[HN Gopher] I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddi...
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I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit about kafka
the product
Author : mooreds
Score : 141 points
Date : 2021-11-21 15:41 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| martinflack wrote:
| I thought we solved this in the 1980's by usenet groups having
| prefixes like comp.*, rec.*, hum.* etc...
| PawBer wrote:
| Reddit subreddit creation form actually recommends that
| subreddit names should end with a suffix that describes just
| that e.g. kafkasoftware. The lack of enforcement of this rule
| caused it to become forgotten.
| skinnymuch wrote:
| I mr would be unfair if this only got enforced on newer
| subreddits. They already have to compete with other
| subreddits that got easy names early on.
|
| If all subreddits had to transition to this. Cool. Obviously
| that isn't going to happen.
| donio wrote:
| That helped but not always. alt.games.gb which used to be a
| group for Galactic Bloodshed got overrun by Gameboy posts at
| some point. And there was a time period when gnu.emacs.help got
| some posts related to Apple's eMac line.
| dtech wrote:
| Or see this post [1] about comp.windows.news, which is not
| about Microsoft Windows
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29298481
| pushcx wrote:
| I moderate https://lobste.rs; people mistake it as a site about a
| self-help guru. (both fans and anti-fans)
|
| We added a note about it: https://lobste.rs/about#michaelbolton
| People still make the assumption but at least they now usually
| get that link as a rebuttal.
| wpietri wrote:
| I deeply appreciate the anchor name here. Kudos! The only
| problem is now I have to go look for my stapler.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| It's the old whitehouse.gov / whitehouse.com problem. I'm sure
| there are earlier examples but that one is my favorite.
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Given that Kafka books are about impenetrable bureaucratic
| worlds, why is Kafka called Kafka? Sounds like it's a tool to
| make sure your infrastructure is hard to comprehend.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| That's only one of his famous books. There is another about
| bugs appearing for no good reason on unexpected places.
| zwkrt wrote:
| Comment I made last summer:
|
| It's rare a piece of tech has a more fitting name! "Is your
| orgs politics so complicated that direct team-to-team
| communication has broken down? Is your business process subject
| to unannounced violent change? Bogged down by consistent DB
| schemas and API versioning? Tired of retries on failed
| messages? Introducing Kafka by Apache: an easy to use, highly
| configurable, persistently stored ephemeral centralized
| federated event based messaging data analytics Single Source of
| Truth as a Service that can scale with any enterprise-sized
| dysfunction!"
| almeria wrote:
| Anything more about Kafka you can tell us?
|
| Seriously, the one time I was in a situation where much of
| the team seemed hellbent on this "just put all in Kafka" idea
| (without really understanding why, exactly) the arguments
| they came up with were not too dissimilar from what you've
| shared with us above. It all seemed to come down to "OMG
| databases are hard, schemas are hard, our customers don't
| understand the data they're shoving at us. But Kafka will
| take care of all of that for us. Because, you know, shiny."
|
| That said I'd still like to have a more ... balanced
| understanding of why Kafka may not necessarily be The Answer,
| and/or have more hidden complexity or other negative
| tradeoffs than we may have bargained for.
| yongjik wrote:
| I only had a brief exposure to it, but my impression is
| that it's sort of a message queue optimized for very large
| data (TB or more). So, for example, there's no way to
| easily answer questions like "How many requests did server
| X generate between 1pm and 2pm and how many of them were
| served by server Y?" because when your data doesn't fit in
| a single machine, supporting such queries requires a lot of
| bookkeeping. If you never need them, you don't want to pay
| for them.
|
| Of course, when have a few _megabytes_ of data and you
| route it through Kafka, then all you get is an opaque
| message queue where you can 't see which message went from
| where to where. Good luck debugging any issues. But, hey,
| you got to use Kafka.
| Lio wrote:
| I went to talk by RMS some time in the late 90s, early 00s.
|
| The one thing I remember RMS saying after all this time is that
| "the whole point of writing software is so that you can give it
| a funny name".
|
| All things considered, I still think that's good advice.
| perl4ever wrote:
| The whole point of naming things is so you can find them
| later.
|
| Why can't people follow the simple rule of not reusing any
| word or name that's already in use?
|
| They don't seem to have a problem with racehorses.
|
| In fact, why not get the most comprehensive list of racehorse
| names to date, and start using them for new software projects
| - then nobody will have to be creative until they run out.
| egypturnash wrote:
| "I'm an expert in Potoooooooo".
