Poll of the Day > Will be interesting to see if posting increases over the next 48 hours.

(+) Yeah! (+)

With the reddit hissy fit and all of that jazz.

I keep getting spam from them

i left reddit because its just filled with creeps and echo chambers

I was never particularly active there

What's hissy fit about standing up for the products you like instead of taking anal from corporate stock merchants?

Lokchan posted...

What's hissy fit about standing up for the products you like instead of taking anal from corporate stock merchants?

How many different times do I have to ignore and / or block you?

Ill be honest, I didnt know Reddit third party apps were a thing until everyone pretended to start caring about them this week

i didn't know about reddit third party apps untill everyone pretended to start caring about it either but having used reddit even sparingly i totally get it, the site fucking suuuuucks

papercup posted...

Ill be honest, I didnt know Reddit third party apps were a thing until everyone pretended to start caring about them this week

Same here, Ive always used the regular version.

TheSlinja posted...

i didn't know about reddit third party apps untill everyone pretended to start caring about it either but having used reddit even sparingly i totally get it, the site fucking suuuuucks

People get all butt hurt over random stuff. Look at Netflix, people got fake outraged that dozens of people couldn't use one account anymore and when the policy went into effect they got a ton of subscriptions.

potdnewb posted...

i left reddit because its just filled with creeps and echo chambers

I often feel like leaving Imgur for the same reason.

Judgmenl posted...

Will be interesting to see if posting increases over the next 48 hours.

It won't.



Judgmenl posted...

With the reddit hissy fit and all of that jazz.

A better question would be whether or not you'll actually see an appreciable drop-off in posting on Reddit itself. But because it's not the site shutting down but a voluntary user boycott, people actually have to care enough to participate. And most people aren't going to give a shit. The site's going to be mostly business as usual, with a few subreddits closing while others stay open, and some users will avoid the site while others don't.

It's possible some people may not even notice that anything's changed at all, depending on which subreddits they go to. The real question is whether or not it makes enough of an impression for Reddit themselves to notice it in their site statistics. And then if they consider it enough of a dip to care about the implications.

To some extent, it's like all the people who swore they'd leave Twitter forever when Elon Musk bought it. Some did (and tried to migrate to sites like Mastodon), but most people just stayed where they were and continued business as usual. For most people, you'd barely be able to notice anything changed on Twitter at all. Sure, it helped sites like Mastodon grow, but proportionally Twitter lost maybe half of a percent of their userbase. It's possible the people running Twitter barely noticed.

But even if half the people on Reddit suddenly stop posting there forever, none of them are coming here.



potdnewb posted...

i left reddit because its just filled with creeps and echo chambers

So what are you doing here?



papercup posted...

Ill be honest, I didnt know Reddit third party apps were a thing until everyone pretended to start caring about them this week

Same, more or less.

I can understand why people are upset in principle, but on a personal level I do not even remotely give the slightest of fucks.



TheSlinja posted...

but having used reddit even sparingly i totally get it, the site fucking suuuuucks

This describes every social media site that exists, or likely will ever exist though.

The trick is to not to engage with the mainstream aspects of the site. Go looking for smaller groups and fandoms. Hobby boards relating to hobbies that don't involve pretty much everyone who's a part of it being an asshole. Yes, it can be hard to find those pearls in an ocean of shit, but again, that's a problem you're going to have on every site ever made, because the real problem is people.

Some subreddits can be fantastic. I chat on about a dozen or so where everyone is relatively nice and polite (without being "toxically positive" or overly group-think), and where there's all sorts of interesting discussions or conversations. Certainly moreso than anything I've experienced on GameFAQs in the last decade or so. Even when it comes to gaming, you're more likely to find people on Reddit willing to answer questions or talk about games than you are here (unless you're on a subreddit for a more mainstream popular game like Call of Duty, at which point I have no idea what the board is like).

Ultimately, one rule of thumb is that the more obscure the interest, the cooler the people on that subreddit are likely going to be. If you make the effort, Reddit can be fantastic. If you just sit there passively engaging only with whatever hugely popular subreddits the site recommends to you, it's going to be trash.

But let's be honest, most of the boards on GameFAQs are garbage as well. You couldn't have paid me to post on the Politics board before they shut it down. Boards like RI are slower than PotD, while boards like CE are so much worse in terms of content. Board 8 was obsessed with the minutiae of a very specific topic, and has kind of lost focus and purpose now that the site no longer does contests (not too dissimilar from a poll-related board that has stopped talking about polls and has literally been replaced by another). And that's pretty much IT for active social boards on the site (other than the UK-centric one).

Meanwhile, most of the game boards are either dead or insufferable (and barely serve their purpose because for most games, you're better off looking for info on a wiki or a YouTube walkthrough or asking questions on Reddit than you are here). Most of the users are still here more out of apathy and inertia than they are because they love being here. It's why the site doesn't really get new users anymore - because to the outside world, we're a useless site filled with terrible people posting worthless topics about stuff that doesn't matter.

Reddit may be terrible. But no one on GameFAQs really has any right to judge.

Gamefaqs is a zombie. It's been effectively dead for years and we've keeping it's brainless corpse flailing around for our own entertainment.

the subreddit i mod on has over 40,000 people on it currently when its normally about 2000-3000 since we didnt shut down

keyblader1985 posted...

I often feel like leaving Imgur for the same reason.

I just use that site to store images I might use later.

The Imgur community is notoriously stuck in 2008, considering which meme shit ends up getting popular there. Anything thats actually impressive gets downvoted into oblivion.

i do not find anything about the Reddit API whatever it is interesting

I actually moved from gamefaqs to reddit. First time back in like 10+ years

GBPACKERZ posted...

