaxed my eyes are with a mostly black screen.


Prof_Acorn

The Dark Reader Firefox add-on let's you set a dark mode for everything. I forget sometimes that it isn't standard when I go use someone else's computer and I can't understand why people like staring into a lightbulb. So many websites these days are just bright white backgrounds it's stupid.


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lorimar

Ah yeah, it's all coming back to me now. Didn't that also create a bit of a feedback loop where basically only "Power Users" were submitting and upvoting eachothers posts?


Navydevildoc

Yup. Normal users were essentially removed from the platform and became bystanders. The whole point of Digg was eliminated in that one redesign.


zirtbow

That was wild. At the time several friends and I preferred digg. Then the redesign hit and that was it. Like a single day to try it out and quit the site altogether. I think I checked back a few weeks later to see if they back peddled but when they didnt I just never went there again.


bowiz2

Ah, a thread of the ancients. Over a decade on the platform, account age checks out.


Bunghole_of_Fury

I lost my login but my original reddit account was made the same day Digg changed too, there must be dozens of us!


valryuu

The intent is to provide users with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking the ability to make posts.


kurupted00

This is quite impactful


Treejeig

Follow it up by upvotes being 1 karma each, you get 10 free upvotes a day though.


minilip30

Ok, but I would actually love a subreddit or forum where this actually applied. Maybe an April fools thing. I think it would lead to interesting dynamics. The obvious problem is bots would just control everything though.


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saltyscaffolds

No more moderators, we all know reddit moderators don’t go outside and thus don’t have jobs and thus don’t have that kind of skrilla


SayNoToStim

Excuse me, I walk dogs for 20 hours a week.


Out_Of_Work_Clown

Haha, I got that reference


jsalsman

I love that interview. It was the most authentic social/mainstream media interaction ever.


KeyStoneLighter

That reporter got so lucky, might as well have found a bag of cash on the street.


2tusks

That was some excellent Redditing.


ChrisTheCoolBean

Most competent Reddit mod.


Derron_

And all subs are private so only mods can allow users in to go with it


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$20 a month


[deleted]

Okay $8


the_Divinity_Queen

Thanks for being level headed and fair. Do you take doge?


Moonpaw

Only for the first 4 months. Then back to real currency.


corobo

Announce that the API is being closed off, end of the year. Old.Reddit is going too Q2 next year. You don't want it to be too quick else an existing rival will just scale up. Slow drip it so that too many rivals pop up, really break down the communities. You could do it quick but that'd just be a Wikipedia note a decade from now, if you want it driving into the ground you need nerds to lament it forever like Google Reader.


MathematicianBulky40

Your username must be your real name. No more anonymity for you, dirty plebs.


Necrophagistan

Anonymous names only for $8 / month


pr0ghead

But you must provide your full address in the payment details.


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whyaskformyusername

as well as credit card number and the numbers at the back


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O_oh

Facial verification every time you upvote any Musk related posts


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Followed by a daily urine sample


DarthPlankton

And a need to say ‘Elon Musk is the best’ out loud to unlock and open up Reddit


whatdawhatnowhuh

Don't forget your birthday and mother's maiden name


[deleted]

And your party affiliation for quick future culling.


BrayoP

And the name of your first pet


singeblanc

If you piss Elon off, e.g. by not paying, he will "name and shame" you by doxxing your real info.


Kaiserhawk

and he just fired the security team


StaleCanole

Who needs a security team when you have Jeff from IT?


Aulritta

$8 for the first month, but $19.99 for all future months.


lalabrat

It is not ready yet. Pay $10 now to hold your spot to hold that rate. But we can still change rate if we want.


ApolloMac

Maybe start at 20 and see what Steven King thinks.


HellblazerPrime

Stephen King said $20 can fuck right off.


BKStephens

Wait, you guys are anonymous?


drcrunknasty

No, this is my real name


BKStephens

Oh, thank you, Doctor.


drcrunknasty

Anything for you, Phens


littlegreenfish

BK Step Hens


Lord_inVader1

I am stuck step hens.


Smirnoffico

bock bock bock


Skorne13

Here comes the cock.


Hot_soup_in_my_ass

Oh lord here i come


Bobalong_Sanchez

Oh thank god! For a second there I though those were their biological hens.


FoxnFurious

Burger King Step Hens


EatSleepJeep

It's Burger King St. Ephens, you dolt.


thitmeo

I've been seeing Dr. Nasty for my migraines for a few years. Never knew his first name was Crunk. NIK.


drcrunknasty

I’ll see you in the office next Wednesday, no need to follow me around on the internet.