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo
| 0des wrote:
| You know it's just young people working at these bigcorps
| making our tooling, right?
| grzm wrote:
| > Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz
| Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he
| liked Kafka's work.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka#History
| yongjik wrote:
| It does tend to prompt a developer onto a sudden fit of self-
| awareness ("Why am I reading this code? Why are we using this?
| What am I doing with my life?"), so I think it's quite aptly
| named.
| maze-le wrote:
| A big fat pinned exclamation on the top of the feed might help...
| On the other hand, the village-folk probably think Barnabas is
| behind it and simply ignore it.
| [deleted]
| cmacleod4 wrote:
| I follow /r/Tcl which is dedicated to the Tcl scripting language,
| but recently gets lots of inappropriate posts about the products
| of the TCL electronics company :-(
|
| This is not a new problem, I remember around 25 years ago when
| the usenet news group comp.windows.news, which was dedicated to
| Sun's "Network Extensible Window System", became overwhelmed by
| posts from people who thought it was for news about Microsoft
| Windows.
| throwaway984393 wrote:
| I died when CockroachDB popped up in the thread
| irthomasthomas wrote:
| Not a redditor but I heard https://old.reddit.com/r/trees is one
| of the best examples of this. (/>=V<=)/-~
| erk__ wrote:
| And of course https://old.reddit.com/r/marijuanaenthusiasts/ on
| the other side of that
| tfehring wrote:
| See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts
| 1_player wrote:
| And the sub for quitting weed is called
| https://old.reddit.com/r/leaves
| brockrockman wrote:
| /r/tcl has a similar problem -- rare topical posts and frequent
| TV support questions.
| gmfawcett wrote:
| Same with /r/mercury. Come and post questions about this
| interesting logic / functional programming language! Or be like
| everyone else, and post about the metal, the planet, or your
| star sign. :P
| pfkurtz wrote:
| I want every comment about this here and on Twitter tattooed over
| every inch of my body and codebase. Love it.
| markus_zhang wrote:
| That's why I believe technical products should have better names.
| From HN you can see new products with very common names launched
| every month.
| cwp wrote:
| I think this is actually getting better. A while back there was
| a trend of choosing the most generic name possible. For
| example, who though "node" would be a good name for a
| Javascript runtime? Or that "parse" would obviously be a mobile
| app backend framework? Yeesh. At least we didn't have a project
| named "Thing".
| perl4ever wrote:
| After years of only doing higher level scripting and SQL,
| I've been trying to learn to program Android recently, and it
| seems like there are dozens of classes that are all just
| synonyms for "Thing" or "Action".
|
| And some of the names are reused in Android even though they
| are in standard Java libraries.
|
| It's probably invisible to people who have been using it all
| along, but for me, it's absurd and infuriating because almost
| nothing has a name that places it in a larger context.
|
| Google seems to have a particular issue with naming things.
|
| If you _can 't_ name something in a meaningful way, the next
| best thing is to name it something completely unique, and not
| just a generic synonym.
| perl4ever wrote:
| Also, if you have created the 20th asynchronous task
| managing class, _please_ put it in context with all the
| others - which are deprecated, which are good for what use
| case, etc.
|
| Alsoalso why do we need "factories" for abstract objects
| that relate to other abstract objects that are some sort of
| "thing"?
|
| I have to wonder if some of this has to do with really
| smart people coming to work at Google, adding something
| without ever really grokking the whole mess, and then
| leaving after a couple of years because they got their tour
| of duty for their resume.
| billfruit wrote:
| Even something like "c" does not look like a good name anymore.
| For example searching for something C related often turns up
| hundreds of links for C++, C# many of them not relevant to the
| search topic.
|
| Also choosing names with non-obvious pronunciation is also a
| peeve, sometimes it can become a marker between those who know
| how to pronounce it and those who don't. For example Godot.
