PKVI\KKreddit_persona/LICENSEThe MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Zach Estela Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. PKܻVIvreddit_persona/__init__.py""" This module uses APIs from Reddit and Indico.io to provide insights into a Redditor's personality attributes. Warning: This is just for fun, do not take results seriously. It is an experiment in combining social media data with machine learning APIs""" __version__="1.0.1" from reddit_persona import reddit_get,io_helper,insights, keycheck from reddit_persona.go import go from reddit_persona.keycheck import new_key, test_key, get_key __all__ = ['reddit_get','io_helper','insights','go','keycheck'] PKȺVIi)reddit_persona/go.pyfrom reddit_persona import insights from reddit_persona import reddit_get # import ibm_insights from reddit_persona import io_helper def go(USERNAME,refresh = 60*60*24): reddit_get.user_text(USERNAME,refresh) try: indicoio.config.api_key = indicoKey.key indicoio.sentiment("I love writing code!") except Exception as e: io_helper.read_raw(USERNAME) insights.execute(USERNAME,refresh) # ibm_insights.user(USERNAME) fpath = io_helper.out_path(USERNAME) with open(fpath, 'r') as f: response = ' '.join( [line + ' ' for line in f]) return response#.encode('ascii') # TODO Add subreddits or descriptionsPK VIzu reddit_persona/indicoKey.txt42fd1c521599079dab79ef889bc9c676PK̻VIZzh h reddit_persona/insights.pyimport indicoio import os.path as path import os import sys import reddit_persona meta_dict = {} def execute(USERNAME,refresh): if not reddit_persona.io_helper.check_time(USERNAME, refresh): return r_data = reddit_persona.io_helper.read_raw(USERNAME) og = sys.stdout fpath = reddit_persona.io_helper.out_path(USERNAME) def analysis(raw='',limit=5,text='',percent=True): global meta_dict # print lines if input is a list of non-dicts # if input is list of dicts, merge dicts and resend to analysis if isinstance(raw, list): for item in raw: if not isinstance(item, dict): print(item) else: create_meta_dict(item) analysis(meta_dict,limit,text,percent) # if input is dict: print k, v pairs # optional args for return limit and description text if isinstance(raw, dict): print(text) ct = 0 for v in sorted(raw, key=raw.get, reverse=True): ct+=1 if ct>limit: break if isinstance(raw[v],float): if percent: per = r'%' else: per= '' print(" " + v, str(round(raw[v]*100,2)) + per) else: print(v, raw[v]) print() def create_meta_dict(item): # merge list of dicts into master dict global meta_dict meta_dict[item['text']] = item['confidence'] return meta_dict indicoio.config.api_key = reddit_persona.keycheck.get_key() # Big 5 big5 = {'text' : "Big 5 personality inventory matches: ", "payload" : indicoio.personality(r_data)} # Meyers briggs mbti = {'text' : "Most likely personalilty styles: ", "payload" : indicoio.personas(r_data), 'ct':3,'percent': True} # Political pol ={'text' : "Probable political alignments: ", "payload" : indicoio.political(r_data,version=1)} # Sentiment sen ={'text' : "Positive/Negative Sentiment: ", "payload" : indicoio.sentiment(r_data), 'ct':3} # Emotion emo ={'text' : "Predominant emotions:", "payload" : indicoio.emotion(r_data),'ct':3} # Keywords kw = {'text' : "Keywords: ", "payload" :indicoio.keywords(r_data), 'ct': 5} # Text tags tt = {'text' : "Text tags: ", "payload" :indicoio.text_tags(r_data), 'ct': 5} # Place pla = {'text':"Best guess for location: ", 'payload': indicoio.places(r_data,version=2),'ct': 1,'percent':True} def show(results): # Accepts bag of dicts, or single dict if not isinstance(results, dict): for X in results: show(X) else: if results == pla and pla['payload'] == []: print("Not enough information to infer place of origin") print() else: i = results analysis(raw=i.get('payload',''), limit=i.get('ct',5), text = i.get('text',''), percent= i.get('percent',True)) with open(fpath ,'w') as outtie: sys.stdout = outtie print("Username: " + USERNAME) print() show([pla,mbti,big5,emo,kw,pol,sen,tt]) sys.stdout = og return PKVIh+reddit_persona/io_helper.pyfrom os import path, getcwd import datetime working_dir = path.join(getcwd(), path.dirname(__file__)) usr_path = path.join(working_dir, 'usr') def read_raw(USERNAME): f = USERNAME + '_raw.txt' memoize = path.join(usr_path, f) with open(memoize, 'r') as r_data: r_data = ''.join([line for line in r_data]) return r_data def out_path(USERNAME): f = USERNAME + '.txt' memoize = path.join(usr_path, f) return memoize def check_time(USERNAME,seconds_): # Prevent new API requests if result exists from within one minute memoize = out_path(USERNAME) try: ttime = path.getmtime(memoize) except Exception as e: return True mtime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ttime) ntime = datetime.datetime.now() dlta = ntime - mtime if abs(dlta.total_seconds()) > seconds_: return True else: return FalsePK\VIoreddit_persona/keycheck.pyfrom os import path, getcwd f = 'indicoKey.txt' base_dir = path.join(getcwd(), path.dirname(__file__)) keyPath = path.join(base_dir, f) def get_key(): with open(keyPath,'r') as c: return c.read() def test_key(): with open(keyPath,'r') as c: keycheck = c.read() try: import indicoio indicoio.config.api_key = keycheck indicoio.sentiment("I love writing code!") return True except Exception as e: print("Indico API key missing/invalid") print() print('Redditor text can be collected with reddit_persona.go(USERNAME), but it will not be analyzed') print() print('To enter your indico API key, use reddit_persona.new_key( )') print() return False test_key() def new_key(k = False): if k: with open(keyPath,'w') as w: w.write(str(k)) with open(keyPath,'r') as t: test_read = t.read() if test_key() == True: print("Key validated and saved to disk. You will not need to re-enter again") return PK!VI13reddit_persona/reddit_get.pyimport simplejson as json from os.path import join, dirname from os import path from pprint import pprint import collections import praw from reddit_persona import io_helper class reddit: def __init__(self,user): self.user = user try: self.reddit_pull(user) except: # "Could not pull data." exit() def reddit_pull(self, user): user_agent = 'whatever' r = praw.Reddit(user_agent=user_agent) me = r.get_redditor(self.user) s = me.get_submitted() s_flat = praw.helpers.flatten_tree(s) s_raw = '' for s in s_flat: s_raw += s.title + " " + s.selftext c = me.get_comments() c_flat = praw.helpers.flatten_tree(c) c_raw = '' for f in c_flat: c_raw += f.body + " " self.reddit_data = ''.join(c_raw + " " + s_raw).encode('utf-8') def report(username): account = reddit(username) payload = account.reddit_data assert len(payload) > 1, "Error - Data not retrieved" return str(payload) def user_text(accountname,refresh): u = accountname + '_raw.txt' memoize = path.join(io_helper.usr_path, u) if io_helper.check_time(accountname,refresh): with open(memoize,'w') as r_data: nameOut = report(accountname) r_data.write(nameOut) PKLVIT22reddit_persona/requirements.txtIndicoIo==0.16.1 praw==3.5.0 simplejson==3.8.2 PKVIY[WWreddit_persona/test.pyimport reddit_persona as rp testme = rp.go('GovSchwarzenegger') print(testme) PKMVI#reddit_persona/dist/tmp8_1qyadv.whlPKMVI#reddit_persona/dist/tmpcutabwqn.whlPKVI#reddit_persona/dist/tmpfnrwt6in.whlPKVI#reddit_persona/dist/tmph8kkmm_q.whlPKVI#reddit_persona/dist/tmpmuhh7bji.whlPKVI#reddit_persona/dist/tmpxfbq2e25.whlPKLVI |ݴ(reddit_persona/usr/GovSchwarzenegger.txtUsername: GovSchwarzenegger Best guess for location: New York 84.6% Most likely personalilty styles: protagonist 11.43% campaigner 10.5% consul 9.43% Big 5 personality inventory matches: agreeableness 65.27% extraversion 58.4% openness 52.75% conscientiousness 46.41% Predominant emotions: sadness 46.53% anger 18.8% fear 15.34% Keywords: fantastic 25.45% guys 22.51% studio 21.57% Todd 19.25% ride 17.67% Probable political alignments: Green 40.25% Conservative 25.48% Liberal 18.22% Libertarian 16.05% Text tags: fitness 48.58% personal 41.43% startups_and_entrepreneurship 5.99% relationships 0.59% film 0.4% PKLVI8G8G,reddit_persona/usr/GovSchwarzenegger_raw.txtJust seeing this. Great memories but here is the reality. Working with John Milius was fantastic, because he was so hardcore. But it is true that he thought I looked too much like a bodybuilder - I needed to lose some of the cuts because I had just won Mr. Olympia and I was way too ripped to be a barbarian. So he told me to eat normally and not diet at all - I let my body fat get to around 12%. I had no issue with swinging swords even before I changed my body. I had been training with Sensei Yamazaki for three years before we filmed. I'd also been training in kendo and horseback riding for those three years by the time we filmed. Reps, reps, reps. I knew I had gotten good with the sword when James Earl Jones let me hit him right in the neck on the bloodbag even though if I'd missed by a couple inches I could have hit his head or his ear. His neck had a protective leather cover under the bloodbag and I didn't miss. I got attacked by a dog on the very first day of shooting - he pulled me down from the rocks into a thorn bush and I had to be stitched up on the set. Milius walked up to me and said "this sets the tone" - he meant this in a positive way. Also, it is true that I had to bite a real dead vulture because in those days they couldn't make one that would look good in a close-up. So they soaked it in alcohol to kill bacteria and dried it out. It still had lice. Unfortunately I would get arrested if I started doing this to people besides my friends. But I am recording a video and audio file that people can use as an alarm on their machines. And I'm open to what I should say. See you at Gold's? Edit: Forgot the time. High noon. www.represent.com/Arnold I think once a month at a minimum. I'd also like to show how I improvise in hotel gyms. Did it work out for everyone? I'd like to make this a regular thing because like I said, we want the shirt to become a whole movement. You and Todd better not buy them. Yours will be in the mail tomorrow. But everybody else, no freebies. Tell Todd I hope his workouts are going well and we will talk soon. Thank you for sharing! So, I was thinking of ways to make this a serious movement. I think we should all do a workout together and make it a regular thing. I've played with Facebook Live and I think tomorrow is a great time to test it, so I'm going to bring you to my workout with me tomorrow morning and take questions, make jokes, and give advice. I expect all of you to be in the gym and I give you permission to use your phones in the gym this one time. Be there - it should be around 8-9am PT! I'd love any other ideas to grow this from a shirt to a movement. I think I might send my workouts to the list, and possibly make an Arnold Get to the Gym Alarm Clock for you, but I'm open to your thoughts. You guys never fail me. See all of you tomorrow! UPDATE: I should go live at about 9 am California time! See you guys there. Kai was totally professional and was completely oiled up. The other two had no oil on their backs. Relax. I hear you! I'm working on a little something - my top ten list of the reasons I support John. I'd love to hear some of your thoughts so I can include them. I'm on the case. Shhh. Don't warn them. I will deliver. Of course. Let's include /u/courser because she started this. You gave me an idea. We have a week until the new year. Let's start something before then. All of you have the power to make someone's day. /u/courser is right - you don't have to be famous to give back just a little bit and make someone smile. Let's each commit to do one thing for a someone who could use some help this week. For Todd. I can tell you that I've talked to Todd twice now, and the feeling is like nothing else. I am not exaggerating when I call him my hero. The feeling after our talks is better than winning my first Mr. Universe. It's definitely better than a red carpet. Each of you has that power. It might be someone struggling to buy their groceries in front of you in line. It might be an older person that needs help carrying their gifts. How many kids are spending the holidays in the hospital and would light up if you brought a gift - or even just read a book to them? Every day, we have these chances, and it's easy to miss them when we are looking down at our machines. This week, let's not let the opportunities pass. Enough talk. Just do it. Then come here and share so we can inspire more people. For Todd. I am still in Europe so I have to say this was an inspiring thing to wake up to. I've reached out to Courser but I wanted to let all of you know that you're amazing. This is the power of reddit to do great things, and I'm proud of all of you, even though you filled my inbox - because you filled my inbox. My actual response: https://youtu.be/jDwlS5uVyDY Thank you! Thank you for sharing this. What a true hero. I'm so happy to see he is ok. If anyone has a way of getting in touch with him, please tell him he inspired me (and all of us), and I would love to meet him. Thank you all for the excitement. I'm honored! I can't wait to get into the boardroom. My guess is you'll all have a lot of ideas for me. Thank you for sharing this. I was proud to speak to President Hollande's Summit of Conscience, and I think was an absolutely fantastic way for our environmental crusade to communicate with people in a way that engages, inspires, and