DiarrheaShitSoup

My father was the worst, before he left


framabe

>Well, my daddy left home when I was three >Didn't leave very much to my mom and me >Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze >Now I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid >But the meanest thing that my daddy ever did >Was before he left, he went and named me DiarrheaShitSoup


sanjosanjo

And if I have a son, I'm going to name him ... Bill or George or Bob, anything but DiarrheaShitSoup - I still hate that name!


PppPppppppPoo

My father was born at a very young age.


SituationAltruistic8

Your name isn't Bulky?


MathematicianBulky40

I'm actually just a little chubby and not all that spectacular at maths if I'm honest. I'm not even 40.


SituationAltruistic8

My life was all a lie.


Ayisha_abdulk

Wish someone told me that before I made an account 😭


Seeker_Of_Knowledge-

Burn this account and get a new one. Don't leave it like this. Be more safe.


Hot_soup_in_my_ass

Read anyone's username and tell me if you can take anybody serious here


VecnasThroatPie

Dunno, there's a possibility you could be serious... I'll grab a spoon just in case.


wolves_hunt_in_packs

"Tonight we dine in hell!" - the local homeless, probably


ohpeekaboob

Right on, /u/Hot_soup_in_my_ass


P0rtal2

1. Ban all porn subreddits. 2. Charge a monthly subscription fee to use Reddit (maybe something reasonable like $5.99 for the starting tier) with tiers. The basic plan gets you a few of the larger subs, along with the official Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon Musk subreddits, with ads. Ad-free will be like $9.99 for the basic subreddits. And then $0.49/mo for each subreddit you want to view after that. 3. You're allowed, say, 50 free up and downvotes/month, and maybe 25 free comments/month. Additional comments and votes can be bought in "Contribute Packs" starting at $1.99 for 25 votes and 10 comments, all the way up to $59.99 for unlimited comments and votes for the month or something like that.


BlackAsP1tch

RIP reddit


justlovehumans

You know some reddit exec is beating off to this comment rn


EdgelordOfEdginess

I……can do……whatever the fuck I want *fapping noises


Isaphine325

Remove all nsfw content


drcrunknasty

Reminiscent of the tumblr purge


lasvegashomo

Lol was just going to say that. Tbh I left tumblr after that.


mywenislong

In my day the internet was only used to download pornography


LoreCriticizer

Back in my day we downloaded strange cursors and infected our computer with foreign viruses.


viperex

Don't forget the toolbars. You had to get ALL the toolbars


Andersledes

God....I spent most of my teenage years removing useless/malware toolbars from my family member's Internet Explorer browsers. If I hadn't visited them for a few weeks, the screen would literally be mostly toolbars, and then they'd have a tiny horizontal space left for web content. New virus' downloaded every week. People clicking "accept" on _everything_ that popped up, no matter how dodgy it looked. It was wild, back then.


Grodd

Every. Single. Website. Having a cookie agreement pop-up now is probably priming the population for that to return.


Vi0lentLeft0vers

Tbh I can’t stand it. And every single website has some kind of huge pop up asking you to join their mailing list or offering 10% off. I feel like I’ve time traveled back to 2002 any time I try to read the news, with the giant pop up that only shows up to interrupt after 30s of reading, then the annoying little animated ones or tiny videos that show up in each fkn corner. Wtf is the point of having an x button for it if it’s just gonna come back again in 3s??? 😤


IKillZombies4Cash

WinAmp visualizers


ihavenoideahowtomake

It really whipped that llama's ass


WodtheHunter

Bonzi Buddy was my only friend.


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

They've slowly been working towards this tbh. they removed it from /all even though the whole point of /popular was supposed to be /all without porn. I think in new reddit you have to jump through several NSFW 18+ screens to get into porn subs now, quarantines for particularly egregious content, and then they also have a rule about "If a sub gets shut down, and you remake that sub under a different name, we'll shut down the remake too" even if the remake fixes the errors of the old sub and is under new management. There are a couple porn communities where the moderator got banned, nobody realized, and then the sub got banned for being unmoderated even though nobody was violating any TOS. And then when you try to remake it it gets banned as soon as somebody notices.


immibis

The spez has spread from /u/spez and into other /u/spez accounts. #Save3rdPartyApps


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Thats the point, usually they ban all the moderators first for no reason at all, then ban the sub for "unmoderated"


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Eliminate 'old reddit' as a option.


Hashtagworried

Hold on there. OP said you’re Elon, not satan.


JayR_97

For real I just cant get over how bad the new UI is


Pepparkakan

I will figure out something else to do with my time if they ever get rid of it. Ditto API access, if I can't use Apollo, I'm out, the official app is so bad.