| techdragon wrote:
| Like the "Go" programming language. Only Google could have
| gotten away with this name since to be honest I was pretty
| sure it used to be a "do not brother indexing"/"stop word"
| back in the day. So I honestly suspect Google had to alter
| their search engine to search for the programming language
| they invented just because they made it impossible to search
| for because of how bad the name is.
| PeterisP wrote:
| For me it seems like that the common workarounds (searching
| for "golang" "csharp" etc) make it not really a problem.
| ectopod wrote:
| When Go was new they recommended using "golang" for web
| searches. I still do though it sounds like it's unnecessary
| now.
| chrsig wrote:
| there's also a non trivial amount of zealots that then
| complain when people refer to the language as
| "golang"...it's not correct, but hardly surprising either
| marcosdumay wrote:
| At this point clang and rcran should as well change their
| official names. Golang has better possibilities on the
| horizon, but it wouldn't hurt either.
| matsemann wrote:
| They did alter it for google+, at least.
| webmaven wrote:
| _> They did alter it for google+, at least._
|
| Yes, and nerfed the + search operator in the process.
| bee_rider wrote:
| C gets a pass because it is older than search engines, but
| Go was a pretty bad name.
| jeroenhd wrote:
| > Even something like "c" does not look like a good name
| anymore. For example searching for something C related often
| turns up hundreds of links for C++, C# many of them not
| relevant to the search topic.
|
| That's not a naming problem as much as it's a search engine
| problem. Search engines ignore anything that's not remotely
| alphabetic so for the longest time Google saw "C++ C#" as "C
| C". More and more characters are taken into account when
| searching these days, but it's still very error prone today.
|
| If anything, C# was a mistake because it was developed after
| the first search engines entered the web. Then again, this
| was made by the same company that developed frameworks called
| "COM", "COM+" and ".NET". The names C and C++ were chosen way
| before this could have ever been perceived as a problem,
| because only lunatics and tinfoil hats could have predicted
| the internet in its current form all the way back in 1983.
|
| In my experience, adding a revision (C99, C11, C17) to a
| search query often gets more relevant results specifically
| for C actual. For C++ the search term cpp always works for
| me. It's a bit of a pain to teach yourself to use, but after
| a while you start to get used to it.
| chrsig wrote:
| I've learned to really loathe 'fun' names for projects
| (especially internal-only projects). it really just obscures
| whatever the project is intended to do.
|
| AWS is probably the worst in this regard...so many services
| with names that give no indication about what the service
| actually does.
| tayo42 wrote:
| I can't pick a side on this. I agree with you in general but
| also it's nice to be reminded that there's a human and
| personal element to things sometimes. I normally name what
| ever I'm working on to be clear and boring though.
| chrsig wrote:
| I understand the distaste for the stiffness of descriptive
| names...but I've found that over time trying to explain why
| a project has a clever name, or what it really does, to be
| quite arduous.
|
| And usually not too long after I've coined a fun name for a
| project, I wind up feeling like it's cringy, and start to
| loathe when other people talk about it.
| jl6 wrote:
| Trademarks exist to solve this problem but they're typically
| too expensive for casual projects. What we need is some good
| sportsmanship amongst amateurs. It's bad manners to name your
| thing using a word that is already taken.
| teddyh wrote:
| People have also been complaining about this for many years:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201353#12204630
| Macha wrote:
| They've even been making slightly sarcastic browser games
| like "Pokemon or Big Data":
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622752
| ogogmad wrote:
| We should go back to using classical-sounding names: Virtua,
| imperia, rex, vita, Hercules. And sticking the letter X in
| there: reXX
|
| Actually, one of the best named products I remember (for devs)
| was Big Worlds. It was an engine for making MMORPGs. I think
| the name had a clever mystique.
| emerged wrote:
| The real solution is to use GUIDs. One of the best games of
| 2029 will be Project 28AC8F07, the second in the B76A7CF0
| series.
| loxias wrote:
| Naming is really hard. I concur with your satire tho in all
| honesty, these days, when I start a new project I name it
| "foo", "project", or "1" ("0" is too special), and then
| rename it something more apt if it actually goes somewhere.
