Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by azernik on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:31PM
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What's wrong with Reddit is that politics.vitriol.hate.anger has a very large presence in the default subreddits.
I strongly believe causality runs the other way... becoming a default reddit puts you into an Eternal September that no community could possibly survive.
But in the end, the result is the same.
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by InclinedPlane on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:59PM
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AskScience is a default sub, I think, and they've survived alright. Interestingly, AskHistorians asked to not be a default sub-reddit for precisely the reasons you've given.
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by noir_lord on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:10PM
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They have something like 500 moderators though so there is that.
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by thelamest on Saturday July 11, 2015 @06:14AM
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They used to ruthlessly remove everything without an academic source, however interesting - these days I feel more and more fluff is getting through.
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by azernik on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:20PM
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I think you are very correct.
Maybe one of the nice things about UseNet was that you could only be signed up for a forum that you explicitly looked for? That at least forces the trolls to go out of their way to interfere with general-interest sections, not just go after them out of laziness.
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by hansolo669 on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:43PM
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What's wrong with Reddit is the "default subreddit" concept and the difficulty of subreddit discovery. Building in some form of interest based subreddit discovery would go a long way to de-emphasising defaults and (eventually) mitigate much of the vitriol.
There is also something to be said for educating users on the effects of anonymity.
Sometimes I don't recognize what y'all are talking about, and I almost want to defend reddit, then I remember: I've long since adjusted my reddit to be virtually nothing but niche. My largest is ~320,000, but it's just a "Deals" reddit. I've got two at 150,000, both very focused. And it goes down from there.
I'd hardly know this was going on except /r/blog is essentially forced on to your reddit front page.
It's just like Usenet was... subscribe to politics.vitriol.hate.anger and rec.sports.flame, and yeah, you're gonna get idiots. Subscribe to comp.lang.niche_language, get almost nothing but signal. Times never really change.