Was going to post this same thing. If it helps set the mood, I’ll watch it every episode. The Expanse (which is also an example of your last point) was an every episode one, for sure. I’ll watch most Star Trek openings out of an internal sense of loyalty. Breaking Bad’s intro was super short, but even if it was longer…

The people going to the sub are still gamers, so the ads are still getting seen by pretty much the same people they were before.

Do you really feel like there’s not a sizable pool of people out there willing to be Reddit mods that don’t have a problem with Reddit’s policies? There are always gonna be scabs.

Probably meant to say ‘month’. The linked article says Piker streamed about 3000 hours the year, which averages more than 8 hours a day, every single day. Which is frankly insane.

Putting aside the fact it’s Reddit, the price is never right to pay off a hack group. Hacking groups don’t delete data on payoff, and they can’t get nearly as much for selling it on the black market as they claim. The whole thing is a bluff to convince the victim company it’s worth paying out for.

I also have some experience with this, I ran a team that fluctuated around 20-30 volunteer mods for a large ISP-based gaming network community a while back. Volunteers tend to want to be there, most follow expectations if they’re communicated clearly. If there’s a lack of leadership or clear guidance, that’s the…

Fandom is trash, is why. They are absolutely horrible custodians of the old wikia sites. They’re the ones that added autoplaying videos they made themselves to every wiki page on some (many? all?) wikis that takes up half the page on mobile. They’re the ones that steal all the content and keep running it in your…

Didn’t expect to find a gambling gatekeeper here. Are you saying a slot machine wouldn’t be “gambling” as long as it gave you at least 1c return each spin? Better not let the machine companies know this loophole to avoid gambling laws.

You can save yourself one of those steps if you like: when you salvage an item with a gem in it, you get the gem back without having to pay the unsocket fee. So if you’re done done with the item, just salvage it directly.

That’s not how CORS works.

I want to know who told him the grandma haircut was a good idea.

I know you’ve clarified what you meant and I’m with you, but I did want to point out that the topic of physics and frame rate is another one of those “gamers don’t know what they’re talking about” thing. This isn’t directed at you, just an observation your comment inspired.

If you copy a link, the link gets removed and the link text gets extracted and moved to the front. The first part (removing the link) is intentional but the reinserting at the start of the pasted text is a bug they introduced a long while ago now and never bothered to fix.

Yeah, it’s dirty through and through. The key points:

I’m not on Reddit’s side here, I just think if they want to bring in 20 untooled mods to do the work 5 tool-assisted mods were doing before, they’ll do that before they cut the API pricing to a reasonable level.

That kind of attrition takes a really long time to burn through. Case in point - Gamestop is still managing to hire new staff despite being a horrible place to work.

Looking at the calls and responses from a Facebook page, you can find the API for everything that page retrieves, yeah. Facebook invented GraphQL, so naturally that’s what they use.

Verification is done server-side. How do you distinguish between key ABCF coming from your webapp, and key ABCF coming from a third-party app?

Thanks for asking. I’m currently lead on a webapp that uses a moderately sized API so I have at least some experience with this area. Ours has no unauthenticated access though, so it’s a bit different to Reddit in that respect.

Are you talking about the OGL changes? I guess there’s some similarity if you’re comparing the commercial publishers selling OGL content with the third-party app developers trying to use Reddit’s data, but there’s also a lot of difference - the SRD rules got written once and then licenced out, while the data apps need…