|
| It's freeing to "break the rules" and code with single
| letter variable names, first letter that comes to mind. ;)
| signal11 wrote:
| > "0" is too special
|
| And yet Project Zero exists :-)
| JCWasmx86 wrote:
| These names are too short. Think of all the collisions. Use
| a full UUID, e.g: {84347ab5-45e1-4801-98fc-685624039068}
|
| Googling your product will always be quite nice
| kuroguro wrote:
| Also use a true randomness source to minimize the chance
| for collision.
| robocat wrote:
| You need to keep your project names secret, otherwise
| people will maliciously collide them on purpose.
|
| It has always disturbed me that magician's names of power
| in books are far too short: I presume there is more
| encoding than just the letters - the intonation perhaps
| contains a lot of entropy. Otherwise a name like Ged
| could be brute forced (or would that make a good short
| fantasy story?)
|
| Edit: Related is the short story "The nine billion names
| of god" - the story is archived a bit incorrectly, it
| starts in middle of the page with no heading, with the
| line "This is a slightly unusual request": https://archiv
| e.org/stream/ninebillionnames00clar/ninebillio...
| _dain_ wrote:
| I think that's the plot of "Unsong" (I never finished it
| though)
| emerged wrote:
| I was on mobile and was becoming fatigued trying to type
| random hex characters. It's surprisingly time consuming,
| almost as much as thinking up an actual project name.
| BeFlatXIII wrote:
| It's the worst on iOS where you have to toggle between
| the alphabet and numeric layers. Some Android keyboards
| have the good sense to display numbers above the letters.
| Banana699 wrote:
| That's why new companies will spring up around NGAS, Name
| Generation As A Service. Full servers dedicated to
| finding the best names in the namespace and renting them
| for you, because who really wants to self-host a name
| those days, so exhausting.
| dan-robertson wrote:
| Every distributed system should be called hydra because it has
| multiple heads and recovers when one dies. Everything else
| should be called epiousios which is safe as no one knows what
| it means, or maybe some combination of words about dynamic
| entropy.
| jcynix wrote:
| I agree. Apple Mail, Apple Safari, Microsoft Windows, etc pp.
| Makes certain searches hard or almost impossible (until the
| arrival of the semantic web).
|
| You'd expect that the people who chose these "names" have dogs
| named "dog" and their childs have names like boy" or "girl" ...
| almaember wrote:
| To be fair, Windows was named way before the WWW was a thing.
| And Apple Mail is an email client, so it absolutely makes
| sense.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| I agree. I've recently become interested in the Gemini
| protocol, but between the space programme, the crypto exchange
| and various other uses of the word it's difficult to find
| related content without some extra Google-fu. It's exacerbated
| by the fact that most software written for the protocol tends
| to stick with the space theme.
|
| I'm not sure if there's a term for it but it's like linguistic
| debris. The namespace is being polluted; eventually it won't be
| obvious what any particular word refers to.
| Kye wrote:
| Linguistic Kessler syndrome
| oconnor663 wrote:
| r/rust has a similar problem. It's also the name of a popular
| game.
| conradfr wrote:
| r/elixir as well, as apparently there's a crypto with that
| name.
|
| When I google "elixir strings" I also only get results for
| Elixir guitar strings instead of the hex doc page I'm looking
| for :)
| bee_rider wrote:
| The name for the game's subreddit is apparently "r/playrust."
| IMO they missed the opportunity to use r/ust instead.
| nestorD wrote:
| I came here to say that and had that they have a bot to notify
| people who might be on the wrong reddit. It seems to do a good
| job as those post are rare nowadays.
|
| A similar bot (using a naive bayesian classifier and a few
| examples) should be easy to build for the /r/kafka reddit.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| At least the Rust language will outlive the Rust game.
| Hopefully.
| NikolaeVarius wrote:
| Kafka is optimized for writing, reading is not part of the spec.
| j-pb wrote:
| Nononono, you see; Kafka is a single writer multiple reader
| system and therefore highly scalable. Sadly leader-election was
| never implemented and the system is in a read-only state since
| the main died in 1924.
| [deleted]
| dmead wrote:
| I used to organize Philly lambda, a meetup group about functional
| programs languages.
|
| Many people joined obviously thinking it was a gay right activist
| group.
