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Re: Reddit

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Post by MBlume »

[deleted] wrote: post #107
silencio wrote: post #93

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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)…

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No.

Precisely because, as alexis said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390156) reddit is a platform for communities as much as it is a platform for users, and the norms for communities are created through moderation. The moderator gets to create the community they want, and it's up to users to accept the standards of moderation or move to/start a different community

Re: Reddit

#112

Post by [deleted] »

B-Con wrote: post #56
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…

> 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…

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Re: Reddit

#113

Post by sama »

taylorbuley wrote: post #34

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.yc…

still haven't set it, but 9 years after demo day is certainly going to be over the bar.

Re: Reddit

#114

Post by [deleted] »

MBlume wrote: post #111
[deleted] wrote: post #107

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No. Precisely because, as alexis said ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390156 ) reddit is a platform for communities as much as it is a platform for users, and the norms for communities are created through moderation. The moderator gets to create the community they want, and it's up to users to accept the standards of moderation or move to/start a different community

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Re: Reddit

#115

Post by EdwardDiego »

MysticFear wrote: post #100
alexis wrote: post #74

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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).

> users with more karma should have a larger voting power with their upvote

That will just make it more valuable to game the karma system. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan#Vote_Fraud

Re: Reddit

#116

Post by 3pt14159 »

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…

Where did you get the data dump from?

Re: Reddit

#117

Post by silencio »

[deleted] wrote: post #107
silencio wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)…

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You do not want to see the cesspool that is moderated comments on 2xc.

Spam and hateful comments fall pretty fast anyway, but that doesn't mean that it should stay there. What would you prefer - a youtube page with all comments and some hidden due to a low score, or a page with all the shitty comments removed altogether? Someone is going to see that shit anyway and it's going to be awful as it involves everything from rape threats on support threads to someone that is trying to post something completely irrelevant to the subreddit.

And then there are comments that are really unpopular but they aren't hateful or spam, and even if it's buried we don't remove those. They would be mixed in with the hateful comments just because people don't like what the person is saying.

Some type of moderation is, in my opinion, a necessity. There are very few free-for-alls on the internet - if you have a good example of that working out, then I would like to know.

Re: Reddit

#118

Post by dang »

[deleted] wrote: post #91
avn2109 wrote: post #86

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>> "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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HN has never been purely tech-focused. You're right, of course, that it's a lot smaller than Reddit.

Re: Reddit

#119

Post by anonbanker »

alexis wrote: post #79
minimaxir wrote: post #37

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> 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...

Went through four pages, and didn't see a single zero-point comment. That's pretty rare for reddit.

Re: Reddit

#120

Post by mkehrt »

avn2109 wrote: post #86
B-Con wrote: post #56

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> 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?"

HN is (only somewhat, but definitely somewhat, justly) famous for its sexism, hivemindedness and wacky politics. So, uh, what's your point?
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