I wonder if those community shares will benefit the people whose digital content is infringed upon for profit will be? Giving back to the community is interesting. Attempting to give back to the content creators upon whose backs Reddit is built would be even more interesting.
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#73I 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 wonder if the bad things you mention are a large part of what makes the site popular...
Reddit hit critical mass when Digg went under, and I think that was a short window when Reddit was both hugely popular without its toxic culture. It was kind of a "Reverse September" moment, I think. I mean obviously jailbait existed and other embarrassments, but they didn't have a heavy impact on reddit's culture like the current infighting about misogyny and the like does.
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#74Exciting 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…
We've been hamstrung by a UI/UX that made a lot more sense when we only had a dozen active subreddits
https://web.archive.org/web/20080410190800/http://reddit.com...
reddit is a platform for communities like twitter is a platform for individuals. There are a half million communities now on reddit and our onboarding experience should do a better job exposing people to the communities they love (kinda like twitter does but less ham-fisted).
e.g., There are Cleveland Browns fans who've visited reddit every day for years and don't realize there's a r/clevelandbrowns community that they'd love, not to mention r/cleveland and r/foodporn or whatever other communities they'd dig.
That's the vast majority of reddit content but we're not doing a good job exposing it.
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#75As a long time Reddit user, I've been really disappointed lately with Reddits "battle" against content creators and the little recourse you have if you are marked as a spammer or shadow banned. See the recent /r/indiegaming debacle for example, where a subreddit where mainly indie devs would post about their games now allows very little self promotion ( http://redd.it/2fdwyv ). Some of these rules are Reddit wide so theres nothing they can do but it essentially discourages content creators from being close to their audience on Reddit.
On top of that, if you are banned from a subreddit (even a default one) the moderators can basically choose to ignore you and you are SOL. There's the whole 90/10 rule where if you are posting something from the same source too often, you can be seen as a spammer and banned. It's very easy to break this rule. For example, if you make a few self posts, make tons of comments, post links to 5 different websites, then post 1 link to your website, you are breaking the rule and if a mod sees it you can be banned (comments/self posts don't count towards the 90/10 rule so your 5 posts to 1 self promotion post is breaking the rules). I wish they would just let the upvote/downvote system do its job and weed out content people don't want instead of forcing people to post a bunch of crap they wouldn't normally post just to make their profile look good so they can post about their own projects once in a while.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been using reddit for about 6 years, some of the smaller subs are amazing and I think it comes down to two major things, excellent moderation and community below a certain size (usually). I've thought about this for a while on and off and I'm not sure how you could scale that up in terms of moderation, some of the defaults do well while others are just a wasteground (I've also wondered if that is partially intentiona…
Can you give some examples of good quality subreddits?
Here's a plug for http://reddit.com/r/languagelearning. Most of the language related subreddits tend to be pretty good. There are also a couple decent computer science subreddits, but you can explore those yourself. http://reddit.com/r/wicked_edge will help you learn to be a better shaver and actually enjoy it! Those are a couple I like.
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#77Exciting 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…
>'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 new user experiences.'
I'd liken the search for 'smaller subreddits' to zooming to the 'bottom' of a fractal. Cool for a while, but eventually you either understand what you're dealing with or simply tire of the self-similarity.
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#78I 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…
which favors the actual quality of submissions
How would you go about favoring quality?
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Totally false. Check my comment history:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20r4o8/talking_bitc...
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Can you give some examples of good quality subreddits?
These are some of my favorite subreddits: http://reddit.com/r/hiphopheads http://reddit.com/r/frugalmalefashion http://reddit.com/r/javascript/ http://reddit.com/r/snowboarding/ I find these subs to be on topic, relatively positive, often receptive to the new and uninitiated, providing a wealth of FAQ/just starting out information and have interesting weekly events. I especially enjoy the header with album release da…
As the founder of r/hiphopheads, thanks fam. :)