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Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by tomrod »

drost wrote: post #29
tchalla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I check out /r/chodi (a sub full of memes and random talk) That sub seems to be regularly featured on r/AgainstHateSubReddits Misogyny https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/na9y... Racism https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ly6n... https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/jh3j... Islamophobia : https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ndor... https…

I'm not saying those linked comments are not authentic, but r/AgainstHateSubreddits does post hateful content on subreddits they want to get banned.

Sounds like a spontaneously organized social feedback community. Interesting.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by jaypeg25 »

mynameisash wrote: post #32
MattRix wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a bit silly considering that this site is pretty much the same as any Reddit subreddit.

At a technical level, I'd more or less agree with you. But from a content and community perspective, I disagree that it's pretty much the same. IMHO, the signal-to-noise here is amazing; not perfect, but _so_ much better. If I really want memes or jokes, I'll go back to reddit (and I occasionally do if I want some mindless downtime). I get a lot more insightful information and community interaction here than there.

Generally speaking, the smaller the subreddit the better the community. I really like the subreddit dedicated to my favorite baseball team. I like the /r/MLB subreddit too, but less so. The noise noise from everyone posting and trying to make the frontpage leads to an inevitable degradation in quality.

I remember a while back when /r/cfb was invited to join the front page and there was considerable pushback from members who were afraid the reddit-wide readership would ruin the quality of posts. Kind of an eternal september thing...

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by zitterbewegung »

I didn't realize that Reddit even recommends you content. And I can't tell the difference between before and after these recommendations are coming in. The blog post feels like one that Youtube made about their recommender system and how it improved but, their recommender system doesn't work.

Reddit has been sort of this weird place where they face the issues that Digg and Twitter have and want to slowly transition itself into some Facebook competitor but due to the communities that exist on the platform its a really hard sell. The new UI is harder to use and visually distracting. It feels like they just want you to use the App so you have to look at their advertisements.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by nurgasemetey »

throwaway3699 wrote: post #21

> Gazette: Feature Stores and Model Prediction Engine When did developers stop naming things properly and go straight to weird codenames? What is wrong with 'recommendation service'?

One advantage: googling by weird names is much easier.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by Diederich »

MattRix wrote: post #23
Judgmentality wrote: post #14

I love how every comment so far is about how much people dislike reddit.

It’s a bit silly considering that this site is pretty much the same as any Reddit subreddit.

> any Reddit subreddit

I think you many 'any given Reddit subreddit', which is very true.

To others comments below: the signal to noise ratio here on HN is pretty good, and the average S/N on Reddit is pretty poor, but some subs over there are exceptional. For instance, https://old.reddit.com/r/askhistorians

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by alach11 »

drost wrote: post #29
tchalla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I check out /r/chodi (a sub full of memes and random talk) That sub seems to be regularly featured on r/AgainstHateSubReddits Misogyny https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/na9y... Racism https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ly6n... https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/jh3j... Islamophobia : https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ndor... https…

I'm not saying those linked comments are not authentic, but r/AgainstHateSubreddits does post hateful content on subreddits they want to get banned.

Does it matter? No matter who originally posted the content, if it’s allowed by the mods and upvoted by the subreddit’s users, that should reflect on /r/chodi.

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by ipaddr »

drost wrote: post #29
tchalla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I check out /r/chodi (a sub full of memes and random talk) That sub seems to be regularly featured on r/AgainstHateSubReddits Misogyny https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/na9y... Racism https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ly6n... https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/jh3j... Islamophobia : https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ndor... https…

I'm not saying those linked comments are not authentic, but r/AgainstHateSubreddits does post hateful content on subreddits they want to get banned.

An against hate subreddit that doubles as a hate factory against other threads? How modern..

Re: Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit

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Post by kevinh »

drost wrote: post #29
tchalla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I check out /r/chodi (a sub full of memes and random talk) That sub seems to be regularly featured on r/AgainstHateSubReddits Misogyny https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/na9y... Racism https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ly6n... https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/jh3j... Islamophobia : https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/ndor... https…

I'm not saying those linked comments are not authentic, but r/AgainstHateSubreddits does post hateful content on subreddits they want to get banned.

Is there any evidence for that assertion?
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