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Reddit is a great platform to disguise sponsored content as organic. If you are really good the users won't even notice. I wonder whether they have started monetizing that yet. There is clearly a lot of it on Reddit. It's just not clear whether it is with the help of Reddit or despite of them.
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The site would be better off with an outright ban on meta content. Aside from one or two outliers like DepthHub, most instances of someone on reddit linking to something on reddit are a variation on "Hey, look at this stupid thing this person did, let's all point and laugh at how stupid they are".
/r/bestof would disagree with you.
In fact the main reason I read hn comments is the hope of finding comment gems posted by an expert in the field, someone with a unique perspective on an issue, or someone with a heretical but plausible idea.
Reddit is a great platform to disguise sponsored content as organic. If you are really good the users won't even notice. I wonder whether they have started monetizing that yet. There is clearly a lot of it on Reddit. It's just not clear whether it is with the help of Reddit or despite of them.
Isn't this basically what "native ads" are?
They 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/
They 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/
Just look at how incompetently the site was redesigned: https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile/issues/247
45 seconds load time...
There's also the tiny buttons(obviously not mobile-first, even if it is a mobile-only redesign).
And of course, the poster child of "we are doing complex JS stuff, but still think that JS is for kids, so we didn't bother learning how to actually do it". I'm talking about the infamous "We built a single-page-app, but it doesn't always work right, and the back button is kind of broken, and it sometimes treats scrolling over a thing as clicking on that thing".
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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.
The "next big thing" won't have voting. It's too easily gamed and leads to groupthink in the worst way. Inb4 "HN has voting but no groupthink". It has both in large quantities.
Many perfectly valid posts are removed by mods, there was recently linked a version of the homepage based on votes alone and something like a third of the posts were deleted. I would much much prefer something more organic where what the people declared good was shown, and that power largely stripped from the mods/admins.
Reddit'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.
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Reddit is run by a bunch of leeches who rely on moderators to create content and never reward them. Snapzu ( http://snapzu.com ) is a reddit alternative that has a referral program that splits revenues with moderators, as a reward and incentive to grow it. Their system is similar where instead of subreddits, there are 'tribes', but it's essentially the same way of organizing communities. Here is a link to their refer…
This is very interesting and I think there might be something here with this idea. It looks like you might run/work there. Is your "Frank" on the affiliate program just an example or a real person? Another question I have is about the legality of it. Are these technically employees or contractors?