How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass

Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by ubernostrum on Thursday September 16, 2010 @04:37AM (#1697223)

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.

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Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by studer on Thursday September 16, 2010 @01:18PM (#1698422)

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?

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Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by wazoox on Thursday September 16, 2010 @03:36PM (#1698868)

Mmmh... Yes, probably. Your PC must be infected.

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Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by studer on Saturday September 18, 2010 @10:45PM (#1705465)

Nope. I figured it out, and it turned out to be something even more devious.

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Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by wazoox on Monday September 20, 2010 @04:15PM (#1710350)

Please tell me more :)

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Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by dmooney1 on Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:56AM (#1698002)

Except with reddit, people don't go to site Y, they go to /r/Y.

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Re:How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass by Mod_daniel on Thursday September 16, 2010 @05:05AM (#1697284)

Thanks for that link. This really, really hit home with me.

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