Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

Post by kahawe » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 1:47 PM UTC

ugh wrote: post #85

giberson wrote: post #64

I'll admit to being one of the latecomers to reddit in the last year. I use to avoid reddit like the plague, because I thought reddit was just www.reddit.com (the main page) which the few times I visited was filled with random assortment of stuff I didn't care about. Later, I discovered the true essence of reddit, sub-reddits. Things like r/loseit, r/fitness, r/gamedev, r/ . Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits mu…

One huge problem, though, is that shit (specifically racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, ableism – oh, I guess that list really isn’t all that specific) tends to crop up everywhere. It’s a very reddity kind of shit. Encountering blatant (and highly visible because upvoted) sexism (for example) in such harmless sounding subreddits as /r/soccer or /r/minecraft really kills all my fun. There are a few…

Post by ugh » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 1:59 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #135

ugh wrote: post #130

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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.

Post by ugh » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 3:20 PM UTC

rimantas wrote: post #147

ugh wrote: post #85

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One huge problem, though, is that shit (specifically racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, ableism – oh, I guess that list really isn’t all that specific) tends to crop up everywhere. It’s a very reddity kind of shit. Encountering blatant (and highly visible because upvoted) sexism (for example) in such harmless sounding subreddits as /r/soccer or /r/minecraft really kills all my fun. There are a few…

I think politcorrectness is the ultimate kind of bigotry of them all. Just like kids growing up in sterile environments start to have all kinds of allergies PC is already starting to show similar effects. Sterility screws up the immune system of our body, PC screws up immune system of our minds. The worst part is it does not help to fight those issues, on the contrary — it just discourages even think about those issu…

Post by brown9-2 » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 3:44 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #17

raldi wrote: post #3

To put that in perspective, Flickr is at 1.5B. LinkedIn, 2.7B. Edit: I'd like to go on record with a bet that by the end of the year, reddit will get more traffic than LinkedIn (which currently has a market cap in excess of $6,000,000,000). Anyone want to bet against me? https://plus.google.com/u/1/109191382354704910211/posts/ZRiC...

LinkedIn's audience/traffic is far more valuable though, so I'm not sure why you added the bit about their market cap. Reddit users by and large are there for entertainment and don't click on ads. LinkedIn's users are there for work and by and large are the ads.

Post by rmc » Fri, Jan 06, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

yummyfajitas wrote: post #154

rmc wrote: post #141

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It's funny that the societies that really seem hangup about those, are the very societies that perpetuated them in actual life. You know, Uncle Tom's cabin, Turing's treatment, etc. Yes, territories that previously encouraged and allowed behaviour that they now find unacceptable are trying to stamp that attitudes and behaviour out. Because it's a mans/womans right to change sex AND not be mocked about it, right? Yes…

Yes it is. So I take it you don't believe people have freedom of speech? You can have freedom of speech or the freedom not to be mocked. You can't have both.