Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

1024core wrote: post #7

I used to browse /r/india . Then one day Reddit recommended I check out /r/chodi (a sub full of memes and random talk). So I said sure, visited it, commented a couple of times. Next thing I know, I'm banned from /r/india. For participating in a sub that was recommended by Reddit itself ! And there's no appealing these bans.

Post by gruez » Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:04 PM UTC

antibuddy wrote: post #16

fastball wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a big fan of Reddit as a company but that's not really their fault – that's a moderation problem (from the mods of /r/india). You liked the sub enough to comment in it so clearly it was a good rec!

I would shift the blame back to Reddit here, because they exposed data to mods that are completely unrelated to the subreddit. Another problem is the non-existing appeal process.

Post by Manuel_D » Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:08 PM UTC

antibuddy wrote: post #16

fastball wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a big fan of Reddit as a company but that's not really their fault – that's a moderation problem (from the mods of /r/india). You liked the sub enough to comment in it so clearly it was a good rec!

I would shift the blame back to Reddit here, because they exposed data to mods that are completely unrelated to the subreddit. Another problem is the non-existing appeal process.

Post by hinkley » Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:09 PM UTC

    Reddit has 52 million daily active users

Post by geerlingguy » Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

danudey wrote: post #6

mdoms wrote: post #5

Reddit is literally the last organisation on Earth I would take engineering advice from. I appreciate they are operating at a very large scale and that has its own challenges, but it is by far and away the worst engineered product I use. I really do mean from soup to nuts, Reddit is just garbage software. The modern front end is obviously and plainly terrible. The backend is slow and suffers very frequent downtime, o…

I'll add to this: of every website I use which recommends me things based on other things, Reddit does it the absolute worst. It's so bad that they have literally never recommended me a subreddit which was actually relevant to my interests. My favourite instance was when they assumed I liked "programming", based on having (accidentally, once) visited the /r/f5networks subreddit, so they suggested the Europa Universal…