makes them care. When I was Governor, I learned that it doesn't matter that we are right about climate change - what matters is communicating to people who are worried about putting food on the table and surviving to inspire them to join us in calling for a clean energy future. We did that during the campaign to beat Prop 23 (the initiative that would have stopped AB32), and we got the people on our side and won in a landslide at the polls. Of all the ads we ran, the one that had the most impact was the one with the lung association that showed a child struggling to breathe in our central valley because of pollution. Now it's my goal to change how we communicate all over the world. Here is my whole speech, by the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPixbDs52NY Wow. I'm in Korea on a whirlwind tour but you stopped me in my tracks. This is so touching. Thank you for sharing. I'd like to say "this is why I do this" but you should know it was you who made your father smile. It was your presence and caring. Happy birthday, you've got a lot of wisdom for 30 years. This is for him: http://imgur.com/t9OI8T2 I'm so glad you had fun - that's some of the best praise I could hope for. Now I'm looking forward to teaming up to fight for the environment together! Thank you for sharing this. I had a great time with all of you, and I hope you really enjoyed the movie - I'm glad I can do these things and hear your thoughts without a filter. I also hope your selfies came out and we didn't miss anyone. And trust me, it was just as much a treat for me to have Bill Nye join us as it was for you. Please message your email so we can get you entries. It looks like he wins! Great work. I did not expect a serious and inspirational version! Fitness is a right. [removed]Lou and I at Gold's Today - Thought you might appreciate. Don’t Bump My Selfie Stick! NY Meetup/Terminator Screening - reddit premiere the sequel I had such a fantastic time screening Maggie for you guys, I wanted to do it again. This time with a little bit of a bigger movie, and this time on the East Coast. I have some time in my NY schedule so I have asked the studio to book a theater Wednesday night, June 24 at 630PM in New York. I am really excited about this movie. I absolutely loved it and think it took the Terminator in a great new direction while respecting the story we all love. And I am excited for you to get the chance to see it for yourselves - before almost anybody else - and tell me what you think. It will be nice to hear your opinions after you've actually seen it! I will stick around for some Q and A afterward, just like last time. I will follow up with details shortly so you all know where to go and can RSVP. Edit: Here is an RSVP form. https://apps.paramountpictures.com/movie/terminator/screenings/rsvp-en.php?sid=101 I am a forehead with these things, but I think the way this works is we will only let you in on the day of if you are on this list. Edit 2: I heard our director, Alan Taylor, was in town, so I've asked him to join us. Last time you guys loved asking Henry Hobson questions about Maggie. See you tonight!My (Arnold's) Guide to Blowing Sh*t Up My (Arnold's) Guide to Blowing Sh*t Up Maggie screening/reddit meet-up Hey everybody, I was pretty excited about our Maggie screening at Tribeca in New York last night, and I wanted to do something special for reddit. So I decided why not do something similar - our own LA screening - but just for redditors. I've booked a theater Monday night at 7. It holds 120. I've asked the amazingly talented director, Henry Hobson, to join me for a Q and A afterward. It's like a reddit meetup and a movie premiere, in one. In other words, I'm going to love it, and I hope you will too. See you all there. RSVP here: http://maggiereddit.splashthat.com/ Arnold Oh, PS: here is a new clip I got from the studio, exclusively for reddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRE9l7_zPfs&feature=youtu.beAs an American, I’m incredibly concerned about what happened in Indiana this week and the threat of similar laws being passed in other states. As a Republican, I’m furious. You'll like this podcast i had a great time doing this podcast with Tim Ferris, and I thought you guys would enjoy a lot of the subjects. Mainly Franco stories, but also how I stay motivated. Give it a listen, and I will chime back in and try to talk to you guys about it. http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/02/02/arnold-schwarzenegger/ I'm on a flight, so it might take me some time, but... You know the line. I also did this to launch my new fundraiser for After-School All-Stars. This time, we had to one-up the tank so we will blow shit up together in LA. Let me know if you guys have any great ideas to promote it and raise as much money as possible because last time Reddit gave me some of the best ideas. You can find that at www.omaze.com/ArnoldHappy thanksgiving, Reddit! IamArnold, I am back, and I brought David Ayer with me... Ask us anything. You guys are used to me, so to spice it up, I brought David Ayer, the great director of my latest movie, Sabotage, with me. You probably know him as the director of End of Watch and the writer of Training Day, so you'll understand why I was excited to work with him on Sabotage. We're here today because Sabotage hits theaters this Friday, but as you know, I'm always around. I hope David likes Reddit as much as I do. I think he should stick around. Ask us anything you want. And watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdiIhWhbYQc&list=UUlt5Bst8Ji05dZvTUdnO85g Edit: Thank you everybody. We have to run now and keep doing other promotion but you know I'll be back. And I will tell David to come back too! If you keep asking questions I will check in when I have time. Go see Sabotage this Friday. It is seriously a great ride and I'm really proud of it. You can buy tickets here: http://www.buysabotagetickets.com/I Just Crushed My Official Bench Press Record http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJU4piabznc&list=TLNJXNpqwuH6pGvdiFxcCvGejWPypLmpCy OK, so in competition, I never benched more than 500 and here I literally crushed it. But you get the idea. You can ignore the violent promotion in the video. I just didn't want /r/fitness to think I'd forgotten about you. In fact, with your help it looks like we'll raise $500,000, which I will be matching. So thanks to everyone. I can't wait to get to a movie set so I can chime in more in my down time again. WARNING: No tanks. But still worthwhile. My Tank vs. Blender Will It Crush? You asked for it. Will it crush? The teaser. If you want to get big, eat big. Really big. Obviously this is more of a fun video than a workout video, but I wanted to share with you guys. Everybody talks about cheat meals, but you can't beat the Steak and Egger sandwich I made with the guys from Epic Meal Time. If you ever wanted to watch me do triceps push ups on a sandwich, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg4rylxSg5c&feature=youtu.beReddit, what should I crush? [removed]IamArnold. AMA 2.0. You know I love you guys, so I'm back. I want to hear some crazy questions this time - don't be soft reddit. I'm not here to promote a movie or anything today, but I am raising money for After-School All-Stars. When you guys help provide these kids with health and leadership education, I will match your donations (I'm asking you to make me spend my money). You'll earn the chance to fly to LA from anywhere in the world to ride a tank and crush things together. We'll spend a whole afternoon so we can also work out (on the tank), smoke cigars (on the tank), and whatever else. Go here to enter [link!] (http://www.omaze.com/experiences/arnold-schwarzenegger) Edit: Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K_P0qk4Svo Edit 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAwIAjAAn8E I need to get going for now, but I'm no stranger here. You might say... I'll be back. Thanks for another great time. Please donate and enter the fundraiser. Edit 3: I broke a rule at r/AskReddit and they took the "what should I crush" question down. Please answer on this comment. Thanks! http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vshw2/iamarnold_ama_20/cew3imcGive me some advice. Hey guys, As you know I'm trying to pump up the fundraiser to ride on my tank for After-School All-Stars. [Here is the link in case you've been on another planet.](http://www.omaze.com/Arnold) Besides doing another AMA or something along those lines, I am going to shoot some fun videos. We have a couple hilarious ideas but I want one more really great one. Since Reddit is always there for me, I figured I would ask you guys for help. So bring me your ideas. Out-there, hilarious, weird skits... I need you to brainstorm with all you've got. Let's just make this fundraiser huge. Thank you!A Prime Time for Learning I'm back. I told you I would come back and get to more of your requests. I've been really busy here on the set of Maggie, but I will do them whenever I have time the next two days. Here is my first new video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzpUZBsmVpw And here's the original thread so you can find what I've already done: http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1oqa4o/ask_me_to_deliver_your_favorite_lines/ Let's get round 2 started. Update: I'm not here to promote anything today, but I do always like to raise awareness of the power of after-school programs, so if you have 30 seconds, I would love for you to check out this story about one of our After-School All-Stars, and if you have a minute, learn a little more about after-school programs. It's an issue close to my heart. Meet Mary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xblw4cMOibg Now let's have fun. Update 2: things got busy on set, so I will get to more of these in the morning. Ask me... to deliver your favorite lines Whenever I go to an event, someone asks me to yell out one of my lines. Even when I walk into Starbucks, people scream at me to "Get to the choppa." So to celebrate Escape Plan hitting theaters today, since I've already done an AMA and a Fitness AMA and I pop in on /r/fitness when I can, I thought it would be fun to offer myself to yell out all of your favorite lines. I'm on set, so I will check in and upload the videos as responses throughout the day. I can't wait to scream one of my wilder lines and scare the crew. To get it started, I did my favorite line from Escape Plan: http://youtu.be/tBF0YllXKEk Here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrV-SXI6Nmo&feature=share&list=PLQMiRykNdb9hzbrzA0l_xHAQ3SYqyLPBP And, if you want to watch Sly and I have a great time, you can buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/EPTix I'll... see you soon. UPDATE: I have to stop for a while but I think I should come back Monday when I'm back on set because I missed some great ones. Thanks! Here is my sign-off: http://youtu.be/eYxYCF4DDoUMagic hour on set tonight Come meet me at Muscle Beach Guys - as you know, I've been getting back into my fitness crusade, commenting here, running around doing Arnold Classics on new continents and running my site. We're having a big event at Muscle Beach tomorrow to celebrate, and I wanted to invite all of you. I've always had a great time chiming in here when I have time - I even had the joy of having a couple of you write a Protein Bible (http://www.schwarzenegger.com/fitness/post/the-protein-bible-part-1-introduction) for my site. So I wanted to make sure I invited you, because I will be hanging out from 3-4 and signing some copies of the latest Muscle and Fitness while some monsters work out in the pit around me. If you RSVP here I can leave some special Reddit wristbands at a tent for you so we can make sure that I can meet some of you in person. But I want to make it really special for somebody. Here's the deal. Tell a story about fitness - something inspirational, something hilarious. . If you get the most upvotes and you can be at the event, I will save a VIP pass for you. Bring your gym clothes, because you'll be in the pit working out the whole time I'm there. I'll even give you some advices. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. EDIT: KarmaPoIice was the top comment, so I'll see you there. I loved some of the stories so much I decided to expand it to five of you. I am not completely sure 5 will fit in the weightlifting area with all the people there, but if not, I want to at least take a picture with the five of you I replied to. You had some great stories. Everyone else: I'm going to leave 75 wristbands designated for Reddit at the MusclePharm tent. They will be first come/first serve. I probably only have time for 200 autographs, so Reddit will be well-represented!PKVIdɃ'reddit_persona/usr/heavierthanmetal.txtUsername: heavierthanmetal Best guess for location: America 82.63% Most likely personalilty styles: logician 15.26% mediator 10.63% architect 10.52% Big 5 personality inventory matches: openness 64.34% conscientiousness 44.82% agreeableness 42.53% extraversion 41.64% Predominant emotions: anger 53.57% sadness 26.53% fear 15.37% Keywords: ve 14.05% tier 13.91% amazing 13.59% don 13.17% RDA 12.58% Probable political alignments: Green 63.31% Libertarian 17.14% Liberal 15.05% Conservative 4.49% Text tags: psychology 26.93% science 25.85% personal 24.89% gaming 10.15% programming 3.36% PKVIK]''+reddit_persona/usr/heavierthanmetal_raw.txtb'Thanks Ken Folks with anxiety depression etc spend less free time out in the world and more free time socializing on the Internets. So redditors as a group are by self selection more more neurotic than than the average jagoff. \n As someone pointed out you can mention introversion etc on Reddit without being ostracized and others can agree without the risk of social shame the real world brings. \nNot everyone identifies with these nerdy afflictions but it stands out here because when else do all the anxious people high five together about their weird fear fetish or being a homebody. Gold No, weirder than that-- /r/theydidthemeth Imma smash Thanks for saying something factual in the sea of vitriol that is this thread. I came here to learn about what happened not watch people bitch about leaders and make conspiracy theories.