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Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by jasonladuke0311 »

ahtihn wrote: post #106
groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

I don't understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn't a core feature for Reddit and it's certainly not "basic" functionality.

> I don't understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine.

No, it absolutely does not. I have used Google to search Reddit for a string and got no results. That string was present in a Reddit comment open in another tab. It was a few years old so there is very little chance it hadn't been indexed yet.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by TameAntelope »

fareesh wrote: post #52

Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.

I wonder if your comment is an instance of the Eternal September effect [0]. The "quality" of a website is such an intangible and immeasurable thing, it's more or less impossible to say, in aggregate, if something has objectively gotten worse, especially considering the fact that Reddit has grown exponentially more popular.

At the very least, there's a distinct lack of self awareness of how small your one opinion is, to the sea of overall opinions. "Has gotten worse" vs "I've grown to like it less" are very different statements; one externalizes the decline, eschews your role and responsibility for your own opinion, and the other owns up to the reality that something my be worse "for you" while getting better for many, many others.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by stimpson_j_cat »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #170
stimpson_j_cat wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest change came after the migration from Digg, which would have been about 5 years prior. the_donald brought a lot of a younger users and white supremacists. I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though. Certainly no noticeable shift that night.

The digg exodus was nothing, just a bunch of group A basement dwellers moving in with group B basement dwellers. At the time the average person still had no idea what reddit or digg was. The whole thing was just internal internet geek culture drama.

No, it changed reddit from having interesting content and mostly useful constructive commentary to being full of memes and jokes (like Digg). Sure there were pun threads before, but you didn't have to custom tailor the front page to keep it from being complete shit.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by z3c0 »

boesboes wrote: post #157
fareesh wrote: post #52

Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to. The product has gone downhill ever since. Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.

As someone who has been using reddit and frequenting r/all for over 10 years orso, I dont know what you are talking about. Either make you point, or just don't make such comments. They add nothing.

I think one could argue that your comment adds much less to the conversation. It's basically just "you're wrong, because I said so."

Maybe - since you have a decade of material to draw from - you could offer a counter-example? I think that would be more conducive to discussion than "don't make such comments."

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by Karunamon »

Miner49er wrote: post #163
Karunamon wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/r/chapotraphouse was calling for death on people on the reg with the full support of their moderators. That's why they got banned. https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/9m30os/rc... https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/bmtdqb/ch... https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/c66x0w/1_...

They cracked down on the baseball thing way before they got banned though; after they got quarantined. Yeah, they were saying killing slaveowners is good, but who doesn't think that? It's what the American Civil War was. It's self-defense, and no worse then everyone on reddit that is cheering for Ukraine to win the war against Russia (by killing Russian soldiers) or all the people that said what Kyle Rittenhouse did…

This defense falls apart once you remember that this is a pro-communist subreddit that believes 'wage slavery' is a thing. And besides, this is hardly the only instance where content that breaks the sitewide rules was left up by the mods even after being reported.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by krolden »

groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

The userbase is what made reddit valuable to conde mast and all the investors since then.

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by stimpson_j_cat »

Gareth321 wrote: post #178
boesboes wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who has been using reddit and frequenting r/all for over 10 years orso, I dont know what you are talking about. Either make you point, or just don't make such comments. They add nothing.

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Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits.

It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any political shift.

Do you really think you'd regularly see white supremacist content on reddit in 2006 as often as you do now?

Re: New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design

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Post by raldi »

groffee wrote: post #101

> With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum/social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search. So honest question, how…

It's also a lie because "everything" on reddit is still not in fact searchable; buried in the comments on the announcement post, they admit that pre-2020 comments are still not indexed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/u3oz2x/whats_up_wit...

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