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Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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post #5

The key to making reddit a bearable experience, and I think most people on HN will agree with this, is honing into specific subreddits that you believe are worth participating in and using them exclusive to the rest of the site. For me it's askhistorians, a relatively small community with ruthless moderation that stomps quickly and decisively on anything that isn't properly cited and maintains a healthy base of exper…

I would agree with that statement. I just run multiple accounts (One for tech, one just for laughs, etc). I did this before the changes where you can have multiple front pages or streams (I'll admit I haven't played with them much) but I still like my approach as I like the separation.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Somewhat off-topic, but if you're curious, here's a heat map that I made of Reddit's submission activity: http://i.imgur.com/ur18gQa.png

I'm currently working on downloading all of Reddit's link submissions for data analyses (one such analysis is published here: http://minimaxir.com/2013/09/reddit-imgur-youtube/). So far, I have about 20M links downloaded...and that's not even a year's worth of data.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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post #2

I generally consume reddit. I participate on HN.

Very well put.

I'm the same way. I have "reddit enhancement suite" installed, and "view images" on /r/pics is something I check out every day.

The sfwporn subreddits are really beautiful too. This was a thing I made a couple of years ago: http://thingist.com/labs/ipad.shtml

(I was trying to think of something to do with an old iPad)

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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post #6
post #3

"Please only vote if you are really active on both." So only vote if you are going to say yes?

And what is "Use other" supposed to mean? Other what?

It's always useful to include "other" - some people might use reddit in a way that they don't want to select either yes or no.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Somewhat off-topic, but if you're curious, here's a heat map that I made of Reddit's submission activity: http://i.imgur.com/ur18gQa.png I'm currently working on downloading all of Reddit's link submissions for data analyses (one such analysis is published here: http://minimaxir.com/2013/09/reddit-imgur-youtube/ ). So far, I have about 20M links downloaded...and that's not even a year's worth of data.

Neat!

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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post #16

Coming up on 4 years. Much happier commentary over there.

I've noticed the same. The community is much less critical/negative there compared to here.

There isn't a single community on Reddit unlike here. Every subreddit is unique.

For example, people on /r/bicycling are often very elitist and critical. It reminds me of HN sometimes. People on /r/pics are more friendly.

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