I will only speak for myself but I left reddit after reading this:
http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web

Those on reddit might not aware of this story because rather than deal with
this issue in a substantive way on an institutional level, reddit decided
to ban Gawker links on their site:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/11/reddit_bans_gawker_links_over_adrian_chen_story_about_porn_purveyor_violentacres.html

Mita


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Corey A Harper <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> FWIW, the folks at Harvard's Library Innovation Lab have an instance
> of the software behind HackerNews specifically for library stuff.
> http://news.librarycloud.org/
>
> It's been pretty pretty low traffic, but the infrastructure's there
> and I'm sure we'd be welcome.
>
> Also, lobst.er's looks like it might be my next destination when hn's
> signal/noise ratio gets unbearable.... Wish someone would fork the hn
> android app so that it'll work with arbitrary arc-based fora...
>
> -Corey
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Mark A. Matienzo
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Shaun Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >> I only suggested and created the subreddit because it's easy to set up
> and
> >> requires very little maintenance.  I, for one, am open to suggestions
> for
> >> tools with similar functionality, so long as they don't require too much
> >> maintenance.
> >>
> >> Looking at the Hacker News source code... anyone know Arc? :)
> >
> > For what it's worth, https://lobste.rs (an improved, invite-only
> > Hacker News-clone) has its source up on Github - it's a Rails app:
> > https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
> >
> > Mark
>
>
>
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