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Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by TeMPOraL »

forgetsusername wrote: post #41
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…

> Reddit is the worst. Reddit is the best. In fact, now when I'm searching for random terms or information, I'll often include "reddit" in the query, because I'm confident that on pretty much any subject there are bona fide experts or people who have already done the research willingly sharing their knowledge on Reddit, for free. Wonderful.

I do the same. For pretty much any topic there's a decent subreddit with a community of people involved in it, who did lots of research and collected relevant information in various FAQ / Wiki posts. Whenever I want to seriously learn something outside of programming, I usually search for a subreddit on it.

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by TeMPOraL »

diyorgasms wrote: post #58
forgetsusername wrote: post #43

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> If it's already a pop culture topic, like Tesla or Netflix, the topics will drive interest and thereby upvotes. And HN is different...how exactly? There's a definite air of superiority here, but I don't find the commentary any more insightful. Besides, "reddit" isn't a single entity.

>Besides, "reddit" isn't a single entity. It's almost as if reddit is made up of millions of users and you can deduce the "average" or aggregate opinion of reddit by examining voting patterns.

Except those millions of users are divided among thousands of subreddits and don't all read or vote on the same stories. So no, you can't.

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by bcook »

platz wrote: post #74
bcook wrote: post #67

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Anyone who believes something at face-value is asking to be deceived. I think reddit is truly great at playing to the common denominator. Whether that is good or bad, I do not know.

I think you're oversimplifying an extremely large and complex thing. How does a post like this "play to the common denominator"? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/3y3fj...

I said "I think" which I hope was interpreted to mean it was my subjective opinion. There are some great things to be found in reddit, but immaturity is rampant along with one of the strongest examples of groupthink. this is just my opinion though. No statements of fact here.

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by brownbat »

hyperpallium wrote: post #83
brownbat wrote: post #46

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> 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…

HN simplified that with up-votes only. Next: implicit up-vote by following link.

I really like the idea of measuring content quality by objective metrics, like time on page, or even eye tracking.

I'm a little frightened by what we might learn about our implicit attitudes, but I think it'd be a fun experiment.

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

gozur88 wrote: post #89
sliverstorm wrote: post #39

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

That's true. Most of the larger subs have voting blocs that memory-hole your comments if you don't agree with the mob no matter how reasonably you word disagreement. Besides, what's the point of commenting on something that already has 700 comments? Nobody is going to read it.

Ugh! Glad I stick to the smaller subs then.

/r/homelab, r/selfhosted, subs like that.

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by kbenson »

forgetsusername wrote: post #43
zaif wrote: post #19

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I think a lot of it is the pseudo-intellectual nature of the site to make people feel like they are more knowledgeable. If it's already a pop culture topic, like Tesla or Netflix, the topics will drive interest and thereby upvotes. John Oliver did a similar episode about Native Advertising.

> If it's already a pop culture topic, like Tesla or Netflix, the topics will drive interest and thereby upvotes. And HN is different...how exactly? There's a definite air of superiority here, but I don't find the commentary any more insightful. Besides, "reddit" isn't a single entity.

> There's a definite air of superiority here, but I don't find the commentary any more insightful.

Really? I do. Some subreddits approach what I see as a clear quality advantage in HN comments, but even then there's the occasional joke or non-sequitur. Which is fine. Reddit is not HN, and if they were the same, there would be less overall usefulness.

I enjoy HN and its semi-official policy of down voting comments that are are jokes and don't contribute to the conversation (it's easy to joke on HN, just include something substantive to the conversation as well). On Reddit, even in the more serious subreddits and discussions, one-liner joke comments still pop up, because while they may not get many up votes on serious discussions, I rarely see them get down votes.

Not that I don't enjoy jokes, but if I want that, I'll find the same (or a similar) discussion on Reddit. I just like that HN tries to keep people to a higher standard of conduct, because then that place exists.

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by RubyPinch »

fweespeech wrote: post #17
lawpoop wrote: post #15

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Can you describe this sponsored/organic content dichotomy? To get noticed, you have to have upvotes. If you have upvotes, that means that users appreciated the content. If, say, a company or person is promoting themselves and the community upvotes it, I don't see any problem with it. That's how it's supposed to work. But I don't think that's what you mean by 'disguise'. I would guess rather that you mean that some en…

> Can you point to some popular posts presently on reddit that are examples of it? http://www.redditsecrets.com/buy-reddit-accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=725562.0 https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/32rr56/do_peo... You can build a small voting ring for a few hundred dollars to boost posts. The problem is all of Reddit's countermeasures to reduce spam made it hard to tell how successful t…

"However, the fact people are still buying in 2016, implies at least some people succeed at it."

"However, the fact people are still sending money to random emails they get, implies at least some people get the money they were promised in return."

Re: Reddit in 2016

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Post by Consultant32452 »

RubyPinch wrote: post #100
Consultant32452 wrote: post #79

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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)

I think one key difference, as far as Reddit is concerned, is that for things like Smarter Everyday the "relationship," if you could call it that, probably drives more of Smarter Everyday's traffic to Reddit than it pulls from Reddit over to Youtube. People go to Reddit to talk about SED videos and suggest content and ideas because it's a better communication platform than Youtube provides. This is, of course, totally in line with what you're saying.
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