Reddit was down BIG today... what happened?

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[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

yeah it is annoying, i am not saying I have the solution to that, but the site has already been dying and is mostly bots and this won't help. And do they really think there are no scripts that let a bot click a box that says they are a human?

[–]BobOki 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are captcha stuff out there, for sure, and they cost $$. Do you think Redditors have money to throw towards this site? The cloudflare stuff is more than just a captcha, lots going on behind the scenes.... and the bots have gone down a LOT since I joined up. When I report spam posts they get deleted pretty quick as well... so I mean it IS getting better for sure. ANNOYING.... but getting better.

[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

do they think this is just random reddiors doing it? I thought magnora was implying it was something more powerful like reddit itself, or corporations or govts. They all do a lot to control the internet.

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly would not put it past them. Any company happy with being owned by China, participating in massive censorship, promoting dangerous mental illnesses, and just being all round utter pieces of shit (and probably breaking laws promoting illegal speech like calling for violence against people) sure would be up for buying bots to try and sabotage the competition. That said, govts? That one is a leap a little too far. No govt is going to give two shits about a tiny site like saidit. It is just too small to be any real concern, yes growing (yay) but still just too small to be on that radar.

In the post I had made about cloudflare, I went out of my way to post a bunch of possible solutions, that could MAYBE help, and would not kill us with re-verification every 2.3 seconds.... so trying to be part of the solution not just bitch, but really all I can do is complain and make suggestions. It is SUPER annoying, and I am still not sure if that vs spam is worth.... but I am starting to come around with the massive drop in shit posts. I heard we will get a group of people that will police for bots and spam crap, and I commented on my hesitation for that, because while it certainly can work, that is how Reddit became what it is, corruption from mods.

If it was something as simple as "we need $x a month to make this all go away, I am betting everyone here would be happy to pony up at LEAST $1 a month.... but unfortunately money does not always fix all problems.

(just typing this post, I had to re-verify)