UserOfBlue

Sometimes I follow a link on an old website, and it goes to a domain that's no longer maintained and has fallen off the internet. But sometimes these domains (which once would have been perfectly legitimate) redirect to other websites that are seemingly trying to sell really dodgy stuff. I always close the page immediately when I see this, but why does it happen? How do sites that the owner stops paying for end up turning into redirects to very suspicious sites? Do scammers go around buying domains linked from somewhere else or something like that?

It makes me sad when a meme spreads so far from its original source that the people sharing it don't know where it originated from. People should always link to the source of a meme so it can be traced back to its original creator and to avoid the degradation of image quality that often comes with meme reposts. This applies to non-meme reposts too – attribution of sources is important!

The title explains the basics. The third video (always the third) is usually a totally different genre to all the other top videos in the sidebar, and it usually has "Recommended for you" and "New" beneath it. Is YouTube trying to promote small channels this way now? I'm not logged in if that makes a difference.

For example, compare the sound of hitting a table with the fingernail, the knuckle, and the base of the palm. Why do these make such different sounds when the thing that's resonating is unchanged?

I know very little about judicial systems, and I've heard the term "court" (in a legal sense) used to describe 2 things that seem to be very different. I'm not sure if these 2 functions are done by the same organization or not, or if this varies around the world.

One is a criminal type of court, where someone breaks a law, and they go to a court where evidence is presented. A jury of citizens decide whether the person is guilty, and then a judge decides a verdict.

The other usage is a more legal type of court, where there's an ambiguity in a law or something like that. Some people with a dispute go to a court, and then a judge or a group of judges look at all the relevant laws and decide o

For example, could a country take the text of a law from another country, make some changes, and then pass it as a law? Would that be copyright infringement? Does this actually happen?

TL;DR: I remember hearing a few years ago about a "reddit redesign". Now I sometimes hear things about "new reddit", which I apparently do not use. What's the connection between these things?

Long version (you don't really need to read it): A few years ago, I heard a few things about a reddit redesign and how it was apparently controversial. Then I stopped hearing about it. Later, I started occasionally noticing signs that there might be a different version of reddit. Things like people mentioning profile pictures (which I couldn't see), names for special reddit awards (names I didn't know existed), links to old.reddit.com, and eventually a sign in the corner of th

I've occasionally heard people mention them but I've never seen them...