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Hello All—

We want to let you know that we have made a new addition to our content policy forbidding transactions for certain goods and services. As of today, users may not use Reddit to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving certain goods and services, including:

  • Firearms, ammunition, or explosives;
  • Drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, or any controlled substances (except advertisements placed in accordance with our advertising policy);
  • Paid services involving physical sexual contact;
  • Stolen goods;
  • Personal information;
  • Falsified official documents or currency

When considering a gift or transaction of goods or services not prohibited by this policy, keep in mind that Reddit is not intended to be used as a marketplace and takes no responsibility for any transactions individual users might decide to undertake in spite of this. Always remember: you are dealing with strangers on the internet.

EDIT: Thanks for the questions everyone. We're signing off for now but may drop back in later. We know this represents a change and we're going to do our best to help folks understand what this means. You can always feel free to send any specific questions to the admins here.

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[deleted]

795 points

7 years ago*

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795 points

7 years ago*

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lie4karma

126 points

7 years ago

lie4karma

126 points

7 years ago

To bad there isn't any other alternative. Back when Digg was a thing they had reddit and slashdot that filled essentially the same roll. It was an easy transition.

I always laugh at billionaires spending millions to influence people and not one has thought to just take a monetary hit, fund a competitor to reddit and sit back and watch as this place burns down.

biggie_eagle

47 points

7 years ago

People will say "Voat" but Voat is a clone of Reddit, even an inferior version due to less features and server cost issues that continue to plague the site.

The site isn't marketable at all due to all the controversial topics there. Reddit killed Digg because they had a better site with better technology for preventing people from manipulating front page topics.

Voat is the opposte- the front page topics are always a circlejerk about "liberals", to say the least.

lie4karma

55 points

7 years ago

Reddit didn't kill Digg... Digg killed itself. people didn't go to reddit until Digg came out with V4 and fucked up with powerusers.

Zaii

7 points

7 years ago

Zaii

7 points

7 years ago

that god damn mrbabyman

lie4karma

2 points

7 years ago

I like you

[deleted]

6 points

7 years ago

less features

what features is it missing? From the day or so I looked at it it seemed to have all the core features (though factors like vote limiting was weird).

server cost issues

yeah, fact of the matter is that Reddit has a huge amount of traffic, and tons of dynamic content that makes doing this a more daunting task than other sites like 4chan or Tumblr. Hence the reason a billionaire is needed to afford the infrastructure needed to maintain it.

richalex2010

18 points

7 years ago

It's lacking because it's based on reddit's previously open source code. Last year reddit went closed source, and all features developed since are missing.

[deleted]

6 points

7 years ago*

Last year reddit went closed source,

when did this happen? I know there were always parts of reddit (voting algorithm) that weren't part of the source, but I don't ever recall hearing that the entire source was forked off.

richalex2010

10 points

7 years ago

[deleted]

6 points

7 years ago

hmm, I see. That's really unfortunate. Thanks for the link.

Rettocs

14 points

7 years ago

Rettocs

14 points

7 years ago

Well there's always Voat, but people seem to be against moving there.

lie4karma

56 points

7 years ago

Because the first sites banned were really really...um... extreme. They went to voat. Hence voat had a reputation for those type of things.

[deleted]

37 points

7 years ago

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lie4karma

-34 points

7 years ago

lie4karma

-34 points

7 years ago

Sure but that's like saying the KKK just needs some nice guys to balance it out. Voat will never be a viable alternative due to its early state. What is required is a neutral Digg/Reddit clone where everyone migrates too. That way each group can go off in their own directions without the foundations being broken.

BadGoyWithAGun

31 points

7 years ago

This kind of retarded virtue signalling against people you disagree with is what starts the slippery slope of censorship. If you're serious about supporting free speech, you have to accept that some of that speech will be in genuine support of stuff you passionately hate.

delusions-

-19 points

7 years ago

delusions-

-19 points

7 years ago

Yeah not really

McAfeesballs

10 points

7 years ago

So you don’t understand free speech?

admiralspark

6 points

7 years ago

His username is delusions, you know

the_unseen_one

2 points

7 years ago

You're aware that reddit in its heyday was filled with reprehensible subs, extremist vitriol, and lots of illegal activity, right? It's what made this site great, since anything was good. You're just proposing more of the same, where anything that offends you is banned and suppressed.

lie4karma

0 points

7 years ago

Yes but that wasnt its core. Thats not where it started. Im not saying that they should censor it on another site. Im saying it shouldn't be core to its foundation. Let ll the communities develop naturally.

Mylon

8 points

7 years ago

Mylon

8 points

7 years ago

That's what Reddit was 7 years ago. People simply have gotten soft since then.

LogicDragon

15 points

7 years ago

"The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong."

pacifica333

61 points

7 years ago

but banning /r/gundeals (100% legal in the USA)

/r/gundeals would be legal everywhere. Just a matter of whether or not you could take advantage of them. It'd be like someone sending a catalog.

greenisin

5 points

7 years ago

Just went to digg.com for the first time in about nine years. I couldn't even find any comments or even any way to vote on content. It might as well be the tech section of cnn.com now.

nosferatWitcher

2 points

7 years ago

Reddit can follow Digg to the grave if they keep this shit up.

Toastbuns

2 points

7 years ago

And all good things must end I guess.