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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by bri3d on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:42PM (#14805612)
I started thinking of Reddit that way, but once you start thinking about it that way, it's a pretty crappy software solution. A platform for diverse communities with a single SSO solution and frictionless cross-community posting combined with limited moderation features, poor ban capabilities, and easy discovery?

That's not a good software recipe for a community to become empowered or build their own space at all.

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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by cookiecaper on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:54PM (#14809916)
I think this is a core issue with reddit. They're trying to be a self-hosted platform at the same time that they're trying to be a single coherent community of "redditors" with a default, universally-applicable front page.

This leads to conflict when one person feels their identity as a "redditor" is under attack by the success of a sub that is diametrically opposed to their political or religious perspective, which leads to invasions, trolling, doxxing, harassment, and lots of other types of nastiness.

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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by pat_space on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:28PM (#14806050)
Crappy it may be, it sure beats the hell out of setting up & hosting your own message board!
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by nickthemagicman on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:48PM (#14805666)
Its already proven itself to be a great recipe for communities and empowerment...it's literally the best the world has ever seen. Hacker News even uses it's format...
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by awkward on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:09PM (#14805871)
On the other hand, PG built Hacker News specifically to get a reddit-like that has it's own culture, identity and moderation policies.
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by rtx on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:59PM (#14805759)
User numbers don't agree with you.
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by komali2 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:28PM (#14806052)
>That's not a good software recipe for a community to become empowered or build their own space at all.

Keywords: become empowered or build their own space

The argument was not "that's not a good software recipe to cause high traffic."

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