PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system?

Re:PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system? by staunch on Thursday July 12, 2007 @10:18PM (#33959)

I believe richardkulisz was also dinged. His new username is "redditcensoredme". So it does seem to only be the most extreme cases.

There are some very popular forum sites that have existed for years and maintained civility. Any Reddit-type site could learn a lot from them. They almost all have a group of core users who act as moderators and enforce a set of published rules. It's critical that they not make up the rules on the fly, otherwise users won't respect the decisions.

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Re:PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system? by byrneseyeview on Friday July 13, 2007 @10:29AM (#34039)

I think richardkulisz just misunderstood the reporting algorithm. He was a little less polite than pica, so people resented and reported him rather than downmodding and ignoring.

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Re:PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system? by steve on Saturday July 14, 2007 @02:54PM (#34236)

The reddit founders are letting the users use the report button for censorship instead of spam control -- so that's what it is. That's not good if you ask me.

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