https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/111562257658541815
Starting it a decade after Facebook is actually worse - it means that they had a whole decade to see what goes wrong with it, but still implemented it. This shows that they either 1) don't really care about the users, or 2) are completely clueless on what they're doing. (Spoilers: it's both.)
How nobody ever thought that this feature should work only on a few whitelisted communities where the possibility of a sad post is small, like pics or funny?
In exjw the chance of a sad post are too high
How nobody ever thought that this feature should work only on a few whitelisted communities where the possibility of a sad post is small, like pics or funny?
Because the administration of Reddit never thinks on the consequences of the half-baked features that they implement. They do it, then wait to see if the users rage. If the users rage, they change something and gaslight the users to cover their own arses.
It was the same with the chat feature, 3y ago. Excerpt from that thread: the admins added a "start chatting" button to /r/rape, then accused the moderators of /r/rape of doctoring a screenshot that showed it. And then edited their comments to remove said accusation.
Personally I love when Google Photos pulls together a cute album of my dog who had to be put down a few months back and hits me with that shit on a Monday morning.
Every month Snapchat shows me my parrot that died 2 years ago. Still hurts
