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Observed mentions: 2010-07-01 14:04:07 UTC to 2024-01-01 19:05:34 UTC.

05101520252010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 2 submissions, 19 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 3 submissions, 15 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 25 mentions; 6 submissions, 19 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 0 submissions, 19 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 24 mentions; 1 submissions, 23 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21219
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18315
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC25619
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19019
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC24123
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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h2s·Oct 26, 2012Recommendation phrase
I love this. I have a suggestion too. Reddit's REST API is pretty quirky because it's so tightly coupled with their own front end code. Here is a quote from the code that handles posting a comment (https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/controlle...): # remove any null listings that may be present jquery("#noresults").hide() To be clear: that's Python you're reading. It's pretending to interact with the DOM. These calls get bundled up and sent back with the response for the frontend code to slavishly execute. The result is quite a schizophrenic API. On the one hand, you can get very nicely formatted JSON about data like so http://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding.json. On the other hand, it's needlessly difficult to write code that can tell if a comment posted successfully or not when the response data looks like this:
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"jquery":[ [0, 1, "call", ["#form-t3_iqhw5ili"]], [1, 2, "attr", "find"], [2, 3, "call", [".status"]], [3, 4, "attr", "hide"], [4, 5, "call", []], [5, 6, "attr", "html"], [6, 7, "call", [""]], [7, 8, "attr", "end"], [8, 9, "call", []], [1, 10, "attr", "find"], [10, 11, "call", ["textarea"]], [11, 12, "attr", "attr"], [12, 13, "call", ["rows", 3]], [13, 14, "attr", "html"], [14, 15, "call", [""]], [15, 16, "attr", "val"], [16, 17, "call", [""]], [0, 18, "attr", "insert_things"], [18, 19, "call", [ [{ "data":{ "content":"<div class=\"thing id-t1_c25u9i3 even odd comment \" onclick=\"click_thing(this)\"><p class=\"parent\"><a name=\"c25u9i3\" ></a></p><div class=\"midcol likes\" ><div class=\"arrow upmod\" onclick=\"$(this).vote('f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0', null, event)\" ></div><div class=\"arrow down\" onclick=\"$(this).vote('f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0', null, event)\" ></div></div><div class=\"entry likes\"><div class=\"collapsed\" style='display:none'><a href=\"#\" class=\"expand\" onclick=\"return showcomment(this)\">[+]</a><a href=\"http://www.reddit.com/user/KerrickLong\" class=\"author gray submitter id-t2_4appr\" >KerrickLong</a><span class=\"userattrs\">&#32;[<a class=\"submitter\" title=\"submitter\" href=\"/r/MostlyHarmless/comments/iqhw5/changelog_mostly_harmless_v041_released/\">S</a>]</span>&#32;<span class=\"score dislikes\">-1 points</span><span class=\"score unvoted\">0 points</span><span class=\"score likes\">1 point</span>&#32;<time title=\"Fri Jul 15 16:57:16 2011 GMT\" datetime=\"2011-07-15T16:57:16.209277+00:00\">91 milliseconds</time>&#32;ago &nbsp;<a href=\"#\" class=\"expand\" onclick=\"return showcomment(this)\">(0 children)</a></div><div class=\"noncollapsed\" ><p class=\"tagline\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"expand\" onclick=\"return hidecomment(this)\">[&ndash;]</a><a href=\"http://www.reddit.com/user/KerrickLong\" class=\"author submitter id-t2_4appr\" >KerrickLong</a><span class=\"userattrs\">&#32;[<a class=\"submitter\" title=\"submitter\" href=\"/r/MostlyHarmless/comments/iqhw5/changelog_mostly_harmless_v041_released/\">S</a>]</span>&#32;<span class=\"score dislikes\">-1 points</span><span class=\"score unvoted\">0 points</span><span class=\"score likes\">1 point</span>&#32;<time title=\"Fri Jul 15 16:57:16 2011 GMT\" datetime=\"2011-07-15T16:57:16.209277+00:00\">91 milliseconds</time>&#32;ago</p><form action=\"#\" class=\"usertext\" onsubmit=\"return post_form(this, 'editusertext')\" id=\"form-t1_c25u9i38va\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"thing_id\" value=\"t1_c25u9i3\"/><div class=\"usertext-body\"><div class=\"md\"><p>Hey!</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.google.com/\">search!