ListNook

JPOOPOO Apr 14, 2010 +28

The reason I left digg and came to listnook was because it was like a popularity contest where everyone would just tell their friends they submitted a story and they would circle jerk themselves with digg upvotes. That and the f****** rankings, it was more like a dumb game than a news aggregate site. I'm not saying this new friends page thing is going to turn listnook into digg, but if it was my choice I would remove all friend-related things from listnook. I don't use those features and I never will, but that is why I left digg. I guess what I'm trying to say is, the easier you make it for people to circle jerk each other, the quicker listnook is going into the shithole. edit for clarity: I have been aware of the 'friends' thing that has been here for a while but am referring to the feature introduced above.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +15

I can't say much about our anti-cheating/ring code (for obvious reasons), but suffice it to say we take this sort of thing into account.

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elshizzo Apr 14, 2010 +13

good. I'm with JPOOP. I used to be a digg user, and I left there to come here largely because digg has been ruined by the friend system. Certain people figured out how to game the system by just friending a lot of people and friends simply dugg their friend's stuff. As a result, thats what created the power users c*** over there [and a couple other reasons, like the recommended engine] - so basically only a small % of people can actually frontpage. The reason I came to listnook was that here, anyone can frontpage. It's all about the story, and the user who submits the story isn't important. Please don't let this change

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BevansDesign Apr 15, 2010 +8

Yea, this is exactly my concern. This feature could ruin Listnook if done incorrectly.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +1

Digg actively encourages this kind of behavior with their shout feature. Basically when you submit you can send an email to all of your friends that will ask them to go digg your submission. Maybe things have changed, it has been a couple years now since I was really active there. But, I remember that was when I started feeling uncomfortable there. Listnook seems just the opposite. As KeyserSosa stated, they are trying to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

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RobbStark Apr 15, 2010 +1

I've never used Digg, but I'm assuming their friend system is a two-way street like Facebook? On listnook you can't see who has friended you, nor do you get notified about it. It seems like that would make a big difference in preventing something similar happening on listnook.

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elshizzo Apr 15, 2010 +1

yeh its a two way street but what made it really bad was their recommendation engine, which basically feeds you stuff from people who's stuff you've dugg before. It makes the power users even more powerful because everyone has already dugg their stuff, now their stuff gets even more hits.

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JPOOPOO Apr 15, 2010 +1

I read your replies to the other similar posts about this topic when I was making my post but I felt it was sufficiently necessary to let you guys know why I left that community and came here. I love that you guys read these comments and actually listen to what the people who use this site have to say about it, and that is one of the reasons I probably won't ever leave. On a side note, another reason I think listnook is better is that you have the ability to create your own sublistnooks, as opposed to digg where you only have premade ones. There are other reasons listnook is better, but right now I am not in rant mode so I don't know exactly what they are. Thanks for listening, KeyserSosa

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +99

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +119

It might be the death of us too depending on what the database thinks of it.

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f8andbethere Apr 14, 2010 +16

Oblivious site admin: "Yay! More traffic and site stickiness!" (from DB Admin's corner):" ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH"

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +31

There are only 4 of us and I'm a nerf's throw away from the db admin.

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f8andbethere Apr 14, 2010 +3

I'm surprised he isn't braining you right now for implementing this great new feature. (It is cool, but damn, things feel slow.)

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +14

The whole thing is actually cached and pretty speedy by itself. Unfortunately, our page refresh rate just went up an awful lot so...

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f8andbethere Apr 14, 2010 +7

Exactly :) The feature itself is low-cost but the added site stickiness is hell.

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Azured Apr 14, 2010 +73

Sweet mother of mercy. This thing could kill us all.

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Lut3s Apr 14, 2010 +20

It's like the kraken, except *real.*

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Azured Apr 14, 2010 +21

What the hell do you mean *except*?

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myheaditches Apr 14, 2010 +20

IAMA Kraken, AMA

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Clapyourhandssayyeah Apr 14, 2010 +8

iA iA Listnook Ftaghn

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FurryMoistAvenger Apr 15, 2010 +1

I was gonna ask to see how you're handling the queries. I see you're going with the "let's see" method :) However, please do **NOT** get philosophical with your processors about true randomness. They'll get angry. So very angry.

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lolbacon Apr 14, 2010 +8

Hopefully it steers some more traffic toward [Muslim Faggots](http://www.listnook.com/r/MuslimFaggots/). We've really been hurting for content recently.