| saurik wrote:
| The premise of everyone using short unique strings to represent
| themselves and their projects--particularly when the uniqueness
| property is sharded across numerous disparate incompatible
| namespaces (reddit, Twitter, Telegram, Hacker News, ClubHouse,
| every individual TLD... the list goes on and on: like, Oculus and
| Facebook seriously don't even share a namespace! :/)--is
| _ridiculous_ , and doubly-so when those names cannot be changed
| and are required to be _permanent_ , which is simply _not_ how
| names of any form work in the real world anyway (which I will
| note has the added issue of being actively cruel to people whose
| names, given or chosen, have good reason to be changed due to
| connections with core identity or past trauma). Amazingly, it isn
| 't even how _trademarks_ work, despite all the hoopla about how
| they allow you to "own words": multiple parties _absolutely_ are
| allowed to use the same name if they exist in separate "markets"
| (such as a bakery and a software company).
|
| If there are two things people think of as "kafka" (even if kafka
| is one of _multiple_ names, identifiers, or euphemisms something
| is or _has been_ known by!!), the descriptors should be allowed
| to all co-exist and users should discover the actual referents
| (which at that point might be identified by a UUID) via
| contextual search, direct links, or disambiguation pages.
| Projects that understand this at a deep level and reject the
| premise of simultaneously permanent unique human grokkable
| identifiers--projects such as Discord, which at least suffixes
| usernames with numbers to disambiguate conflicts--deserve our
| _unending respect_ , as it is just so _easy_ to not give a shit
| and build a system with usernames: no one was ever fired for
| being part of this problem, and people will defend to their dying
| breath how important these namespaces are without ever addressing
| the practical world of what happens when there are thousands of
| unrelated namespaces attempting to serve tens of billions of
| users (and no: this isn 't a wild exaggeration, as products that
| exist for decades can serve more unique humans than were alive at
| any given moment).
| 37ef_ced3 wrote:
| The psychedelic rock band Elder has subreddit r/elder and you can
| imagine the geriatric misposting that occurs.
|
| If you haven't heard Elder, listen to this masterpiece:
|
| https://youtu.be/-nDsO30bUx0
|
| Epic.
| sebow wrote:
| I always cringe at people using reddit or similar places as a way
| to interact with their customers or users.It's just a bad idea.
| This is not the same as talking about a product that is FOSS/free
| like emacs, when the support is de facto entirely community-
| based.
|
| A forum/ a semi-anonymous board would provide the same utility as
| reddit does, without all the negative drawbacks(which are and
| people ignore them).The funny thing is that the solutions for
| these kinds of interactions multiplied compared to 5-10+ years
| ago where you had 2-3 forum options.I don't think it's a naming
| issue, it's a "swipe-down i'm lazy" issue from the low attention
| span tiktok generation.On one hand people grown accustomed to not
| try to hack the software at all and ask for help at every step of
| the way, and on the other hand, that help better be asked really
| easily.
| Sunspark wrote:
| The interface and the approach by the site owner makes a
| difference.
|
| I hated looking at threads on Microsoft or Intel's forums. Many
| replies to postings were clearly level 1 outsourced agents in
| India or some other faraway place reading from a script. It was
| plainly obvious because many times their response would not
| have much to do at all with what the OP was asking after, and
| all it did was just aggravate people because they felt they
| were not being heard. Lots of noise, no signal.
|
| On reddit, one doesn't have this infestation of script-reading
| call-centre agents and can often find the information you need.
| Of course, reddit is not perfect either. Rules are arbitrarily
| interpreted by many mods, and there is no avenue for review or
| appeal to a higher authority.
|
| That said, I do like classic web forums. They're great,
| everything is subject-specific. But one downside to them is
| that you have to travel to them to view them as opposed to
| being on an aggregator like reddit where people are already
| there and might have subscribed to a sub.
|
| A lot of companies use Facebook for their customer interactions
| because they don't need to do much.. the business page template
| is pre-defined.
| kgran wrote:
| I use RSS feeds for some forums. For example, phpBB-based
| forums provide such feeds for new messages in a thread or new
| threads in a forum. The downside is that you could not reply
| using your feedreader. But then again, I'm more of a lurker
| than a partaker, so that's not much of a problem for me.
| klyrs wrote:
| Indeed, I've asked for help on a reddit, because the install
| instructions said "get stuck? ask on our reddit!" Got zero
| help, just one person saying "there's no bugs in that build,
| just follow the instructions" and that was the end of it.