</a></strong></p></div>\n</div><div class=\"usertext-edit\" style=\"display: none\"><div><textarea rows=\"1\" cols=\"1\" name=\"text\" >test&#32;comment</textarea></div><div class=\"bottom-area\"><span class=\"help-toggle toggle\" style=\"display: none\"><a class=\"option active \" href=\"#\" tabindex=\"100\" onclick=\"return toggle(this, helpon, helpoff)\" >formatting help</a><a class=\"option \" href=\"#\">hide help</a></span><span class=\"error TOO_LONG field-text\" style=\"display:none\"></span><span class=\"error RATELIMIT field-ratelimit\" style=\"display:none\"></span><span class=\"error NO_TEXT field-text\" style=\"display:none\"></span><span class=\"error TOO_OLD field-parent\" style=\"display:none\"></span><span class=\"error DELETED_COMMENT field-parent\" style=\"display:none\"></span><span class=\"error DELETED_LINK field-parent\" style=\"display:none\"></span><span class=\"error USER_BLOCKED field-parent\" style=\"display:none\"></span><div class=\"usertext-buttons\"><button type=\"submit\" onclick=\"\" class=\"save\" style='display:none'>save</button><button type=\"button\" onclick=\"cancel_usertext(this)\" class=\"cancel\" style='display:none'>cancel</button><span class=\"status\"></span></div></div><table class=\"markhelp md\" style=\"display: none\"><tr style=\"background-color: #ffff99; text-align: center\"><td><em>you type:</em></td><td><em>you see:</em></td></tr><tr><td>*italics*</td><td><em>italics</em></td></tr><tr><td>**bold**</td><td><b>bold</b></td></tr><tr><td>[reddit!](http://reddit.com)</td><td><a href=\"http://reddit.com\">reddit!</a></td></tr><tr><td>* item 1<br/>* item 2<br/>* item 3</td><td><ul><li>item 1</li><li>item 2</li><li>item 3</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>&gt; quoted text</td><td><blockquote>quoted text</blockquote></td></tr><tr><td>Lines starting with four spaces<br/>are treated like code:<br/><br/><span class=\"spaces\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>if 1 * 2 &lt 3:<br/><span class=\"spaces\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>print \"hello, world!\"<br/></td><td>Lines starting with four spaces<br/>are treated like code:<br/><pre>if 1 * 2 &lt 3:<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;print \"hello, world!\"</pre></td></tr><tr><td>~~strikethrough~~</td><td><strike>strikethrough</strike></td></tr><tr><td>super^script</td><td>super<sup>script</sup></td></tr></table></div></form><ul class=\"flat-list buttons\"><li class=\"first\"><a href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/MostlyHarmless/comments/iqhw5/changelog_mostly_harmless_v0…" class=\"bylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" >permalink</a></li><li><a class=\"edit-usertext\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"return edit_usertext(this)\">edit</a></li><li><form class=\"toggle del-button\" action=\"#\" method=\"get\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"executed\" value=\"deleted\"/><span class=\"option active\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"return toggle(this)\">delete</a></span><span class=\"option error\">are you sure? &#32;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"yes\" onclick='change_state(this, \"del\", hide_thing)'>yes</a>&#32;/&#32;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"no\" onclick=\"return toggle(this)\">no</a></span></form></li><li><form action=\"/post/remove\" method=\"post\" class=\"state-button remove-button\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"executed\" value=\"removed\" /><span><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"return change_state(this, 'remove');\">remove</a></span></form></li><li class=\"toggle\"><form method=\"post\" action=\"/post/distinguish\"><input type=\"hidden\" value=\"distinguishing...\" name=\"executed\"/><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"return toggle_distinguish_span(this)\">distinguish</a><span class=\"option error\">distinguish this? &#32;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"return set_distinguish(this, 'yes')\">yes</a>&#32;/&#32;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"return set_distinguish(this, 'no')\">no</a>&#32; /&#32;<a class=\"nonbutton\" href=\"/help/moderation#Distinguishing\">help</a>&#32;</span></form></li><li><a class=\"\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"return reply(this)\">reply</a></li></ul></div></div><div class=\"child\" ></div><div class=\"clearleft\"><!--IE6sux--></div></div><div class=\"clearleft\"><!--IE6sux--></div>", "contentHTML":"<div class=\"md\"><p>Hey!</p><p><strong><a href=\"http://www.google.com/\">search!</a></strong></p></div>", "contentText":"Hey!\n\n**[search!](http://www.google.com/)**", "id":"t1_c25u9i3", "link":"t3_iqhw5", "parent":"t3_iqhw5", "replies":"" }, "kind":"t1" }], false ] ], [0, 20, "call", ["#noresults"]], [20, 21, "attr", "hide"], [21, 22, "call",[]] ] Edit: Didn't mean for this to come off as a pop at them. I know how this sort of thing happens and I know that feel.
In API Quirks: a new blog series documenting weird web API behavior
fein·Oct 11, 2012
In regards to Violentacrez: Every community has shock jocks. I'm not condoning any of the actions, as that shit truly is creepy on an inhuman scale, but one should understand that without the community support, the guy has nothing. The ultimate issue is not that an individual like Violentacrez exists, but instead that the community enables it. > me to build out another alternative. you could also just fork reddit: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
In Reddit Readies For ‘Inter-website War,’ Major Subreddits Ban Links to Gawker

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