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Apollo2010 Apr 15, 2010 +10

probabaly because your a bunch of fcking morons

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TheJuanReyes Apr 14, 2010 +5

tell me about it :C I might as well go buy more sweatpants.

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TooSmugToFail Apr 16, 2010 +2

>That **Randnsfw** button shall be the death of me. Fixed.

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lolbacon Apr 14, 2010 +8

I don't mean to shit on your excellent work, but doesn't a friends page just make it insanely easy for the kinds of circlejerk upvote cliques that completely destroy communities like this and end up being used only by spammers and poweruser fellatio parties? I distinctly remember a dramatic decline in the quality of Digg when they unveiled the friends feature and it pretty much sealed the deal on my departure from that site. Unless of course you're using it to troll spammers and upvote circles into a false sense of security, then BAM... instant cockpunch. If that's the case, by all means go on.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +14

It's been a feature of the codebase for more than 4 years, we've just never put a spotlight on it. > Unless of course you're using it to troll spammers and upvote circles into a false sense of security, then BAM... instant cockpunch. :ahem: we don't talk about our anti-cheating code. :ahem:

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Quady Apr 15, 2010 +3

You said this answers my question, but as far as I can see this is just saying "While, we've had this feature for quite a while". But with it's new prominence, won't this make it easier for this sort of activity to begin? And frankly, as well, I'm wondering if having this feature itself is a bad idea. Part of me understands that people actually do want to see what their listnook friends are doing, but I worry that Listnook will turn into a site where friend circles voting each other up is the norm, not the exception. Basically, are you guys doing anything to deal with that issue? And have you considered removing this feature for those reasons?

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raldi Apr 15, 2010 +4

No, yes, and it isn't necessary, in that order.

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legokid201 Apr 15, 2010 +2

Correct me if im wrong but you can't see people who friend you. You can only see people that you friend? If this is the case I can't see to much circlejerking going on.

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Quady Apr 16, 2010 +2

Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks. Yeah, that assuages most of my worries.

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raldi Apr 14, 2010 +10

Upvoted to ∞!

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reseph Apr 15, 2010 +7

Damn admin powers!

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rkcr Apr 14, 2010 +12

Are there any threshholds that a listnook must cross before they show up on r/random? In other words, am I just lucky in finding a bunch of listnooks that aren't completely devoid of life, or are there some secret constraints driving the random listnook link?

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +15

We picked top 1000.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +10

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +2

That's been my exact experience using the 'random' button. So far it hasn't taken me to anything that's had any new content in the last 6 months. I guess it depends on what you like. If you want to read interesting articles and don't care about the comments (or if the articles are at all topical) then you might dig it; if you like discussing the articles it's a waste of time.

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seanalltogether Apr 14, 2010 +5

I just landed in an empty listnook. http://www.listnook.com/r/GnoshNosh/

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piratelax40 Apr 14, 2010 +13

Is there a way to make the random listnook SFW? I clicked on it 3 times, of which 2 of them were NSFW: Amateur_girls and Bondage. Cool idea for sure, but makes it unusable at work/public places.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +33

It is supposed to respect your account's over-18 setting (in your preferences). EDIT: on second thought, I'm tweaking it so that no over-18 stuff by default. We'll make a `P***!` button at some point instead.

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line10gotoline10 Apr 14, 2010 +55

The P*** button should be your FIRST PRIORITY!!!!!!111

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +23

Done.

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Godspiral Apr 15, 2010 +1

done = priority made? no obvious way to enable in listnook bar. (i don't subscribe to any, but have over 18 checked)

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KeyserSosa Apr 15, 2010 +3

Go (for example) [here (nsfw)](/r/nsfw) and notice the difference.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +1

I was sent to a NSFW page, even though I went to r/random http://www.listnook.com/r/hentaiseiyoku/

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KeyserSosa Apr 15, 2010 +3

That's b/c the mod there didn't set the listnook to be over 18. tsk tsk. And now fixed.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +2

gotcha, thanks for the hard work you put into listnook!

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kyles08 Apr 14, 2010 +9

Thank you for being so awesome. You guys are the reason this community hasn't completely devolved into a stinking mess.

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jklmnb Apr 14, 2010 +3

wat? where? edit: ok i read your link [here](http://www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/bqzaw/rrandom_is_now_builtin_and_we_added_some_new/c0o52p9). thanks!

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alvarp Apr 15, 2010 +2

Is there a way to add **AllNSFW** to balance **All**? So you could browse all **NSFW** content just as you could browse all **SFW** one?

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

Yet if its going in the top bar don't name it "P***!"

