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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 by frewsxcv »

natural219 wrote: post #26
L_Rahman wrote: 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…

Is there a list of good, high-quality subreddits somewhere? I would like to update my homepage to filter only the best ones.

List your interests/hobbies/favorite things. Chances are, there's a subreddit for each of them.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by sp332 »

tikhonj wrote: post #25
maxk42 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was in primary school they sent the kids home with a questionnaire to let the students' parents vote on some rule changes. They options were "Yes", "No" and "I choose to have my vote count with the majority" To this day I'm convinced that was their way of covertly stacking the deck in whatever direction they saw fit.

Ignoring psychological priming, that's basically the same as Yes/No/Abstain. Of course, we probably shouldn't ignore the priming :).

But they could count the "majority" vote as going in either direction, and it would still be true :)

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by stephancoral »

minimaxir wrote: post #14

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.

You should post these results to /r/dataisbeautiful !

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by tsycho »

natural219 wrote: post #26
L_Rahman wrote: 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…

Is there a list of good, high-quality subreddits somewhere? I would like to update my homepage to filter only the best ones.

Not a list, but if you don't know where to start, check out r/bestof and dive deeper when you like the discussion on a particular subreddit.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by esw »

I spent a lot of time on reddit in the early days - so much that I ended up blocking it in my hosts file so I could actually get some work done. I've tried revisiting every year or so since, but I haven't found any subreddits that aren't eclipsed by more active, dedicated forums elsewhere.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by minimaxir »

stephancoral wrote: post #34
minimaxir wrote: post #14

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.

You should post these results to /r/dataisbeautiful !

Already taken care of. ;)

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nzg27/acti...

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nbryg/perc...

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by [deleted] »

maxk42 wrote: post #9
dmamills wrote: post #3

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

When I was in primary school they sent the kids home with a questionnaire to let the students' parents vote on some rule changes. They options were "Yes", "No" and "I choose to have my vote count with the majority" To this day I'm convinced that was their way of covertly stacking the deck in whatever direction they saw fit.

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Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by rsync »

We (rsync.net) use reddit as an advertising venue ... specifically /r/programming and /r/linux ... and maybe /r/sysadmin from time to time.

One interesting divergence - a month or two ago we offered this to the HN community:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700

... and then at some point we offered something similar to a decent chunk of reddit ...

We get a very, very big response - lots of people took us up on it from HN, but almost nothing from reddit.

Re: Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

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Post by latj »

minimaxir wrote: post #14

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.

Just curious- are you using the API or no?
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