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

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Post by synth »

rimantas wrote: post #147
ugh wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well, if you subscribe to a solipsist, intent-is-everything idea of morality, then it makes sense to believe that the mere act of saying that women are hysterical bitches who need to get back in the kitchen, doesn't make you a misogynist. But that isn't the point.

Entertain this notion; words mean things, whether you like it or not. Your conscious state of mind is completely irrelevant to anyone but yourself. When people roll their eyes at your unfunny racist jokes, it's not necessarily because they think you're racist; it's because you're saying racist things.

So, why is it offensive to say black people are criminals who love KFC and watermelons? Well, maybe you should ask a black person, because you certainly wouldn't know. But be sure to use "offensive" in scare-quotes to hammer home the point that you Just-Don't-Get-What-The-Fuss-Is-All-About. Remember also to point out that most people are too stupid/crazy to understand why AIDS jokes which may include a synonym of the word "faggot", can be offensive to homosexuals. Because hey, it's just a word after all. There couldn't possibly be any societal, cultural, or historical contexts behind words, right?

And then you blab on about sexual taboos like it has any real bearing on anything. But really what could anyone expect from someone who thinks that the attempt to use more inclusive language in public discourse amounts to "the ultimate kind of bigotry of them all".

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

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Post by revdinosaur »

rimantas wrote: post #147
ugh wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Conflating the notion of people being offended by nakedness in certain images and people reacting to offensive statements is not helping your case. It's a pretty good strawman to get past people not paying much attention to your block of text, but it lets everyone else know that your post is intellectually dishonest. I suggest saving this stuff for Red... er, Digg?

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

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Post by sjs »

blangblang wrote: post #160
sjs wrote: post #104

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Reddit didn't appear out of the ether as one of those sites. They built a user base like everyone else.

Reddit didn't appear out of the ether as one of those sites. They built a user base in a manner un like everyone else. FTFY.

Poor wording on my part. What I meant is that they too had to build a user base from nothing.

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

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Post by SamReidHughes »

rmc wrote: post #159
yummyfajitas wrote: post #154

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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.

I believe in freedom of speech, of course. I do not think there is any country which recognises the right of freedom of speech which interprets it as "any and all speech is protected by this". So yes, you can believe in freedom of speech and have limitations on that speech.

Are you trolling? What do the words "freedom of speech" mean to you?

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

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Post by idspispopd »

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…

Having been active on /r/minecraft since it started and reddit from when it was pretty small. I have seen this trend play out repetitively:

1. Niche communities form with lots of quality content

2. This valuable content spurs a spike in viewership, the forum becomes anonymous and no longer a community.

3. Then the quality of content drops dramatically, especially with lots of members just adding banal thoughts or outright karma-whoring. Most content is now in the form of counterpoints which aren't counterpoints, juvenile tit-for-tat fights, massive meme infection and 2-month nostalgia posts.

4. Members who were responsible for quality rapidly abandon the subreddit and the entire subreddit begins to resemble the reddit front page. (I really have no idea how the mods stick it out.)

Unfortunately I have begun to see the same sort of thing happen to HN. HN wised up quickly however and removed visible mod-points which I always felt was responsible for the worst behaviour on reddit. (Slashdot was a bit better because the karma was rationed and the stories curated.)

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

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Post by synth »

SamReidHughes wrote: post #164
rmc wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe in freedom of speech, of course. I do not think there is any country which recognises the right of freedom of speech which interprets it as "any and all speech is protected by this". So yes, you can believe in freedom of speech and have limitations on that speech.

Are you trolling? What do the words "freedom of speech" mean to you?

Do you know what lying under oath is? Do you know what libel is? Do you know what incitement is?

What kind of idiot are you.

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

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Post by astrodust »

zackzackzack wrote: post #48
astrodust wrote: post #40

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If you don't actively unscrew it up, it will screw itself up. Reddit is already in steep decline even though page-views are up. It's attracting a different crowd now. They're just one Digg-bar moment away from disaster.

I thought that too until I got an account recently. There are really some excellent subreddits hidden beneath all the memes and reposts. Places like TwoXChromosomes, Seddit, DepthHub, TheoryOfReddit, and TrueReddit really have a great deal of value and sharp minds in them. As soon as you venture off the beaten front page path of pics and funny, you get to places that approach Hacker News level of comment quality. The…

I've had to retreat from the over-exposed groups and into the smaller niches, but that's hardly a way to run a community. It's too fragmented and discovery is hard, with word of mouth or casual linking in the sidebar being about the only way to reasonably discover new places to explore.

Reddit's user community has never been stronger, but the platform is in serious disrepair.

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