Case for an erBB IPO

[sponge]

With the recent successful IPO of Reddit in the books, whomever owns the erBB should consider doing the same. Can you imagine all the data that could be mined from this forum of intellects? Ingesting all the posts into an LLM could create an app to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude 3, and even X's Grok.

I dub thee Extraordinarily Rude Batch-normalized Bull$#it Chatbot, aka ChatERBB!

Prompt: "Where is the best place to surf?"
ChatERBB response: "Anywhere but my home break kuk. Now show me your t!ts!"

 

[casa_mugrienta]

With the recent successful IPO of Reddit in the books,

Yeah no sh!t.

Again, what does reddit produce?

 

[sponge]

Yeah no sh!t.

Again, what does reddit produce?

Sorry. Posted it before finishing it up. Maybe it'll make more (non)sense after you read it now.

 

[Sharky]

I've been expecting this place to vanish one of these days for awhile now.

From the "bible of the sport" to this.

Sad.

 

[mundus]

It seems we can set the value at what ever we want if recent IPOs are any indication.

 

[jkb]

Fvck the entire erBB.

All we need to submit is the leash string thread.

 

[Chee-to]

Yeah no sh!t.

Again, what does reddit produce?

Advertising platform with large audience self-segregated by market segment and interest; data for AI model training; at least 100x more homoerotic content than the erBB, which is the true key to its success

 

[sponge]

Fvck the entire erBB.

All we need to submit is the leash string thread.

My all time favorite that shows the spirit of the group is:
Guess who got an invite to "The Surfer Poll" ?

 

[ElOgro]

I've been expecting this place to vanish one of these days for awhile now.

From the "bible of the sport" to this.

Sad.

Get with the times boomer.

@sponge may be on to something. Fortunes have been made on less.

 

[ElOgro]

My all time favorite that show's the spirit of the group is:
Guess who got an invite to "The Surfer Poll" ?

I’d go with the Big Ball of Brown.

 

[Chile Verde]

I’d go with the Big Ball of Brown.

Good call. Physix Surf was pretty entertaining as well

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Advertising platform with large audience self-segregated by market segment and interest

But what's the ROI for reddit ads?

The reddit demographic seems like the least likely segment of the population to click on advertising.

I'm only an occasional user and I didn't even realize they had ads til just now when you mentioned it...then I realized they do but my brain has totally tuned them out.

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

With the recent successful IPO of Reddit in the books, whomever owns the erBB should consider doing the same. Can you imagine all the data that could be mined from this forum of intellects? Ingesting all the posts into an LLM could create an app to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude 3, and even X's Grok.

I dub thee Extraordinarily Rude Batch-normalized Bull$#it Chatbot, aka ChatERBB!

Prompt: "Where is the best place to surf?"
ChatERBB response: "Anywhere but my home break kuk. Now show me your t!ts!"

AI would get confused about stock and stoke, the importance of string, wild pigs as surf craft and YOLO would be mistakenly defined as wasting money on yet another “boar”.

 

[doc_flavonoid]

But what's the ROI for reddit ads?

The reddit demographic seems like the least likely segment of the population to click on advertising.

I'm only an occasional user and I didn't even realize they had ads til just now when you mentioned it...then I realized they do but my brain has totally tuned them out.

isnt that basically the case with placement ads. i know it is for me. there is so much visual noise online that my brain just filters ads out.

funny that companies that produce nothing have massive valuations based on potential for ads that people simply ignore

 

[casa_mugrienta]

isnt that basically the case with placement ads. i know it is for me. there is so much visual noise online that my brain just filters ads out.

Mostly yes, but google can slip them into search results so I've seen people get tripped up on them sometimes.

funny that companies that produce nothing have massive valuations based on potential for ads that people simply ignore

Yeah, I've always thought the same.

The overwhelming majority are nothing more than peripheral vision.

I'd love to see the numbers.

 

[Chee-to]

But what's the ROI for reddit ads?

The reddit demographic seems like the least likely segment of the population to click on advertising.

I'm only an occasional user and I didn't even realize they had ads til just now when you mentioned it...then I realized they do but my brain has totally tuned them out.

Your brain is tuning them out now. Wait until AI figures out how to make them topical on the micro level and truly fluent plain language. If it gets there.

 

[bird.LA]

Anybody else notice how much better the information you get from a google search is if you type "thing I'm searching for reddit" instead of just "thing I'm searching for"?

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Your brain is tuning them out now. Wait until AI figures out how to make them topical on the micro level and truly fluent plain language. If it gets there.

Let's hope it doesn't.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Anybody else notice how much better the information you get from a google search is if you type "thing I'm searching for reddit" instead of just "thing I'm searching for"?

The information isn't better - it's often like looking at Yelp reviews.

It turns up lies and half truths, savant know-it-alls, and people who only write something if they need to complain about it.

Then there's the left wing mob downvote you off the subreddit and often insane moderators...Rory Parker of r/surfing is a prime example.

I pop into r/sandiego all the time just to see the sort of nonsense that gets posted and it's a real insight into the majority who are posting on reddit. Most popular topic is transplants whining that San Diego sucks because it's so expensive and they can never own a home, same people bitching about how homeowners suck, and lastly their favorite topic - all landlords are evil and there is never any good reason to raise someone's rent. Seems like a lot of "tech" workers there and on reddit in general.

This place is far more sane and mature than reddit...which is pretty shocking but says a ton.

 

[Kento]

Your brain is tuning them out now. Wait until AI figures out how to make them topical on the micro level and truly fluent plain language. If it gets there.

This does not make me despise the advertising industry less.