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Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by vidarh »

bradlys wrote: post #195
Shank wrote: post #94

The biggest value gain from Reddit, to me, is the ability to centralize effectively around different hobbies and activities. In the past, if you wanted to find an online community for a movie or a game, you had to find a forum for that community. Finding forums that are well managed and capture a good segment of the community is hard -- and Reddit just becomes a default place to look now. Let's say a new TV show star…

I think it's okay to some extent but I find that forums definitely are a much better resource and controversial threads or posts in forums don't get buried or hidden by a downvote. Some of the most humorous threads you'll read would have had a -inf rating and thus never seen on reddit. To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. Instances I can think of are forums for motorcycles, cars, p…

There are plenty of really shallow forums, and plenty of really close-knit and/or tolerant sub-reddits with good moderators. It's just that the big ones are the easiest to find, and tends to quickly become impossible to moderate in anything but very impersonal ways.

> I also dislike reddit because it's hard to remember a name constantly

There are tons of extensions/apps for Reddit that lets you annotate/tag users and the like. I do tend to agree with that to some extent, though - a more personal touch would make it easier to have conversations feel like they're with people rather than with handles.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by fleitz »

fhood wrote: post #220
bradlys wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's okay to some extent but I find that forums definitely are a much better resource and controversial threads or posts in forums don't get buried or hidden by a downvote. Some of the most humorous threads you'll read would have had a -inf rating and thus never seen on reddit. To me, reddit seems a great way for a community to reinforce groupthink. Instances I can think of are forums for motorcycles, cars, p…

Don't assume forums are somehow freer of group-think because they are less accessible. Once they get established, the existing user base tends to push out anyone that doesn't agree with their views. Some subreddits are awesome, and some are way less awesome. And much of the best, most informative and technical information out there lives on subreddits. Many people pine for the days when only the most savvy users knew…

Eternal September.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by bastijn »

Shank wrote: post #94

The biggest value gain from Reddit, to me, is the ability to centralize effectively around different hobbies and activities. In the past, if you wanted to find an online community for a movie or a game, you had to find a forum for that community. Finding forums that are well managed and capture a good segment of the community is hard -- and Reddit just becomes a default place to look now. Let's say a new TV show star…

This is an interesting observation. In a podcast [0], Mark Zuckerberg states that his vision behind Facebook has always been to connect people. To make them part of a group as he stresses that every individual has a need for that at some point in life. He stresses that he wants to make this possible even for those with rare conditions that would require a group spread throughout the world. So enable them as they would not be able normally as their neighborhood would simply not have the correct prerequisites to form that group (i.e members).

Your statement that reddit is better at this than Facebook would be in line with Reddit passing Facebook if indeed the purpose of both sites is as described by you and Mark Zuckerberg.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mark-zuckerberg/

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by swebs »

slg wrote: post #81
narrator wrote: post #45

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I think the focus on the toxic user base is an artifact of the idea of one-dimensionally categorizing people based on their political ideology. That is such a hot button right now that it completely overshadows all other contributions to society in most forums. Reddit, by allowing some bad behavior and anonymity diffuses that ever present political aspect of modern life.

The kind of toxic people we are talking about on Reddit are not toxic for their politics. Racism, bigotry, and misogyny are not political topics. It isn't like tax policy or any other topic that can be debated. There is one clear side that is wrong.

>There is one clear side that is wrong.

You're doing a really good impression of the average toxic Reddit user.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by swebs »

mwfunk wrote: post #48
GAPAT wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects Almost as if toxicity of a person is an integral part of their nature and politically correct spaces are detrimental to the discourse.

Toxicity is detrimental by definition, so not sure what you're getting at.

Is there even a definition to "toxicity"? I've just seen it used as a buzzword for "thing I don't like".

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by RandallBrown »

_seemethere wrote: post #161

Why doesn't reddit try to roll out an enterprise product? I'm sure a lot of companies would be willing to pay to have an interface like reddit internally. Most current solutions for this problem aren't very good and I feel like reddit could be a good alternative. (not the redesign though, loading times on that would make it basically unusable)

About 6 years ago we had a self hosted reddit that someone hacked to hook in to our ActiveDirectory.

It's the best QA/Wiki/Group communication tool I've ever used at a company.

I've thought a few times that you could build a startup on selling a modified version of open source reddit to enterprises. (Not sure how much of reddit is open source anymore though.)

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by RandallBrown »

_raoulcousins wrote: post #204

I've never heard of diply or providr. Everything else on the top 50 I'm at least aware of.

Diply is one of those horrible list aggregator websites. I see ads for it on facebook constantly. Generally it's just a list of 10 things from an AskReddit thread.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by txcwpalpha »

relic wrote: post #212
volkl48 wrote: post #118

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You can make a new user account on Reddit in 30 seconds and don't even need an email (last I checked). Pretty easy to maintain a significant degree of anonymity by just deleting your account and making a new one. With that said, most users are more concerned about being anonymous to their peers in conversation than they are to Reddit's administration itself, IMO.

You do need an email to sign up, although since they allow a user to be 'logged in' as more than one user at a time, they may allow more than one account per email address. And they don't do email confirmation, though. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

>You do need an email to sign up

No you don't. You can leave the email box blank and sign up with no problems.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by bruhbruhbruh »

manfredo wrote: post #192
Matachines wrote: post #136

What surprises be about reddit is that they get advertisers and ads while having one of the largest porn communities. No one talks about this, and people are quick to say "Tumblr/4chan is just porn!", but not only is there a myriad of porn subreddits, many of them have OC content (people posting themselves), who thanks to reddit's new profile followers feature have a fanbase. One only needs to look at /r/sexsells (NS…

If my understanding is correct, subreddits that host NSFW material (or at least, a substantial amount of it) get tagged and age gated. I imagine it's pretty easy to let advertisers opt out of those areas.

That is correct. Advertisers target specific subreddits and/or "interest groups". No NSFW advertisements should appear in safe-for-work communities.

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/advertising/adverti...

What are age-gated subreddits?

Age-gated subreddits are those that are listed as NSFW(18+). We ask that advertisers advertising adult-related products/services focus their targeting on these subreddits to ensure we are serving ads to the appropriate audience.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by txcwpalpha »

GSimon wrote: post #203
volkl48 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make a new user account on Reddit in 30 seconds and don't even need an email (last I checked). Pretty easy to maintain a significant degree of anonymity by just deleting your account and making a new one. With that said, most users are more concerned about being anonymous to their peers in conversation than they are to Reddit's administration itself, IMO.

Now they ask for e-mail before you can sign up, but you don t have to go to your inbox to activate you accounts so basically it's the same.

You can leave the email box blank and still sign up with only username and password with no problem.
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