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Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by heed »

redwood wrote: post #42

Honestly IMO the biggest problem with reddit's subreddit UX is that you can't choose the ratio of which subreddits are most important to you. Unfortunately you're not really fixing that... I think that would be more powerful than showing groups of subreddits. In other words, I should be able to say "I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry…

It might not be exactly the solution you're looking for, but the Reddit Enhancement Suite [1] has a dashboard where you can add subreddits as widgets and limit the number of stories you want to show per widget.

[1]: http://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by kanzure »

metl_lord wrote: post #9
icebraining wrote: post #7

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Email mailing lists are far superior for discussions with this size of a community. Are there some worthy mailing lists for discussion out there? I´ve heard this opinion before, but I´ve never seen specific lists mentioned.

I would also like to know this. The mailing lists I'm on consist of calls for papers, low paying job postings, and out-of-office messages.

Which ones are giving you calls for papers? I'd be interested in knowing.

Here's what I subscribe to:

http://heybryan.org/mailing_lists.html

I really like:

http://www.neuroinf.org/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro

http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grg

http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/tt

https://groups.google.com/group/diybio

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by heed »

kybernetyk wrote: post #47
Posibyte wrote: post #35

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I think this is a radical idea, but hear me out: I fully believe the community could be better curated if they took the down-vote button away. (Or, at least, reserved it for the highest echelon of users) Looking from the island of HackerNews, back to the continent of Reddit where I wasted so many years of productivity, I've seen amazing wonders in the way HN uses its down-vote systems. In essence, it's there to "nudg…

Why have voting at all? I think that this kind of pre-filtering content only encourages group think and isn't a good system at all.

It order for reddit to be successful as a business it needs users. To gain and to keep users they incorporate addiction mechanisms such as voting.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by jlgreco »

frozenport wrote: post #60
redwood wrote: post #42

Honestly IMO the biggest problem with reddit's subreddit UX is that you can't choose the ratio of which subreddits are most important to you. Unfortunately you're not really fixing that... I think that would be more powerful than showing groups of subreddits. In other words, I should be able to say "I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry…

Also that r/atheism keeps up-voting itself. As a Atheist from birth I find them obnoxious and repetitive.

Wait, what does "up-voting itself" mean? Do people that use the numerous cat subreddits not vote for cat pictures?

I am under the impression the point of subreddits is to allow you to subscribe or not subscribe, so why not just not subscribe to r/atheism? That's how I use it anyway.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by rmc »

cryptoz wrote: post #37
rmc wrote: post #36

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Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. This is a good thing. Individual subreddits can and do have particular rules. For example, r/lgbt, r/transgender etc. all have rules…

> This is a good thing. No, it's not. The moderators of r/conservative think that climate change is a hoax. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that climate change is real, you will be banned . This is a terrible, terrible way to run a community. The conservatives on reddit live in a bubble where all science is banned. It's not a positive state of affairs. (Edit: I'm not conservative, but I fr…

Counter-example: The mods of r/lgbt think there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that there is something wrong with homosexuality, you will be banned.

The mods of r/transgender think think there is nothing wrong with trans gender identities. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that trans women are "men in skirts", you will be banned.

I am fine with this. You can't have it all.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by rmc »

pekk wrote: post #58
redthrowaway wrote: post #51

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>Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. Reddit's problem has never been spam. In fact, you alluded to it earlier in your post: it's quality. "Censorship", aka moderation, i…

Moderation on the basis of ideological purity does not produce "quality content," just an artificial ideological uniformity.

But what if the goal is ideological uniformity? r/lgbt or r/transgender is about LGBT or trans issues. They want to make a Safe Space where people don't have to justify trans 101?

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by DanBC »

pekk wrote: post #58
redthrowaway wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. Reddit's problem has never been spam. In fact, you alluded to it earlier in your post: it's quality. "Censorship", aka moderation, i…

Moderation on the basis of ideological purity does not produce "quality content," just an artificial ideological uniformity.

Set up your own subreddit. Announce the rules early. Get cooperative mods with you.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by mhaymo »

martythemaniak wrote: post #55
sillysaurus wrote: post #53

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"I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry, r/physics, r/neuro, 20% from r/foodforthought, and 20% from r/truereddit." Huh. That's a really good idea.

It is, but I think it's tough to do well. Google+ implements this thing where you tell it how much of each circle to show, but then you have to do these weights up front. Ideally system would try to figure out what you like by measuring time spent reading threads, upvotes, link clicks, etc and automatically set those weights for you. This doesn't preclude giving users the options manually setting weights, which could…

Take this idea to its extreme, and you've arrived at StumbleUpon.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by DanBC »

cryptoz wrote: post #37
rmc wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. This is a good thing. Individual subreddits can and do have particular rules. For example, r/lgbt, r/transgender etc. all have rules…

> This is a good thing. No, it's not. The moderators of r/conservative think that climate change is a hoax. If you write an on-topic, polite comment that even suggests that climate change is real, you will be banned . This is a terrible, terrible way to run a community. The conservatives on reddit live in a bubble where all science is banned. It's not a positive state of affairs. (Edit: I'm not conservative, but I fr…

You do know that your attempt to educate people are a futile waste of time, right? And that they're probably counter-productive, just driving people further into their weird belief systems?

Climate change is real, and it's important that people have the facts, but there's no point trying to give the truth to people who have their hands over their ears and who have their eyes closed.

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