Reddit Cracks Down on Offensive and Innapropriate Subreddits
Today the community site Reddit finally banned several controversial forums, including /r/Rapingwomen and the racist forums associated with /r/Coontown. In an update today, Reddit says that content or an entire subreddit may be banned if it (and this is a direct quote from Reddit):
- Is illegal
- Is involuntary pornography
- Encourages or incites violence
- Threatens, harasses, or bullies or encourages others to do so
- Is personal and confidential information
- Impersonates someone in a misleading or deceptive manner
- Is spam
There are also three categories of “behavior” that Reddit has prohibited:
- Asking for votes or engaging in vote manipulation
- Breaking Reddit or doing anything that interferes with normal use of Reddit
- Creating multiple accounts to evade punishment or avoid restrictions
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YouTube announces an end to the 301+ View Count
YouTube videos' view counter famously gets stuck at "301+" views, but that beautifully ambiguous state is going away forever. YouTube announced this morning that it's doing away with 301+ and will start to keep video views more up to date. It's long frozen the counter after 301 so that it can take some time to filter out any fake views from robots, but doing so has meant keeping the counter really imprecise while thousands of legitimate views come in. YouTube says that it'll now continue to add new views as they happen, as long as it's sure that they're genuine; views that YouTube suspects as coming from bots will be added later if they're cleared. This should help video creators get a better perception of how their video is doing early on, but mostly, it'll mean viewers saying goodbye to knowing that a video is brand new because it's stuck at 301+.
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UPDATE: Surveillance Footage of hitchBOT's Destruction Faked
YouTube star Jesse Wellens of PrankvsPrank and his friend Ed Bassmaster revealed in a new video how they faked the footage. However, Wellens denies that they were the ones who destroyed hitchBOT. "I edited the video to look like a true 'surveillance video' and I sent it off to the news because they had all been asking me for interviews and information. The reporters began reporting, showing the footage, and the alleged killer of this so-called famous robot!" wrote Wellens in the YouTube post. Wellens and Bassmaster were the last people to have picked up the robot on what was meant to be a cross-country trip. "We were upset about the vandalism of hitchBOT and went in search to find any surveillance footage of the area that may have existed, so we could find out who the killer was!" wrote Wellens. "We had no luck, and then the idea sparked for us to create fake surveillance footage of 'Always Teste,' Ed's character and PRANK THE NEWS!" he wrote. In a statement released Wednesday morning, hitchBOT's creators reiterated that they have "no interest in pressing charges or finding the people who vandalized the robot." "While the family is saddened by the loss of hitchBOT, they do need to return to their human lives," reads the statement on hitchBOT's Facebook page. "They wish to remember the good times and encourage hitchBOT's friends and fans to do the same."
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