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Not to mention an entire subreddit dedicated to refining Meth. https://old.reddit.com/r/BabyBees/
I had to scroll down to the 47th post before someone said methamphetamine. Also, I'm probably now on a list somewhere.
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Putting the rest of your comment aside; > the most upvoted solution can be completely incorrect This is correct. The value you get from a good Reddit conversation is like a good Wikipedia page; it gives you the lay of the land an an idea of what people believe, which is surprisingly valuable.
For me, reddit and wikipedia are mostly for seeing that something happened/getting me the right keywords to dig in further myself.
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Putting the rest of your comment aside; > the most upvoted solution can be completely incorrect This is correct. The value you get from a good Reddit conversation is like a good Wikipedia page; it gives you the lay of the land an an idea of what people believe, which is surprisingly valuable.
> The value you get from a good Reddit conversation is like a good Wikipedia page Reddit cannot be compared to wikipedia. It's social media vs an internet encyclopedia. Wikipedia does not allow opinions.
If there is an ideological slant in the reporting, itll reach the wikipedia page, as long as the source is deemed trustworthy.
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Daily reminders of how much i overpaid for a 3060ti 4 months ago :)
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> Blatant transphobia. If we applied your argument to r/conservative, it would be child grooming to become a racist school shooter. Here's a post from within a week I found in a few minutes[1] with the top-comment being "The pipeline" about a 16 year old (minor). This is child-grooming. And if /r/conservative has a "pipeline", it's child-grooming too. Children shouldn't be encouraged in making major life decisions by…
Whats funny is that 12 or however many years ago digg was practically demolished for taking down that blu ray encryption code but now all the censorship and astroturfing on reddit is absolutely fine as long as it confirms peoples’ biases. I’ve given up on r/all and just use r/home, even though its top5 results aggressively suggest you keep going back to the last 2 subs you visited.
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Gen-pop on Reddit is terrible, but as someone else pointed out, it’s massive and very specialized. I’m in a forum about CPAP machines, mechanical keyboards, my city, coffee, and UX dark patterns. That’s not stuff that works on HN. They are completely different needs / value.
I've been brainstorming a site that uses HN usernames to validate identity and have a comment floor of 500 on HN to participate. It would be like HN but for political and non tech articles.
My first thought was that this is a great idea. My second is that the 500 karma metric can become a target, and lead to lower quality posts on HN. I’m not sure which is correct.
The Facebook was a whole lot of fun before the news feed, when only university students and faculty could join. Was it the wider membership, or the wider scope, that ruined it?
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Agreed. I'm progressive and try to engage in good faith, but have been banned from a number of subs such as whitepeopletwitter (racist name), politics, latestagecapitalism, and several others because they are safe spaces. They are agitation echo chambers. I get that sometimes, skilled trolls play devil's advocate to take conversations off the rails, but the banhammer falls far too quickly on the large subs. It really…
I was banned from a pro-ccp sub and reported to reddit (and received a warning for this). My comment was literally, "Finding a subreddit like this is like discovering the Upside Down from Stranger Things". That's it. No back and forth, no other comments. Simply those words. For that reddit threatened me (someone active on the site for 14 years, with hundreds of thousands of their "karma", a subreddit moderator and wh…
Reddit got a $150 million investment from Tencent.
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I've been brainstorming a site that uses HN usernames to validate identity and have a comment floor of 500 on HN to participate. It would be like HN but for political and non tech articles.
My first thought was that this is a great idea. My second is that the 500 karma metric can become a target, and lead to lower quality posts on HN. I’m not sure which is correct. The Facebook was a whole lot of fun before the news feed, when only university students and faculty could join. Was it the wider membership, or the wider scope, that ruined it?
IMO it could be active accounts before x date, and occasionally up that date. But always, intentionally, lagging behind by quite a while.
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#39Reddit has declined so significantly in quality and (in particular) moderation that it's hard to get much out of it. I used it from the very beginning and now overall quality (both posts and comments) is as low as I can recall. Mods have ridiculous power over any users that actually participate in the comments and, in my opinion, the "weaponization" of moderator ability as well as of reddit's newer mod tools has gott…
For me it's the groupthink mentality where anything but the status quo is downvoted to oblivion. Other than that I don't get much out of the site, because most the subs I would enjoy are so small, I can just visit once or twice a year and sort by best of the year, and stop when the quality drops. That was I never even need an account.
The groupthink mentality has gotten way out of hand.
While you might think a subreddit is a place for fans of X topic to gather, it seems to end up as a place for superfans to gather. This can be a problem since their viewpoints are extreme and niche.
Instead of merely enjoying topic X and thinking of X in generally positive thoughts, the superfans treat topic X as the BEST EVER. Any discussion of X's shortcomings is met with downvotes or negative comments.
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#40When Reddit goes public and everyone EXCEPT the subreddit moderators make millions/billions, I wonder how long Reddit will stay around for?
It’s the subreddits and the moderators that make what Reddit is today, and they are the ones that do all the hard work and yet somehow they are the only ones that won’t profit from an IPO.