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +7

Added the feature. It's called "randnsfw" and it only appears if you are already on an over 18 listnook.

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noweezernoworld Apr 15, 2010 +15

So /r/randnsfw **isn't** Atlas Shrugged p***?

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ultrafetzig Apr 15, 2010 +3

You mean Atlas Shagged?

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RedHaze Apr 14, 2010 +3

I landed on a h***** sub-listnook (I think it was yonkoi h***** or something like that, I had to close it quick because I was at work) when I hit the random button straight from this topic. Is there a way to report a sub-listnook that is 18+ but not marked as such?

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

Awesome. First place I landed was /r/Shooting. Edit: Found a dead spammer and their sublistnook. http://www.listnook.com/r/Kristronline/

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KBPrinceO Apr 15, 2010 +2

In another respect, I had to un-friend violentacrez since a number of his submissions are nsfw, which is a damn shame because I enjoy his comments. I can understand that the friends link wouldn't filter by nsfw automatically... I'm not sure where I'm going with this other than that violentacrez may either have less or more friends shortly.

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KeyserSosa Apr 15, 2010 +3

The current problem with filtering NSFW stuff on /r/all and /r/friends is that NSFW-ness is either determined from its membership of an over-18 listnook, or from qualities of the title determined at render time. Since it isn't stored per link on the db, we can't easily filter for it. That said, a carefully applied output filter should do the trick there. Stay tuned.

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KBPrinceO Apr 15, 2010 +2

Thanks for taking it in to consideration! We all appreciate the effort that you guys are putting forth.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +1

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +2

Ha! Did I break your latest greasemonkey script?

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Nebu Apr 19, 2010 +1

>We'll make a P***! button at some point instead. I'M STILL WAITING!!!!

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ex_oh_ex_oh Apr 14, 2010 +3

Cool. So does that mean that if you temporarily change your settings to that of under-18, then the NSFW listnooks don't come up?

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danukeru Apr 14, 2010 +2

You were lucky...the best I had to make due with was /r/ronpaul, out of all my first rolls... *rezip pants*

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

My first random was [http://www.listnook.com/r/anal_sex/](http://www.listnook.com/r/anal_sex/)

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silverhydra Apr 14, 2010 +7

Between this (r/random) and putting a random Wikipedia page as my home page; I will never get any work done again.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +16

Game idea: find the shortest number of hops between the random listnook and the random wikipedia page using only links from listnook and wikipedia pages.

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rabidcow Apr 14, 2010 +9

Oh, sure. [Make me a liar.](http://www.listnook.com/r/listnook.com/comments/bnq5n/a_link_that_will_take_you_to_a_random_sublistnook/c0noaxj)

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +10

Liar, or prophet?

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TokenMormon Apr 15, 2010 +3

Rabidcow's link took me to exmormon. Yours took me to jello. How random is this?

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Measure76 Apr 14, 2010 +3

Those are both the same thing.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +4

Ulvund should get something like the 'white hat' trophy for his suggestion. Just sayin'.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +5

We're working on a dev trophy for just this sort of thing.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +5

Awesome! Do I get a trophy for my suggestion to create a trophy? /joke

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TheLoneHoot Apr 15, 2010 +2

Do I get a trophy for [suggesting to him to ask you guys to put it up top](http://www.listnook.com/r/somethingimade/comments/bnq4b/a_link_that_will_take_you_to_a_random_sublistnook/c0npvuj)?

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +2

So, in other words you're doodling little pictures?

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catmoon Apr 14, 2010 +2

**Could there be a SFW option for random?** I was so excited and went straight to r/random as my coworker walked into the office and it took me to r/bondage! He wasn't looking but I am now super paranoid. I should probably close the page...

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +3

Fixed. Random will never send you to over 18.

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herewegoagainagain Apr 15, 2010 +2

Random sent me to http://www.listnook.com/r/models just moments ago

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llnk Apr 14, 2010 +2

I found a glitch in the Friends sublistnook. if you remove a friend from your list, their submissions still appear in the sublistnook.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +3

There's a 5 minute cache on those pages. They'll disappear shortly thereafter.

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mrgames2 Apr 14, 2010 +2

What have you stumbled upon here? Also, I hope the links are pre-filtered by you in some way to prevent links to malicious or viral sites from being accessed this way. You might have to re-name it RR for "Russian R*******".

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +4

better to have stumbled upon something than to have dugg it up.

