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Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by randall »

dchest wrote: post #98
peterwwillis wrote: post #5

What the front page of the internet looks like today: * Image with overlayed snarky text * Another image * Another image... * The Daily Show clip * Another image * Another image * News article about Julian Assange * Another image * News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old) * Reddit question thread about Tarantino films * Youtube clip * "Ask Me Anything" request thread * Story on mo…

You're looking at r/all. For comparison, here's what my reddit front page looks like: * Ketamine Improves Bipolar Depression Within Minutes * -2000 Lines of Code * Fedora 17 Boot Optimization (from 15 to 2.5 seconds) * Awesome cut away showing the inner working of a Sauber * lcamtuf: Yes, you can have fun with downloads * Favorite CS related quotes from professors (or coworkers)? * Scrivener and Building a Better Boo…

I want this. This is awesome. Reddit always seems gross from my perspective as an outsider. I want good quality stuff like that.

I have to be logged in to get that?

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by kelvie »

randall wrote: post #101
dchest wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're looking at r/all. For comparison, here's what my reddit front page looks like: * Ketamine Improves Bipolar Depression Within Minutes * -2000 Lines of Code * Fedora 17 Boot Optimization (from 15 to 2.5 seconds) * Awesome cut away showing the inner working of a Sauber * lcamtuf: Yes, you can have fun with downloads * Favorite CS related quotes from professors (or coworkers)? * Scrivener and Building a Better Boo…

I want this. This is awesome. Reddit always seems gross from my perspective as an outsider. I want good quality stuff like that. I have to be logged in to get that?

You don't have to, you can chain subreddits and bookmark that, e.g.:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming+kde+haskell+linux

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by skeletonjelly »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #34
Adaptive wrote: post #18

We are doomed to reinvent Usenet until we finally break the cycle and improve upon it. This has all happened before and will happen again.

If you're talking about eternal September and the decline of quality you might want to look at forums with heavy handed moderation or a paying userbase. For example the Something Awful forums have a pretty good signal to noise raito.

Metafilter et al

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

#104

Post by SnydenBitchy »

peterwwillis wrote: post #5

What the front page of the internet looks like today: * Image with overlayed snarky text * Another image * Another image... * The Daily Show clip * Another image * Another image * News article about Julian Assange * Another image * News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old) * Reddit question thread about Tarantino films * Youtube clip * "Ask Me Anything" request thread * Story on mo…

You left out:

    * “Equal rights, equal lefts”
    * DAE think Black History Month is racist against whites?
    * Rage comic about “females” spurning nice-guy redditors
    * Image of fat black woman in a motorized scooter - LOLOLOLOL
    * “La-dash-a” LOLOLOLOL
    * DAE hate females for not letting us rape them?
    * etc.
    * etc.
    * etc.

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

#105

Post by intended »

breckinloggins wrote: post #78
kn0thing wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot upvote this enough. Thanks. edit, with bonus explanation! We need to do a better job helping new(and old) redditors realize the thousands of communities they could be joining for a diverse blend of content that interests them. When Steve and I started reddit, we had no categories because it was simple -- and Steve loves simple. Now that we've got scores of vibrant communities discussing links about things ra…

> We need to do a better job helping new(and old) redditors realize the thousands of communities they could be joining for a diverse blend of content that interests them. As a long-time redditor and sometimes-user of "the other guys" (Fark, Slashdot, Digg), I do have some suggestions. I'm fully aware that none of these could "just happen" and the team may have discussed and discounted these ideas many times, but for…

A related post recently came on reddit about subreddit forking. While not directly related to your suggestions, it may help in providing another framework on how reddit operates.

Let me see if I have it ... here: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/shv9y/how_wo...

An observation made is that after sub reddits hit a certain mark, say 16000, they go to crap - at which point the subreddit goes through a cycle of subreddit drama and then splits off.

The post above is a great description of the process, filled with history to back it up.

r/pics serves as a pit to absorb a lot of the Karma whoring, and then branch people off to other sub reddits where more targeted communities exist to either absorb more Karma whoring, or to create a place with high a S/N ratio.

The r/earthporn and other sfwporn branches, as well as /specart, imaginary creatures and other picture related sites are forks which help maintain the holy SNR.

r/adviceanimals for example though was meant to reduce 'noise' (meme spam) in its parent (r/pics) and ended up being its own subreddit.

Making it easier to discover, will likely hasten the degradation of SNR - as it stands now, people discovery is easy, and primarily requires inclination, allowing the communities to self select.

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by [deleted] »

moultano wrote: post #84
kn0thing wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot upvote this enough. Thanks. edit, with bonus explanation! We need to do a better job helping new(and old) redditors realize the thousands of communities they could be joining for a diverse blend of content that interests them. When Steve and I started reddit, we had no categories because it was simple -- and Steve loves simple. Now that we've got scores of vibrant communities discussing links about things ra…

Communities are a great start, but I feel like reddit is missing out on central observations about how things get upvoted: Things that you can upvote quickly get upvoted more. Suppose there are two links of equal quality. (Whatever that means.) One is a photograph that I can digest in 10 seconds of wow. One is an article that I can read in half an hour of wow. The photograph I upvote immediately because I'm done and…

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Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

#107

Post by intended »

samstave wrote: post #96
voltagex_ wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can group subreddits together with a + symbol between them - e.g. reddit.com/r/technology+gadgets+programming

I know, but I think that reddit still needs an actual super-reddit bucket rather than a cumbersome URL hack.

How would buckets work?

From what I understand, buckets would be counter to what sub-reddit splitting is trying to achieve.

For example: r/adviceanimals split from r/pics, this helped drive the noise/karma whoring to advice animals and reduced all meme related spam to that forum. Now today r/adviceanimals is going through its own drama and banning other types of posts which it considers noise.

How would you want to see that tied together?

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

#108

Post by tuxidomasx »

SnydenBitchy wrote: post #104
peterwwillis wrote: post #5

What the front page of the internet looks like today: * Image with overlayed snarky text * Another image * Another image... * The Daily Show clip * Another image * Another image * News article about Julian Assange * Another image * News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old) * Reddit question thread about Tarantino films * Youtube clip * "Ask Me Anything" request thread * Story on mo…

You left out: * “Equal rights, equal lefts” * DAE think Black History Month is racist against whites? * Rage comic about “females” spurning nice-guy redditors * Image of fat black woman in a motorized scooter - LOLOLOLOL * “La-dash-a” LOLOLOLOL * DAE hate females for not letting us rape them? * etc. * etc. * etc.

Over the past few years I've visited reddit comment threads less and less precisely because of the increase in racial insensitivity. The rise of vanity accounts doesnt help either, and shows that its not just tolerated by a pretty big percent of the community, but is readily accepted and seen as entertaining.

I do find sanctuary in a few subreddits where its much rarer. But I cringe everytime i see a post title that makes an explicit mention to someones ethnicity because i know there will be misinformation given and jokes made that further validate particular kinds of racial bias.

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

#110

Post by intended »

ctl wrote: post #59
peterwwillis wrote: post #5

What the front page of the internet looks like today: * Image with overlayed snarky text * Another image * Another image... * The Daily Show clip * Another image * Another image * News article about Julian Assange * Another image * News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old) * Reddit question thread about Tarantino films * Youtube clip * "Ask Me Anything" request thread * Story on mo…

To me it seemed like the front page got a lot worse when the mods got rid of the reddit.com subreddit. Did anybody else observe this?

reddit.com/r/subredditdrama

reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit

In depth discussions on the causes and effects of good and bad subreddit growth go on here. Most likely will find the same observation, with data or ideas as to why it happened.

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