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Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by dzhiurgis on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:25PM (#14574116)
I haven't seen a single sub where CSS would add value. The worst example is r/science where colourful tags make it especially noisy.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by epmatsw on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:47PM (#14574160)
Besides spoiler tags, check out any of the sports subs: r/cfb, r/NFL, r/NBA have team flair, schedules, and scoreboards. Without those and the inline images, those communities would lose a lot of their fun.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by yxhuvud on Saturday June 17, 2017 @02:20AM (#14574563)
Spoiler tags is something that really should get a nonCSS solution though, as they work really crappy on mobile.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by paganel on Saturday June 17, 2017 @05:07AM (#14574983)
r/soccer would most probably become half-dead over-night if the team flairs were to disappear. Almost each and every time when I'm reading a comment on there I first look at the flair of the redditor who had made the comment, so that I know who am I answering to. Sports-related discussions are a lot more heated and personal compared to what usually happens on sites like HN or how r/programming was at the beginning. I've actually seen grown people cry with real tears because of a football match, I'm yet to see a programmer cry because some other programmer has used spaces instead of tabs or vice-versa.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by elgenie on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:37PM (#14574144)
CSS adds tons of value in sports subreddits. It's used to display stuff like the league standings and details on the day's game.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by SomeStupidPoint on Saturday June 17, 2017 @02:02AM (#14574526)
....So turn it off?

Reddit has a setting to disable custom CSS on subreddits, so it doesn't make sense why you'd force the subreddits not to have it.

Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by dzhiurgis on Saturday June 17, 2017 @06:11PM (#14577950)
I did disable sitewise around a year ago, but occasionally get reminded when browsing in incognito.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by twic on Saturday June 17, 2017 @06:54AM (#14575270)
r/rust used CSS on April Fool's day to add overenthusiastic Rust Evangelism Strike Force-type exclamations to the end of everyone's posts. That was pretty funny. FEARLESS CONCURRENCY!
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by dredmorbius on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:40PM (#14574150)
https://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius

Availability hueristic and personal bias. There are others.

CSS is a tool. Often, but not always misused.

Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by verall on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:35AM (#14576059)
Lots of meme subs hold a lot of their value in their CSS.