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Quady Apr 14, 2010 +3

So, I have a worry/issue. This "Friends" thing. Doesn't this push us too far towards the Digg poweruser situation? It seems to almost be an invitation to "Hey, upvote your friends!". I'd really hate Listnook to go down that route.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +2

please make the bold text actual links.

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KeyserSosa Apr 15, 2010 +5

Like that?

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Measure76 Apr 14, 2010 +56

I was expecting the worst with /r/random, and got /r/politicalhumor. not so bad. Then I clicked on /r/friends and found out one of my friends posts gay p*** to listnook on a regular basis. Or in other words, my experience so far is that /r/friends is far more NSFW than /r/random.

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UnnamedPlayer Apr 14, 2010 +13

Maybe he is trying to tell you something.

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Measure76 Apr 14, 2010 +13

I don't think he knows that he's on my friends list.

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UnnamedPlayer Apr 15, 2010 +14

Ah that's exactly the kind of relationship I have with a girl who works in the office just below ours.

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Measure76 Apr 15, 2010 +3

heh, have an upvote. Unlike facebook you don't have to mutally confirm friend status here. I just add everyone who posts to [my listnook](http://exmormon.listnook.com) to my friends list so that I see their names oranged up elsewhere on listnook.

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devotedpupa Apr 15, 2010 +3

You have a friend that posts gay p***? K****

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thegrott Apr 14, 2010 +1

Why does the top bar not appear on this sub-listnook? http://www.listnook.com/r/Graviga/ I was trying out the random feature, and hit a dead end.

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KeyserSosa Apr 14, 2010 +2

Custom CSS on that listnook. There's very little we can do about that, though you can try this trick: http://www.listnook.com/r/Graviga+null

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Random Apr 14, 2010 +151

I really appreciate all the attention - I'm blushing - but I'd prefer to be inconspicuous on Listnook. I'm not sure what it means that I'm now 'built-in' either...

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +24

>I'm not sure what it means that I'm now 'built-in' either... Oh man, you do not want to know.

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Measure76 Apr 14, 2010 +7

Listnookor for 4 years and you never bothered to register /r/random?

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Random Apr 14, 2010 +78

That would have been 'Predictable' not 'Random'

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Measure76 Apr 14, 2010 +6

Good point.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +1

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KeyserSosa Apr 15, 2010 +2

It's a "system" listnook which has all of the sponsored links.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +1

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OMGASQUIRREL Apr 15, 2010 +3

LOOK! A SQUIRREL!

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +27

>EDIT 2: added RANDNSFW to balance out the over 18 restrictions, *if that's your thing*. STOP JUDGING ME!

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youngluck Apr 15, 2010 +5

Just out of curiosity... I don't have a randnsfw button. How do I implement it?

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +3

Visit a [NSFW](http://www.listnook.com/r/Boobies/) listnook and next to the random buttom there should be a [RANDNSFW](http://www.listnook.com/r/randnsfw/) button.

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Langshi Apr 14, 2010 +320

Was anyone else expecting the worst when they saw /r/random?

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +15

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naixn Apr 17, 2010 +3

Here is how your comment looks like on listnook for iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/Ev06P.jpg

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just_some_redditor Apr 14, 2010 +5

Oh, God. I spend enough time on here as it is, and that's just surfing through the front page and some of my subs. If I'm going to start living on here, I'll need a place to stay. Someone will need to create [/r/PulloutCouch](http://www.listnook.com/r/pulloutcouch). Edit: I preemptively created it, if only for myself.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

I have joined you on said couch. good thing it is virtual and has exactly as much space as we need at any time.

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deadapostle Apr 14, 2010 +17

I just think it's funny that they added this random thing instead of fixing search. It's like they *want* us to be lost in here.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +36

Yes this is a dangerous path for listnook to go on.

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Azured Apr 14, 2010 +76

Then who was phone?

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IAMAMOTHERFUCKER-AMA Apr 14, 2010 +34

I ALWAYS upvote this meme. I don't know why.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +20

Is it because you're a m***********?

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +2

No, but interestingly it was his dedicated upvoting of this meme that led to him being officially inducted into the IAMAMOTHERFUCKER Union.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +6

too late.

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joe2100 Apr 14, 2010 +100

r/tards :)

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Scarker Apr 15, 2010 +49

I got /r/YoureAnIdiotIfYouGotHereByRandom/ Kind of hurt my feelings.

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Tgg161 Apr 15, 2010 +19

I got r/whalebait

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Lut3s Apr 14, 2010 +11

[I'm not a r-tard.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNn4yKLqnQ)

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a_cryl Apr 14, 2010 +11

Wikipedia has got a "random" button, don't see why listnook can't use one..

