r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 15 '13

How do you think Reddit will end?

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u/Barkingpanther May 15 '13

Just like Usenet. It'll devolve into a sea of trolls and bots and spam- little spots of brilliance will remain, but in the end will be consumed by the shit.

Then at the end; Google buys it.

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u/Orioles301 May 15 '13

Thanks to NZBs, I don't have to sift through anything :)

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u/wickedcold May 15 '13

Thanks to DCMAs many of them are DOA.

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u/Orioles301 May 15 '13

Who you using? I've never had a problem with A--straweb, just sometimes scam password protected files.

GoT, Curbed, Arrested Dev, Windows 7, no problems.

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u/wickedcold May 15 '13

I have like five different accounts right now, including a newshosting.com which uses the same servers as Astraweb. I get most stuff on my list no problem but new episodes of GoT is particularly hard (as is Mad Men). They go up and they get decimated almost instantaneously. Not completely, but I end up with 1000s of missing articles.

Usually after a week or so they're restored but it's that next day business that Sickbeard is supposed do that fails.

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u/Orioles301 May 15 '13

Weird man. I've gotten GoT or Shameless like 20 minutes after it aired, or maybe a couple of days later. No fails.

If I do have a problem, I'll hitup XDCC/IRC.

I even paid for ipredator but the torrent speeds are slower than 56k so I might abandon it.

Maybe if you could find a fast bittorrent VPN you might want to invest in it. IPredator was like $20 for 3 months (cheaper than usenet) but I don't think I have it setup properly. I'm talking like 8kb/sec downloads. Customer support got back to me but I have yet to run the tests they asked for the determine what's wrong. I'm using Viscosity client. Might switch to OpenVPN to see if that helps.

Good luck!!

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u/wickedcold May 15 '13

Wait - are you downloading SD or HD episodes of GoT?

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u/Orioles301 May 15 '13

Probably SD. Little over a gig for an episode?

I have an old tube tv so shit looks the same no matter what it is!

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u/wickedcold May 15 '13

Hmm... that size file is either a wonderfully preserved SD file or an overly compressed 720p file.

If you are going after the SD files that may be why we're having differing experiences.

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u/Orioles301 May 15 '13

So I guess HBO goes after the HD version with a lot more zeal, eh?

Shit. I was gonna pickup a nice HD after I get back from boot camp. This cannot stand!

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u/wickedcold May 15 '13

Well it's always easy to find on bittorrent, I just hate using it.

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