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Can someone explain to me why the reddit leaders want the new interface? Is it because the old one can't track users as well or what? Why don't they just add trackers to the old interface? Or what's the reason?
There are three interfaces now: old.reddit new.reddit www.reddit
It's already for a long time that when I search for something, I don't get articles from experts, I get SEO optimized crappy articles.
Page rank was a very important algorithm to see which pages are more trustworthy than others. But at this point with all the SEO, it's clear that the best pages don't rise to the top anymore, but SEO optimized bullshit.
So why are forums like Reddit, StackOverflow and Quora becoming more dominant? Because they are moderated by humans. It's harder to manipulate, since they have an incentive to keep their board clear.
At least that's my view on the whole thing :D.
Always disliked Quora. Full of dark patterns to draw people in, scores far to well in search results and often felt like very low quality results. Felt not much better than a bot driven SEO farm. Reddit was only as good as the subreddit mods and community but at its best the better subs felt more like a genuine community than an attention farm. All of these businesses seem like a terrible foundation to build real com…
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The founders admitted themselves to start traction on the site with a multitude of fake users. All the "just asking questions" posts pushing certain narratives in every regional subrredit are also quite noticeable. For me that is proof enough, but other people might have different standards.
that was like, 17 years ago? and imho not an unreasonable thing to get a social site off the ground that had no users. Seems pretty irrelevant to the problems of today.
In any case, my main proof is the narrative pushing (which imo is obvious)
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Yup. Banned from my home countries sub because I dared posting to another sub. Literally bot based autobans by monitoring user for ANY participation in subs the mods don’t approve of. That’s what counts as moderation these days on Reddit. Parts of Reddit are still ok but others are utter trashfires presided over by power tripping lunatics that have taken over the asylum
Throwaway accounts are the greatest I have an account all about some particular vice and honestly its been well received There are VERY FEW ad hominem attacks. Its like people treat you better when they know they cant hurt you in comparison to people that try to have a post history tip toeing around topics and subs. I think it’s symptomatic of what you see with other extreme personalities, they wind up getting so man…
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I agree; I wish JIRA did this. I actually asked for this feature in their support forum yers ago and got a chorus of "that's stupid, why would anyone want that?" in reply.
This is similar to when people create branches with just the Jira ID instead of using the ID and title slug as branch name. I’m often working on 3+ items at a time and need a quick way to know which branch is which; how do people that just use the ID as branch name know what the code changes are?
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I don't understand how they still have mods. Reddits boss hates them. Everyone else, too. They have 100% a negative impact. The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.
May I suggest you sign up for moderator duties on a medium sized subreddit. Then report back in 8 weeks.
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I don't understand how they still have mods. Reddits boss hates them. Everyone else, too. They have 100% a negative impact. The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.
> The site would be wonderful without moderation Is this tongue in cheek? I can't tell if this is sarcasm. Reddit would be awful without moderation.
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I don't understand how they still have mods. Reddits boss hates them. Everyone else, too. They have 100% a negative impact. The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.
> I don't understand how they still have mods. This makes me think that you’ve never been a mod of an active forum or subreddit. Without mods, popular forums will be spammed and/or gamed into oblivion. Most voting mechanisms are trivially easy to manipulate when potential earnings are involved.
Mods only worsen the manipulation problem