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Re: Reddit

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Post by Goronmon »

diminoten wrote: post #191
Goronmon wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Reddit is the upvote, not the moderator, isn't it? In theory. In practice, strong moderators become more important the larger the community gets. And reddit is a very, very large community. >The whole driving premise of Reddit is the upvote, and that's an incredibly powerful concept. It's powerful, but not always in a good way. I think one of the better examples is looking at the difference between /r/gaming (light…

But don't you see how problematic your argument is? You more or less beg the entire question by saying, "/r/games actually has content worth reading" -- I mean this in a non-offensive way, but who are you to say that? What's "content worth reading" for you may not actually be content worth reading for anyone else. That's how I see the design of Reddit -- it doesn't seem to me to be the place where every single link i…

>I mean this in a non-offensive way, but who are you to say that? What's "content worth reading" for you may not actually be content worth reading for anyone else.

I don't find it that useful to argue for things that I don't like. And I am capable of making value judgments and having opinions.

Re: Reddit

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Post by sujosh »

I enjoy Sam's writing but I am wondering why is he doing this ? Of course, its his money and he has 100 % right to do with it whatever he wants but still --

1. Reddit is site which promotes hatred. Radical men hatred is quite common to find out.

2. Almost all mods are SJWs. It is almost impossible to find or carry out rational discussion on reddit. This hatred is so strong that many FEMINAZIs recommend getting rid of men from planet.

3. Mods control everything. Free speech is illusion on reddit. #GamerGate proved that reddit collaborated with un-ethical journalists to promote hidden propoganda

4. Reddit ads are most useless things.

5. Reddit users are mostly illiterate or low wage earners or college students or BurgerLand workers or IT workers who are stuck at their job. Reddit will never achieve revenue it is expecting to achieve.

6. Reddit is owned by mainstream media powerhouse.

7. Reddit regularly participates in social experiments to modify user views and conducts social experiments.

If all such things are happening why a partner at YC, who in other posting talks about morals, ethics, equality would want to invest in something this filthy.

After all , Money changes everything, doesn't it ?

PS - You can downovote me as you wish, or moderate this post but it won't change fact that Reddit is shithole and you can't deny it. All interested parties in Reddit wants to create rage, modify or alter people's opinion/view in US and outside countries and profit.

Re: Reddit

#283

Post by SL61 »

ohyesyodo wrote: post #150
toomuchtodo wrote: post #130

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> e.g., There are Cleveland Browns fans who've visited reddit every day for years and don't realize there's a r/clevelandbrowns community that they'd love, not to mention r/cleveland and r/foodporn or whatever other communities they'd dig. Maybe use IP address geolocation to suggest subreddits during onboarding?

They already do I think? At least the default subreddit list (or whatever it calls - the subreddits shown top of screen) includes swedish subreddits when I'm not logged on.

Yeah, when the new defaults were added 4-ish months ago, they experimented with some country-specific defaults. I think they only set it up for Sweden though.

Edit: Actually, Kenya, Sweden, and Singapore. http://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/27rxzs/strange_subredd...

Re: Reddit

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Post by diminoten »

Goronmon wrote: post #281
diminoten wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But don't you see how problematic your argument is? You more or less beg the entire question by saying, "/r/games actually has content worth reading" -- I mean this in a non-offensive way, but who are you to say that? What's "content worth reading" for you may not actually be content worth reading for anyone else. That's how I see the design of Reddit -- it doesn't seem to me to be the place where every single link i…

>I mean this in a non-offensive way, but who are you to say that? What's "content worth reading" for you may not actually be content worth reading for anyone else. I don't find it that useful to argue for things that I don't like. And I am capable of making value judgments and having opinions.

That's a pretty self-centered world view, then. Why do you think your view should be the view as represented on any given Reddit page? Don't you see that everyone has views, just like you do, and should be allowed to express them, just as you do?

How would you design a system in which everyone had the same amount of influence over a series of submissions?

Re: Reddit

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Post by vlunkr »

kyrra wrote: post #5

The one downside (as I see it) of Reddit that Facebook, G+, and HN all don't have is the ability to downvote. Downvoting makes it so larger subreddits will only have material on their front page that the majority of that group agrees with. This leads to certain subreddits (like /r/politics/) being heavily dominated by one side of the subject area. But I still use reddit daily myself. Getting off some of the default s…

As others have said, you can downvote here to, but I know what you are saying. The majority always rules on reddit, and on the default subs, there are so many comments that you will never see anything but posts that agree with the majority. It's a tough problem to solve with community that big.

Re: Reddit

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Post by hrktb »

fragmede wrote: post #218
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #144

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>"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…

I read the parent post as a plea for better tools to filter that, more than a rant on the type of people coming in. Users might or not get better over time, and as you point out they may have a completely different expectation of the site.

I think it's a good tradeoff to let these users run free on lax subreddits and moderate heavily on others, provided the moderating tools get better and make it easier on the mods.

Re: Reddit

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Post by hellodevnull »

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…

>often racist/sexist discussion

I'm confused. Reddit is one of the most anti-racist/sexist communities on the internet. That's the hivemind, so you'd expect anything that's racist or exist to quickly be deleted or pushed to the bottom of the thread where nobody can see it (on the large subreddits anyway).

Re: Reddit

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Post by Angostura »

I'm intrigued by the final paragraph:

> Yishan Wong has a big vision for what reddit can be. I’m excited to watch it play out.

Has anyone seen him set out his big vision? I'm not sure that I have.

Re: Reddit

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Post by hellodevnull »

SwellJoe wrote: post #221
sliverstorm wrote: post #204

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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…

It is not often practical to use dictionary definitions to describe political or social ideologies. If we go by definitions, both feminists and men's rights activities should believe the exact same things.

I don't identify with feminists or men's rights activists today because equality is not those specific group's goal.

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