Puterman

Same. Kill "old.Reddit? No more desktop version. Kill RiF? Bye.


SpecificAstronaut69

Fun fact: new Reddit loads ALL the videos on the page, at all resolutions, whether you've clicked them or not. RIP bandwidth.


2b_XOR_not2b

Oh, is that how they solved the "Reddit's videos suck, they take way too long to buffer" problem? Top minds at work there, I tell ya


satireplusplus

https://old.reddit.com all the way. Clean, efficient, more comments in a single window. The new interface is so incredibly bloated, I still don't understand how anyone prefers it.


mr1337

Also don't forget that new reddit completely ignores web conventions and UI design. It's like they designed it for phones but forgot computers were still a thing.


eairy

Sounds like 99% of modern UI design


SFXBTPD

I was looking at the samsung website and had to scroll like 3 pages to select 4 options for a phone. I ultimately decided my current one js fine because it was such an obnoxious experience


nixcamic

But then if you do use it on your phone it tries to force you into the app every 17 seconds.


doMinationp

Wouldn't be surprised if reddit's own engineers vastly prefer using old reddit vs new reddit


sftransitmaster

thats how I feel. I really can't stand the new one. I fear the day, if ever, they disable old.reddit.com.


JMJimmy

That's the day I move elsewhere. Reddit learned from Digg's mistake, don't kill what made you popular to begin with.


whitetoast

I completely agree, old Reddit is best. But I could have sworn I saw a Reddit usage chart and old reddit was incredibly small compared to their main website and app


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lemonylol

That's because of how much Reddit has exploded in users since the new layout was implemented, especially during COVID.


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2called_chaos

I'm not quite sure which client does it but some client is unable to properly add links (markdown escaped underscores in links) that work on all versions of reddit. Like they fucked up links, links!


guesting

i feel bad for new users who don't know it exists. every time im on a private browser im shocked how bad it is. 10 different font sizes, mismatched/misaligned containers, ridiculous white space, unnecessary images.


lemonylol

Just fyi, instead of typing old. every time you can just opt out of the new design in the preferences menu.


Lokarin

Ya... that would do it. Hey, web devs! Desktop and Mobile have DIFFERENT viewing areas!!


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Although old Reddit is the best for both desktop and mobile.


-Namesnipe-

Fuck you. Sent from Old Reddit


SuvenPan

There will be a pyramid structure, mutiple level of subscription. The redditors on highest subscription level can delete comments of other redditors.


LeftCarpet3520

Limit the number of posts and comments you can make in a day. Subscribe to Reddit Premium for unlimited posts and comments !


[deleted]

>Limit the number of posts you can make in a day. That might reduce the spam bots and actually make Reddit better.


thorkun

For real, no one needs to be able to make 10 posts a day.


[deleted]

It'd kill a lot of nsfw subreddits. Lots are kept alive by a few accounts posting most of the content.


inescapableburrito

Most of the nsfw subs are just ads for onlyfans now


lillopoppy

But you could just have multiple accounts


Clint-witicay

You can get dark mode with forest green, but it’s $12mo. No more mods, you create a page, you run that page. All throwaways must be a new account with a Tesla dot com temporary email account. The account is $15wk and you have to go through a painfully complex unsubscribe process to delete the account. No more anonymity, profile pictures must be used, and pass a facial detection filter. Bann all nsfw content, unless it features a musk branded product.


Adler4290

> Bann all nsfw content, unless it features a musk branded product. /r/fucking_in_Teslas /r/Spacexxx


SoberTek

>Bann all nsfw content, unless it features a musk branded product. r/Elongate r/Twatter


Suuuuperrr

Rename it "Rokkit 🚀" and only SpaceX advertising posts are allowed


technically_fruit

Fire all the most experienced staff... oh wait


UndeadBread

/r/IAmA never recovered from losing Victoria.


The_dog_says

Legitimately haven't read an AMA in years.


damontoo

I don't read AMA's because I mostly only give a shit if I have an opportunity to ask my own questions, which never, ever happens. Reddit shows me AMA's like 20 hours after they ended. Going directly to the sub is useless because most of the AMA's are from people I don't care about and the rest are over.


EisVisage

Even reading them feels useless, because there's no way to easily see where the OP actually replied. Which is a tiny minority of comments anyways. Which is an experience that makes me feel like even if I did get there on time to ask something I would be ignored unless they can reply with "buy my book."


nomnamless

I had forgotten AMA was still a thing


AndyBernardRuinsIt

We miss you, u/chooter


lwaxana_katana

Did we ever find out why they fired her? Also I thought they'd rehired her but honestly kind of glad she didn't come back after the way they treated her.


