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Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by stimpson_j_cat »

fareesh wrote: post #52

Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.

The biggest change came after the migration from Digg, which would have been about 5 years prior.

the_donald brought a lot of a younger users and white supremacists. I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though. Certainly no noticeable shift that night.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by noelsusman »

Miner49er wrote: post #133
site-packages1 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a…

/r/chapotraphouse wasn't any worse then say /r/conservative or /r/politics, but it got banned. /r/DarkNetMarkets. Just for discussing DNMs, AFAIK. /r/shoplifting /r/stealing /r/beertrade: for trading beers /r/gundeals for a bit. Several other gun buying subs are still banned. /r/fakeid /r/scotchswap: for trading Scotches /r/cigarmarket There's more, too.

IMO Chapo was banned as a misguided attempt at balance for banning /r/The_Donald, though it's not like they weren't an unruly bunch. Calls for violence weren't exactly unheard of there, ironic or not.

The rest of those are just banning discussions of illegal activity. Seems like a reasonable policy to me.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by Barrin92 »

ahtihn wrote: post #106
groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

I don't understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn't a core feature for Reddit and it's certainly not "basic" functionality.

because reddit is a for-profit business and if it can wrestle search from Google obviously it will. In a broader sense the internet is moving away from its protocol nature to vertically integrated firms and you can expect this fragmentation of search in many places.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by ncann »

site-packages1 wrote: post #109
dandellion wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it's also never happened to me, but I know what they're talking about. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen.

I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a…

r/watchpeopledie, despite the horrible name it is a very "educational" sub that helped me become painfully aware of my mortality and in many cases helped me become much more aware of my surroundings when I cross the streets, when I'm around elevators and big machinery and so on.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by sph »

mherdeg wrote: post #131
fareesh wrote: post #52

Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.

One of my favorite ways of discovering niche content has been browsing /r/all/gilded and taking a look at the variety of highlights throughout the site that never make it to the front page or other kinds of publicity. I dug in there one time and found a fascinating obituary for a user on a subreddit for people living with addiction -- full of some touchingly personal and weirdly public stories. Following the user's p…

> browsing /r/all/gilded

These days that awards are free, that's just a list of popular things, not a list of cool things. The major subreddits can have a selfie posted that gets a dozen awards.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by aadvark69 »

groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

multi-billion* dollar site

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by robertoandred »

groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

> one of the first platforms

I mean, I'm one of the first humans, just one of the first 117 billion. Weasel words will get you anywhere!

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by ItsMonkk »

endisneigh wrote: post #107
lvl102 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it’s a bit more complicated than that because the comments are threaded. It could take a few passing to find a gem comment. Also, the comments evolve over time meaning you might not find anything at the time of your browsing.

But even with a single thread you’d have the same problem. How would you know what’s useful beyond using votes and sorting?

I wish I could set multiple sortation options at the same time. So I might see the top 'best' post, followed by the top 'controversial' post, followed by the 'newest' post. Then the second best of each.. etc..

As for threaded, I like how StackOverflow handles this. You have separate top level answers, but underneath that is flat comments that can be filtered a tad for quality or totally unwrapped. That system works very well.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by matt_kantor »

sergiomattei wrote: post #55
danhor wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An important thing is also that reddit still doesn't require a mail address. Just click continue on the signup form without filling in the mail and bypass the dark pattern.

Requiring an email is a dark pattern?

Not requiring an email but making the UI look like you do is a dark pattern.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by Miner49er »

noelsusman wrote: post #142
Miner49er wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/r/chapotraphouse wasn't any worse then say /r/conservative or /r/politics, but it got banned. /r/DarkNetMarkets. Just for discussing DNMs, AFAIK. /r/shoplifting /r/stealing /r/beertrade: for trading beers /r/gundeals for a bit. Several other gun buying subs are still banned. /r/fakeid /r/scotchswap: for trading Scotches /r/cigarmarket There's more, too.

IMO Chapo was banned as a misguided attempt at balance for banning /r/The_Donald, though it's not like they weren't an unruly bunch. Calls for violence weren't exactly unheard of there, ironic or not. The rest of those are just banning discussions of illegal activity. Seems like a reasonable policy to me.

Trading beer and scotch isn't illegal, is it though? Neither is buying guns, or visiting/discussing dark net markets.

And it's not like there aren't thousands of other subs that discuss illegal activity. They haven't banned all the drug subs, or the hacking subs, etc. Pretty much any illegal activity you can still find subs for it. /r/streetracing, /r/piracy, etc.

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