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Re: Reddit

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Post by SwellJoe »

sliverstorm wrote: post #204
arrrg wrote: post #190

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Yeah, exactly, it all circles back to this basic issue: Most users of reddit are racist and sexist and absolutely disgusting in every way. That’s why bullshit like this happens. Reddit delenda est.

Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.

Last you checked, eh? Where did you do your checking?

Let's review some definitions for feminism:

"the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities"

"the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes"

Which part of that do you disagree with that makes you not a feminist?

And, if being a feminist means one supports gender equality (which is what it means), how do you believe it can ever follow that not being feminist doesn't make one sexist? Seems like believing that people should be treated differently based on their sex is the very definition of sexism.

Re: Reddit

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Post by squidmccactus »

silencio wrote: post #93
kyro wrote: post #9

Exciting news. One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and…

I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod. I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator)…

lol you used the word "misandry" seriously

Re: Reddit

#223

Post by balor123 »

Quora looks like a nice iteration on Reddit. Reddit should just do a big rewrite to make it look and feel more like Quora. The data model should be able to remain mostly the same, with just some major interface changes, minor feature changes, and major backend updates. It could probably even be deployed in parallel to the existing implementation. Some items that'd be nice are email updates, weekly digests, topic suggestions, anonymous posts, related topics, etc.

Re: Reddit

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Post by Karunamon »

diydsp wrote: post #160
silencio wrote: post #93

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I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod. I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator)…

Yes, one thing I would like see in moderator tools is: edit the headlines. That's a commonly-used tool on HN and it would help subreddits, too.

At least letting people edit their own headlines/links (possibly with the changes going into a mod approval queue) would be quite helpful.

Re: Reddit

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Post by VLM »

foobarqux wrote: post #49
noir_lord wrote: post #47

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Been using reddit for about 6 years, some of the smaller subs are amazing and I think it comes down to two major things, excellent moderation and community below a certain size (usually). I've thought about this for a while on and off and I'm not sure how you could scale that up in terms of moderation, some of the defaults do well while others are just a wasteground (I've also wondered if that is partially intentiona…

Can you give some examples of good quality subreddits?

/r/boardgames

/r/diy

/r/mechanicalkeyboards

/r/woodworking

On the fence about categorizing /r/clojure and /r/ece as good. They're not awful, but they need more traffic to be "good". /r/ece is almost an informal 24x7 AMA for EE and CE and the rules are constantly being broken but not necessarily in a bad way (if that makes sense?)

There are subreddits I find interesting to read but probably miss the categorization of "good" by being rather subjective based on your personal opinions of the subject matter.

Re: Reddit

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Post by honestcoyote »

MattHeard wrote: post #209
freehunter wrote: post #140

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I was a founding moderator of /r/gamernews, which was founded with a seriously different mindset than that of r/gamingnews or r/gaming. When we started, we had a lot of people coming from the other communities trying to force in memes, rumors, blogspam, and other things that were against our founding principles. It took a few months before the submitted content matched the community we were looking for. Trolls realiz…

> Although with that community, I seriously have to wonder why reddit would want it to be a default, or why the moderators agreed. I assumed that reddit admins made /r/twoxchromosomes a default because it was a good subreddit and wanted to expose better content to the default users. Also, I thought that subreddit moderators don't have input regarding whether the subreddit is made default.

Subreddit moderators do have input. The admins wanted to make AskHistorians a default and the moderators, who are already work overtime to ensure the posted answers are highly professional, said no. And some moderators have, I think, chosen to remove their subs as defaults.

Re: Reddit

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Post by Semaphor »

MattHeard wrote: post #209
freehunter wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a founding moderator of /r/gamernews, which was founded with a seriously different mindset than that of r/gamingnews or r/gaming. When we started, we had a lot of people coming from the other communities trying to force in memes, rumors, blogspam, and other things that were against our founding principles. It took a few months before the submitted content matched the community we were looking for. Trolls realiz…

> Although with that community, I seriously have to wonder why reddit would want it to be a default, or why the moderators agreed. I assumed that reddit admins made /r/twoxchromosomes a default because it was a good subreddit and wanted to expose better content to the default users. Also, I thought that subreddit moderators don't have input regarding whether the subreddit is made default.

Becoming default is opt-out.

Re: Reddit

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Post by SwellJoe »

silencio wrote: post #136
[deleted] wrote: post #127

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Feel free to start your own community with a hands off approach. :) We have 1.1 million subscribers in an active and default subreddit. Related and private subreddits are growing too to meet the random niche demands of some of our users, and that's a great thing. Our users have options if they don't like our moderation style.

Great attitude, and don't let assholes convince you that responsible moderation is ever a bad thing. The "freedom of speech" thing is just another trolling approach. Someone has a right to say anything they want, but they don't have a right to say it anywhere they want. If you and your participants have built a community and a culture that is inclusive and respectful, anyone choosing not to participate within those guidelines is opting themselves out of your community.

And, it's worth nothing that HN is a moderated community, and while there are people who find that problematic, the reality is that a significant portion of the best contributors here wouldn't stick around if it were not reasonably moderated. I believe that's true of communities in general, but particularly communities that are controversial (I'm a mod at /r/occupywallstreet; I've seen some shit).

Re: Reddit

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Post by gergles »

fourstar wrote: post #205
lambda wrote: post #198

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I'm just somewhat puzzled that twox is a default. It seems like a prime candidate not to be just due to these sorts of inevitable problems. Lots of people new to discussion boards tend not to understand there may be different rules, sets of expected behavior, or the like on different sub-boards, so making something a default is likely to attract lots of people who are new and don't understand the rules. Once you coup…

Mods don't decide to make a subreddit a default, admins do.

Mods can opt out of being in /r/all (and from being a default with the same checkbox.)

Re: Reddit

#230

Post by atko »

We are in the process of raising first round of funds for http://whoaverse.com and things are starting to get interesting. We have major plans for both enterprise and private use of the platform and when it comes to giving back to the community - we plan to use the same model big players like YouTube and Twitch have for rewarding content creation (actual money).

This will be a fun ride which currently feels like David vs Goliath, but boy is it fun :)

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