\n\nNo one is discussing how CENTCOM could be telling the truth and the situation is shifting and complex, or even the possibility of something more subtle, like a communications or intel issue that wasn\'t resolved in time, and is being dealt with internally rather than publicized on global TV for the world to politicize.\n\n\nWho can really claim to know the facts- just because an interpretation confirms a strongly held bias or belief, or a particular theory is especially jarring, doesn\'t make it more true.. Excited to see what hardcore mode has to offer. \n12 damage from a lewis machine gun? We\'rent those guns were chambered in 30.-06 or .303? That\'s enough to take down a Bear or an Elk, so 12 dmg is beyond goofed.\n\nThat said the marksman rifles were tons of fun, and blowing up entire buildings with dynamite had my inner child jumping for glee. Also the usable cannons are super fun.\n\nOverall one of the best looking and SOUNDING games I\'ve seen, running at a completely smooth 60fps on my machine, there are less stunning games can\'t do that. Can\'t wait to see what else is in store, and if it can compete with BF4 in overall excellence. Quantum electrodynamics? Ain\'t that his entire shitshow of a campaign strategy! My impression as well. Adding a personally dimension could elucidate the causal factor, however I\'d assume it works both ways: video games have been shown to build spatial orientation skills, problem solving, task prioritization, etc \n\nAND \n\nnerds or people perceived to be smart*, ie the group that does well in STEM, likely prefer mental stimulation found in games over (usually vapid) online social stimulation. \n\nNote: * I don\'t think nerds are smarter than normals, just that their minds are more drawn to symbolic analysis, as opposed to the intricacies of social, verbal, spatial, artistic arenas. Glad you asked - any redditor is fair game! It\'s all accessible through PRAW, reddit\'s python API.\n\nExample usage with Arnold Schwarzenegger\'s account:\n\n >>> import reddit_persona\n >>> governator = reddit_persona.go("GovSchwarzenegger")\n >>> print governator\n\n Username: GovSchwarzenegger\n \n Best guess for location:\n New York 84.6%\n \n Most likely personalilty styles:\n protagonist 11.43%\n campaigner 10.5%\n consul 9.43%\n \n Big 5 personality inventory matches:\n agreeableness 65.27%\n extraversion 58.4%\n openness 52.75%\n conscientiousness 46.41%\n \n Predominant emotions:\n sadness 46.53%\n anger 18.8%\n fear 15.34%\n \n Keywords:\n fantastic 25.45%\n guys 22.51%\n studio 21.57%\n Todd 19.25%\n ride 17.67%\n \n Probable political alignments:\n Green 40.25%\n Conservative 25.48%\n Liberal 18.22%\n Libertarian 16.05%\n \n Text tags:\n fitness 48.58%\n personal 41.43%\n startups_and_entrepreneurship 5.99%\n relationships 0.59%\n film 0.4%\n In my experience, the 970 is dramatically slower >3.5 and crashes at 3.75. it would be cool if there was a way to use RAM as a pagefile for vRAM or even pool the memory somehow..\n\n You\'re right Re the 1060 as the sweet spot for entry, at the $250 point that\'s just amazing and it has 6gb vram. \n\nI\'ll still go 1070 though. I recently built a PC for gaming/deep learning. It was about $800, high-ish end for gaming, low to medium end for deep learning. The GPU computing part has been limited by two things. \n\nOne is the video memory on the GTX 970 is limited to 3.5GB, which limits the complexity of jobs. For example computing a neutral style transfer was around 100x faster than on my CPU, but the GPU couldn\'t produce images over 600px due to memory limits. The CPU uses the system RAM for me that\'s 16 GB so I could do bigger, more complex tasks, yet it was very slow- even if multiprocessing was involved, which can be complicated to program (paralell async processing is relatively easy, but not faster as it\'s just doing 4 slow jobs in paralell instead of one solo job on one core by itself). Either way it\'s amazingly slow on CPU.\n\n Now that the new nvidia cards are out, they are powerful and have more memory but expect to pay around $500 for the mid tier gtx 1070. \n\nThe other big challenge is Linux. Maybe I\'ll get called out by real CS or ML redditors for saying this but damn if it ain\'t hard to use Linux. On Ubuntu I tried installing the nvidia drivers once (following directions exactly) bricked my build, uninstalled them from rescue mode, did it again differently, then spent two whole days using bash to download dozens of dependencies, many with their own dependences, with their own dependencies. Sometimes they broke eachother, sometimes they broke my OS. I got it to work but the magnitude of hiccups when they occur leaves me for a distaste for Linix. I also did the same process on a cloud server which was easier with no GPU and could leave projects running on the server\'s CPU and still have a computer to use. \n\nI got Keras to work with Theano on Windows with my gpu, but most deep learning libraries won\'t work on Windows, including tensorflow, caffe, and actually just about anything else. So mostly I use Linux and pray there are no disasters brewing under the hood\n\n I guess my point is its not user friendly and it\'s a lot of work and $500 is how much a decent GPU costs provided you have the compatible motherboard, CPU and RAM set to keep up with it. I wish I\'d had a mentor getting into it. Deep learning is also really cool and amazing and the future, just know it\'s bumpy terrain if you\'re not a statistician or Linux sysadmin. No regrets, I\'d do it again because I learned a ton and it was mostly fun in retrospect, and now I\'m set up to try out cool things as they pop up on GitHub. Interesting question. I\'ll throw some claptons in next time and see how it compaes. I wanted TC because I kept burning cotton, shouldn\'t be an issue now that I have rayon I\'ve noticed if I tip my mod + Sapor sideways with juice in it (or overjuice past the well) then later remove and replace the outer sleeve, it might kick me out of TC (this usually happens when I\'m fucking around with new coils - titanium is springy). When this happens, there is a big fat ring of juice under the RDA, from the juice on the inside of the sleeve acting as soppy lube and squishing past the RDA O rings, then getting stuck between the mod and RDA.\n\nIt took me a while to separate this from the 510 screw leak problem because the fat ring of juice under the RDA usually made it onto the mod\'s 510 pin as well. If the juice is JUST in your mod\'s 510 pin well, its the same issue I had. If it\'s a goopy mess, you just got a little too excited with the juice. Google yielded 2 similar posts before that offered a similar solution, but I didn\'t think to use silicon until the comments on this post. Hopefully future searchers find this one. Thanks guys, worked using a piece from an (unused!) [earbud cover] (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/586/718/360/360718586_270.jpg). So if I care that means 1x10^-100000 of the universe cares. That\'s sweet. Anytime! Glad to help. You could text 911 if it\'s in your area\nhttps://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/911/Text911PSAP/Text_911_Master_PSAP_Registry.xlsx\nYou don\'t have to say anything to anyone. I don\'t know you, but I care about you. Please pick up the phone and call the hospital or a hotline. It will only take a few seconds of your time, and you will thank yourself later. You got this. <3 In college my gf was freaking out because I had like 6 science classes and barely studied, but I would just go ADHD HAM right before papers or exams, and it always rained down As like taste the fuckin rainbow. Now, if I could have done the same for homework I might have gotten a decent GPA. (Punk ass me didn\'t care at the time, trying to adult me wants to grad school) Sadly only deathly pressure seems to provide motivation. Thanks, I agree 100%, yet it\'s crucial to note that not every one has that luxury. My Doc (and I assume many others) starts people out with lithium for a few years to stabilize them before considering other treatments. It seems to be the consensus among psychiatry that Li is the best long term treatment, especially for prevention of sucide. They want you to have a life to style! So for the Li-fers (seewhatididthere) small lifestyle changes like more powerade might make this med tolerable. Awesome, thank you! I like that perspective Made a module to extract personality insights from a redditor\'s text data Sapor RDA leaking through 510 pin. My Sapor leaks through the center pin whenever I rejuice, constantly kicking my eVIC VT out of TC into power mode. So I remove the RDA, clean the mod out, by shoving a piece of paper towel into the mod, screw in RDA, try TC, and repeat the process until it works. Then, 20 minutes later, it happens again!\n\nI narrowed down the cause to juice leaking down the hole when the 510 and center block pop upwards - despite pin being locked down tight, whenever I screw in the RDA, the center block and the pin go \'click\' and pop up slightly, leaving a gap between the center post and the insulator where juice can leak into the insulator, then down the tube, around the tight screw into my mod. \n\nMy question is, how can I stop the screw/center post from popping up?\n\nTrying to fuck around with the 510 center post spring in my mod? (sounds risky)\n\nJamming something in the RDA so that the post can\'t move? (if so, what material and how?)\n\nI really don\'t know. Disappointed in what is an otherwise amazing RDA. Love the flavorful clouds, but its frustrating at best, damaging to my mod at worst. Kind of a deal breaker if not fixable.\n\n\nEDIT: Thanks to /u/To0nMan and /u/the_vapors, I had the idea to try screwing the 510 screw through a slice of silicon from the thin part of an [earbud cover] (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/586/718/360/360718586_270.jpg), then trimmed off the excess around the screw. No Leaks so far! Lithium, Hydration, Exercise. How I learned to stop worrying and love electrolytes Lets talk about Lithium and staying fit. \n\nWhile taking Lithium has in many ways transformed my life for the better, it has transformed exercise from a fun healthy life boost, into a nauseating march to an early death. Recently I found some workarounds, which have restored my ability to near-normal. I wanted to share because its awesome and I wish doctors told people from the start.\n\nI\'ve always stayed in relatively good shape with the occasional backpacking, climbing, bike ride. In all honesty I\'m a couch potato, but have a decent baseline of performance. I can take a perf hit in the name of sanity, but lithium stole 60% of my usual athletic ability, replacing it with nausea, tremors, and weakness, and having to puff on my inhaler every 20 minutes (instead of the usual never). It was twice as hard to do half as much, and not at all enjoyable. \n\nI used to lead 5.11 climbing routes, somewhere between intermediate to advanced difficulty... it was a challenge, but I enjoyed doing it. \nA few months on Li later, getting up a very short 5.8 (beginner level climbing) had me shaking uncontrollably, sweating profusely, and wanting to hurl. What gives, I wondered - is it like this for everyone? Why don\'t doctors tell anyone this??\n\n\n\n\nBeing the complete nerd that I am, I did some research and found some useful info about the dangerous feedback loop that causes this and more importantly, how to fix it. (Feel free to skip to the past the nerd stuff to the solution if thats your jam.)\n\n**nerd stuff**, or what lithium does to your body that makes exercise and staying hydrated a serious and possibly dangerous challenge:\n\n\n1. Lithium carbonate releases lithium ions (Li+) in your body, which the body stores alongside te other mineral salts (aka electrolytes): Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium). \n\n2. Lithium is a diuretic - it can cause the body make a lot of pee (as I\'m sure you\'ve experienced). In the extreme (>2-3 L/day) this is called polyuria.\n\n3. This magnificent fluid loss can lead to electrolyte depletion. The body tries to balance this by excreting more urine, in order to maintain a healthy salts/water ratio with the salt it still has.\n\n4. This can cause dehydration, so the body tries again to maintain salt/water balance, this time by holding on to salts, which increases thirst. As the body treats the various mineral salts similarly, this also concentrates Lithium.