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I've got a feeling that the Reddit community won't be too keen on this, mostly seeing it as another news organization "stealing" their content. IMO a good way t
by nahiluhmot 11y ago
I've got a feeling that the Reddit community won't be too keen on this, mostly seeing it as another news organization "stealing" their content. IMO a good way to get users behind this would be to compensate the original posters for their content being posted on Upvoted.
- austenallred 11y agoMeh. I'm putting it on Reddit, I'd rather they profit from it than Buzzfeed.
- flashman 11y ago9.5-year-old Reddit account here, so perhaps my view is atypical, but I see this as Reddit's answer to the new Digg, and to the broader trend of editorial curation as a counterpart (not necessarily a competitor) to aggregation. Reddit has web aggregation and communities pretty much sewn up as a market. How can they grow? By leveraging their insight into that traffic to create their own publication. I think they see their audience for Upvoted as people who know what Reddit is, and perhaps use it, but aren't power users and just like to have interesting and entertaining stuff presented to them. Best of luck to them, I certainly don't think Upvoted's success is written in stone (especially given Reddit's history of half-delivering on their initiatives).
- Grue3 11y ago>I see this as Reddit's answer to the new Digg Why does the new Digg need answering though? It's now nothing but an obscure website that is only mentioned in connection to how big it once was.
- Scarblac 11y agoI wish companies would stop trying to grow, and just continue doing their best at what they do best. Everything that tries to keep growing always goes to shit after a while.
- gopowerranger 11y agoI'm pretty sure the Reddit community is exactly what they want to get away from with this.