Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit
by morgante on Saturday April 23, 2016 @05:51PM
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> Reddit seems perfectly capable of quality within its structure - AskScience and AskHistorians seen like good examples.
I've seen people point to specific subreddits as quality before, but I've never found it to be true.
To verify, I just did a quick peruse through /r/AskScience. While the questions themselves are generally good and the SNR is definitely higher than Reddit overall, I hardly think it's an emblem of quality. There are plenty of drive-by comments with low substantive value and the combination of Reddits norms and algorithms don't seem to do a good job of burying those—even on the "best" subreddits.
Re:Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 24, 2016 @05:47AM
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It's choice. I prefer the looser moderation of AskScience to that of AskHistorians. On HN the downvoting of dissenting views pains me (that non- normative views are treated the same as spam).
As the parent intimated people don't all want your idea of quality. Reddit seems perfectly capable of quality within its structure - AskScience and AskHistorians seen like good examples. In other subs [SERIOUS] tags seem to work quite well.
>The problem for Reddit is that they're front and center, not at the fringes. //
It's primarily for entertainment the low SNR subreddits being most prominent seems to be a consequence of that.