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HN simplified that with up-votes only. Next: implicit up-vote by following link.
HN has downvotes once you have a certain amount of karma
On stories too?
Reddit in 2016
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I really liked Slashdot's moderation system. Not everybody got to moderate. You got selected at random. Being able to moderate felt much more like a privilege than a right and I took it much more seriously than I do on Reddit.
The other thing about slashdot that's nice is you can't moderate a discussion in which you're taking part.
So the fate of a conversation is shaped by the people who are most likely to know absolutely nothing about the topic at hand (or they would have contributed to the thread).
Re: Reddit in 2016
#93Reddit's a neat idea, but I had to abandon it. Had just hit five years of daily participation on the site, too. If we look past all the controversy and all the other reasons most people point at the site as a negative, it boils down to one thing in my mind: Base cynicism. There's cynicism when someone else reposts something. There's cynicism over imaginary internet points. There's cynicism by, from, and to the modera…
I imagine if hn grows any bigger it will become like reddit. It's the smalltown vs big city mentality.
I was heavily downvoted for snarky and spiteful comments and ultimately hellbanned as I tryed to pack up my cynicism in elaborate arguments. The downvote privileged are pretty vigorous about protecting their privilege.
Re: Reddit in 2016
#94They need to work on their mobile web design. This [1] is not a pleasant experience in 2016.
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#95Reddit 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 have mixed feelings about reddit but mainly positives. One, it is the main driver of traffic to my blogs because there are specific subreddits with very focused audiences about these topics.
The negative was only related to the netsec subreddit which I think is really great but banned me several times in the last few months because some moderators said my post were offtopic while the same kind of posts were really successful there before. For example, benchmarking different ways of betwork traffic capture in Windows including drivers developed by ourselves.
Re: Reddit in 2016
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It was added after about a year or so, and there was two real driving forces behind it. The first was that people started using 'tags' in their submission titles to do things like "Ask Reddit" and also that the main page started getting overrun with Ron Paul tributes because apparently he was the second coming of Christ and would be the panacea that the US needed. And since most of us started visiting Reddit for the…
IMO, 50 000 subscribers is about the tipping point for subreddit quality. Beyond that number things start to go down hill real fast. You also don't want too few subscribers, however, or there will be too little new content posted. At about 10 000 subscribers, the amount of posts should be high enough that there's always something to see.
The one exception to that, that I've found, is /r/homebrewing. It's >100,000 now, but is still a great community.
I think it's a much different demographic to the rest of reddit though, a lot of contributors don't really use any other subreddits and are older.
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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.
voat.co is already a good alternative.
C# based and struggling to keep up with load, last I saw
Re: Reddit in 2016
#98They need to work on their mobile web design. This [1] is not a pleasant experience in 2016. [1] http://m.imgur.com/StVB2Uu
They actually did this last year, check out https://m.reddit.com/
Re: Reddit in 2016
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other thing about slashdot that's nice is you can't moderate a discussion in which you're taking part.
So the fate of a conversation is shaped by the people who are most likely to know absolutely nothing about the topic at hand (or they would have contributed to the thread).
But is that a problem? You don't usually need technical expertise to judge whether someone is speaking in a productive way or not. The purpose of moderating a conversation isn't to try to remove technically incorrect arguments, surely? It's to stop conversations from being derailed by snarky, aggressive comments, or outright trolling, etc.
Re: Reddit in 2016
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There was a case of theoatmeal.com a long time ago. They supported the user submitting content even though it was his own.
The guy who runs the youtube channel Smarter Everyday has his own subreddit and promotes it regularly.
to be fair, both oatmeal and smarter everyday didn't start a community on reddit, wait for it to grow, and then try to divert that community into their own sites (as planned all along)