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Re: Reddit

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Post by icpmacdo »

companyhen wrote: post #80
ehaughee wrote: post #69

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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. :)

Good job dude it's my favourite subreddit.

Re: Reddit

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Post by ape4 »

T-hawk wrote: post #181
icpmacdo wrote: post #20

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The thing is there need to be something like Reddit that is not controlled at all by a company or corporation but completely by the users.

Usenet is the closest thing we've got to that. Although it lacks any voting or ranking system to filter content. Whether that's a bug or feature is debatable.

Time for a hierarchy on reddit. I suggest:

    comp.* – computer-related discussions (comp.software, comp.sys.amiga)
    humanities.* – fine arts, literature, and philosophy (humanities.classics, humanities.design.misc)
    misc.* – miscellaneous topics (misc.education, misc.forsale, misc.kids)
    news.* – discussions and announcements about news (meaning Usenet, not current events) (news.groups, news.admin)
    rec.* – recreation and entertainment (rec.music, rec.arts.movies)
    sci.* – science related discussions (sci.psychology, sci.research)
    soc.* – social discussions (soc.college.org, soc.culture.african)
    talk.* – talk about various controversial topics (talk.religion, talk.politics, talk.origins)

Re: Reddit

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Post by cookiecaper »

freehunter wrote: post #148
EdwardDiego wrote: post #115

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> 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

Really? Unidan has his own page? If ever there was a reason for Wikipedia's speedy deletion... Is /u/shittywatercolour notable enough too? Holy shit, he is. Is Wikipedia trying to be knowyourmeme.com?

Wikipedia is pretty confused about what it wants to be. On one hand, "the sum of all human knowledge" includes a lot of minutiae that WP doesn't consider worthy of its servers. WP expresses that with notability guidelines. On the other hand, the extant notability guidelines means that a media blackout on you or your cause can keep you out of an encyclopedia that you really deserve to be in.

WP is an extremely political place. I was a relatively early editor and co-founder of an early Wikiproject. Ridiculously unnotable things like Unidan can slide because nobody really cares, but if you try to put something notable and controversial, but not necessarily widely known, in, you're going to have a bad time fighting off deletion requests and vandals.

Re: Reddit

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Post by sliverstorm »

zethraeus wrote: post #206
sliverstorm wrote: post #204

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Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.

Not identifying as a feminist or not being a feminist? You can identify however you want, but if you're truly not sexist, you're a feminist as far as I can tell.

I should have known better than to turn down a road that would inevitably lead to semantics.

Suffice to say, to me a feminist is a person who is actively part of the movement. I've never heard "feminist" used to mean "believes in gender equality".

Re: Reddit

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Post by rtx »

alexis wrote: post #88
lziz wrote: post #84

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Have you thought about making the "trending" feature more prominent/content-rich? I've found a bunch of new subs I've come to love through it.

I got excited when I saw that feature. It's a shame it's riding the meme of another platform, but people instantly "get it," at least. The core problem is people don't even understand how the site works (subscribe to communities you like). That's something the team is still working on improving in a non-annoying way. Mobile is going to be a big part of it, I think.

A simple video link when you make a new account works.

Re: Reddit

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Post by ebfe »

zethraeus wrote: post #206
sliverstorm wrote: post #204

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Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.

Not identifying as a feminist or not being a feminist? You can identify however you want, but if you're truly not sexist, you're a feminist as far as I can tell.

The word "feminist" is more commonly understood to mean a supporter of the modern women's advocacy movement, rather than anyone who believes in equality of the sexes.

Imagine a Republican telling you that "Republican" is defined as someone who supports natural human rights, and therefore anyone who truly supports natural human rights is a Republican.

The feminist definition of "feminism" is inaccurate for the same reason.

Re: Reddit

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Post by Semaphor »

zethraeus wrote: post #206
sliverstorm wrote: post #204

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Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.

Not identifying as a feminist or not being a feminist? You can identify however you want, but if you're truly not sexist, you're a feminist as far as I can tell.

It would seem that entirely depends on your definition of feminism. Considering what types of people call themselves feminist, it could mean anything from sane person to misandrist.

Re: Reddit

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Post by fragmede »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #144
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)…

>"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 I think its asking way too much of someone who wants to join a casual site known for cat pics and meme jokes to read through the couple dozen default sub rules. There's no practical educational solution here. The volume of new users and the labor of understanding all these rules is huge…

> I think its asking way too much of someone who wants to join a casual site known for cat pics and meme jokes to read through the couple dozen default sub rules.

But it's not asking too much of that same cat-and-meme based system to be a focusing point for decently written short-stories and a good place to discuss books?

I mean, you're saying that it's asking too much of people that they just click 'unsubscribe' on twox - and that having the barest understanding of how subreddits work is just too much.

And that's the community you're complaining about your seeming inability to farm quality prose from? I'm as tired of stories ending in the "tree-fiddy" in-joke as you are, but maybe there needs to be a higher barrier to entry than 'spends time on reddit' for voting, and while 'is able to read a couple dozen default sub rules' isn't that much higher, it might encourage people to at least read the rules before spouting off.

Re: Reddit

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Post by Semaphor »

fourstar wrote: post #205
lambda wrote: post #198

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I'm just somewhat puzzled that twox is a default. It seems like a prime candidate not to be just due to these sorts of inevitable problems. Lots of people new to discussion boards tend not to understand there may be different rules, sets of expected behavior, or the like on different sub-boards, so making something a default is likely to attract lots of people who are new and don't understand the rules. Once you coup…

Mods don't decide to make a subreddit a default, admins do.

That's not true, mods can opt out of becoming a default and at least in some cases the admins talk to the mods first anyway.

edit: http://i.imgur.com/IbiMa8g.png

Re: Reddit

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Post by rtx »

smikims wrote: post #82
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…

>Mod/admin censorship I'll admit that mods aren't always perfect, but they're (for the most part) regular users who are making communities the way they want to. I've very rarely seen people remove posts or ban users just to promote a particular agenda, and the ones that did were hated by their fellow mods. And I'd really like to see some good examples of admin censorship. The more common complaint I hear about the ad…

Whenever Reddit fails it will because of the modding system. They should have a mod rotation policy.
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