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While I can understand the sentiment that spam and abuse threaten our communities I can't help but think - based on outside observations - that some of the bigg
by 6stringmerc 11y ago
While I can understand the sentiment that spam and abuse threaten our communities I can't help but think - based on outside observations - that some of the biggest threat to the Reddit communities are people within Reddit communities. Though admirable and well-meaning, it's a flawed model at the core, at least this is what I've come to believe. In the most recent flare-ups, the "call is coming from inside the house!" seemed to really apply. Granted I'm not proposing some kind of methodology or overhaul to fix this conundrum, though it's certainly an interesting topic.
- boxy310 11y agoWhat specifically leads you to conclude it's a "flawed model"? Is it the problem of private ownership of a semipublic community, through individual accounts "owning" a subreddit?
- 6stringmerc 11y agoAs a model, user generated / sourced content blended with user sourced moderation under a private enterprise with "standards and expectations" will always have issues regarding the (occasional) desires of users to share and embrace things which are not welcome by the private enterprise. That's kind of the flaw in the model. The 'image' of community and ownership breaks down when there's a dispute, most frequently seen with respect to rules.
- hellbanner 11y agoEveryone can upvote. Contrast this to HN where you need a comment karma score before you can start upvoting.. it's effectively a grandfathering network vs a democracy where new accounts cost 5 seconds with no email verification.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoYa know, I'm on reddit daily, and I NEVER see any of these flare-ups. I just kind of hang out on the nerdy subs I guess.
- sliverstorm 11y agoI've always heard the reddit experience is far superior in the low-key, non-default, not-too-popular subs.
- markdown 11y ago/r/gardening and /r/woodworking is where it's at.
- DiabloD3 11y ago/r/headphones and /r/mechanicalkeyboards are nice.
- gozur88 11y agoThat's true. Most of the larger subs have voting blocs that memory-hole your comments if you don't agree with the mob no matter how reasonably you word disagreement. Besides, what's the point of commenting on something that already has 700 comments? Nobody is going to read it.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoUgh! Glad I stick to the smaller subs then. /r/homelab, r/selfhosted, subs like that.
- buckbova 11y agoPrecisely. This is what killed digg many years ago. It become of vehicle for spam and after I was basically forced out by a mob, I migrated myself to reddit. I left reddit a couple years ago and pretty much only waste time on this news aggregator. There were too many agendas getting pushed and it leaked into every sub.