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No, because people would get it's a South Park reference.
I'd hate to thinking that our dialog has downgraded to memes and TV show references. Regardless of appropriateness, it doesn't add information or opinion, it's just noise.
Wow, good job, Team Reddit! Since I think you guy still read HN: Something you all seem to do very, very well is interact with your users. Almost every day I'll see somebody [usually jedberg] show up in a thread answering a question, or responding to something, or even just saying hello. Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fdyyf/reddit_billions_... That's awesome :).
Awesome? Would you still feel that way if your employees spent all day on reddit?!
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Awesome? Would you still feel that way if your employees spent all day on reddit?!
I imagine so, if they were productive enough to reach 1 billion page views per month while doing so. What makes you think that their community involvement isn't the reason reddit has thrived while competitors have failed?
If you can't monetize a billion pageviews in ways other than Reddit Gold, you've got to be kidding me.
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Reddit is an amazing site and an amazing community - there are a lot more factors that go into its success. However, I think quality has suffered slightly recently based on the amount of content that is FFUU comics and just plain pics. While I have been a user for 4+ years, and I love the site to death - there are some improvements in the UX tat could be made -- the most specific would be to allow further tags of ima…
Fun fact: I created the F7U12 subreddit. I'm sorry, but it's a fantastic way to unwind and a great community due to the fact that most comics are common annoyances everyday people have. Besides, you can always unsubscribe.
In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.
This proves that it doesn't have to have a negative effect on the page count to open source the code. Reddit source code: http://code.reddit.com/
There's a lot to be said for free code review.
I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it to the 1 billion monthly pageview category. But, then again, that's kind of a good thing because I don't visit reddit anymore so I'm a million times more productive than I used to…
With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this, you have an effective mechanical turk of some sort since there are so many people to get help from and one of those people can be very useful. The con is that conversations are overloaded, so many try to post one liners to achieve top listing status in a thread. This discourages those with better experience and insight to make a comment since they have to spend a long time on a comment only to have it buried and ignored. The other con is that only pop submissions or submissions that take the least amount of time to consume (r/pics) have the most upmods. Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Now with so many people, the most we can relate to are tech gossip.
With less people conversations are more focused and detailed. The con is you have to be lucky to have experienced individuals to provide better insight.
Still, don't quote me on this stuff. This is something a social scientist can explain better.
Nonetheless, complaining about the degradation of an online community isn't really something to get worked up about (and this is from a guy with a signed reddit bobble-head and a first issue reddit sticker). Entropy is a fact of nature. It's like a group of friends who had such a fun time together for a certain era then end up hating each other. Or like Forrest Gump who reminded me as a child that how your life is setup now isn't how it will always be. I cried when I saw that movie as a child for I knew my care-free childhood life was gonna be over anytime now and...shit, I just realized that happend.