No wonder the comment section now competes with YouTube for most inane on the net.
Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
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Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regarding the "decline" of Reddit: any site that gets 2 billion monthly page views is going to be wholly different from its incipient form of several years ago. Surely the users of Reddit who pine for its past have many alternatives today.
Some aspects of HN are very similar to the way reddit was four years ago. The topics covered are slightly different, but at least half of the HN main page is normally not directly startup related, and the discussion threads are almost always interesting. Hopefully it'll stay that well. Childish and one line comments seem to stay away, which is absolutely fantastic.
> but at least half of the HN main page is normally not directly startup related
I agree with you, as HN is supposed to bring topics of interest for hackers, and there are many things other than startup world that we may be interested in. But for startup related items, the submissions are almost entirely devoted to software, computing and related services. There are very few (no?) posts related to startups in science or hardware (and we are living in times where very exciting things are happening in these areas). In my opinion, a hacker community will benefit from having a wide range of interests (I haven't seen Michael Neilsen posting here for a while).
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#133I love the reddit community, and I've been an active member for almost 6 years now. Congratulations to the reddit team for building a huge, diverse and successful community. However, I think that this latest stage of growth brings a lot of problems. The entire tone of reddit (in general) has become a lot more hostile during the last 1.5 years. It's what someone said about groupthink - downvoting or posting a quick, h…
The entire tone of reddit (in general) has become a lot more hostile during the last 1.5 years.
On the contrary, I think the groupthink was much more obvious before they started policing the subreddits more closely in the last year. It used to be that /r/business was the most anti-business place on the web - any post that was positive about business would get instantly downvoted to oblivion, in favour of posts decrying how businesses were exploiting individuals and the government in various ways.
Then they split it up into multiple sub-sub-reddits, and now /business is actually a sensible place to read stuff about business.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, fundamentally, we've been designing online communities in the same (flawed) manner for decades. This is basically the recipe for reversion to the mean: 1. Allow any user to add themselves into the community; and then, 2. allow the course of discussion to be set by majority rule. The site (or subreddit, or newsgroup, or whatever)'s focus and usefulness will gradually disintegrate as people in secondary demograph…
This sounds pretty easy to avoid by moderating to keep focus and prevent drifting. "This subreddit is for media discussion only . Irrelevant links will be banned."
This hasn't worked for reddit. It hasn't worked for any other site that's tried it.
Seriously, folks, read Clay Shirky. The man knows what he's talking about.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
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I don't really recognize that picture. Besides the sexism, which is an issue (but by far not exclusive to Reddit), all the rest of that shit gets downvoted into oblivion by the community at large.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o4q5l/policemen_o... I don’t think I have to expand on that.
Well, it's obvious that it is a joke. Although racially based, still a joke. Or an attempt of one.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#136I guess this answers my question to how badly reddit crushed digg.
Here is another nice view of that: http://gs.statcounter.com/#digg_vs_reddit-ww-monthly-200905-...
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o4q5l/policemen_o... I don’t think I have to expand on that.
Well, it's obvious that it is a joke. Although racially based, still a joke. Or an attempt of one.
I'm generally of the opinion that racist jokes are not as far separated from actual racism as the joke teller would like themselves to believe.
Same goes for sexism, ageism, etc etc.
I used to crack jokes about black people back in college (of the same character that ugh linked to) - I didn't think it was racism, after all I didn't actually have anything against black people, right? Then I graduated, moved to another city, and made a lot of black friends that bucked the stereotypes so dramatically that now I find the same jokes at least mildly offensive.
Racism is a spectrum, it isn't as binary as "lynch 'em" vs. "I love them", there are many shades of gray, and many places where you're subtly contributing to it by believing in, and spreading extremely damaging stereotypes.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o4q5l/policemen_o... I don’t think I have to expand on that.
Well, it's obvious that it is a joke. Although racially based, still a joke. Or an attempt of one.
That doesn't make it not racist though, and doesn't neccesarily make people any happier to read it than if it wasn't a joke.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really recognize that picture. Besides the sexism, which is an issue (but by far not exclusive to Reddit), all the rest of that shit gets downvoted into oblivion by the community at large.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o4q5l/policemen_o... I don’t think I have to expand on that.
Politically incorrect humor does not equal racism.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds pretty easy to avoid by moderating to keep focus and prevent drifting. "This subreddit is for media discussion only . Irrelevant links will be banned."
This hasn't worked for reddit. It hasn't worked for any other site that's tried it. Seriously, folks, read Clay Shirky. The man knows what he's talking about.
It has for r/askscience.