Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy

Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy by judk on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @11:12AM (#7218274)

Reddit users have been begging reddit to make this change for years -- recognizing that meme/pic upvotes are each less value than other (larger) content upvotes, since pics are easier to skim without leaving the stream.

Facebook is overtaking reddit in the Quality algorithm department.

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Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy by slig on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @11:56AM (#7218570)

It's build in already. Just unsubscribe from shitty subreddits and subscribe to quality ones.

The mods from quality subreddits are pretty fierce on enforcing rules against memes/low quality comments/etc.

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Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy by schackbrian on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @04:50PM (#7220731)

What are the highest quality sub-reddits that don't allow memes?

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Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy by slig on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @10:10AM (#7224668)

/r/askscience/ and /r/AskHistorians/, for instance.

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Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy by benihana on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:01PM (#7221177)

>It's build in already. Just unsubscribe from shitty subreddits and subscribe to quality ones.

This doesn't work on r/all, which is a great place to find new content you haven't discovered yet.

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Re:Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy by mccr8 on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @04:50PM (#7220732)

Plenty of individual subreddits ban memes and pics for precisely this reason, because there is a broad recognition that they will tend to swamp more in-depth content.

The nice thing about Reddit is that if you want some low-brow content, you can get that, too: users can easily customize what they see by selecting different subreddits, relative to Facebook.

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