Note: none of the following is an endorsement of the r/python_ideas idea. I'm just responding point-by-point to what you wrote.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:47 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > - I can have as many email identities as I like; I can only have one > Reddit identity at a time. Do you mean because your browser doesn't support per-window or per-tab cookie jars? I'm pretty sure there are browsers that do. (I use multiple instances of the same browser with different home directories to solve this general problem, but I think there are other solutions.) Also, many clients (including RES in a browser) support switching accounts by choosing from a drop-down list. > If I want to keep my Reddit persona seperate from my Python persona, I > need to create multiple accounts (possibly violating the terms of > service?) and remember to log out of one and into the other. It isn't a violation of the TOS and it's extremely common and people are open about it. It is a TOS violation to, for instance, up/downvote the same post/comment with two of your accounts. > - Too difficult (impossible?) to keep local human-readable copies of > either the discussion thread, or even your own posts. I agree the Reddit client situation is pretty sad compared to the email client situation, but non-browser clients do exist. You don't have to use Reddit in a browser. RES lets you save things locally, but you are still stuck viewing them in a browser. > - I have to explicitly go to the site to see what is happening, rather > than have the posts automatically arrive in my inbox. Well, you can get an RSS feed of any subreddit or comment thread and stick that in your email client. It's not perfect I agree. >From another of your messages: > Core developer Brett Cannon has taken up editing other people's comments > on github if he doesn't approve of their tone. > [...] > Github (currently) provides the full history of edits to each post. > Reddit just has a flag that shows you whether a post was edited or not. > Isn't technology wonderful? Reddit doesn't allow anyone but the original user to edit posts or comments. Moderators (ordinary users who are selected per subreddit like IRC ops) can only remove the entire text of a comment (or text post) and put "[removed]" in its place. They can also make posts no longer appear on the subreddit, but they continue to be viewable if you have the direct url. There was a scandal in which a Reddit co-founder admitted to editing someone's comment. I think he was able to do that because he had direct database access. If someone has direct database access then of course a full edit history won't help since you can bypass that along with everything else. I am definitely a fan of the distributed nature of email. However, a rogue admin of python.org or their registrar or ISP or some Internet switch could alter emails to this list without leaving any edit history. Proper authentication could solve a lot of that, but as long as we're dreaming, it's only fair to make Reddit distributed and not-for-profit too. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
