Indeed; one could say that he himself did not do his homework by reading the entirety of a text.

Indeed.

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Why "must" it? Can't we just say sensible things like "New evidence and thought experiments suggest that…"?

I'd have thought an upvote could replace this comment.

Completely seconded.

If this evolves into a PhotoShop tool, then hurrah. If not, then I will in most likelihood never use it.

It looks like it has all the basic photo editing features in addition to the gimmicky features like stickers. It seems useful to me if you don't have Photoshop (and you are using Picasaweb).

Did you not interpret it as "ideas having sex"? How else could you interpret it?

But to be analogous to "ideas having sex" it'd have to be "thoughts drinking" or "ideas showering".

Ideas are always having sex. And I'm usually the one that has to clean up the whiteboard afterward.

I will never donate.

But what if the semantics change and it's called "Subscribing"? Does that affect your assessment? I think a lot of folks are treating this as a donation (which is a side-effect of them using PayPal for this) and that's tainting their perception of what this is all about.

I would not subscribe either. Reddit can easily make enough money from these 280m pageviews a month without resorting to these measures.

why not? (not judging, just wondering)

Conde Naste is a huge corporation, and if they want to let their purchase go down the toilet... well, I'm sorry, but I won't be picking up their slack.

I wouldn't donate either for those reasons, but one thing to keep in mind is that the codebase running reddit is open source: http://github.com/reddit/reddit

They pushed to the public Git in a month, but the donations users are making will go towards improving that codebase. It can be used to deploy your own (and hopefully more scalable) version of reddit.

Wow - you're awesome. Fly that flag!

That's only for people who visit your site, though, people from places like /r/programming. Let me tell you, there are divides between those who are savvy enough to understand places like /r/programming and those who aren't. I'd estimate reddit's overall adblock usage at being just the same as the rest of the news aggregation sites.

Why do I see posts with negative or zero points if there is no downvote button?

You need to first be blessed by the Holy Spirit, aka Paul Graham. Otherwise, you might even see the buttons, but your votes have no effect because you're an Outcast.

you need a certain karma level to be able to downvote

edit: it used to be 100, I dont know if its still the current threshold

Ah, ok thanks. Is there a way I can see unread replies to my comments without having to manually go to all the comments I've seen?

Threads link in the header shows you all the comments you have made and replies to them.

Thanks.

I just got downvoting at around 200 karma.

I think it is more complicated than that. I see for example posters I can down vote and other posters I can not.

This probably isn't the full picture, but you can't vote down comments left directly in response to your own comments (for obvious reasons), nor can you vote down comments over a certain age or that are already of a very low score.