ghiotion

There are almost too many examples to cite (narwhals, 'let me tap that', 'FB girl who loves anal', 'stay hasty' personal army thread, references to pedobear, etc, etc, etc).

Don't get me wrong. I love reddit. I also, in spite of myself, like /b/. It can be brilliantly demonic. But I've seen reddit slowly transform into /b/ over the course of the past 2 years - right around the time Anonymous went after the Scientologists. Amazingly, I have never seen reddit mentioned on /b/, but I see /b/ mentioned on reddit quite a bit. So how did it happen? Did reddit discover /b/ or vice versa? Is /b/ the inevitable end result when a bunch of smart, socially awkward, computer savvy teens and 20-year-olds get together online?

I've been a long time user of MySQL. I neither love it, nor hate it; but I do find that it meets all my database needs. I was reading the Reddit job posting the other day and I see that they use Postgres as their database and I thought to myself, "is there something I'm missing?" I've never really looked into Postgres, but it seems like I see it popping up all over the place. What's the consensus? Is Postgres superior to MySQL in some way I'm unaware?

I've noticed something that seems like a trend, namely an increased use of the downvote for comments that people mildly disagree with. I pointed it out in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214294). I normally try to stay away from the downvote button as much as possible because it seems somewhat passive aggressive. If I disagree with someone, I won't vote up. If I really disagree with someone, I'll post a rejoinder comment. I remain utterly convinced that the downvote killed reddit (that plus the influx of the /b/tards).

Has the use of the downvote increased since hacker news made it to techcrunch? How about in the last 30 days?