Reddit Comment Quotes

Today you.... tomorrow me.

you either die a spongebob or live long enough to become a squidward

A smartphone allows you to choose your own adventure. So be a hero, not a villain. Don’t be your own worst enemy. No wasting time… No training your brain not to remember things, losing the skills necessary to read a fucking map… No trolling. Don’t make snarky remarks on comment threads or internet forums or social media. Just do good. Help others. If you’re out in the world and bored, which you shouldn’t be anyway, but still, if you feel like you need to get on your phone, be useful. Answer questions, offer advice. Look only for question marks when you scroll through your Facebook news feed. Log on to Reddit and comment on something you have firsthand knowledge of and real insight about. Give far more than you take. Never text and walk. And stop googling things as you think of them. Instead, write it down and look it up later. If you can’t remember to do this, then you didn’t deserve to know the answer. This will keep your mind active, agile; clear to really think. It will keep you sharp. Using the internet for information or socialization should be an activity, something you sit down for—it should not be used while out and about. You should not refuse the beauty of what’s in front of you for mere pixels of red, green, blue on a 3.5-inch screen. Otherwise, you’ll lose yourself. An abyss of ones and zeros will swallow you whole. Don’t be a dumb motherfucker with a smartass phone.

Pao would have even less luck in her next job at Reddit, the online comment network where she was ousted as interim chief executive only a few months after she lost the Kleiner Perkins trial. During her Reddit tenure, Pao was attacked relentlessly for trying to remove revenge porn and all other manner of racist and misogynistic hate speech (the classics!). In that “controversy,” she was subject to a truly heinous series of attacks on her personally by Reddit users, which veered into violent threats. What started out as small became global and huge, as do most attacks on the Internet against women, which quickly become a swarm of hate.

Search on Google for popular blogs, LinkedIn forums, YouTube comment sections, Amazon reviews, Reddit, Quora, and social media platforms. Go wherever your audience hangs out and congregates.

One of the major problems with comments online—on news sites, blogs, and social media alike—was that they displayed chronologically, allowing trolls and spammers an equal voice to informed critics and enthusiasts. “To me, that’s the dumbest thing ever,” Huffman said. With his approach of letting users’ votes power the ranking of comments, and simply not displaying the most downvoted ones, Reddit deftly hid dull, promotional, harassing, or simply idiotic comments (all of which Huffman simply called “shitty comments”).

The design team couldn’t risk pissing off old users. In designer speak, this is called “preserving the spirit,” and as Rush explained, when it came to Reddit, it mandated that the designers not touch the comment structure or left-hand-side voting. Some of the spirit of Reddit was tied to its cluttered pages and its distinctly undesigned aesthetic.