Reddit in 2016

Post by deelowe » Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

pknopf wrote: post #23

fourstar wrote: post #18

Reddit is the worst. I created a sub that ended up becoming a default (/r/lifeprotips) and ended up getting banned when I tried to promote a site that I built (which was my original intention with the idea). They banned me because I had adsense on the site (funny because Imgur was/has been the golden child for reddit and they've had advertising for quite a while). I sent them a DMCA to remove the logo that I had comm…

I'm working on a site: https://skimur.com I plan on making like Twitter, but "followers" "vote" for "tweets" so that the collective community sees the best content. Reddit isn't really meant for personal usage. Subs are typically topic related there.

Post by Yhippa » Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 5:23 AM UTC

brownbat wrote: post #46

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> Reddit is run by a bunch of leeches who rely on moderators to create content and never reward them. I think sites like Reddit emerged at a point where infrastructure for sharing was very valuable for users in its own right. It seems amazing now that the submit/upvote/downvote flow was so novel and we all lapped up the spirit of freedom. But actually the powerful feature of sites like Reddit and HN is the moderation…

> submit/upvote/downvote flow was so novel What was the timeline again... Slashdot emerged in 1997, it developed voting on several different criteria, you could filter for "funny" or "insightful" posts, and it had a pretty sophisticated meta-moderation system. Digg simplified that with up- and down-votes. Reddit borrowed digg's model. I'm not 100% sure what the innovation of reddit was at the time, but I feel like th…

Post by DiabloD3 » Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 5:48 AM UTC

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I've always heard the reddit experience is far superior in the low-key, non-default, not-too-popular subs.

/r/gardening and /r/woodworking is where it's at.

Post by kungtotte » Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 6:28 AM UTC

brownbat wrote: post #56

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Digg threads become too full and the model just didn't scale up. A thread with 10k up votes and 1000 comments is not inviting to new users. A stupid or insightful comment on such a thread will be completely ignored if it wasn't the first post. In contrast Reddit has thousands of small communities that let new users be heard. Down voting and arguing over "bad" comments gives an impression of authority that make the us…

> Reddit has thousands of small communities Was that true at launch? I thought that was added later, but can't remember.

Post by Consultant32452 » Sat, Jan 30, 2016, 6:53 AM UTC

lqdc13 wrote: post #68

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As far as I know they try to deny self-promotion because it leads to a flood of people posting crappy content because it will make them money, rather than good content because it is good. It's definitely sometimes difficult to enforce & sometimes poorly enforced.

There was a case of theoatmeal.com a long time ago. They supported the user submitting content even though it was his own.