| _sigh_. It could have happened anywhere, but redditors seem to
| relish in having a bad attitude.
| 323 wrote:
| If I have a question about VS Code, or Ubuntu, I can just pop
| on the respective subreddit and quickly ask it.
|
| No way I'm going to create a forum account, confirm the email,
| save the password, just for a on off.
| caslon wrote:
| The reason to avoid running your own forum is because the cost
| of effort to interact on a bespoke forum is lower than it is on
| a dedicated one. Subreddits usually ban people from posting who
| have under a specific amount of points; this stopped the
| illiterate from posting for a very long time, up until the
| parent company started pushing the mobile app and punishing
| subreddits that do. If you compare the discussion quality on a
| subreddit that still enforces quality posters with, say,
| Apple's bespoke forum, you'll quickly see why the platform is
| useful.
| rp1 wrote:
| I think you're being unfair to Reddit and others like it
| (thinking specifically of Discord). I run a product that has
| extensive community interaction, and Discord has been a life
| saver. There is no way we could have convinced people to sign
| up for a random forum, but they're happy to use Discord, which
| makes joining via invite link trivial. It also works better for
| synchronous communication. If someone reports an issue, I can
| immediately DM them and have them DM me back some info. It just
| works SO much better than a forum.
|
| Have you tried any alternatives to a forum? I see similar
| sentiment to your post a lot on HN, and the impression I always
| get is that people haven't given alternatives an honest chance.
| There is a reason the forum is dying. The alternatives are
| simply better.
| egypturnash wrote:
| Every now and then someone goes to /r/discordian looking for help
| with their chat account bans fnord and it's always amusing, if a
| bit repetitive, to see the torrent of incomprehensible Erisian
| shibboleths deployed to make it clear that there will be no help
| here.
| Krasnol wrote:
| Kallisti!
| annoyingnoob wrote:
| Believe it or not, naming things is one of the hardest things we
| do in computer science and information technology.
| anon9001 wrote:
| The two problems in CS are naming things, cache invalidation,
| and off by one errors.
| rvense wrote:
| No, the two problems in CS are that we only one joke and it's
| not funny.
| oxfeed65261 wrote:
| We actually have 10 jokes, but neither is funny.
| rvense wrote:
| It is! But I heard the hardest thing is coming up with new
| jokes.
| bee_rider wrote:
| Of course, one of the most important skills for academic CS
| lies at the intersection of these two problems -- coming up
| with names that lend themselves to funny conference paper
| titles.
| bserge wrote:
| I don't believe it since I can come up with half a dozen names
| for anything and they'd be a good fit.
|
| I may be in the wrong line of work, actually.
| 1_player wrote:
| Not sure I sympathise with an account titled "Programming has
| been a disaster for the Human Race" with "I think all tech people
| should be thrown in prison." as tagline.
|
| You might say it's tongue-in-cheek, but you never know on
| Twitter.
| one_off_comment wrote:
| Meh. I am a tech people, and I'd gladly go to prison if all the
| other tech people had to go, too.
| ddek wrote:
| This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is
| /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game,
| when it's really a place for suberb owl pics.
|
| I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a
| fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency
| gained mainstream attention.
| oasisbob wrote:
| Also r/trees: it's a euphemistic drug sub.
|
| The sub for the woody perennials ("real trees") is resigned to
| r/sfwtrees.
| speedgoose wrote:
| It's not r/marijuanaenthusiasts ?
| anon9001 wrote:
| Weird someone made sfwtrees, it's supposed to be
| /r/marijuanaenthusiasts for non-cannabis trees.
| bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
| The sub for the woody perennials is r/marijuanaenthusiasts in
| classic switcharoo style.
| peterkelly wrote:
| /r/worldpolitics and /r/anime_titties
| BeFlatXIII wrote:
| The ol' Reddit switcharoo.
| lormayna wrote:
| > This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke
| is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football
| game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics.
|
| > I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a
| fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency
| gained mainstream attention.
