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To enjoy Reddit (nowadays) you have to select specific sub-reddits you are interested in. It can be very interesting and nice then.
Personally, I will never use reddit, no matter the subreddits, or whatever. Usenet and IRC are new again; killfiles and /ignore are powerful, and user-focused.
Yesterday, I posted an article on HackerNews. Its received 62k views in total so far. HackerNews was the site that kicked off all of the view counts and it quickly jumped to the top spot #1. After it reached the top spot, I thought I would also post it on Reddit. It didn't get a single upvote. It's the third time that a story of mine has made it to the front page of HackerNews and then not received a single visitor o…
> It didn't get a single upvote. that is because it is in the spam filter. you need to message the moderators.
FWIW, it's currently in /r/programming's spam filter, and it won't be coming out because it's not about programming. Sorry to be all stackoverflow about it, but that's how we operate.
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This is why I wrote my own datapoint gathering script (I started it while at Techcrunch, curious about who scrolls down to comments, etc.). It measures body focus, number of times unfocused, total focus time, scroll position, scroll rate and a bunch of other things. It isn't completely working cross-browser yet, but it is close and useful enough where for Safari and Chrome visitors I can see how far down the page the…
This sounds extremely useful, would you consider opening the script for public usage?
FWIW, it's currently in /r/programming's spam filter, and it won't be coming out because it's not about programming. Sorry to be all stackoverflow about it, but that's how we operate.
Is 'spam filter' nowadays an euphemism for 'moderators'?
EDIT: Right now that submission has 5 points, from people who must have clicked through on the blog post, and one comment complaining about how it's not about programming, also from someone who must have clicked through from the post.
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O right. How did you determine that? To be honest I'm not a redditor. It's not a site that I visit, so I don't understand how it works.
I check by opening a Chrome Incognito tab (so unauthenticated) and view the "new" page for that subreddit. So http://reddit.com/r/programming/new If it's not there I assume it's in the spam queue and message the mods. It's a pretty crap UX but it works to keep out spammers I suppose.
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> It didn't get a single upvote. that is because it is in the spam filter. you need to message the moderators.
The decline of r/programming in recent months is due to the moderators selection. r/programming has a moderator problem more than a fan-boy problem.
I think we do a pretty good job. No choice is as clear cut as people would like it to be (especially when it is their own content on the line). I've heard feedback from people who think we do an amazing job at moderating, keeping the ever-growing cesspool from leaking into the sacred realm of /r/programming, and I've heard feedback from people who think we're the devil, and that we're censoring the will of the people, and somebody call the ACLU right now!!!
But any community is going to get feedback from those two extremes. That's just how people react to moderation. The fact that there seems to be pretty equal feedback from both extremes tells me that we must either be doing something right, or everything completely wrong.
FWIW, it's currently in /r/programming's spam filter, and it won't be coming out because it's not about programming. Sorry to be all stackoverflow about it, but that's how we operate.
Is 'spam filter' nowadays an euphemism for 'moderators'?
Reddit's spam filter is completely broken with no apparent activity from the current group of admins towards fixing it.
It seems that generally if you submit something to reddit, it will get caught in the spam filter, then you have to message a moderator to request that it get approved.
[Again, it seems] that you're not so much voting on an assortment of links, you're voting on an assortment of links that moderators have deemed worthy.
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The decline of r/programming in recent months is due to the moderators selection. r/programming has a moderator problem more than a fan-boy problem.
Would you care to elaborate on this? Are you referring more to the removal of posts that have made it through the filter, or the lack of approval of posts that are stuck in the filter? I think we do a pretty good job. No choice is as clear cut as people would like it to be (especially when it is their own content on the line). I've heard feedback from people who think we do an amazing job at moderating, keeping the e…
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/googl... for example
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13264962223/sum-o... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13265364121/popen... are two others that I would like to share wider
I don't think they ever got through :(
(I've lost track of what I've tried to send through now; I tend to delete to tidy up when it fails)
Generally, the memory of proggit I have is warm and fuzzy and old. Naturally my memory is selective; but I remember it being far more like HN is now.
The comments were less brogrammer frat'ish. Now, they swin further and further daily towards the immature brat'ish frat'ish sadly.
Insightful comments are fewer and further between.
Maybe proggit needs a restart? The /r/republicofatheism -type reboot is all you can do on reddit because its not self-organising ;)
I lament the passing of the good old days.
According to my own mining, I should have waited a few hours before posting this :) Anyway, some time next week I'll be in a position to add a line describing the success of "deeply meta" posts like this one ;) We just have to get someone to post it to proggit too, I guess. And perhaps dzone...