2 ms·
>That's a broken expectation; pretty much no other "business" has an unsharded, all-to-all visible userbase large enough to get these effects. Telling your use
by intopieces 11y ago
>That's a broken expectation; pretty much no other "business" has an unsharded, all-to-all visible userbase large enough to get these effects.
Telling your userbase that they shouldn't expect what they expect is rarely a successful strategy. Again, what does Reddit's unique position as an all-visible userbase have to do with the actual experience of the user? We can make excuses and explanations for why Reddit is the way it is, but that doesn't ultimately address the fact that Reddit, despite being massively popular now, also hosts content so horribly offensive that it risks alienating both common users and advertisers.
Your city analogy doesn't quite fit. People who live in a city are often 'stuck' there for far more important reasons (money, family, culture) than the reasons people stick to a website. And we know it's easy for a website with a massive userbase to collapse, because we've seen it many times over the years.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoSome things are social problems that can't be resolved with technology but I don't think reddit's casual racism and sexism is one of them. Borrow from HN: Add site-wide flags for content you consider unacceptable that only users with $x comment karma can use. Borrow from Dota 2: If a user is flagged enough don't shadow ban them, just make their comments invisible to everyone except those who are also flagged. They can make their terrible comments to and with each other.
- Karunamon 11y agoFantastic, power users dominating over everyone else. Fantastic, another tool for the perpetually offended to abuse en masse. Doubly broken.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoHN is going to provide the ability to counter-flag as well as moderator intervention in cases of abuse. If your power users are abusing their flagging privilege they lose it.
- Karunamon 11y agoThat will probably work on Hacker News. That will almost certainly not work on Reddit. The scales involved are just not even in the same universe as each other, and that's before any discussion of the corruption or other problems on the latter site.
- 15155 11y agoExpectations are different, IMO, as well. HN is not a free speech zone and does not even try to be one. reddit, inc. executives have previously stated that reddit is a place for free speech.