Re:How reddit tried to solve the "new link" problem. Why HN ...
by jedberg on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @12:52AM
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You know how we avoided this problem at reddit? We didn't edit the user's submissions. :)
Re:How reddit tried to solve the "new link" problem. Why HN ...
by amerika_blog on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @10:32AM
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I understand, but for devil's advocacy sake, that leads to other problems for the content reader, such as:
* Duplicates. Endless duplicates.
* Rejection of good content because the headline is bad.
* Essentially outsourcing this function to subreddit mods, who have only rejection at hand.
If someone mods a subreddit, and they see a submission that's perfect except the person misspelled "intimacy" in the title, they have two options only:
* Accept it as it is.
* Reject/delete it and get the user to submit again.
There's a bit of high overhead there, and less of a powerful experience for the reader. I think that matters less with Reddit's mostly 15-25 audience but is more important here.
I agree that would be nice. However, as you know from running a busy site, it's not always possible to give such feedback, or you'd drown under emails. I'm thinking of /r/redditrequest or any of the methods of reporting things like doxxing to the mods, which usually don't get any feedback for the user.
My interest is this: I think content needs to be edited for maximal reading potential. That in turn leads to the question as to whether Reddit/HN are more like links lists (MetaFilter, blogs) or more like discussion forums (phpBB, vbulletin, etc). By "more like" I mean as communities, not as software.