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.
* 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.