I actually moved from gamefaqs to reddit. First time back in like 10+ years

welcome back there have been no changes

Conspiracy theory: The subreddits participating in the blackout are unwitting participants in a plan to get people talking about reddit again to help drive traffic

> I actually moved from gamefaqs to reddit. First time back in like 10+ years

Same here I am, didn't realize my account is almost old enough to vote

Hello. Reddit is down now.

Looks like reddit got DDoS'd.
None of this helps anyone.

papercup posted...

Conspiracy theory: The subreddits participating in the blackout are unwitting participants in a plan to get people talking about reddit again to help drive traffic

My conspiracy is that it's a push from these developers to save their apps

For real though nobody heard of these apps until a few days ago. The outrage is manufactured.

i used a third party app

pretty much everyone does who wants to use reddit efficiently did, the official app is bat shit garbage

papercup posted...

For real though nobody heard of these apps until a few days ago. The outrage is manufactured.

I heard of them, but never used them (or cared to use them)

I had never heard of the third party apps either but I'm not a big time reddit user and I have my doubts that people still posting on GameFAQs are either

I just use old.reddit through a browser cause it's enough for an occasional lurker like me. But as soon as you go to the "new" reddit it's immediately clear how pushy they are with the app

What exactly is going on?

The thing is the boycott is only 2 days. This should go on for a month.

The issue is not about making devs pay for the API, but rather they promised they would not be like Twitter and then...immediately made the price the same as Twitter's. And then Spez just making himself look flat out worse with that AMA lying about the Apollo devs.

BADoglick posted...

My conspiracy is that it's a push from these developers to save their apps

Not a conspiracy.
The Apollo guy seems to be a nutjob throwing a hissy fit because he can no longer make money off of reddit.

Marcster1994 posted...

The issue is not about making devs pay for the API, but rather they promised they would not be like Twitter and then...immediately made the price the same as Twitter's. And then Spez just making himself look flat out worse with that AMA lying about the Apollo devs.

Twitter and Reddit have similar user metrics. Of course the APIs should be priced similarly.

Judgmenl posted...

Twitter and Reddit have similar user metrics. Of course the APIs should be priced similarly.

The issue being that Twitter's pricing was also ludicrous.

Judgmenl posted...

The Apollo guy seems to be a nutjob throwing a hissy fit because he can no longer make money off of reddit.

Well, yeah. Having a successful business get arbitrarily shut down would bother anyone. Especially where the primary reason for the new pricing is that Reddit's trying to cash in on the automated plagiarism boom, which really benefits nobody.

adjl posted...

automated plagiarism boom

This has to be a joke.

Lokchan posted...

What's hissy fit about standing up for the products you like instead of taking anal from corporate stock merchants?

He just really loves taking their anal this isn't his first reddit topic defending greed.

adjl posted...

automated plagiarism boom

If you're talking about ChatGPT, note that it's just a glorified search engine that is unlikely to replace actual writers any time soon. It's more complacent to make up complete horseshit (such as one lawyer who used ChatGPT for research and ended up citing a bunch of non-existent court cases) than it is to steal anyone's work.

The story is honestly pretty hilarious: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-court-and-cited-fake-cases-a-judge-is-considering-sanctions/

If you're talking about AI art... then you have a point.

Judgmenl posted...

This has to be a joke.

It's what's happening.

KalloFox34 posted...

If you're talking about ChatGPT, note that it's just a glorified search engine that is unlikely to replace actual writers any time soon. It's more complacent to make up complete horseshit (such as one lawyer who used ChatGPT for research and ended up citing a bunch of non-existent court cases) than it is to steal anyone's work.

The story is honestly pretty hilarious: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-court-and-cited-fake-cases-a-judge-is-considering-sanctions/

If you're talking about AI art... then you have a point.

ChatGPT in particular may struggle to qualify, but ultimately the goal of trawling large bodies of text like Reddit (which Reddit has specifically identified as the reason they want to charge for the API) is to be able to build AIs capable of cobbling together written works from what other people have written. AI art is already exactly that, it just doesn't have quite the same challenges that language has (unless you ask it to draw hands).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/3/5/AAb3GmAAEj-f.jpg ive never used a third party app and from a r/reddit post apparently most mods dont either. the fake outrage seems legit because reddit has been busier than ever today

When I was a mod of /r/hardware I never used the mobile app either. Moderation tools were fine.

Judgmenl posted...

How many different times do I have to ignore and / or block you?

He's like the most innocent user on here.

BlackScythe0 posted...

People get all butt hurt over random stuff. Look at Netflix, people got fake outraged that dozens of people couldn't use one account anymore and when the policy went into effect they got a ton of subscriptions.

I call bullshit.

KalloFox34 posted...

If you're talking about ChatGPT, note that it's just a glorified search engine that is unlikely to replace actual writers any time soon. It's more complacent to make up complete horseshit (such as one lawyer who used ChatGPT for research and ended up citing a bunch of non-existent court cases) than it is to steal anyone's work.

The story is honestly pretty hilarious: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-court-and-cited-fake-cases-a-judge-is-considering-sanctions/

If you're talking about AI art... then you have a point.

Yeah that's stupid. Using it is fine but you have to cross reference everything manually.

Revelation34 posted...

I call bullshit.

Uh.. not sure why you would?

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netflix-sign-ups-jump-us-password-sharing-crackdown-kicks-off-data-2023-06-09/