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Mods don't decide to make a subreddit a default, admins do.
I was under the impression that the admins consulted with the mods before doing so, but I could be wrong; how the front page has worked has changed many times over the years, and I haven't been keeping very close track.
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Yeah, exactly, it all circles back to this basic issue: Most users of reddit are racist and sexist and absolutely disgusting in every way. That’s why bullshit like this happens. Reddit delenda est.
Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.
Why is this even a point of contention? Reddit is an absolutely disgusting and awful place. It’s toxic.
From another perspective, It´s just a good strategy to do your own IPO (go public) without the legal/bureaucratic way. It´s creating your own NY Stock Exchange with the idea to increase your value based on what your users are doing now (because it will be possible to buy, sell and trade between users).
So, beyond the message that it´s for “giving back to the community”, Is it more a clever strategy to increase the company value, and even more the stockholders value? or I´m incorrect?
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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?
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 hope posting this is not bad form, but highlighting these great voices has been the goal of my most recent project, http://www.reddthoughts.com.
A collection of insightful thoughts and stories from the minds and lives of redditors.
"...are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community..." How's that supposed to work? Reddit (the company) will own the shares? Some foundation? A bit more detail would be nice.
They will most probably use blockchain technology for the community ownership distribution: https://jobs.lever.co/reddit/6ce6a242-00d1-49c4-9bed-c34f264...
it could be the first cryptocoin actively used based for rewards/sponsorships etc. See http://ltbcoin.com/ as an example.
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Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.
Last you checked, eh? Where did you do your checking? Let's review some definitions for feminism: "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities" "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes" Which part of that do you disagree with that makes you not a feminist? And, if being a feminist means one supports gender equality (which is what it means), how do you belie…
I can imaging many people who have not studied feminist theory and yet still believe in the principles you listed. Can we legitimately ask that they self-identify as something of which they have little or no functional understanding?
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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?
/r/Polandball (101,218 readers) is heavily moderated (important considering the jokes there easily invite real racism)
/r/ASoIAF (166,200 readers) and /r/gallifrey (38,643 readers) are examples of very good TV/book subreddits (A Song of Ice and Fire aka. Game of Thrones and Dr. Who). the mods work hard to keep the quality up but have the advantage of the "mainstream" subs /r/gameofthrones and /r/doctorwho which both gather most low-effort posts.
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.
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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?"
Though I do think the place can be a bit humorless and pedantic at times...