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Re: Reddit

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Post by diminoten » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 7:57 PM UTC

Goronmon wrote: post #361

diminoten wrote: post #284

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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?

>Don't you see that everyone has views, just like you do, and should be allowed to express them, just as you do? The problem is where it comes down to implementation. By not allowing for moderation, all of the content in reddit will gravitate to the same standard you see on the frontpage, just broken up by category, where the only deviation will be in the smaller sub-sections of the community that aren't yet subjecte…

But that's okay, because while you may stop visiting, many many more people will start visiting.

You're not grasping the concept that Reddit isn't a finished product, and you're not supposed to like everything you see.

Re: Reddit

#432

Post by cfreeman » Fri, Oct 03, 2014, 5:15 AM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #277

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #262

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Most people go to reddit to hear about news or see what's popular, not to sift through new submissions for gems. If reddit cared only about democracy, it would solve the problem of an incredible submission being buried by a measly five to ten downvotes in its first twenty minutes regardless of how many people would have liked it overall. Personally, I have neither the time nor the incentive to try to influence groupt…

If Reddit had the moderators that HN had (and the proportional quantity), there simply would be no problem. HN mods are a group of people selected specifically for the task of moderation. They were appointed. But Reddit doesn't have those kinds of moderators, because the moderation system is alarmingly broken on Reddit. The folks who moderate the various reddits are there by no virtue other than the fact that they we…

  The folks who moderate the various reddits are there by no virtue other than 
  the fact that they were either there first, or have some relationship to the 
  person who was there first.

This is what I think the biggest problem with Reddit is. There needs to be a better system for picking moderators. I don't know what that would be but the current one is broken.

Re: Reddit

#433

Post by fphhotchips » Fri, Oct 03, 2014, 11:16 AM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #418

fphhotchips wrote: post #333

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Stack Overflow isn't much better. "What should I use to do this?" - That question isn't inline with our format "How do I do this?" - This question is a duplicate of "How do I do this exact thing with this version of this software?" - No response, because no one on SO uses that software with that version, which you would have known if you could have asked the "What should I use" question. Don't get me wrong, I love st…

Well, at least I can ask a question there. On reddit, your post just gets thrown away by a bot for not conforming to the rules that are buried somewhere. It's frustrating. On SO, even though it is likely that my ? won't be seen or read or answered, at least there is a chance as it is not auto-banned. Also, real quick: shadowbanning?! I mean, talk about terrible. You don't even know you are talking to no-one. Yes, yes…

Just a heads up, we do that here too. Here it's a 'hellban'. You can see their posts if you go into your profile and set the showdead flag. You may already know that, but it's a very similar thing.