\n\n5. The increased concentration of salts causes thirst, so you drink more, pee more, and steps 2-4 repeat in a loop. In the process, you continue piss out the bodies stored up reserves of electrolytes (N, K, Ca, Mg) all while concentrating Lithium.\n\n6. When you exercise and sweat more than usual, even more electrolytes are lost.\n\n7. In my experience the thirst while exercising is unquenchable. As in step 3, the body compensates for low eletrolytes by peeing more. When your body runs out of stored up salts, it has trouble holding on to any water, so you can become dehydrated while pounding liters and liters. Meanwhile the body also has been concentrating lithium the entire time (guessing its reserves are bigger than other salts since you take it every day)\n\n8. This can lead to some combination of electrolyte depletion, excessive lithium concentration, (unquenchable) dehydration. Each of these are dangerous and feel horrible, explaining the hardships of exercising on lithium, and why your friends still having fun and full of energy, while you feel like you are literally going to die.\n\nHere are some symptoms of each:\n\nLithium toxicity: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, confusion, lethargy, weakness, poor coordination (in fact dehydration is the reason many end up in the hospital for Li toxicity)\n\nElectrolyte depletion: same as above + muscle pain, headache, cramping\n\nDehydration: thirst, headache, lack of appetite, confusion, tiredness\n\n\n\n\n**The solution?** As you\'ve probably guessed: **Electrolytes!!!** I take some especially while exercising, and a little bit daily. I\'ve used Nuun tabs or Powerade powder, started a few days ago and I went from 40% of my physical capacity to more like 85% in one day. lol. I backpacked 15 miles with 2900ft elevation gain in 2 days, whereas two weeks earlier, a 4 mile hike had me in a world of pain. While working out, I feel stronger and more vital- even my voice sounds fuller and louder.\n\nWhile this is great, note that too many electrolytes can crowd out the Lithium in your system, and cause many horrible problems of their own. Maybe start by drinking Power Aid while active, or if you are drinking > 2-3 liters of water a day and still not satisfied (my experience even while sedentary).\n\nVery important note: I am absolutely NOT a medical professional in any sense!!!! Just a mad scientist (literally and figuratively) who loves to learn why things happen. Drinking Power Aid isn\'t generally something you need to talk to your Dr about, I\'d suggest to do it anyway, as it addresses a medical issue and can change Lithium blood levels. In my case, both my therapist and pharmacist recommended taking more electrolytes before I started.\n\n\n\n**TL;DR** Don\'t listen to the water boy- Gatorade is better than water. Lithium can cause a vicious cycle of dehydration, electrolyte depletion, and high Li levels- all of which contribute to a very bad time. Take Powerade, Gatorade, [Nuun] (https://www.amazon.com/New-Nuun-Active-Hydrating-Electrolyte/dp/B019GU4ILQ/ref=dp_ob_image_hpc) (my fav), to avoid this if excessively thirsty and peeing it all out.\n\n\nLine breaks removed after wGET .txt File Using wget to load a text file of my todo list from a dropbox shared link. Works fine, except the line breaks are removed from the file. Thinking this might have to do with encoding, or perhaps how WKGT processes text.. not sure how to fix it. I could take the easy route and use Google Keep, but I like how taking notes in the \'monospace\' app feels. Any ideas?Okay is amazing A profound thought struck me like lightning a few weeks after I started meds - Actually no - it was more like a warm tropical breeze. "This is what people feel like."\n\nIt\'s been 6 months since I started lithium, and 4 since Lamictal, I\'ve finally gotten off of SSRIs - and now I feel okay..\n\nLet me explain how okay is the best thing ever - I am in a zone now where I can feel good, fun, happy, light hearted, enthused - but my feet never lift off the ground. It used to be I\'d get enthused, then my head would fill with big ideas and I would read, read, read, get super excited, go party, get really fucked up, be the first one awake and feeling fine, talk over people, rant and rave about my new passions, start new projects then half assedly abandon them for the next shiny thing, the whole time ramping up on coffee, cigarettes, weed, booze. I\'d get hyped, then I\'d get mad about the people who didn\'t get me, who couldn\'t see the amazingness of the Truth the way I could. The edgy semi-offensive comments would trickle into my speech patterns, slowly pissing off or pushing away those around me. I\'d fight with my partner. I\'d consider drastic life changes.\n\nThe buzz would fray at the edges. Edgy became \'on edge\' became \'on the edge\' became the abyss- and down I would fall like icarus for at least a few weeks, usually months. Isolation, burning and directionless hatred, existential ennui, melancholy, then apathy, numbness, bitter hopeless alienation. The whirlwind, the turbulence, the dance of life and death.\n\nBut now, none of that is happening, yet I still have the gift to feel intensely. Sometimes I\'m grumpy. I can be playful, creative, funny, driven, motivated, insecure, I sometimes stay up until 4am just cuz. I know I\'ll always be a little eccentric, cyclothymic, artistic, inspired, with moments of genius that sneak up and grab me like a wild tiger. However, the longer term rhythms seem to be fading to the background. The range of long term moods is dialed in, extremes aren\'t my territory. After a few hours, or a day, any mood just bounces back to normal, like there\'s an elastic tether holding me to middle ground. I have patience when people talk, I can handle obstacles without taking it as a grand sign or indication of some tragic flaw. I have stepped off the rollercoaster, and it\'s super chill.\n\nI\'ts like the universe granted me the freedom to be me without the fine print, and it\'s amazing. I hope it happens to you.Violent Deaths in America in 2014 UPDATED [OC] Violent Deaths in America in 2014 (sources in comments) [OC] [FO4] [I] [HELP] 3 Round Burst Scripting I\'m working on a scripts for a three round burst, for new receiver mods. \nI am new to papyrus, and not sure which scripts to extend or on what form to trigger the script.\n\nSo far I was thinking it would be simplest to extend the Weapon.Fire() function. \n\n**Pseudocode**:\n\n script BurstyMcBurstFace extends Weapon native\n\n Function Fire():\n\n Weapon.Fire()\n\n Utility.wait(0.2)\n\n Weapon.Fire()\n\n Utility.wait(0.2)\n\n Weapon.Fire()\n\n Utility.wait(0.2)\n\n End Function\n\n\nI got something similar to this to compile and added it to a weapon form, but didn\'t seem to be activated when firing.\n\n\nAnyone have advice on this? I know there are good scripters around here. \n\nIt would be an awesome mod!!3 Round Burst Scripting [removed]PSA: Rayon > Cotton Just got threw some Rayon cellucotton in my RDA after a few weeks of using cotton. It is amazing. Perfect flavor and no burnt hits. The problem with cotton is that even though I was using temp control, just one mistake turning it up a littttle too high would result in a nasty plume of smokey burnt wick into my lungs, not to mention ruining the wick. The difference between a warm hit and a smokey one was a very fine line, if there even was one. \n\nWith the Rayon, it tastes amazing and is much more forgiving with temps- I have yet to get even close to burning it, regardless of how warm I tune it. The material holds its shape in the coil, staying fluffy instead of clumping up like cotton does, and so provides a less crackley and more consistent vape. A $14 roll will last me a year. Between that and $12 of titanium wire, I am set for at least a year. My advice: do your lungs a favor and use a wick that doesn\'t want to turn into smoke so easily. I wish I had known about this earlier."Really? You seem normal to me!" Grr This is a really annoying thing and is the main reason I don\'t want to share my diagnosis with people. Assuming you can tell what my life is like by the outside view from an untrained eye is one step away from undermining the fact I have an illness and therefore just need to \'get myself together\'. It implies the person feels they have the judgment/authority to decide if I\'m ill, and therefore decide if I am worthy of their consideration as someone who deserves leeway or sympathy (not that I am looking for those things, I just want understanding). Why not leave the diagnosis to the mental health professionals? They have evaluated me more comprehensively and have the qualifications to understand what going on with me.\n\nWhat you don\'t see: I have a strong mind. Its a crazy mind, but willing and able to exert a good deal of energy and willpower in order to be normal. I feel like many people \'just are\' normal or close to normal. I can be normal, but only after spending 30-40% of my mental energy budget (at times closer to 100%) pushing back anger, fear, self loathing, self defeating impulses, thoughts of suicide, fiery hate, judgement, sloth, sadness, hopelessness, loneliness, emptiness, spaciness, mental clutter and confusion, and trying to decide if I making a huge mistake right now without realizing it. \n\nWhat you don\'t realize: Its a matter of degree. Great, so we can both seem normal. How much energy does it take you to be that way? 5% of your energy? 25%? Do you ever lose control of the ability to act normal? Do you ever feel staying sane is like juggling greasy bowling balls? It happens to me. All the fucking time. I just hide how I am really thinking whenever I am around acquaintances, and often even family and friends. I\'ve gotten good at this act. "I\'m just a chill guy, got it under control, here\'s a joke and compliment and a funny story see ya later" This invisible double life is my illness. Its only a testament to my persistent efforts that you don\'t realize it. My superego goes to sleep when I\'m alone.\n\nI hate feeling like I need to explain this whole deal to people, and that it isn\'t just accepted, that people don\'t really understand what it means, and that I feel a tinge of social shame when exposing my self as BP. Don\'t get me wrong, I am extremely happy that I was diagnosed as my life history makes sense now and equally happy that people don\'t realize how insane I feel... i just want to be accepted and understood. How do you deal with this?Terms of Enrampagement, the Enrampaging: How Official309 was Liberated from the Chinese Hacker Mafia **First of all, thanks a billion to the Wildcard support staff who took care of this promptly and smoothly.** We could not have freed our server without them.\n\n**Backstory:** A Chinese tribe had been griefing the whole server with Aimbot hacks, hidden turrets, and a take no prisoners approach to diplomacy since the server\'s inception. Scores of tribes both very large and very small were driven away on a regular basis, as their was no competing with an enemy that could snipe you through metal walls from across the map, and who had turrets that could not be harmed or who\'s ill-gotten gains provided them with an unparalleled armory of explosives, high quality gear and advanced weaponry. \n\nAnyone who got to the metal tier was soon destroyed. No vault or dinos were safe, large empires rose and soon fell under the iron fist of these Chinese raiders. That was life on our server. After the Snow Biome was released which led to an asymmetric wiping of non hacker bases, there was a mass exodus. All of the biggest tribes left except for a handful. There was no beating MTBT, these players\' experience had been ruined by cheating bastards. \n\n**About a week ago**, my tribes main base was mercilessly pillaged, all dangerous dinos unceremoniously executed by these cruel thieving goons. It was\'t long after one of their members quoted Chairman Mao Tze Dong to me, "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun." Determined to subvert their brutalist ideology, I plotted my revenge. Thanks to Studio Wildcard, it was both short and sweet.\n\n**Fast forward to 24 hours ago**. Someone on global was mentioning they found video footage from fallen tribes of these hackers killing them with hidden turrets and aimbots and was considering reporting it. Intrigued, I searched for this footage on steam and was not disappointed.\n\nTaking /u/Nublsy- \'s advice, I sent their tribe name, player names, steam account, base location, along with a description of their typical unsavory activities to reports@studiowildcard.com. In addition I reached out on Steam to those who had been recently wiped, encouraging to submit their own reports. At least 4 or 5 did.\n\n**4 hours later**, while tracking a wild Quetz I ended up in the Hacker tribe\'s territory. *What had just two hours ago been a staggering metal fortress with more turrets and T Rexes than I felt like sticking around to count, was now reduced to a single stone foundation, owner "Bob".*Timestamp indicated it was last visited by Bob two hours ago. Thrilled but not sure what to believe, I scoped all their other base locations. They had all vanished, save for one, a bombed out shell of a building in the volcano\'s peak, which was now owned by the all powerful "Bob".