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Blocking /u/GallowBoob did nothing but improve my reddit experience.
I've seen this comment more recently. I just thought he was a notorious reposter. What specifically is bad about him? (I often don't mind reposts when it's a first time for me..)
One such complaint is https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/amg6kr/netfl...
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While this may be true, Reddit's "free speech" ethos has been part of its DNA from day 1. Reddit has also gone a long way to getting rid of the most egregious content (I mean, jailbait???) What would you suggest the alternative is? I think the real problem is that society is coming to terms with the fact that anonymous free speech isn't all it's cracked up to be.
> What would you suggest the alternative is? Does there need to be one? This site seems to manage to avoid it. Quite how you get into the situation reddit did is mystifying to me. I completely agree that anonymous free speech is not the ideal it sounds.
If we are going to be reasonable a better comparison would be comparing this site to a single heavily moderated subreddit.
As an extreme you have subreddits like https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ if you look into the comments you will see a lot of "[ Removed ]" threads. https://i.imgur.com/Q7mXkPd.png
Other subreddits are purposefully not moderated as heavily. It's entirely up to whoever runs it to moderate how they see fit.
I've given up most social media but have become obsessed with Reddit. No matter how much I use it, I'm constantly amazed that I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subject I care about. I'm not a fan of the redesign or their push to look at other social media platforms, but I understand the direction they have to go to build revenue.
Seriously? I just assume most people on there are in high school, it seems like a place where the lowest common denominator ideas get upvoted and everything else gets nailed.
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"10 years ago when reddit would go down, you rooted for them as the underdog to figure it out. Now when it happens, it's just sad. They still can't even handle the kind of traffic that the super bowl brings them. They've had years to figure this out." Reddit goes down pretty rarely and I can't remember when it was ever down more than an hour or two. It also definitely didn't go down for the SuperBowl that I saw. The…
Reddit often goes "down" in that the front page is kept functional but trying to go to the comments page or interact with anything will cause it to 503.
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Didn't they have like one or two developers just a few years ago? Or am I remembering this wrong?
We had fiveish developers for the first fiveish years. Then it sort of exploded after that. To fair, five wasn't enough. We spent too much time firefighting and not enough time innovating.
Reddit isn't worth $3B, and management trying to justify the validation and provide returns to the investors will kill it. Just a quick peek on `/r/beta` will show you the weird things Reddit is doing to maximize value and how it is alienating users. Unobtrusive ads don't make investors enough money, Facebook has already shown that. To derive maximum revenue per user, you need to drive your users to the edge of not e…
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A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.
A lot of subreddits had that happen to them. It's sad because they are choosing who can speak and who cannot.
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Reddit is a top 20 globally ranked site that does not come anywhere close to performing at the level of other sites that share a similar popularity. In my mind, they fail their users in three distinct and pretty basic ways: 1. Site reliability is still a regular issue (my perception is this is due to both infrastructure problem and show stopping application bugs). 2. Bad UX practices that get implemented that are doc…
> I am not judging the individuals that work at reddit I'm sure you don't mean to, but as an FYI, when you say: > It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated It does sound like you're judging the individuals. I totally agree with everything you said in this post, I just think the way to couch it is not by seeming to attack the competency of people who have business pressures / goal…
It might soon be time for The Oatmeal to add a new panel to his famous "Digg vs. Reddit" cartoon: https://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/reddit_digg I love Reddit and have no problem with this move in principle, though I do wish there was at least one social platform that would try to follow the Craigslist ethos and stay "proudly independent." I'm not a big believer in crypto, but Reddit seems like one of th…
> I do wish there was at least one social platform that would try to follow the Craigslist ethos and stay "proudly independent." I worked at reddit for 4 years, but quit in 2016, largely because they were clearly beginning to switch from a small, fairly independent company (despite being owned by Advance/Conde) to one that was going to become completely dependent on venture capital and I knew what that would end up d…
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