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Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by [deleted] »

dmix wrote: post #18
bane wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps this is it? http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jcv2h/rolling_st...

Indeed, this comment in particular was the top reply that had 12+ upvoted before later being downvoted. "Are you trying to be clever, are you a dumb ass or something else? Is this some funny youtube shit that is above my understanding?" The exaggerated lack of intelligence in my original comment was really obvious. The fact that people didn't get the joke was what was concerning.

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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by kristofferR »

larrykubin wrote: post #10
blhack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit still has a fantastic set of communities on it. Think of it more as a service , not one singular website. Like usenet. (These are some of the subs that I like, they might not be your thing, but they're examples of solid communities) http://reddit.com/r/truereddit http://reddit.com/r/longtext http://reddit.com/r/depthhub http://reddit.com/r/askscience http://reddit.com/r/neuro http://reddit.com/r/burningman htt…

Also, there are quite a few city subreddits where people get together and meet. Eg. /r/seattle, /r/portland, /r/austin. I never go to the front page.

Why don't you just create your own front page with just the subreddits you're interested in?

http://reddit.com/reddits/

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by mkr-hn »

dmix wrote: post #18
bane wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps this is it? http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jcv2h/rolling_st...

Indeed, this comment in particular was the top reply that had 12+ upvoted before later being downvoted. "Are you trying to be clever, are you a dumb ass or something else? Is this some funny youtube shit that is above my understanding?" The exaggerated lack of intelligence in my original comment was really obvious. The fact that people didn't get the joke was what was concerning.

I might be missing something, but it looks like you missed the parent commenter's joke.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by raldi »

Speaking as a former reddit admin who had direct access to the server logs (and "wc -l"): Quantcast (and Alexa, and Comscore, and all the others) are terrible at estimating traffic. They make wildly inaccurate guesses using low-quality source data and all the ad execs just gobble up their results as if they're fresh off God's own LaserJet. It's very frustrating to watch.

The most accurate results are visible at Google AdPlanner, because it's reporting actual Google Analytics data from a bug embedded on every reddit page:

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...

Google Trends is also pretty good -- again, because they have access to actual, real search data which they're presenting raw and unvarnished:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+digg&ctab=0&#38...

To my eye, the hockey stick begins in Q1 2010, well before the mid-Q3 spike when Digg v4 was launched.

TLDR: Digg's implosion may have accelerated Reddit's traffic growth, but it was already doubling yearly, a trend which goes back to the site's launch in 2005.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by dasil003 »

The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence:

Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time

This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actual posts on the front page—how much rather than how.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by wvenable »

dasil003 wrote: post #25

The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence: Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actu…

It wasn't the reddit community but rather the Digg community protesting the changes to the site and using reddit links to make the point.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by mynameishere »

mkr-hn wrote: post #23
dmix wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, this comment in particular was the top reply that had 12+ upvoted before later being downvoted. "Are you trying to be clever, are you a dumb ass or something else? Is this some funny youtube shit that is above my understanding?" The exaggerated lack of intelligence in my original comment was really obvious. The fact that people didn't get the joke was what was concerning.

I might be missing something, but it looks like you missed the parent commenter's joke.

I'm having a hard time seeing anything of interest in the whole thread, funny or otherwise. Who are these people who see a comment with 600 upmods or 80 downmods and think, "Yeah, I better add my vote to that gross consensus."

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by wvenable »

parfe wrote: post #3

Too bad. The voting system isn't as robust as it needs to be for me to use the site on a regular basis anymore. Too many of the top rated threads are jokes, puns, or stupid questions. Moderating by category made slashdot comments useful. In the user profile, setting all "Funny" moderated comments to -5 eliminated all the "In Soviet Russia" jokes. Repeated comments were marked redundant etc. Reddit has become quite po…

I wasn't happy with the hiding of comment scores on hacker news but I think that reddit should go in that direction. Keep the existence of karma but no longer show it to any users -- there are far too many posts that exist solely to collect meaningless points. I think that would drastically improve the content of a number of subreddits.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by mkr-hn »

mynameishere wrote: post #27
mkr-hn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might be missing something, but it looks like you missed the parent commenter's joke.

I'm having a hard time seeing anything of interest in the whole thread, funny or otherwise. Who are these people who see a comment with 600 upmods or 80 downmods and think, "Yeah, I better add my vote to that gross consensus."

Jokes don't have to be funny to be recognized as jokes.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by ZachPruckowski »

dasil003 wrote: post #25

The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence: Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actu…

Many of the users on Digg considered V4 to be about monetizing the site at the expense of a lot of features they really liked.
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