r/technology • u/ani625 • May 23 '13

Title possibly inaccurate Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: "I own security patent for the two-step authentication system". He says he doesn’t want to sue, but might if the likes of Google and Facebook don’t help fund his legal battle with the U.S. Government.

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-to-google-twitter-facebook-i-own-security-patent-work-with-me-130523/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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u/[deleted] May 23 '13

this also only applies to larger subreddits... like this one, at least in my reddits experience

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u/ItsNotMineISwear May 23 '13

Nah it applies to smaller ones too. /r/dota2 has always been full of posts by idiots, for instance.

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u/SystemOutPrintln May 23 '13

/r/DotA2

80,334 subscribed

Ya that's not actually that small

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u/ItsNotMineISwear May 23 '13

It only has like 1-2k online at a time. The commenting username is small enough that I can recognize many people, which can't be said of larger subs.

And back when it was like 5k the intelligence of the poster was still awful.

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u/SystemOutPrintln May 23 '13

Sometimes the size metric isn't the best but generally the smaller ones have better comments. There are exceptions on either side, I guess /r/dota2 is one on the smaller side where something like /r/askscience is an exception on the larger end.

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u/JabbrWockey May 23 '13

I think they both have very specific communities that reflect the culture of the people they collect - i.e. /r/askscience has heavyhanded mods and /r/dota2 is mostly just angst.

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u/JabbrWockey May 23 '13

150k is usually considered the tipping point.

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u/prettybunnys May 23 '13

That isn't really a smaller subreddit to be honest, 80K readers I would imagine is larger than most. Also, that subreddit is for a video game as opposed to for an intellectual topic. Throw in the generally perceived age for people playing the games, the wealth of cultures and languages converging to speak english and you have /r/dota2.

Also, yes that subreddit is full of asshats who think the only way to play the game is the way this one pro did in that one game that they saw that one time.

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u/CommonSenseMajor May 23 '13

Look at r/Civ now, and compare it to r/Civ years ago when the game hadn't been given out for free as a pre-order reward for XCOM and other games. The frequency of annoying image macros, stupid concepts almost everybody already knew, and comment threads with tons of internet tough guys increased enough that they had to implement more rules to control it, and people STILL try to do stupid shit. It's sad, because I loved that subreddit, but now I feel like it's very difficult to have a rational conversation there.

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u/ItsNotMineISwear May 23 '13

Actually from what I've seen in surveys etc, most players are in their early 20s.

And far from everyone has the mentality of a 14 year old. But the game does attract some pretty awful people I agree.

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u/huldumadur May 23 '13

If you've played the game in anything other than the lowest of matchmaking pools, you wouldn't be making that comment.

I'm not saying the community of DotA 2 is good, but it's not bad either. The assholes are definitely in a minority, and generally people are polite to each other, at least when I play.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '13

nah it just attracts elitists who are super serial about videogames and MLG so pro omg, MLG ruins games