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Re: Reddit

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Post by Semaphor »

tomjen3 wrote: post #197
jiggy2011 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The high quality subs are high quality because they have limited appeal. It's the same way HN keeps a reasonable level of quality, if there way an influx of people here who weren't interested in technology/programming and just wanted to talk about video games or politics then the quality would go down.

askhistorians and askscience have relatively broad appeal, have a very high level of quality and are extremely heavily moderated. In my experince (and it is extensive, I signed up in august 2006) the heavier you moderate a subreddit the better the quality, although a bad moderator can kill a subreddit fast.

> the heavier you moderate a subreddit the better the quality

Also focus. AH and AS are both focused on what they do which allows them to have pretty clear rules, that doesn't work for all subs. And bigger subs with subjective rules can easily end in revolting users and sinking quality.

Re: Reddit

#232

Post by bobcostas55 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

High karma users are the worst though, why would you want to give them more power?

Re: Reddit

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Post by Semaphor »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Exactly what Reddit needs, more reasons to karmawhore.

I mean the idea doesn't sound too bad, but the problem is that users with the most karma are usually those who post the most low-effort content. Memes, Lists, message-in-headline articles, etc.

Re: Reddit

#235

Post by jn1234 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I think that how long the account has been around should have more of an effect to a cut off like 6 months or 1 year. It's pretty easy to accumulate karma by making garbage posts with memes and spamming those.

Re: Reddit

#236

Post by carlesfe »

balor123 wrote: post #223

Quora looks like a nice iteration on Reddit. Reddit should just do a big rewrite to make it look and feel more like Quora. The data model should be able to remain mostly the same, with just some major interface changes, minor feature changes, and major backend updates. It could probably even be deployed in parallel to the existing implementation. Some items that'd be nice are email updates, weekly digests, topic sugg…

I honestly don't think so. There is a lot of value on Reddit, but I bet that 90% of the visits and content are basically memes and imgur pictures. The part that could "become Quora" may die without the other.

Re: Reddit

#237

Post by mark_l_watson »

I agree that reddit drips in awesomeness. I talked with the co-founder Alexis Ohanian when he talked at Google last year: really interesting guy, not only with solid advice on entrepreneurship, but also he talked a lot about public service.

Re: Reddit

#238

Post by VLM »

samstave wrote: post #98
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.

I could swear /r/4chan had a no raiding other subreddits rule, but I checked and it does not as of right now, that I could find.

Some sort of "honor code between mods" could enforce that quite well. Be a jerk in /r/Y and get kicked out of /r/Y AND /r/X. Be a jerk in any sports subreddit and get tossed out of all of them. Some form of "shared blacklist" cross linked between subreddits could implement this. Assuming the source of the problem is just the users and not one of the mods themselves.

Re: Reddit

#239

Post by walden42 »

noir_lord wrote: post #108
alexis wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I would agree with you that the vast majority of the content is indeed good unfortunately the bad is often concentrated into a few sub-reddits and at reddit scale that still is a lot of bad unfortunately.

I think it's an interesting issue because the primary issue is what interests people, not the website itself. If a majority of people want to concentrate on the bad, then the bad shows up more. If the mods or admins make the site such that it's impossible to concentrate on the bad, then that would involve some kind of censorship that could be very biased towards someone's definition of good.

The issue is the people, not with Reddit.

Re: Reddit

#240

Post by [deleted] »

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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