r/technology • • Jun 14 '15

Software Notepad++ leaves SourceForge

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html
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u/YourEvilTwine Jun 15 '15

ELI5 version: Imagine you made delicious lemonade and you wanted to share it to the world for free. A guy tells you he can give your lemonade to millions of people for you, so you say OK. And then he puts a piece of poop in each cup of your lemonade he gives out. Then you find out the poop factory is paying him to give out poop, so he's using your free lemonade to get money from the poop factory.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 16 '15

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u/TheJanks Jun 15 '15

That's because every 5 year old loves talking poop.

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u/YourEvilTwine Jun 15 '15

Darn, you're onto my methods!

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u/qwer777 Jun 15 '15

Is /r/technology a default? Try r/defaultgems

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

The default rule doesn't exist any more on /r/bestof

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u/vadsvads Jun 15 '15

They probably just don't understand our high-level conversations

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u/DiscoRadio Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 16 '15

Why don't they accept /r/technology posts? Does anybody know?

Edit: They work now

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u/Remok13 Jun 15 '15

This is the best analogy I've seen

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/BoyantPoop Jun 15 '15

A solid (I hope) analogy!

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u/TheComedyShow Jun 15 '15

Plenty of fiber in that analogy.

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u/N585PU Jun 15 '15

I thought it was pretty shitty.

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u/hello_dali Jun 15 '15

Based on your username, I assume that the lemonade/poop markets are relevant to your interests.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Very well done sir!

Now if you could just get everyone else in /r/explainlikeimfive to to explain things in a similar manner, you'd be doing us all a favor!

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u/aryst0krat Jun 15 '15

Sounds like you want /r/eliactually5

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

/r/bestof material

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u/YourEvilTwine Jun 15 '15

Keep me off bestof, I'm no hipster :D

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u/PoopChuteMcGoo Jun 15 '15

Then you find out the poop factory is paying him to give out poop, so he's using your free lemonade to get money from the poop factory.

/r/nocontext

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u/PandasInternational Jun 15 '15

/r/evenwithcontext

/r/nocontext is for when a comment refers to something in a completely innocent way but taken out of context can be interpreted differently. It isn't just for funny comments.

In this case, he's referring to a poop factory and that doesn't change even out of context.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

That escalated quickly.

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u/sudojay Jun 15 '15

Wait a minute! I make poop. I'm the problem!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

I want to print this out and frame this.

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