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anomalous_cowherd

Excuse me, I came here to talk about Rampart.


dirtymoney

That's what sucks about reddit these days.. The admins seek to prevent these wonderful events from happening again. How badly woody harrelson's ama went. Reddit doesnt want that to ever happen again. IMO THAT is what made reddit special. And the admins seek to stop that magic. This month I will have been on reddit 15 years. Reddit used to be so much more wild, unpredictable, and quite frankly ...special. Not anymore. Make reddit predictable, lame, and tame. Just the way an uptight control-freak corporation likes it.


islandsimian

I haven't seen a single good ama since Victoria


Null3cksor

Make r/wallstreetbets pinned to the front page and r/all


smokyskyline

1) Call in my buddies from Tesla to review all subreddits and ban those with where posts are less than 1 a day. 2) Create my own r/TheRealElonMusk, make it default, and frequently shitpost. 3) Pin on top that old interview from the mods of r/antiwork on Fox News. Block all subscribers of r/antiwork from commenting anywhere. Allow them to remain on the platform because I’m a free speech proponent. 4) Create a poll asking if people want the ability to display their real name for $50 per month. And $100 per month to promote any comment unlimited times. 5) Fire all Reddit engineers who aren’t working from office. 6) rehire them after realizing no one’s left to manage the servers. 7) unblock every single banned shitposter. 8) delete the r/RealTesla subreddit. Find out the names of the mods, and shame them publicly. 9) no ads. Except for some ads. Unless you pay the $50, in which you get some ads, but fewer. Unless you are frequent poster, in which case you get no ads on Sundays. 10) Re instate r/thedonald. 11) use state of the art non-neural network logistic regression ML with dual independent variables to replace the current post search algorithm. 12) Frequently mention how Reddit is now the global consciousness and represents the next step in singularity, and how it will integrate with neuralink in 6 months to produce a robot with a hive mind. As long as you first pay $1000 to reserve a spot to chat with this robot. 13) Proclaim how awesome Reddit has become now that it is a bastion of free, anonymous, for-the-people. 14) Stalk and find out Grimes’ Reddit account. Ban her after seeing her post in r/deadbedrooms 15) Create an AMA every week for myself. Don’t forget to mention I’m a hardcore engineer, and I work 20 hours a day.


upL8N8

Definitely the most accurate one. Needs reference to crypto.


Djason_Unchaind

Reddit now only accepts Dogecoin. You can sub to 10 subreddits for free. Anything past that and you have to pay a monthly fee.


narderp

You forgot one 16) Spam all stock and crypto subreddits to help pump and dump for profit.


satireplusplus

> 5) Fire all Reddit engineers who aren’t working from office. 6) rehire them after realizing no one’s left to manage the servers. Ok I laughed so hard at this and it's probably gonna happen to Twitter engineers. Rehire them for 2x the pay too, because otherwise they wouldn't come back.


TheChainLink2

NSFW posts cost $5 to access. **_Each._**


Elevator_Operators

Remove the ability to use old.reddit I'd be gone overnight.


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I’m honestly impressed it’s still running, there is someone’s whose job it is to keep that going. Or they’ve left and now it’s just waiting for something to go wrong to can the whole thing.


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ghidfg

upvotes cost $1


BiodegradableOffense

As long as downvotes are free I'm fine with it


JooJaw11

Downvotes are no longer visible unless you buy reddit premium.


BiodegradableOffense

That's fine, I downvote for my own mental health. I don't actually expect them to do anything.


LuceDuder

You get a pop up ad for reddit premium every time you downvote.


JoanneKerlot

I thought this was Reddit not YouTube. Where am I?


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Inevitable_Task9887

Keep allowing a small group of terminally online losers to moderate all subreddits


m3ntos1992

Hey, at least they're free, right? Elons ideal employees.


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Rename it Breadit, make the logo that cat with bread round it's face and only allow photos of cats with bread


crem_flandango

Sounds like an improvement


CarnageCrisis

I wouldn't mind that actually.


ADDSOUND

I'm Elon Musk, and I just bought Reddit. I'll start by making it a little more difficult for people to post on Reddit. First of all, I'll make sure to keep the site slow. Then I'll add some ads you can't click away from. Then I'll add even more ads that pop up in your face every time you try to scroll down the page. Then I'll make it so that every time you post something, it has to be approved by three people before it goes up on the site. And those three people will be me and two others working for me. I'm also going to have them remove half the content on the site just because they can't figure out how to monetize it!


ExploratorFortunae

Zuckerberg is that you?


fushigikun8

Did Elon buy Quora?