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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by hiram112 on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:52AM (#15722950)
It's strange, but I've never considered Reddit a cesspoll. The fact of the matter - and this is why Reddit is successful - is that it has lots of unique subs and a pretty decent voting system which pushes trolls to the bottom, often collapsed.

But if I want to really see what these people are writing, I am free to browse any sub, sort by controversial, and expand the collapsed threads. Win - Win.

Hacker News, OTOH, just seems to 'disappear' wrong-think.

There's a big difference.

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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by fhood on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:56AM (#15722998)
Sure, but you used to be able to just browse the front page. Try looking at the reddit frontpage from five years ago and comparing it to right now. And yeah, there are good subreddits but not very many of them are highly active.
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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by hiram112 on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:45AM (#15723555)
Can you clarify? I tend to use mobile and I have a /r/all (which I never use) and which is the Reddit's defaulted top subs, but I can browse my own 'front page' which seems to be a nice mix of my subscribed subs and popular posts. It's a decent compromise.
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