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +24

Well, I was thinking /b/ when I saw the title...then realized it's not that kind of random. *Edit: "The past tense of "think" is "thought". "Thinking" is the present participle. In conjuction with "was" (the past tense of "to be"), it forms the past progressive "was thinking"." Thank you, schtum.

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schtum Apr 14, 2010 +3

The past tense of "think" is "thought". "Thinking" is the present participle. In conjuction with "was" (the past tense of "to be"), it forms the past progressive "was thinking".

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klodolph Apr 14, 2010 +5

404 http://www.listnook.com/r/b/ :-(

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fstorino Apr 14, 2010 +4

Also, there has been a ["serendipity"](http://www.listnook.com/random) link in the listnook toolbar for as long as I remember (``preferences | display links with a listnook toolbar``). *EDIT: spelling*

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saiato Apr 15, 2010 +2

I got /r/procrastinate. Just what I needed!

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bearythebear Apr 14, 2010 +16

Awww, f*** you guys, I just randomed /r/webgames, and I got exams coming up :(

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +1

Could you NOT continue adding useless shit to my bar? You've already fucked it up enough over the last three years. EDIT: I can't find any way to suppress the new links. Now every time I go to a listnook I'm going to click the wrong one because you've moved everything links right of where they should be. God damnit, f*** you.

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hiS_oWn Apr 14, 2010 +16

so apparently i was a moderator for /r/korea this entire time. who knew?

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strangersadvice Apr 14, 2010 +1

How is it possible to add RANDNSFW to my Frontpage? [Right now it re-directs immediately and never give one the chance to add it]

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DoctorDeath Apr 15, 2010 +1

So now if I have something odd to post, can i post it to r/all and have it carpet-bombed to all the sublistnooks?

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +1

I just got r/bikinis, digg would have given me digg.com/Mumbai

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +4

Speaking of.. any chance we could get an interactive listnooks bar? Where you could click, hold, and drag your listnooks as you see fit. ..and... Thanks listnook admins!

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raldi Apr 14, 2010 +4

If someone wants to write the Javascript for it, we'll probably accept the patch.

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stonedslacker Apr 15, 2010 +1

Speaking of implementing javascripts, shouldn't you make the Listnook Comment Boxes and Listnook Upper & Downers Enhanced javascripts a default feature? I've been using them for a long time and whenever I log on to listnook from another computer, it's just incredibly frustrating to surf without them (and everyone who uses them has the same opinion.)

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ExtremeSquared Apr 15, 2010 +3

Off by default please. Listnook's light weight is good for atom netbooks. Bloat is why I quit Digg.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +25

**Are you not entertained?**

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legokid201 Apr 15, 2010 +2

oh what is this from... I know this. DAMN YOU SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS....... OOO a penny. DAMMIT ADD

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PopeJohnPaulII Apr 14, 2010 +6

Can you add an option in the preferences that all me to remove these options? I need as much sublistnook real estate as I can get. Fantastic work, but it's not for me.

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elshizzo Apr 14, 2010 +4

Thanks for finally adding ALL to the top bar. I've been waiting a while for that, but better late than never. Kudos

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Plasmatica Apr 14, 2010 +1

I'd rather have a random article button than a random sublistnook button...but whatever.

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davar Apr 14, 2010 +4

wow, who ever knew that there was an r/breastfeeding?

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jptman Apr 15, 2010 +3

Can you make it so that sublistnooks with 0 posts(or some number less than a threshold) do not show up on Random? I've ended up hitting quite a few empty ones.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +145

edit: oops, downvote please

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kafro Apr 14, 2010 +55

UPVOTE INTO OBLIVION!

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +31

YOU DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +3

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ninjaspy123 Apr 14, 2010 +2

Recently I decided to look at [new listnooks](http://www.listnook.com/listnooks/new/) being made. Did anyone else know people use "Create your own listnook" as the same as "Submit a link"? People are creating listnooks for a single question, or for advice on something car speaker wattage, or how to tune out an employee. I still don't get if people are just stupid, or if there is a reason to do that. or is it spam?

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doctor_alligator Apr 15, 2010 +3

Thanks to the Random button I've discovered [possibly the creepiest sublistnook around](http://www.listnook.com/r/EmmaWatson/).

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +3

Not the best choice of names for the random NSFW link. I dont want to click it out of fear of seeing Ayn Rand n***.

