Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass
by ubernostrum on Thursday September 16, 2010 @04:37AM
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As I always do when someone starts off on this flight of mythology, allow me to suggest that you read Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy":
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
You may learn some things about these cycles of "I was on Site X and it was great, then went to crap, then I went to Site Y, then it went to crap..." which will surprise you, and which -- at least in my reading and based on my experience of spending the last decade building community-oriented sites -- hint that reddit's doing way, way better than HN.
Am I the only one seeing a huge chunk of Viagra spam ("A proposito viagra 50 mg di pazienti affetti da malattie coronariche 10,8-11,8 arteria laureato rilevando ...") in the middle of that article?
Mmmh... Yes, probably. Your PC must be infected.
Nope. I figured it out, and it turned out to be something even more devious.
Please tell me more :)
Except with reddit, people don't go to site Y, they go to /r/Y.
Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass
by Mod_daniel on Thursday September 16, 2010 @05:05AM
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Thanks for that link. This really, really hit home with me.
So finally I spend much more time on HN now. Though the problem is that probably most older reddit users will come there, then pushing the HN old-timers to start some alternate HN-clone :)