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Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

Only posted an hour and already the same, predictable comments. People, please take the time to explore other subreddits. If you stay subscribed to reddit.com, pics, politics and other various default subreddits, you're not going to enjoy yourself (unless you liked digg v4).

Also, I have no idea why reddit defaults to "top" for comment sorting. The experience is much less gimmicky when you sort comments by "best". They're usually more relevant and less meta/jokey. (edit, I appear to have been mistaken on this, I was just sure when I created a new account a while back it had defaulted to 'top'. Oh well, something to keep in mind anyhow.)

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by ZoFreX »

parfe wrote: post #5
blhack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit still has a fantastic set of communities on it. Think of it more as a service , not one singular website. Like usenet. (These are some of the subs that I like, they might not be your thing, but they're examples of solid communities) http://reddit.com/r/truereddit http://reddit.com/r/longtext http://reddit.com/r/depthhub http://reddit.com/r/askscience http://reddit.com/r/neuro http://reddit.com/r/burningman htt…

I understand that I can work to find subcommunities that havne't been destroyed yet, but check out The top rated comment in the top rated post in /r/Programming: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/juzl0/what_does... Extremely disappointmented this wasn't a picture of a dump truck full of bees.

Try sorting comments by "best" instead of "top". It's not a complete fix, but it's an improvement.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

I'd be very interested to see this comment thread. I've never, ever seen anyone defend YouTube, let alone YouTube style comments. Further, if you're in an at-all-trafficked subreddit, poor spelling, poor grammar and outright rudeness is fairly well discouraged.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by narrator »

blhack wrote: post #4
parfe wrote: post #3

Too bad. The voting system isn't as robust as it needs to be for me to use the site on a regular basis anymore. Too many of the top rated threads are jokes, puns, or stupid questions. Moderating by category made slashdot comments useful. In the user profile, setting all "Funny" moderated comments to -5 eliminated all the "In Soviet Russia" jokes. Repeated comments were marked redundant etc. Reddit has become quite po…

Reddit still has a fantastic set of communities on it. Think of it more as a service , not one singular website. Like usenet. (These are some of the subs that I like, they might not be your thing, but they're examples of solid communities) http://reddit.com/r/truereddit http://reddit.com/r/longtext http://reddit.com/r/depthhub http://reddit.com/r/askscience http://reddit.com/r/neuro http://reddit.com/r/burningman htt…

Reddit also has some pretty unique emergent behavior. For example, /r/circlejerk is dedicated to making fun of the rest of reddit. What other forum has a whole section dedicated to making fun of itself?

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bane »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #13
dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

I'd be very interested to see this comment thread. I've never, ever seen anyone defend YouTube, let alone YouTube style comments. Further, if you're in an at-all-trafficked subreddit, poor spelling, poor grammar and outright rudeness is fairly well discouraged.

perhaps this is it?

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jcv2h/rolling_st...

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by dmix »

bane wrote: post #17
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be very interested to see this comment thread. I've never, ever seen anyone defend YouTube, let alone YouTube style comments. Further, if you're in an at-all-trafficked subreddit, poor spelling, poor grammar and outright rudeness is fairly well discouraged.

perhaps this is it? http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jcv2h/rolling_st...

Indeed, this comment in particular was the top reply that had 12+ upvoted before later being downvoted.

"Are you trying to be clever, are you a dumb ass or something else? Is this some funny youtube shit that is above my understanding?"

The exaggerated lack of intelligence in my original comment was really obvious. The fact that people didn't get the joke was what was concerning.

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