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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by fkhafdkjh »

dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

Back in the day reddit's frontpage was filled with day-to-day reports from the Ron Paul campaign, middlebrow atheist ranting and breathless reports of "police brutality". And it only went down hill since then.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by Splines »

fkhafdkjh wrote: post #91
dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

Back in the day reddit's frontpage was filled with day-to-day reports from the Ron Paul campaign, middlebrow atheist ranting and breathless reports of "police brutality". And it only went down hill since then.

I'd like to think it went mainstream. You can still find those same discussions, but they've gone to the subreddits (which was a fantastic idea, by the way).

Maybe HN should do something similar.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by fuzionmonkey »

llambda wrote: post #44
dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

I stopped reading Reddit at the beginning of last year: there was a clear shift in demographic that wasn't something I found to be positive. The preference had seemed to become for short, trite, flippant comments that would illicit a slew of puns. Increasingly the richness of content of submissions had dried up. Of course I was told by my friends that I should just read subreddits and ignore the garbage. But even the…

I remember first starting to read reddit probably about a year or so before digg v4. Originally I thought the site style was boring, but I kept coming back because there was always fresh content.

I noticed that after digg v4 things started to downhill. in the last few months it has gotten dramatically worse.

unfunny memes get beaten to death. Rage comics, etc. Two years ago there wasn't that crap. I feel like memes are taking over, and regular comments and submissions are forced into banality when they would be better without the old, beaten-to-death meme.

there's still a lot of good stuff but there's now a sea of horrible content to sift through.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by maleadt »

bh42222 wrote: post #45
llambda wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped reading Reddit at the beginning of last year: there was a clear shift in demographic that wasn't something I found to be positive. The preference had seemed to become for short, trite, flippant comments that would illicit a slew of puns. Increasingly the richness of content of submissions had dried up. Of course I was told by my friends that I should just read subreddits and ignore the garbage. But even the…

I stopped reading reddit long before you stopped. Quite a bit later, I slowly came back by being very selective about my subreddits. I think others might have done the same, because I've definitely been able to create a reddit very much like I remember it long before it got so popular. (Good god, does this post make me sound like an uber-hipster, or what!)

But you're right about the subreddits, and this is one of the more important features which manages to keep acquainted users from leaving the site, even if they are tired of the now 4chan-esque frontpage.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by ubernostrum »

maurits wrote: post #64

I deleted my account yesterday. As a community it has given me nothing back, except pictures of funny cats (ok slight exaggeration) It seems as if every single comment that hints to insight fulness, knowledge or that comes accompanied with a (scientific) source is ridiculed or downvoted into oblivion. And top comments increasingly are inside jokes. That is all ok, but I am not putting energy in it anymore. Compare th…

So many of the comments I see here follow a pattern of "I didn't give much to the community, but expected a lot more in return".

Reddit is what you make of it. Granted, it's not for everybody, but I get value out of it (and give back when I can).

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by uriel »

maurits wrote: post #64

I deleted my account yesterday. As a community it has given me nothing back, except pictures of funny cats (ok slight exaggeration) It seems as if every single comment that hints to insight fulness, knowledge or that comes accompanied with a (scientific) source is ridiculed or downvoted into oblivion. And top comments increasingly are inside jokes. That is all ok, but I am not putting energy in it anymore. Compare th…

> Reddit commenters seems to take some pride that they are not as worse as their cousins at 4chan or youtube.

As a redditor for >5 years, I'm not sure they can claim even that anymore.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by llambda »

fuzionmonkey wrote: post #93
llambda wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped reading Reddit at the beginning of last year: there was a clear shift in demographic that wasn't something I found to be positive. The preference had seemed to become for short, trite, flippant comments that would illicit a slew of puns. Increasingly the richness of content of submissions had dried up. Of course I was told by my friends that I should just read subreddits and ignore the garbage. But even the…

I remember first starting to read reddit probably about a year or so before digg v4. Originally I thought the site style was boring, but I kept coming back because there was always fresh content. I noticed that after digg v4 things started to downhill. in the last few months it has gotten dramatically worse. unfunny memes get beaten to death. Rage comics, etc. Two years ago there wasn't that crap. I feel like memes a…

And just to add to that, I feel like the subreddit mechanism is a horribly fragmented and inefficient way of maintaining quality; even as an experienced user I had trouble finding the richness of quality I was looking for.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by ohashi »

maurits wrote: post #73
ohashi wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you got no value out of the place, I think you were doing it wrong. My city (DC) has a thriving subreddit that meets up probably 2-3 times a week officially to do things - zombie invasion simulations, drinking, board games, go karting, etc. It's been a fantastic way to just get out and do stuff with people. There is a whole subreddit dedicated to 'Barcraft' which brings watching pro starcraft live to bars (like yo…

You gave me a new idea. I have two hobbies, one is a niche, and its subredit is dead in the water. The other is so broad its subredit suffers a bit from the fun&games comments. Which brings me to this. HN is a pretty nice community. What would happen if we make it a subredit, /r/hn? Its a pretty cool place with a group of growing, devoted followers. All is good. So one day, it gets promoted to the default frontpage.…

I suspect there is a large overlap as it is. What would be the point of /r/hn when HN is functionally similar? As far as dead subreddits, they can be revived, but it takes effort on someone's part - if you're serious contact the current mod and ask.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by raldi »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #89
raldi wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has many revenue streams. In no particular order: sidebar ads, sponsored links, reddit gold (a for-pay set of premium features), sponsorships, merchandise...

I think Reddit could do much better with selling their merchandise, maybe by selling things directly. I don't think I was really aware of the reddit store, it's not very prominent and I don't remember many blog posts about it. http://store.reddit.com/index.html

Do you use AdBlock?

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by [deleted] »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #86
paganel wrote: post #67

Unfortunately, reddit has started to hit new and new lows. See this recent highly-voted post for example ( http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jvhot/i_found_a_girl_... ), where they're making fun of a poor girl's badly photoshopped photos that she dared to publish on Flickr. I've been on reddit since its very beginnings, back when its being rewritten in Python was causing huge discussions or when programming.reddi…

Yeah, that is bad, but it is in r/funny. Other more niche subreddits are much better, like r/netsec

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