\n\nBefore celebrations could commence, there was one last thing to be done. The Hacker\'s main allies, another Chinese tribe - one who had also participated the recent dino red wedding at our base- had to go down. The members of the wiped tribe were already talking to them on global chat, coordinating, regrouping, organizing.\n\nI knew that for this server to be fun again, both tribes needed to have no reason to ever come back. They needed to see only scorched and salted earth in their future. \n**And so we grinded mats for C4 into the wee hours**, and when we finally had a good amount, we hit them hard. Only one of their members was around, and he managed to lift me off our Argent, leaving my tribemate and I to fall precipitously. Luckily, we landed in water and returned to chase him off. Then, we returned to their base and\n**We. \nKilled. \nEverything.**\n\nAll dinos, all doors, all turrets, all electrical, all boxes, all beds, all boats, all bodies, everything was reduced to ash and dust. What was once a large base was now a hollow and useless carapace. Though we did lose some primo dinos and gear in this battle for liberty, it was an easy sacrifice compared to the threat of their continued presence on our server. Justice was served hot and fast.\n\nThanks to everyone who helped in the big raid or by submitting their reports to Studio Wildcard, and thanks to the Studio for taking quick, decisive action. **Maybe soon this server will be thriving again**, and a more interesting and fair PvP will reappear where misery and fear once reigned at the hands of shameless cheaters. **It was a good day.**[BUG] Body travels on supersonic ocean adventure upon death- Impossible to retrieve. Please fix!!!! **This has happened more times than I\'d like to think about** and is easily reproducible with the following steps:\n\n\n**Step 1**: Die in one of several common ways: from some medium to high-impact event, (such as falling off ptera, get pwned by powerful dino), or die on one of the islands slopes (does not have to be steep, ANY grade can do this, including just about anywhere underwater and on ~40% of the islands surface.)\n\n**Step 2**: Watch as your body rubber bands through the universe, and the deathscreen turns blue as you rocket downhill towards the oceanic abyss. \n\n**Step 3**: Watch the "Respawn to bed" distance grow astronomically, until its clear your body is miles away from your place of death and there is little to no hope of recovery.\n\n**Step 4**: Search frantically and in vain for your seafaring corpse, which has apparently gained the superman like ability to fly across the island in seconds.\n \nI *suspect* that this has something to do with how the impulse physics of a deathblow interact with the post-mortem rag doll effects (combined with a lack of friction), but **how on Ark does a body traveling downwards at a terminal velocity of ~70 MPH translate to >600 MPH upon leaving the mortal realm? At least give us a sonic boom!**\n\nVery depressingly, this is an all too common occurrence, and furthermore it is extra tragic to lose your stuff from an uncontrollable and easy to reproduce physx glitch. Dying from PVE and PVP is fine, but this is just lame. Please fix!!!!!Staying home studying CS this Halloween.. Google Interview: Coding on Whiteboard Vs Chromebook I am preparing for an on-site interview at Google. During the candidate preparation class for interviewees, we were told we would have the option to code on a Chromebook in a basic text editor with syntax highlighting as an alternative to the whiteboard. \n\nAs someone who stopped writing in school around grade 3 and was instead trained to type on a keyboard, and someone who usually codes on a computer (haha), the Chromebook sounds preferable. Perhaps most importantly, as a left hander, it is exceedingly hard to use a whiteboard without holding my arm at a strange angle to avoid erasing everything with my palm, which serves to makes my handwriting even less legible.\n\nThe folks at Google I have spoken to about this (sample size 2) seem to have the opinion that the whiteboard is an old-school rite of passage, and to use the computer might convey that one is not the caliber of software engineer they\'d hope for. Additionally, one of them said the whiteboard may serve to facilitate better communication between the candidate and interviewer.\n\nDoes anyone have opinions or experience with this choice? I am practicing on a whiteboard, but this only serves to highlight my preference to use the Chromebook/projector combo. It would be easier to manipulate the code, convey my ideas more clearly, and quickly. Better signal to noise ratio in my opinion.\nQuestion - can fertilized eggs be made into kibble? It seems like if the \'cooldown\' for breeding is faster than the average RNG drop rate, then breeding could be a shortcut to getting more eggs for kibble, or at least getting them more reliably and on demand. Has anyone tried this yet?The Travelling Hippie Problem Dog or fruit baskets? You decide. Dog or... fruit baskets? For once Deepdream actually reduced the number of dogs in an image. If you squint you can turn the fruit baskets back into a dog. My favorite rendering so far. It looks so normal on the surface.. Just made a #deepdream website to host my creations. Feedback welcome! Topamax- is it the devil? After a looking through a few posts on this sub it looks like topamax has been a traumatic experience for almost anyone who cares to comment on its use. Today is only my second day but I have to say so far its been amazing. The fog and tiredness I get from it is nothing compared to the apathy I have been feeling from the last five months of constant migraines and I already feel smarter and more excited about life. Just wanted to throw it out there for future readers that it may not always be bad. We\'ll see how it goes, but right now I am excited for the possibility of less painful days.Migraine and Work Does anyone else wonder where the line is for missing work due to migraines? I\'ve had at least 2 a week since a head injury earlier this year and I\'ve gotten to the point whee I just try to slog through it. I know I\'ll look pale and seem derpy and or distant but it seems better than missing tons of work. Just came up with a way to actively monitor just what the hell I am doing with my life I was thinking about what I do with my time and how I have spent much of my time on frivolous but fun and short-lived activities. As with many ADHDers I tend to prioritize instantaneous reward instead of long term rewards or necessity and also have a heinously limited ability to ration out my time wisely.\n\n**Here is my idea:**\n\nEach activity in life can fall into **three tiers** of importance. A small amount of effort spent keeping tracking of which tier I\'m hanging out in could make a big difference in improving my quality life. Most people probably do this automatically.\n\nHere is each category, with some personal examples.\n\n\n***Tier 1) ESSENTIAL -*** This includes activities and responsibilities that if unheeded will fuck up my whole life.\n\n\n\n**Work** - having clean outfits to wear, to paying attention all day at my job to not partying or staying up too late on weekdays\n\n**Health** - diet and excercise\n\t\n**Relationship** - gotta stay on good terms with my girlfriend who has been there for me in more ways than I can count and is generally the highlight of my day\n\t\n**Zen** - my word for keeping a chill mind that is not ramping into the Danger Zone of anxiety and stress. Generally staying relaxed and positive!\n\n\n\n***Tier 2) FULFILLING -*** Any activity that deepens and enriches my experience of life but is not strictly necessary\n\t\n**Reading for knowledge** - science books, serious news articles, certain parts of Reddit\n\n**Education -** preparing for grad school, active learning\n\n**Playing music** - makes life so much better, enriches everything for me\n\n**Friends** - Gotta have \'em\n\n***Tier 3) TRIVIAL SHIT -*** Make no mistake I **love** the things in category, but they do not and can not sustain me physically or spiritually and generally constitute **short lasting rewards** that do not contribute to future me\n\t\n**Dicking around on the internet** - (Sorry reddit)\n\n**Partying -** Woo!!! My inner 18 year old is not running the show\n\n**Video Games -** Not counting Destiny, that is probably tier 2 for reals.\n\n**Going out -** Spending $30-40 to not be able to hear anyone talk and to slowly damage my health. Maybe this belongs in category 4 - Avoid.\n\n\n\n***Implementation:*** \n\nI will use this like a background widget running in my inner operating system, similar to monitoring RAM allocation in windows task manager. \n\n**I will check in as often as I am able to ask myself the following:** \n\nWhat category am I in now?\n\nIS this where I want to be?\n\nHow much of the day am I spending in each camp?\n\nWhat can I do that would be higher on the list?\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n**TL;DR - I made a 3-tiered system (simple enough to remember easily) to rank activities in order of importance to help me stay in control of my life!**Fringe science study seems to confirm consciousness based effects on quantum systems with a purported significance of 4 sigma. What does /r/skeptic think? 'PKLVIϸ@,,reddit_persona/usr/spez.txtUsername: spez Best guess for place of origin: San Francisco 80.91% Most likely personalilty styles: architect 12.71% logician 12.22% advocate 10.67% Big 5 personality inventory matches: openness 68.11% agreeableness 48.14% conscientiousness 47.51% extraversion 45.49% PKLVI9H4reddit_persona/usr/spez_raw.txtIt's not practical to enforce such a rule. There are plenty of business on Reddit representing themselves legitimately, and there are plenty who masquerade as organic users. I think it's wiser to incentivize businesses to be transparent about it. Thanks for the feedback. We reverted the sticky behavior a little while ago. > Do you feel that redditors are increasingly quick to jump to conspiracy theory conclusions when any change is made? Quick? Yes. Increasingly? I'd say they've always been pretty quick. It only affects Hot. Agreed. > Many of us slack at work and browse reddit At least I can claim it's work. Sort of, but r/all is sorted based on absolute hotness, which means a post in r/funny that has 10k upvotes and 5k downvotes will be ranked higher than a post in r/sewerhorse that has 30 upvotes and no downvotes. > Can you expand on what you mean by 'having less evil?' We've made a lot of progress fighting spam, Account Take Overs (ATOs), and reported abuse over the past few months. Our changes are community agnostic. It was a problem. A smaller problem, but still a problem. As I mentioned in my post, r/all has gone through waves of being overwhelmed by a specific community many, many times over the years. Sometimes it's healthy, sometimes it's funny, most of the time it's annoying, particularly during election years. You'll see fewer powers from the same community. This is one of those cases where we might be throwing out some of the good with the bad. We'll keep a watch during major events and see how it feels. I don't believe r/all or our current front page is the best solution for Reddit, but it's the best we have right now. So, that's approximately how the current front page works. We normalize the scores and sort by the most outstanding. It's limited to defaults / subscriptions, though. You basically describe the new frontpage algorithm I've been fantasizing about. We started work on this, in fact, but we re-allocated that brainpower (u/KeyserSosa) to focus on anti-evil for a while. We have since hired more brainpower and have less evil, so I'm hopeful we can get back to it soon. Game day threads should still work if they are self posts, which most are, by the way. It's just for the specific rendering of the r/all listing. So, it'll affect all communities with r/all itself, but not on the listings for the actual communities. Not sure if I'm answering the question you're asking... No news to share, but it's very much on my mind. I'd really like communities to come and go organically. Right now, we (Reddit Inc), do the choosing, and I don't like playing kingmaker. We have communities that come and go quickly (around major world events); rise and fall over the course of months (r/nba, r/gameofthrones); and communities that stay popular for years and years (r/iama, r/AskReddit). We'd like to be able to account for all of these situations. Thanks for the feedback. We're still thinking about stickies, and will likely make more changes. In the meantime, sorry we upset your usage of it. Yes, we'll expose filtering to everyone in the near future. In your mind, what's the difference between filtering and blocking? As a moderator of r/circlejerk, I resent that. Found them. Thank you. Honestly, I'm quite upset myself. As a user, I was disappointed that when I wanted to learn what happened in Orlando, and I found a lot of infighting bullshit. We're still getting to the bottom of it all. Fortunately, the [AskReddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4nqnrm/breaking_news_orlando_nightclub_massshooting/) was quite good. All of us at Reddit are committed