Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by taylorbuley » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:15 PM UTC

Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains
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Re: Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by Sambdala » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

I actually like this decision, as far as I can tell the extent of it.

It absolutely destroys the incentive to game the system, at least most of the current methods of cheating.

It could sparks some interesting offensive spamming of competitor's sites though.

Re: Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by pdubs » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:46 PM UTC

BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com are all banned sitewide?

The Atlantic is a pretty well-respected publication, as is BusinessWeek. Why a content aggregator would ban actual content is beyond me.

Re: Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by taylorbuley » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

pdubs wrote: post #3

BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com are all banned sitewide? The Atlantic is a pretty well-respected publication, as is BusinessWeek. Why a content aggregator would ban actual content is beyond me.

There's a potential issue in that Reddit is owned by Conde, technically a competitor of The Atlantic, but I believe this to be the reason for TA's banning: http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-...

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Post by Sambdala » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:50 PM UTC

pdubs wrote: post #3

BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com are all banned sitewide? The Atlantic is a pretty well-respected publication, as is BusinessWeek. Why a content aggregator would ban actual content is beyond me.

Was The Atlantic the site that had a fairly high level employee trying to semi-publicly game Reddit a few months back?

Re: Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by catch23 » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:51 PM UTC

pdubs wrote: post #3

BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com are all banned sitewide? The Atlantic is a pretty well-respected publication, as is BusinessWeek. Why a content aggregator would ban actual content is beyond me.

TheAtlantic pays people to spam the reddit with content, and buys high karma accounts to vote up content. Essentially, the companies being banned are the ones with shady business practices.

Re: Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by blhack » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:51 PM UTC

The Atlantic?

That's one of the best news sources on the internet. The only thing I could guess there is that The Atlantic /requested/ this.

Science Daily?

Also a fantasic secondary-source for science news.

Re: Reddit is now banning entire high-quality domains

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Post by unreal37 » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:54 PM UTC

I think any site that "auto-submits" itself to Reddit will be banned. An editor for The Atlantic apparently submitted thousands of stories to Reddit all for The Atlantic articles. Probably automated.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:54 PM UTC

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Post by AnthonBerg » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 8:57 PM UTC

Sambdala wrote: post #5

pdubs wrote: post #3

BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com are all banned sitewide? The Atlantic is a pretty well-respected publication, as is BusinessWeek. Why a content aggregator would ban actual content is beyond me.

Was The Atlantic the site that had a fairly high level employee trying to semi-publicly game Reddit a few months back?

According to this, then that's possible: http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-...