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Re: Reddit

#91

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:44 PM UTC

avn2109 wrote: post #86

B-Con wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 new user exp…

>> "Do we have any examples of large Internet communities with unilateral good discussion?" I don't mean to belabor the obvious here, but do you consider HN a "large Internet community?"

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Re: Reddit

#92

Post by jiggy2011 » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

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 popular parts of reddit are popular because they appeal to many people, it's the same as music. The most popular bands will have the broadest appeal. So most of the reddit front page is cat pictures and slapstick humour because that's what everyone can appreciate. If the front page was full of obscure stuff about haskell , less people would enjoy it.

In terms of racism, I've never seen racist or sexist content on the front page when I have visited.

Re: Reddit

#93

Post by silencio » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

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…

I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod.

I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator) or consider building our own tools (subreddit history scraper). It'd also be amazing if there was some site-wide automatic action against certain throwaway accounts so we don't have to clean up _after_ the 4th attempt at some idiot trolling us.

I would also love to see a better take on Reddit 101 too. We still get comments like "I'm a male and why is this on my reddit page" and people that just barge in without reading rules to post things against our rules (like a ton of misogyny _and_ misandry). Some of this is inevitable but it's pretty annoying that there isn't much we can do here either other than deleting things after the fact.

I don't think that those two alone will improve the site significantly, but it would be a burden lifted for default mods, and that might help clean up parts of the front page. Maybe. I don't even want to think about how much time we spend on everything from figuring out trolls to writing warning notes for each other, to discussing some idiot user trying to dox one of the mods. It'd be time we can spend doing other things for the subreddit. That would be nice.

Re: Reddit

#94

Post by ebfe » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

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…

>I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion.

Relative to what? Are YouTube and Yahoo bastions of intellectualism and racial tolerance?

If you really think that Reddit's issue is that the quality of discussion is too low, you need to take another look at any other site on the internet.

Re: Reddit

#95

Post by josu » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

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…

While I totally agree with you...

>I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion

You just described mainstream television and its appeal

Re: Reddit

#96

Post by alexis » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

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…

That's one big reason why Steve & I wanted it to be open-source! http://code.reddit.com

It's not like all forum-software-innovation stopped in June 2005 when the 2 of us launched reddit to the world.

The hard part is going to be quantifying "quality of submissions" in a scalable way. We thought a lot about this and while it's not perfect, the vast majority of content on reddit across those half million communities is indeed good.

It's a fascinating problem that I hope someone can solve -- improve on Steve's hotness algorithm!

Re: Reddit

#97

Post by onedev » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

companyhen wrote: post #80

ehaughee wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :)

Wow seriously? Dude I freakin' love r/hhh.

Re: Reddit

#98

Post by samstave » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

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…

I run a particular /r/ with a couple hundred thousand subscribers. What I would like to do is to be able to limit brigading. I havea controversial idea on how to do this: If you a subscriber to /r/X then you may not subscribe and vote in /r/Y. IF you're posting in /r/X you may not post in /r/Y

This would then turn shenanigans into private subs... but at least it would be a start.

Re: Reddit

#99

Post by noir_lord » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

foobarqux wrote: post #49

noir_lord wrote: post #47

Earlier 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?

They'll be very person specific but sure I like these (some are less than perfect).

/r/futuresynth (no one comments but the stuff is great, nearly perfect ;))

/r/ada

/r/embedded

/r/raspberry_pi

/r/bicycling

/r/programming

/r/linux

/r/nottheonion

There are some subs I try to like /r/minimalism (which on any given day is either "I have nothing...but these apple products" or "Two arms..one too many?") and /r/zen which is mostly people arguing vehemently about what zen is (which is both ironic and often hilarious).

Re: Reddit

#100

Post by MysticFear » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

alexis wrote: post #74

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…

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…

Upvotes should be weighed by a metric. Just as an example: New users should have less voting power and users with more karma should have a larger voting power with their upvote.

Would decrease upvote/downvote bots, incentivizes good content (higher karma gives you slightly more voting power).