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How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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danilocampos wrote: post #62
batista wrote: post #2

>"I want to stay hungry," says Alexis Ohanian. "I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less." I hate this kind of over-indulgence. What "resources"? He built a social news website and had a strike of luck. It's not like the guy is an Einstein or a Tesla. Or that Reddit is something bettering society. It's a glorified internet forum. Imagine how stupid things like this wo…

For the longest time, I thought stupidity was the gravest sin. Then I discovered these Hacker News commenters and realized that middling but self-important minds are far more vexing than dumb ones.

At every step of the ladder, the gravest sin changes.

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by zf1234 »

mibbitier wrote: post #44
peterwwillis wrote: post #5

What the front page of the internet looks like today: * Image with overlayed snarky text * Another image * Another image... * The Daily Show clip * Another image * Another image * News article about Julian Assange * Another image * News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old) * Reddit question thread about Tarantino films * Youtube clip * "Ask Me Anything" request thread * Story on mo…

Not to mention the massive bias. If it's anti-rich people, pro-gay, pro-drugs, anti-corporation, anti-government, anti-religion, anti-foxnews, socialist etc etc then it'll get upvoted endlessly. The worrying thing is that people who constantly moan about how misinformed and biased fox news viewers are, are on a website with a ridiculous bias, which also often carries untrue stories because they fit the agenda. There'…

I find it amusing that so much anti-Fox News stuff gets posted, because they are the secondary target market, and they're just doing exactly what Fox wants them to do.

Fox trolls, Reddit gets offended, posts links. It's not like any of the Fox hosts believe what they're saying - They just say more and more absurd things until they get a reaction. It's on the same level as those "Alien woman gives birth to Werebaby" tabloids. The crazy people who watch it only feel legitimised if someone engages them in a serious argument about whether Werebabies even exist.

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by zumda »

dekz wrote: post #99
kn0thing wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot upvote this enough. Thanks. edit, with bonus explanation! We need to do a better job helping new(and old) redditors realize the thousands of communities they could be joining for a diverse blend of content that interests them. When Steve and I started reddit, we had no categories because it was simple -- and Steve loves simple. Now that we've got scores of vibrant communities discussing links about things ra…

Does weighting of posts (only in hot?) take into account the amount of 'spent' upvotes vs the size of the overall subreddit? I do notice that a the 'top' ranking seems to fail when I am subscribed to a number of small subreddits and a few bigger ones. The smaller subreddits then are drowned out by the bigger ones which is the exact opposite of what I want. I also think grouping can be taken further (/r/a+b+c) as it i…

They changed the handling of multi reddits to use normalized hot sort last month: http://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/s79pl/reddit_chan...

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by gbaygon »

dchest wrote: post #98
peterwwillis wrote: post #5

What the front page of the internet looks like today: * Image with overlayed snarky text * Another image * Another image... * The Daily Show clip * Another image * Another image * News article about Julian Assange * Another image * News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old) * Reddit question thread about Tarantino films * Youtube clip * "Ask Me Anything" request thread * Story on mo…

You're looking at r/all. For comparison, here's what my reddit front page looks like: * Ketamine Improves Bipolar Depression Within Minutes * -2000 Lines of Code * Fedora 17 Boot Optimization (from 15 to 2.5 seconds) * Awesome cut away showing the inner working of a Sauber * lcamtuf: Yes, you can have fun with downloads * Favorite CS related quotes from professors (or coworkers)? * Scrivener and Building a Better Boo…

mind to share your subreddits?

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by dchest »

gbaygon wrote: post #114
dchest wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're looking at r/all. For comparison, here's what my reddit front page looks like: * Ketamine Improves Bipolar Depression Within Minutes * -2000 Lines of Code * Fedora 17 Boot Optimization (from 15 to 2.5 seconds) * Awesome cut away showing the inner working of a Sauber * lcamtuf: Yes, you can have fun with downloads * Favorite CS related quotes from professors (or coworkers)? * Scrivener and Building a Better Boo…

mind to share your subreddits?

Sure,

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements+blog+bookdesign+BSD+c_...

Re: How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

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Post by gbaygon »

kelvie wrote: post #102
randall wrote: post #101

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I want this. This is awesome. Reddit always seems gross from my perspective as an outsider. I want good quality stuff like that. I have to be logged in to get that?

You don't have to, you can chain subreddits and bookmark that, e.g.: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming+kde+haskell+linux

thank you!
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