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It's a way to follow up on stories that bubble up on Reddit's frontpages and give them more depth. 202M+ people can do a great job surfacing and discussing cont
by alexis 11y ago
It's a way to follow up on stories that bubble up on Reddit's frontpages and give them more depth. 202M+ people can do a great job surfacing and discussing content in real-time, but our awesome editor, Vickie, and her team can do a much more effective job following up on those stories, interviewing, and adding more substance.
E.g.,
This photo of an unemployed man handing out resumes went to the top of r/pics:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3kc1sh/this_man_lost_his_job_and_is_struggling_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3kc1sh/this_man_lost_...
We interviewed the guy pictured + wrote about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Upvoted/comments/3kxp7q/bottom_of_the_ninth_why_this_unemployed_father/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Upvoted/comments/3kxp7q/bottom_of_t...
Then a week later a photo of the guy (now with a job) topped on r/pics again and a random redditor linked to our story to provide context for everyone on the thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3lv1b3/way_to_go_reddit_you_helped_the_guy_passing_out/cv9lojy https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3lv1b3/way_to_go_redd...
This was back when we just posted as selfposts to r/upvoted, so I suspect that same article in a beautiful blog layout: http://upvoted.com/2015/10/03/donnie-grooms-unemployed-busch-stadium-resume/ http://upvoted.com/2015/10/03/donnie-grooms-unemployed-busch...
Would do even better and reach even more people!
- vit05 11y agoInternet now is only about the moment. The momentum sometimes last less than a second.Transform those seconds, in a story, could be useful and remarkable. I hope you succeed.