to making sure this doesn't happen again, and we're working with the mods to do so. We have historically stayed hands off and let these situations develop, but in this case we should have stepped in. Next time we will get involved sooner to make sure things don't go off the rails. Removed the mod-only rule. Thanks for the feedback. I'd say it's going exactly as expected. I'm not a fan of defaults in general. They made sense at the time, but we've outgrown them. They create a few problems, the most important of which is that new communities can't grow into popularity. They also assume a one-size-fits all editorial approach, and we can do better now. > What if stickied posts just didn't show up in /r/all? We don't want to ruin game and episode threads. My understanding is it was a new account from an old mod. His original account is also gone. He stepped down about a year ago when he got a new job, and returned a few months ago. These are good points. We're hearing the feedback and will discuss. edit: we removed the moderator rule. Here's what happened with Donald Trump's AMA on r/all I’m going to do my best to address why the Donald Trump AMA post fell down the rankings on r/all so quickly. Despite being one of Reddit's most controversial posts ever, it was a successful AMA. The short for answer is because of anti-cheating techniques that we have used for many years. While a post is young, the score we display is not the same as the score we sort by. We do this so that spammers, cheaters, and brigaders don’t know if their tactics are working. A vote – valid or not – appears to count, but over time the displayed score becomes more accurate. [This affects all posts the same](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/z1sfn/one_minute_obamas_ama_karma_score_was_16000_a/), and has for [a long time](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/3g6ghn/reddit_change_the_scores_of_extremelypopular/). We saw this play out again on Donald Trump’s AMA today. While the post did receive many [upvotes](https://i.redd.it/ok76t3hj1wbx.png) initially, it was also one of the most controversial posts ever on Reddit, and received nearly as many downvotes. We did work with the r/the_donald mod team to ensure this AMA ran smoothly for everyone involved. Overall, please keep in mind the AMA was a success. It was seen by many thousands of people, generated thousands of comments on the site, and has spurred many discussions off of Reddit itself. You should know only 4% of Reddit actually visits r/all, so this post’s ranking in that listing had practically no effect on the overall success of the AMA. As always, thank you for redditing and for participating in the AMA.Let’s all have a town hall about r/all Hi All, A few days ago, we talked about a few technological and process changes we would be working on in order to improve your Reddit experience and ensure access to timely information is available. Over the last day we rolled out a behavior change to r/all. The r/all listing gives us a glimpse into what is happening on all of Reddit independent of specific interests or subscriptions. In many ways, r/all is a reflection of what is happening online in general. It is culturally important and drives many conversations around the world. The changes we are making are to preserve this aspect of r/all—our specific goal being to prevent any one community from dominating the listing. The algorithm change is fairly simple—as a community is represented more and more often in the listing, the hotness of its posts will be increasingly lessened. This results in more variety in r/all. Many people will ask if this is related to r/the_donald. The short answer is no, we have been working on this change for a while, but I cannot deny their behavior hastened its deployment. We have seen many communities like r/the_donald over the years—ones that attempt to dominate the conversation on Reddit at the expense of everyone else. This undermines Reddit, and we are not going to allow it. Interestingly enough, r/the_donald was already getting downvoted out of r/all yesterday morning before we made any changes. It seems the rest of the Reddit community had had enough. Ironically, r/EnoughTrumpSpam was hit harder than any other community when we rolled out the changes. That’s Reddit for you. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ As always, we will keep an eye out for any unintended side-effects and make changes as necessary. Community has always been one of the very best things about Reddit—let’s remember that. Thank you for reading, thank you for Reddit-ing, let’s all get back to connecting with our fellow humans, sharing ferret gifs, and making the Reddit the most fun, authentic place online. Steve u: I'm off for now. Thanks for the feedback! I'll check back in a couple hours.Let's talk about Orlando Hi All, What happened in Orlando this weekend was a national tragedy. Let’s remember that first and foremost, this was a devastating and visceral human experience that many individuals and whole communities were, and continue to be, affected by. In the grand scheme of things, this is what is most important today. I would like to address what happened on Reddit this past weekend. Many of you use Reddit as your primary source of news, and we have a duty to provide access to timely information during a crisis. This is a responsibility we take seriously. The story broke on r/news, as is common. In such situations, their community is flooded with all manners of posts. Their policy includes removing duplicate posts to focus the conversation in one place, and removing speculative posts until facts are established. A few posts were removed incorrectly, which have now been restored. One moderator did cross the line with their behavior, and is no longer a part of the team. We have seen the accusations of censorship. We have investigated, and beyond the posts that are now restored, have not found evidence to support these claims. Whether you agree with r/news’ policies or not, it is never acceptable to harass users or moderators. Expressing your anger is fine. Sending death threats is not. We will be taking action against users, moderators, posts, and communities that encourage such behavior. We are working with r/news to understand the challenges faced and their actions taken throughout, and we will work more closely with moderators of large communities in future times of crisis. We–Reddit Inc, moderators, and users–all have a duty to ensure access to timely information is available. In the wake of this weekend, we will be making a handful of technology and process changes: * Live threads are the best place for news to break and for the community to stay updated on the events. We are working to make this more timely, evident, and organized. * [We’re introducing a change to Sticky Posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4ny8y6/renaming_sticky_posts_to_announcements/): They’ll now be called Announcement Posts, which better captures their intended purpose; they will only be able to be created by moderators; and they must be text posts. Votes will continue to count. We are making this change to prevent the use of Sticky Posts to organize bad behavior. * We are working on a change to the r/all algorithm to promote more diversity in the feed, which will help provide more variety of viewpoints and prevent vote manipulation. * We are nearly fully staffed on our Community team, and will continue increasing support for moderator teams of major communities. Again, what happened in Orlando is horrible, and above all, we need to keep things in perspective. We’ve all been set back by the events, but we will move forward together to do better next time. AMA about my darkest secrets Hi All, We haven’t done one of these in a little while, and I thought it would be a good time to catch up. We’ve launched a [bunch of stuff](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog) recently, and we’re hard at work on lots more: m.reddit.com improvements, the next versions of Reddit for iOS and Android, moderator mail, relevancy experiments (lots of [little tests](https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4jzit9/reddit_change_several_small_tests_to_improve_user/) to improve experience), account take-over prevention, technology improvements so we can move faster, and–of course–hiring. I’ve got a couple hours, so, ask me anything! Steve edit: Thanks for the questions! I'm stepping away for a bit. I'll check back later.A New Challenger Appears! Today we are excited to announce that [Philippe Beaudette](https://www.reddit.com/u/AchievementUnlockd) has joined us to lead our Community team. He comes from Wikipedia by way of Wikia. At the Wikimedia Foundation (which hosts and supports Wikipedia, among other sites) he was responsible for the team that did community management, user trust and safety, and strategic change management, guiding the community through a time of immense growth and maturation. He spent almost 7 years there, as one of their first community hires, and managed to have his fingers on a huge number of projects, from fundraising (raising money from nearly every country in the world and accepting Wikipedia’s first donation from Antarctica) to community governance and their international elections processes–while dealing with communities working in almost 200 different languages. He’s particularly proud to have led their community interactions around a worldwide [24 hour site shut-down](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/wikipedia-blackout_n_1212096.html?slideshow=true) to drive awareness of the SOPA bill two years ago, an effort that Reddit also joined. After leaving Wikipedia, Philippe joined Wikia and ran the Community Support and Engagement team there, supporting Wikia’s 350,000 fan-created communities. We are honored to have him on our team. Please welcome Philippe! In addition to Philippe, we have brought on an additional five members to the Community and Trust and Safety teams this week. See if you can collect them all!Admin released from captivity, reintroduced to Reddit community I am sad to share that u/krispykrackers is leaving Reddit. Over the past five years, she has done an incredible amount of work for us and the Reddit community. She has been the face of our Community team at Reddit; helped us write many of our policies and was indispensable working through countless tricky situations; and she lead our efforts in support of Extra Life, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. She has been a friend to me and many others here. While we are sad to see her go, we wish her the best going forward. Actually replacing Kristine is impossible, but next Monday, four (maybe five!) new members of our Community and Trust and Safety teams will be starting, which will give the team even more horsepower.A few updates on what has been keeping us busy Hi All, I want to give you all an update with the things that are keeping us busy, and hopefully as a result, making you less busy: * **Spam**: Last quarter we saw a huge increase in spam, including a handful of heavy attacks. We diverted resources to combat this, and we have made quite a bit of progress, lowering user reported spam by over 60% from its high point last quarter. We still have plenty of work to do, but we are making steady progress. Removing as spam or reporting as such are still the most effective ways to help. * **Account Take-Overs** (ATOs): In response to our improved spam-fighting measures, the bad-guys have been targeting existing accounts, compromising them for the purpose of spamming and vote cheating. We are fighting ATOs on the engineering side, but ATOs also create a burden on our community team to notify affected users, send password reset emails, etc. We are working on automating the notification and recovery processes to free up our community managers. The root cause of the issue is poor passwords. Please use strong and unique passwords. * **Support Backlog**: Because of the aforementioned issues, our community team is swamped with support tickets. We are doing a good job keeping up with the incoming flow, but we do have a backlog that is taking time to work through. We are sorry for any delays. The good news is we have a number of new people joining the team over the next few weeks that will help. * **Modmail**: I am happy to report that we finally have a team dedicated to working on a new system for moderator mail. To this point, we have tried a number of approaches and have had a handful of false starts, but we have not made the sort of progress we would like. The current system is a series of hacks built on an old code base, and because of this, we have decided to build modmail as a new, separate system. This will allow us to develop it without disrupting your current workflows. We know this is where you spend a lot of your time, and we are working hard to make it more effective. We appreciate all you do for Reddit as moderators, and we appreciate seeing the questions you ask in this community. We are particularly thankful for those of you who jump in and help the other moderators here and elsewhere. – The Reddit TeamFor your reading pleasure, our 2015 Transparency Report In 2014, we published our first Transparency Report, which can be found [here](http://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2014). We made a commitment to you to publish an annual report, detailing government and law enforcement agency requests for private information about our users. In keeping with that promise, we’ve published our [2015 transparency report](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2015). We hope that sharing this information will help you better understand our [Privacy Policy](https://www.reddit.com/help/privacypolicy) and demonstrate our commitment for Reddit to remain a place that actively encourages authentic conversation. Our goal is to provide information about the number and types of requests for user account information and removal of content that we receive, and how often we are legally required to respond. This isn’t easy as a small company as we don’t always have the tools we need to accurately track the large volume of requests we receive. We will continue, when legally possible, to inform users before sharing user account information in response to these requests. In 2015, we did not produce records in response to 40% of government requests, and we did not remove content in response to 79% of government requests. In 2016, we’ve taken further steps to protect the privacy of our users. We joined our industry peers in an amicus brief [supporting Twitter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3d/Twitter_versus_Lynch_Amicus_Brief_February_2016.pdf), detailing our desire to be honest about the national security requests for removal of content and the disclosure of user account information. In addition, we joined an amicus brief [supporting Apple](http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/Airbnb_Atlassian_Automattic_CloudFlare_eBay_GitHub_Kickstarter_LinkedIn_Mapbox_Medium_Meetup_Reddit_Square_Squarespace_Twilio_Twitter_and_Wickr.pdf) in their fight against the government's attempt to force a private company to work on behalf of them. While the government asked the court to [vacate the court order](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/28/technology/document-us-filing-dropping-apple-case.html) compelling Apple to assist them, we felt it was important to stand with Apple and speak out against this unprecedented move by the government, which threatens the relationship of trust between a platforms and its users, in addition to jeopardizing your privacy. We are also excited to announce the launch of our [external law enforcement guidelines](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/law_enforcement_guidelines). Beyond clarifying how Reddit works as a platform and briefly outlining how both federal and state law enforcements can compel Reddit to turn over user information, we believe they make very clear that we adhere to strict standards. We know the success of Reddit is made possible by your trust. We hope this transparency report strengthens that trust, and is a signal to you that we care deeply about your privacy. (I'll do my best to answer questions, but as with all legal matters, I can't always be completely candid.) edit: I'm off for now. There are a few questions that I'll try to answer after I get clarification. Reddit in 2016 Hi All, Now that 2015 is in the books, it’s a good time to reflect on where we are and where we are going. Since I returned last summer, my goal has been to bring a sense of calm; to rebuild our relationship with our users and moderators; and to improve the fundamentals of our business so that we can focus on making you (our users), those that work here, and the world in general, proud of Reddit. Reddit’s mission is to help people discover places where they can be themselves and to empower the community to flourish. 2015 was a big year for Reddit. First off, we cleaned up many of our external policies including our Content Policy, Privacy Policy, and API terms. We also established internal policies for managing requests from law enforcement and governments. Prior to my return, [Reddit took an industry-changing stance on involuntary pornography](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2x0g9v/from_1_to_9000_communities_now_taking_steps_to/). Reddit is a collection of communities, and the moderators play a critical role shepherding these communities. It is our job to help them do this. We have shipped a [number of improvements](https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/new/) to these tools, and while we have a long way to go, I am happy to see steady progress. Spam and abuse threaten Reddit’s communities. We created a Trust and Safety team to focus on abuse at scale, which has the added benefit of freeing up our Community team to focus on the positive aspects of our communities. We are still in transition, but you should feel the impact of the change more as we progress. We know we have a lot to do here. I believe we have positioned ourselves to have a strong 2016. A phrase we will be using a lot around here is "Look Forward." Reddit has a long history, and it’s important to focus on the future to ensure we live up to our potential. Whether you access it from your desktop, a mobile browser, or a native app, we will work to make the Reddit product more engaging. Mobile in particular continues to be a priority for us. Our new Android app is going into beta today, and our new iOS app should follow it out soon. We receive many requests from law enforcement and governments. We take our stewardship of your data seriously, and we know transparency is important to you, which is why we are putting together a Transparency Report. This will be available in March. This year will see a lot of changes on Reddit. Recently we built an A/B testing system, which allows us to test changes to individual features scientifically, and we are excited to put it through its paces. Some changes will be big, others small and, inevitably, not everything will work, but all our efforts are towards making Reddit better. We are all redditors, and we are all driven to understand why Reddit works for some people, but not for others; which changes are working, and what effect they have; and to get into a rhythm of constant improvement. We appreciate your patience while we modernize Reddit. As always, Reddit would not exist without you, our community, so thank you. We are all excited about what 2016 has in store for us. –Steve edit: I'm off. Thanks for the feedback and questions. We've got a lot to deliver on this year, but the whole team is excited for what's in store. We've brought on a bunch of new people lately, but our biggest need is still hiring. If you're interested, please check out https://www.reddit.com/jobs.Introducing new API terms Today we are introducing standardized [API Terms of Use](/wiki/api). You, our community of developers, are important to us, and have been instrumental to the success of the Reddit platform. First and foremost, we want to reaffirm our commitment to providing (and improving!) a public API. There are a couple of notable changes to the API terms that I’d like to highlight. The first is that we are requesting all users of the API to register with us. This provides a point of contact for when we have important updates to share; provides a point of contact for when things go wrong; and helps us prevent abuse. We are also no longer requiring a special licensing agreement to use our API for commercial purposes. We do request that you seek approval for your monetization model in the registration process. We have added clarity about the types of things that the API is not intended for–namely applications that promote illegal activity, disrupt core Reddit functionality, or introduce security risks. But you weren’t doing any of these things anyway. We still require users of our API to comply with our User Agreement, Privacy Policy, API Usage Limits, and any other applicable laws or regulations. We will continue to require the use of OAuth2. We understand moving to OAuth2 can take time, so we are giving developers until March 17th to make this change. We look forward to working with you more to create great experiences for our communities. There are many wonderful projects built on our API, and we would love to see even more. Thank you for all that you do. You can contact the api@reddit.com alias to ask questions about the API service.We are updating our Privacy Policy (effective Jan 1, 2016) In a little over a month we’ll be updating our [Privacy Policy](https://www.reddit.com/help/privacypolicy). We know this is important to you, so I want to explain what has changed and why. Keeping control in your hands is paramount to us, and this is our first consideration any time we change our privacy policy. Our overarching principle continues to be to request as little personally identifiable information as possible. To the extent that we store such information, we do not share it generally. Where there are exceptions to this, notably when you have given us explicit consent to do so, or in response to legal requests, we will spell them out clearly. The new policy is functionally very similar to the previous one, but it’s shorter, simpler, and less repetitive. We have clarified what information we collect automatically (basically anything your browser sends us) and what we share with advertisers (nothing specific to your Reddit account). One notable change is that we are increasing the number of days we store IP addresses from 90 to 100 so we can measure usage across an entire quarter. In addition to internal analytics, the primary reason we store IPs is to fight spam and abuse. I believe in the future we will be able to accomplish this without storing IPs at all (e.g. with hashing), but we still need to work out the details. In addition to changes to our Privacy Policy, we are also beginning to roll out support for [Do Not Track](http://donottrack.us/). Do Not Track is an option you can enable in modern browsers to notify websites that you do not wish to be tracked, and websites can interpret it however they like (most ignore it). If you have Do Not Track enabled, we will not load any third-party analytics. We will keep you informed as we develop more uses for it in the future. Individually, you have control over what information you share with us and what your browser sends to us automatically. I encourage everyone to understand how browsers and the web work and what steps you can take to protect your own privacy. Notably, browsers allow you to disable [third-party cookies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Third-party_cookie), and you can customize your browser with a variety of privacy-related [extensions](http://lifehacker.com/the-best-browser-extensions-that-protect-your-privacy-479408034). We are proud that Reddit is home to many of the most open and genuine conversations online, and we know this is only made possible by your trust, without which we would not exist. We will continue to do our best to earn this trust and to respect your basic assumptions of privacy. Thank you for reading. I’ll be here for an hour to answer questions, and I'll check back in again the week of Dec 14th before the changes take effect. -Steve (spez) edit: Thanks for all the feedback. I'm off for now.CEO Steve here to answer more questions. It's been a little while since we've done this. Since we last talked, we've released a handful of [improvements for moderators](https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews); released a few [updates to AlienBlue](https://www.reddit.com/user/alien-blue); continue to work on the bigger mod/community tools (updates next week, I believe); hired a bunch of people, including two new [community](https://www.reddit.com/user/redtaboo) [managers](https://www.reddit.com/user/sodypop); and continue to make progress on our new mobile apps. There is a lot going on around here. Our most pressing priority is hiring, particularly engineers. If you're an engineer of any shape or size, please considering joining us. Email jobs@reddit.com if you're interested! update: I'm outta here. Thanks for the questions!Content Policy Update Today we are releasing an update to our [Content Policy](https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy). Our goal was to consolidate the various rules and policies that have accumulated over the years into a single set of guidelines we can point to. Thank you to all of you who provided feedback throughout this process. Your thoughts and opinions were invaluable. This is not the last time our policies will change, of course. They will continue to evolve along with Reddit itself. Our policies are not changing dramatically from what we have had in the past. One new concept is Quarantining a community, which entails applying a set of restrictions to a community so its content will only be viewable to those who explicitly opt in. We will Quarantine communities whose content would be considered extremely offensive to the average redditor. Today, in addition to applying Quarantines, we are banning a handful of communities that exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else. Our most important policy over the last ten years has been to allow just about anything so long as it does not prevent others from enjoying Reddit for what it is: the best place online to have truly authentic conversations. I believe these policies strike the