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Wow really? I have the opposite opinion: easy and safe (for reddit's hive mind / what is currently popular / anti-popular) rise to the top, things people disagr
by SCdF 10y ago
Wow really? I have the opposite opinion: easy and safe (for reddit's hive mind / what is currently popular / anti-popular) rise to the top, things people disagree with get downvoted.
The effect lessens the further you get from the front page, but the formula is the same.
NB: this is not true for some of their highly moderated subreddits like AskScience / AskHistorians or whatever. The rest of reddit does not operate that way though.
- SilasX 10y agoRight, but (per parent), it's still better than the alternatives. You can cite flaws, but it was an improvement over what we had before (yabb, slashdot, etc). You can do better -- like the AskScience/AskHistorian forums -- but only at the cost of investing a lot more work. Is there something more scalable?
- SCdF 10y ago> You can cite flaws, but it was an improvement over what we had before (yabb, slashdot, etc). FWIW I considered /. to be a better system than reddit. But I mean, it all depends on what you consider "better". Reddit is certainly more popular, so clearly it's better by some metric.
- loeg 10y agoYeah, reddit tends to dogpile. Mildly controversial comments in popular subreddits get massively upvoted or massively downvoted depending largely on the first few votes.