Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

Re:Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion ... by bad_user on Thursday January 05, 2012 @06:41PM (#3431160)

It is my belief (and from personal observation) that the bad apples constitute a very loud minority. Punishing just a couple and clearly promoting your values makes a big difference.

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Re:Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion ... by dekz on Thursday January 05, 2012 @06:55PM (#3431202)

I find it much harder to swallow the comments on reddit, at least here on HN there is a guideline which encourages comments which add to the discussion; whereas on reddit, it's a shamble of memes and novelty accounts which depending on the account handle are allowed to be rude/obnoxious/racist.

I find it easier to leave proggit/reddit behind and follow Hacker News simply due to my alignment with the guidelines and the current HN hive-mind (no memes, helpful discussions).

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Re:Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion ... by redthrowaway on Thursday January 05, 2012 @07:34PM (#3431324)

Reddit has a much bigger list of dos and don'ts than does HN: http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette

As memes are appropriate for many of the subreddits, they're obviously excluded. Still, HN is really no different than a subreddit run under the same rules.

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