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Re: Reddit

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Post by alexis »

cryoshon wrote: post #13

Mod/admin censorship, government manipulation (out of Eglin AFB most likely), and corporate advertising/shilling are pretty blatantly huge in reddit right now, with many users openly looking for alternative websites. The admin team has shown again and again that they're willing to tolerate anything until there's bad PR. One of the founders (Alexis) has a PR firm, Antique Jetpack, which is on record [1] as cooperating…

Seriously? I debunked that stratfor conspiracy with a deluge of sunlight - even getting top-voted comment on the r/conspiracy post

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1l4aiq/reddit_is...

Re: Reddit

#32

Post by minimaxir »

DanBC wrote: post #23
minimaxir wrote: post #7

I like Reddit. I recently obtained a data dump of every single submission and comment so I could perform interesting data analysis and may just determine what make a post on Reddit viral. The problem I have with Reddit is that I'm still unsure if it's a positive externality. There's a lot of good aspects of Reddit (discovery, community), but there's so much bad about Reddit that it's impossible to overlook it (abusiv…

I agree with you, but... > no administrator transparency, admin transparency can lead to vociferous site-wide meta nonsense and it can also get toxic very quickly.

However, the lack of transparency can lead to baseless speculation, which can be just as toxic, if not worse.

Case in point, during The Fappening, a large number were filled with conspiracy theories on why the administrators hadn't banned it yet before Wong's blog post, which was only made a week after the first incident.

Re: Reddit

#33

Post by wudf »

Next I'd like to see Steam as a member-owned platform. Awesome announcement, sama!

Re: Reddit

#34

Post by taylorbuley »

Not a YC investment, but I'm interested in how this relates to YC's mitigation of signaling risk.

> So the new rule is that partners can only invest some amount of time after Demo Day (we’ll experiment a little to figure out exactly how long) or as part of a Series A.

Reddit seems to qualify under the "some amount of time after Demo Day" caveat. Does anyone know at what time period YC ended up setting?

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-investment-policy-and-email-l...

Re: Reddit

#35

Post by drmarianus »

kyro wrote: post #9

Exciting news. One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and…

The recent update of the default subreddits was nice, until it just decreased the level of discourse in those previously excellent subreddits.

Re: Reddit

#37

Post by minimaxir »

alexis wrote: post #31
cryoshon wrote: post #13

Mod/admin censorship, government manipulation (out of Eglin AFB most likely), and corporate advertising/shilling are pretty blatantly huge in reddit right now, with many users openly looking for alternative websites. The admin team has shown again and again that they're willing to tolerate anything until there's bad PR. One of the founders (Alexis) has a PR firm, Antique Jetpack, which is on record [1] as cooperating…

Seriously? I debunked that stratfor conspiracy with a deluge of sunlight - even getting top-voted comment on the r/conspiracy post http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1l4aiq/reddit_is...

> even getting top-voted comment on the r/conspiracy post

To be perfectly fair, any comment posted by a founder of Reddit would become a top-voted comment.

Re: Reddit

#39

Post by silencio »

kyrra wrote: post #5

The one downside (as I see it) of Reddit that Facebook, G+, and HN all don't have is the ability to downvote. Downvoting makes it so larger subreddits will only have material on their front page that the majority of that group agrees with. This leads to certain subreddits (like /r/politics/) being heavily dominated by one side of the subject area. But I still use reddit daily myself. Getting off some of the default s…

How is that any different from upvoting patterns? A lot of upvotes has a bigger impact than any downvotes, and given the mod mail for the default subreddit I mod... people are well aware of that but continue to complain like that's something we can change.

For what it is worth, I see plenty of stories drop off the HN front page by being overcommented on. HN seems to go for a 'controversial' rank rather than straight up scores. I'm not sure how that's any better. At least on reddit, you can pick the way you want to sort your stories and comments.

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