right balance. update: I know some of you are upset because we banned *anything* today, but the fact of the matter is we spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with a handful of communities, which prevents us from working on things for the other 99.98% (literally) of Reddit. I'm off for now, thanks for your feedback. RIP my inbox.Good morning, I thought I'd give a quick update. I thought I'd start my day with a quick status update for you all. It's only been a couple weeks since my return, but we've got a lot going on. We are in a phase of emergency fixes to repair a number of longstanding issues that are causing all of us grief. I normally don't like talking about things before they're ready, but because many of you are asking what's going on, and have been asking for a long time before my arrival, I'll share what we're up to. Under active development: * Content Policy. We're consolidating all our rules into one place. We won't release this formally until we have the tools to enforce it. * Quarantine the communities we don't want to support * Improved banning for both admins and moderators (a less sneaky alternative to shadowbanning) * Improved ban-evasion detection techniques (to make the former possible). * Anti-brigading research (what techniques are working to coordinate attacks) * AlienBlue bug fixes * AlienBlue improvements * Android app Next up: * Anti-abuse and harassment (e.g. preventing PM harassment) * Anti-brigading * Modmail improvements As you can see, lots on our plates right now, but the team is cranking, and we're excited to get this stuff shipped as soon as possible! I'll be hanging around in the comments for an hour or so. update: I'm off to work for now. Unlike you, work for me doesn't consist of screwing around on Reddit all day. Thanks for chatting!TIL it's Orville Redenbacher's birthday. Let's talk content. AMA. We started Reddit to be—as we said back then with our tongues in our cheeks—“The front page of the Internet.” Reddit was to be a source of enough news, entertainment, and random distractions to fill an entire day of pretending to work, every day. Occasionally, someone would start spewing hate, and I would ban them. The community rarely questioned me. When they did, they accepted my reasoning: “because I don’t want that content on our site.” As we grew, I became increasingly uncomfortable projecting my worldview on others. More practically, I didn’t have time to pass judgement on everything, so I decided to judge nothing. So we entered a phase that can best be described as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. This worked temporarily, but once people started paying attention, few liked what they found. A handful of painful controversies usually resulted in the removal of a few communities, but with inconsistent reasoning and no real change in policy. One thing that isn't up for debate is why Reddit exists. Reddit is a place to have open and authentic discussions. The reason we’re careful to restrict speech is because people have more open and authentic discussions when they aren't worried about the speech police knocking down their door. When our purpose comes into conflict with a policy, we make sure our purpose wins. As Reddit has grown, we've seen additional examples of how unfettered free speech can make Reddit a less enjoyable place to visit, and can even cause people harm outside of Reddit. Earlier this year, [Reddit took a stand and banned non-consensual pornography](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2x0g9v/from_1_to_9000_communities_now_taking_steps_to/). This was largely accepted by the community, and the world is a better place as a result (Google and Twitter have followed suit). Part of the reason this went over so well was because there was a very clear line of what was unacceptable. Therefore, today we're announcing that we're considering a set of additional restrictions on what people can say on Reddit—or at least say on our public pages—in the spirit of our mission. These types of content are prohibited [1]: * Spam * Anything illegal (i.e. things that are actually illegal, such as copyrighted material. Discussing illegal activities, such as drug use, is not illegal) * Publication of someone’s private and confidential information * Anything that incites harm or violence against an individual or group of people (it's ok to say "I don't like this group of people." It's not ok to say, "I'm going to kill this group of people.") * Anything that [harasses, bullies, or abuses](http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/promote-ideas-protect-people.html) an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)[2] * Sexually suggestive content featuring minors There are other types of content that are specifically classified: * Adult content must be flagged as NSFW (Not Safe For Work). Users must opt into seeing NSFW communities. This includes pornography, which is difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. * Similar to NSFW, another type of content that is difficult to define, but you know it when you see it, is the content that violates a common sense of decency. This classification will require a login, must be opted into, will not appear in search results or public listings, and will generate no revenue for Reddit. We've had the NSFW classification since nearly the beginning, and it's worked well to separate the pornography from the rest of Reddit. We believe there is value in letting all views exist, even if we find some of them abhorrent, as long as they don’t pollute people’s enjoyment of the site. Separation and opt-in techniques have worked well for keeping adult content out of the common Redditor’s listings, and we think it’ll work for this other type of content as well. No company is perfect at addressing these hard issues. We’ve spent the last few days here discussing and agree that an approach like this allows us as a company to repudiate content we don’t want to associate with the business, but gives individuals freedom to consume it if they choose. This is what we will try, and if the hateful users continue to spill out into mainstream reddit, we will try more aggressive approaches. Freedom of expression is important to us, but it’s more important to us that we at reddit be true to our mission. [1] This is basically what we have right now. I’d appreciate your thoughts. A very clear line is important and our language should be precise. [2] Wording we've used elsewhere is this "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them." edit: added an example to clarify our concept of "harm" edit: attempted to clarify harassment based on our existing policy update: I'm out of here, everyone. Thank you so much for the feedback. I found this very productive. I'll check back later.Content Policy update. AMA Thursday, July 16th, 1pm pst. Hey Everyone, There has been a lot of discussion lately —on reddit, in the news, and here internally— about reddit’s policy on the more offensive and obscene content on our platform. Our top priority at reddit is to develop a comprehensive Content Policy and the tools to enforce it. The overwhelming majority of content on reddit comes from wonderful, creative, funny, smart, and silly communities. That is what makes reddit great. There is also a dark side, communities whose purpose is reprehensible, and we don’t have any obligation to support them. And we also believe that some communities currently on the platform should not be here at all. Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen: These are very complicated issues, and we are putting a lot of thought into it. It’s something we’ve been thinking about for quite some time. We haven’t had the tools to enforce policy, but now we’re building those tools and reevaluating our policy. We as a community need to decide together what our values are. To that end, I’ll be hosting an AMA on Thursday 1pm pst to present our current thinking to you, the community, and solicit your feedback. PS - I won’t be able to hang out in comments right now. Still meeting everyone here!I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of reddit. AMA. Hey Everyone, I'm Steve, aka spez, the new CEO around here. For those of you who don't know me, I founded reddit ten years ago with my college roommate Alexis, aka kn0thing. Since then, reddit has grown far larger than my wildest dreams. I'm so proud of what it's become, and I'm very excited to be back. I know we have a lot of work to do. One of my first priorities is to re-establish a relationship with the community. This is the first of what I expect will be many AMAs (I'm thinking I'll do these weekly). My proof: it's me! edit: I'm done for now. Time to get back to work. Thanks for all the questions!Penn State, thanks for showing me a great time this weekend! In light of the recent elections, a friend of mine is starting a company to facilitate political campaigns and is in need of mobile developers. If you're interested, PM me, and I'll put you in touch. Preferably in the Boston area.Hipmunk needs help with customer feedback! http://www.hipmunk.com Hipmunk is a new travel search startup making it easier to find plane tickets. We launched a couple of days ago and have received a lot of great [press](http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/19/technology/hipmunk/). Since launch we have been inundated with feedback emails and chat support requests. We need someone to answer customers' questions and feedback through email and live chat. The ideal candidate is web-savvy, friendly, and has an endlessly positive attitude. Hours and location are flexible. We are based in San Francisco. If interested, please email jobs-8-2010@hipmunk.comHey everyone! This is the new flight search startup I've been working on the past few months. Hope you like! Fare Thee Well, reddit! We need more moderators on this reddit. Nominate people here, and hopefully we can improve the spam false-positive issue that has been bothering you all. We need people who are willing to watch the spam listing for this reddit and make sure it is only spam that is blocked.A couple of changes... We're working on a couple of things that will hopefully help avoid future eruptions like the one of the past few days: * We're improving the popularity metric for reddits. Specifically, attacking a reddit will not boost its popularity. This will take some time, but we'll get there. * No mercy for attacking a reddit. Starting now, anyone who mass-downvotes every link on a reddit will have their voting privileges removed. **FAQ** *Why was /r/atheism removed from the default reddit list for non-logged-in users again?* For the past few months the default reddits have been the top ten most popular reddits, which are automatically computed each morning from the previous day's activity. /r/atheism went through a couple of weeks under attack from other users causing it to appear more popular than it should have been. At the time this was an isolated issue, so we didn't do much about it. When the same thing happened to /r/moviecritic, we addressed the issue by removing the two less popular reddits from the list by hand. Given the two bullet points above, this will no longer be necessary. *Why was /r/atheism removed from the top bar as well?* This was a side-effect of how we removed it from the front page. We used the same function for both returning the list of reddits for the front page and returning the list of reddits for the top bar. It was a mistake, and is fixed now. *Why is the /r/christianity reddit so popular all of a sudden?* Contrary to popular belief, this isn't my or anyone else at reddit's handy-work. It is because a handful of /r/atheism users are downvoting every story on /r/christianity. As I have previously mentioned, this actually makes a reddit more popular, an unintended side-effect of how we rank reddits. I'm working on undoing the attack, but this will take time. Of course, I will also undo any attacks against any other reddits as well. *Will /r/atheism ever appear on the front page?* If it gets more popular, it will be possible. *But it has more than 50,000 subscribers, it must be popular!* Subscribers aren't a factor in a reddit's popularity. It's popularity is determined by level of activity. *You said something previously about not all content being appropriate for the front page. What's the deal with that?* In the past we chose the front-page reddits by hand, and in the future we might do that again, but it's not something we're actively working on. There are over 25,000 communities on reddit, and only 10 appear on the front page. It's nothing personal. We want to have a large variety of content on the front page to demonstrate that there is something here for everyone. If we start engineering the front page again, it'll be clear what we're doing, and how we're doing it. *Everything you say is a lie. You clearly hate atheists. Why should I believe you now?* Ever since Alexis and I founded reddit.com over four years ago, we've worked hard to make this a place where anyone can come and share new and interesting links. We've (and me, specifically) have made mistakes, but we've done our best to fix them and move on, and I think our actions over the past four years speak for themselves. 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