‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by Bartweiss on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:31PM (#16877277)

I'm not sure hiding vote counts is sufficient, since comments are still displayed based on them. The 'Theory of Reddit' sub did some pretty compelling analyses showing that the first 3-5 votes almost completely predict eventual vote direction, and that the top comments in a thread will consistently be the first handful of upvoted comments.

Which also explains complaints of the shape "Reddit hates X one day, but loves X the next!" Whoever shows up first with an idea people don't hate ends up becoming the dominant voice of that specific conversation.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by SimbaOnSteroids on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:43PM (#16877408)

A subreddit solely dedicated to auditing the quality of moderation on various subs would go a long way to give reddit the tools to remove problematic moderators. Ultimately the quality of the mod makes the quality of sub.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by kbrosnan on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:20PM (#16877812)

The problem is that the reddit culture is that upvotes/downvotes solve all and that moderators should be invisible.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by masklinn on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:28PM (#16877902)

It's a difficult statement to agree with when the subreddits usually considered best-in-class are very heavily moderated.

Though of course some of the worst shit-shows are also heavily moderated.

At the end of the day, heavy moderation is not unlike absolute monarchy, it's a high-risk high-reward management system.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by Karunamon on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:24PM (#16879792)

This exists, but in a really basic and incomplete-looking form.

http://reddit.com/r/dsmr/wiki

http://reddit.com/r/blueribbon/wiki

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by WhompingWindows on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:06PM (#16879618)

I read about one strategy on my favorite subreddit. A user admitted to posting memes and cheap content there, then going into /new and downvoting every other post and upvoting his own with a couple alternate accounts.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by simcop2387 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:23PM (#16879784)

This was done on a large scale by Quickmeme a few years ago. Now the site is banned site-wide. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ux68h/why_ar...

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by creep on Friday April 20, 2018 @12:37PM (#16886264)

I don't actually comment in reddit threads with more than 15 comments for this reason: there's no point, no one will read it. And if they do, they won't care.

The vote thing is true. If I'm the first to comment I'm usually at the top, or near the top, of the thread.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by bromuro on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:36AM (#16910410)

They should remove comment votes. Why we care so much about what people are thinking? When we had usenet we weren’t so mad about others opinions...

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