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Re: Reddit

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Post by samstave » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:31 PM UTC

silencio wrote: post #93

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)…

We need Yahtzee to make a "WHAT THE FUCK IS REDDIT" video!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%22Yahtzee%22_Croshaw

Re: Reddit

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

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Re: Reddit

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Post by anoncow » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

A little non topic related reddit love story.

When I first came across reddit, I was working on getting more traffic to my website. So I tried to use reddit to achieve that. I don't think it needs to be said, but I was banned in an hour. I remember presenting my case in forceful comments to the mods and thinking how unjust everything was. The mods replied to my questions and gave me a detailed reason on why reddit is not for self promotion and why I should stop spamming.

I wouldn't have gone back but I did, feeling bad for what I had done. The comment replies by the mods had played a big role in that. That and the fact that I found a lot of far more interesting posts in that SR (/r/programming, if I recollect correctly).

Reddit has influenced me personally in a big way (/r/atheism). And the trolls, the bots, the larger than life andrewsmiths and some extremely talented OPs and commenters make reddit what it is, because reddit allows them to be their true selves.

Reddit is not for business. Reddit is used, I am sure, by marketing teams, but that is not what reddit is. Reddit is where you can be yourself. Your kind, nasty, loving self. That is why I think reddit is popular. The marketing teams are on reddit because of the eyeballs. If you change reddit to make it better for the advertisers or if you change reddit to make it better for one particular set of communities, some of the original magic will be lost. Subreddits with their own rules and mods is a good idea. Site wide extra rules is not.

Thank you for reading

Re: Reddit

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Post by serve_yay » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:35 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…

Obviously whatever reddit can do to deflect that type of stuff is a good idea. But I often wonder how much of this is simply taking how people (especially young men) are on the internet and ascribing that to the "reddit" brand name. Chase them off and they'll show up somewhere else while we're all still busy hating reddit. I dunno.

Re: Reddit

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:37 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…

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Re: Reddit

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Post by IneffablePigeon » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:38 PM UTC

frogpelt wrote: post #158

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 find your post ironic. You are excited (presumably) about Reddit and about the possibility that the community may be given the opportunity to own a piece of Reddit. Yet, you find the actions of the majority of the Reddit community "detrimental" to the site's image. Reddit is what it is. A bunch of people on the Internet. You are either excited about the community or you don't like most of them, which is it?

That's a false dichotomy, you can be excited about parts of the community without liking everything about it.

In fact, reddit as a community is so huge that I think anyone would be hard pressed to like all of it.

Re: Reddit

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Post by justaman » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:40 PM UTC

One simple way to improve the quality of posts is to remove default subreddits. Instead, have people pick from a list of common interests: programming, games, rap, etc. I think that by limiting interaction with trolls will, over time, reduce the total number of trolls. It is my assumption that the majority of trolls tend to stay on the default subreddits. This would also allow for smaller subreddits to grow by in a sense linking interests into categories rather than the current method of community discovery.

Re: Reddit

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Post by TylerE » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:41 PM UTC

diydsp wrote: post #160

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)…

Yes, one thing I would like see in moderator tools is: edit the headlines. That's a commonly-used tool on HN and it would help subreddits, too.

I'm going to disagree here. It's giving the mods way too much power. There's already editable flair on posts to point out factual errors. (E.g. something claiming to be confirmed that isn't)

I don't like it on HN either - I'd rather have a headline with a touch of editorializing than the complete lack of context they're often edited to...this very thread being a prime example).

Re: Reddit

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Post by anoncow » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:42 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?

I really like /r/badminton. Not really active but does get a new post every day or so. And people come back and reply. It works.

Re: Reddit

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Post by flatline » Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 7:42 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…

I've been on the site for -- god, 8 years now? (I deleted my first account or I would know for sure..) I used to be happy with a lot of the default content, but the site has naturally changed a lot in that time. I personally find all the AdviceAnimals/meme stuff to be mind-numbing and it is the default now.

The trending subreddits were a good idea and I think are along the right lines but usually only serve to expose some poor hobbyist subreddit to the drooling masses. There's been a ton of work on recommendation engines over the last decade or so, I think that personalizing the trending sr concept would not be so difficult and would be a fun project, possibly even a side project, based on your comment and submission history against some hand-picked baseline.

I just recently discovered /r/buddhism, and it's a pretty good and active sr, but I had seen and quickly dismissed /r/zen years ago and never thought to look further. Another case is that I develop an interest in something and just never think to check for an active subreddit, kind of like the Browns fan you mentioned. So even if you know what you're looking for you may not find it, even though it's right there, even though there may be a link for it right in front of you (the right sidebar is where information goes to die).