|
| /r/peloton is about professional cycling, but many people think
| it's about Peloton trainers
| mlok wrote:
| Unsollicited Diks is cute, too :
| https://twitter.com/UnsolicitedDiks
| [deleted]
| gs17 wrote:
| /r/flash (for the obsolete plugin, not the superhero) and
| /r/valve (for the game company, not the plumbing fixture) have
| this issue too. I get spammers not caring but you'd think
| actual users would look around a bit before posting. Maybe they
| have a totally different post flow than what I'm used to (e.g.
| using subreddits like hashtags instead of communities).
| emodendroket wrote:
| My favorite was a guy coming to /r/bbw to ask about barbecuing.
| jrootabega wrote:
| The coffee roasting sub /r/roasting occasionally has people
| come in to discuss how to insult their friends better. People
| seem pretty nice about it, though, which must be annoying.
| Macha wrote:
| Yeah, r/rust is about the language, not the game, which is at
| r/playrust, which is almost the reverse of this problem.
| There's usually a handful of such submissions each week, which
| is not much, but actual rust posts are probably in the 100-200
| range.
|
| It's most interesting when people post asking about hacks
| (cheats) for Rust (the game) and get sent articles about
| hacking (programming) using Rust (the language)
| almaember wrote:
| I once saw someone there posting asking what to do with
| actual, physical rust (i.e. asking for removal tips)
| BeFlatXIII wrote:
| That's why r/wrongrust exists.
| VortexDream wrote:
| My favorite variation is the ones like
| https://reddit.com/r/tightpussy (sfw). There are a lot of them.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| > The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly
| mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for
| suberb owl pics.
|
| https://www.reddit.com//r/suberbowl
|
| > This subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated.
|
| Aww, it sounded funny. It's a shame reddit couldn't at least
| leave a read-only archive up. I tried archive.org but there's
| not much there.
| wpietri wrote:
| Hopefully folks will forgive the tangent, but my favorite-ever
| Onion video is about Prague's Kafka International Airport:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ
| ffwszgf wrote:
| A more high profile version is /r/Tesla and /r/teslamotors
| eliaspro wrote:
| That's like the /r/firstaidkit (Band from Sweden) seeing posts
| of companies trying to advertise their newest first-aid kit or
| people on /r/puppet believing they could find the next Jim
| Henson there.
| fernandotakai wrote:
| yup! for the longest time, the top post on /r/gunners (a
| subreddit for arsenal fc -- a soccer club from london --
| supporters) was "How are long distance sniper shots taken"[0]
| because the user thought it was a gun subreddit.
|
| [0]
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/2blrik/how_are_lon...
| paganel wrote:
| Thanks for that link, it was somehow nostalgic, from back in
| the day when Arsenal fans were still confident enough to make
| fun of Tottenham dropping out of CL spots (I guess that's
| what the chicken on the basketball and dropping out on 5th
| place means)
| fernandotakai wrote:
| haha, exactly!
|
| to be honest, i'm totally looking forward to arsenal's
| future -- young manager, absurdly young and talented team
| mixed with good veterans.
|
| a front of Saka, ESR, Odegaard and Martinelli looks so
| good!
| tomc1985 wrote:
| /r/weed and /r/trees
| xdennis wrote:
| /r/weed is about weed. I think you mean
| https://old.reddit.com/r/marijuanaenthusiasts/ .
| rubatuga wrote:
| Minaj has a song called super bass, similar effect.
| 1_player wrote:
| /r/potatosalad is about John Cena.
|
| /r/johncena is about potato salads.
| jp57 wrote:
| Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen
| /r/superb_owl. Someone obviously wanted to make a joke by
| grabbing "superbowl" before the football fans could.
| jlarocco wrote:
| > Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen
| /r/superb_owl.
|
| That's hardly a justification for either side, though. The
| Kafkas could have went with "/r/franz_kafka" and
| "/r/apache_kafka" and there wouldn't be any problem.
| kitd wrote:
| Reddit needs a disambiguation option, like Wikipedia.
| halestock wrote:
| I think it was deliberately tongue-in-cheek since the nfl is
| notoriously litigious when it comes to the use of "super
| bowl".
| ddek wrote:
| But, that wouldn't be a joke though.
| davidkunz wrote:
| "superbowl" was also featured in an episode of "What we do in
| the shadows":
| https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Scramblie...
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