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Ulvund Apr 15, 2010 +3

Thanks for the credit :) Check out http://95.166.112.222/listnooks for a top 1000 of all listnooks (including nsfw).

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elshizzo Apr 15, 2010 +2

Personally I think the random bar is kind of pointless. Wouldn't it be better to just have a more user friendly way for people to find sublistnooks that interest them? I am the creator of the sublistnook finder website, but there are limits to what I can do since I don't have direct access to the database info like you guys do.

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Azured Apr 14, 2010 +25

OH MY GOD THEY REALLY DO CARE

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VWSpeedRacer Apr 14, 2010 +31

Perhaps you misread - it said RANDOM, not SEARCH. :)

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uber_troll Apr 15, 2010 +2

Can we make some of these optional? I don't have friends. Friends are for the weak. It's taking up my toolbar and getting rid of /r/ sports. admins, can you make the easy access to your favorite listnooks toolbar draggable so that we can organize it?

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keenemaverick Apr 14, 2010 +3

/r/friends just showed me that I've only friended transgenders. ... Awesome.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +3

1. click /r/friends 2. there doesn't seem to be anything here 3. ... 4. ;(

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dasnein Apr 14, 2010 +4

I think its funny that /r/Gay_Ultimate_NSFW/ was the first sublistnook I encountered using random.

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ntou45 Apr 15, 2010 +3

http://www.listnook.com/r/DryVaginas/ Really, listnook? Really?

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

Awesome, the Random tab is great for finding sublistnooks but the All button is my favorite. It was a pain having to log out of my account to see post not on my front page.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

I had no idea, thanks for pointing this out after the fact, you've been a big help :)

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +3

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

This is awesome, now I can explore the seedy underbelly of listnook, and find odd sublistnooks like this one /r/tmichaelcart/

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kaleidingscope Apr 14, 2010 +2

hooray, now I can truly see the span of ridiculous listnooks out there (apparently there's a Novelty Account Graveyard)

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brtek Apr 14, 2010 +3

**Friends** I don't have friends...

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +4

You can use it to stalk other listnookors too.

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SSChicken Apr 14, 2010 +3

[Aww :(](http://imgur.com/nZyPq.png)

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Victawr Apr 15, 2010 +2

so how do I remove those 3 options from my listnook bar? I'm running at 1024x600, so all bar space is precious ):

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lackofbrain Apr 14, 2010 +2

I typed in /r/random and the first one it gave me was, approriately enough, /r/WelcomingCommittee/

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z0r Apr 15, 2010 +2

Today i have learned that batteries are not safe for work. http://www.listnook.com/r/batterystore/

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tuutruk Apr 14, 2010 +2

/r/Random took me to /r/whalebait on my first click What the f***?

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legokid201 Apr 15, 2010 +2

whalebait. haha thats awesome. oh that made me laugh

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deltron Apr 14, 2010 +2

Lots of spam listnooks, see http://www.listnook.com/r/Credit_Results_USA/

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

Can I just be the first to say : why is r/thailand a nsfw sublistnook?

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fanglesticks Apr 14, 2010 +2

Bikinis. Thank you very much, I wholeheartedly endorse this feature.

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Karthage Apr 15, 2010 +2

http://www.listnook.com/r/lgbt/ What are you telling me listnook?

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pvoestel Apr 15, 2010 +2

Wat about a randall, with a join of random + randnsfw ?

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eric22vhs Apr 15, 2010 +2

isn't /r/random basically the same as /r/listnook?

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Investigator Apr 15, 2010 +1

Am I the only one, who was hoping for a quick overview of all listnooks, that would allow me to actually see what kinds of listnooks that exists, instead of just clicking next forever? It could be segmented into say 25 different interest, and by clicking one of these, you would get a lot of other sublistnooks that connected to that interest.

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tntnews Apr 14, 2010 +5

You should rename randnsfw to /b/

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Vinay92 Apr 15, 2010 +2

First click on Random: /r/depression. Fail.

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xkey Apr 14, 2010 +2

TIL there is a sublistnook for *everything*.

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[deleted] Apr 15, 2010 +1

/random is such a great/awful thing. It makes me want to click into all those undiscovered sublistnooks. However I feel like a drive by gunner in that I can troll mercilessly on a post and go to the next sublistnook without repurcussion. I don't know these people. It's like being on vacation.

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[deleted] Apr 14, 2010 +2

There is only one problem that I've encountered. When I hit the back button it takes me to a listnook i was at 4-5 clicks back, not the one I was just at.

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/r/random is now built-in (and we added some new options to the listnooks bar at the top of the page)

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