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If you don't mind my answering this... Above here, I said that I would pay you $5 a month, and I would...but the only reason for that is that you I've talked t

by blhack 16y ago

If you don't mind my answering this... Above here, I said that I would pay you $5 a month, and I would...but the only reason for that is that you I've talked to you on here (hacker news) before. To me the people runnign reddit are real. To me, you're a friend and I'm throwing $5 into the can that is duct-taped to your kegerator because you let me drink it for free... ...but for most people? What does reddit offer me that I can't get elsewhere? Honestly, a lot of the submissions have gone completely to shit. /r/pics? /r/askreddit? /r/iama? I'm not saying that it is your fault, but there isn't, at least to me, any value there. Granted, and I'm sure you could look in your logs to see how much I visit your site (it's a lot), but if it went away...would I be sad? Uhhh...maybe a little bit, but not really. Personally, beyond having talked to you here, I don't feel much of a connection to you guys, and I don't feel much of a connection to the community. Again, I'm not saying that this is exactly your guys' fault, just that it has happened. One service that I do pay for is usenet, even though I almost never use it (my provider gives me 10 gigs a month and I think I have about a half a terrabye of available transfer hat has just rolled over for the last 5 years or so.) I pay for it because it makes me happy to see what the people at my provider (easynews) are doing. The reason that I signed up to begin with is because I saw them as a mirror on sourceforge. To me, although this is probably completely incorrect, they're fighting the good fight, and I want to support that. But what are you guys doing to make me voluntarily buy you a beer every month? Reddit doesn't give me anything that I can't get from here, or fark, or slashdot, or my own website. Again, I'll pay you guys $5, but I'm the exception. To me, you have to ask yourself what you guys have done to make yourselves stand out. If the donation is strictly voluntary, what motivation do I have to give it. I'll tell you that one reason I am a totalfarker is that Drew Curtis seems like a real guy to me. Other than you, I have no idea who is behind reddit (spez and kn0thing, but I haven't talked to them in a long while). Again, please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I love you guys, I'm addicted to your site, I love it...but am I the norm?

petdog 16y ago
> /r/pics? /r/askreddit? /r/iama? What? /r/iama is one of the best things that happened to reddit. Sure, most of the submissions are shit, but some are golden. > What does reddit offer me that I can't get elsewhere The community. Most of the value is in the comments. --- About usenet, you could try http://www.astraweb.com/ http://www.astraweb.com/ I bought the once-off 180gb plan. Text isn't even counted. It's going to last me years.
- megablahblah 16y ago
  The community, and their comments, has gone downhill, that's his point.
- commandar 16y ago
  >What? /r/iama is one of the best things that happened to reddit. Sure, most of the submissions are shit, but some are golden. Well, and there's the problem. The SNR on most of the larger subreddits has gotten absolutely terrible lately. I went through a couple of weeks ago and unsubbed from most of the larger reddits and nearly all the self-post only reddits because I simply don't have the time or inclination to dig through 100 garbage headlines for the one golden post. >The community. Most of the value is in the comments. The "community" on reddit is incredibly forced in nature. It's almost entirely based around memes that have been coopted from elsewhere and feel-good circle jerking. Oh, and let's not forget when the community decides to rage about something, jumps to conclusions, and often as not ends up being completely wrong about it, but only after a significant portion of the users have taken to harassing or otherwise disrupting some innocent person's life. There's still value to be had on reddit, I just increasingly feel like it's being pushed out more and more to the smaller subreddits.
- HolyoakeD 16y ago
  I got sick and tired of /r/iama once I saw the fifth or sixth 'IAmA Shut-In. AMA' post.

by blhack 16y ago

petdog 16y ago

> /r/pics? /r/askreddit? /r/iama? What? /r/iama is one of the best things that happened to reddit. Sure, most of the submissions are shit, but some are golden. > What does reddit offer me that I can't get elsewhere The community. Most of the value is in the comments. --- About usenet, you could try http://www.astraweb.com/ http://www.astraweb.com/ I bought the once-off 180gb plan. Text isn't even counted. It's going to last me years.

megablahblah 16y ago
The community, and their comments, has gone downhill, that's his point.
commandar 16y ago
>What? /r/iama is one of the best things that happened to reddit. Sure, most of the submissions are shit, but some are golden. Well, and there's the problem. The SNR on most of the larger subreddits has gotten absolutely terrible lately. I went through a couple of weeks ago and unsubbed from most of the larger reddits and nearly all the self-post only reddits because I simply don't have the time or inclination to dig through 100 garbage headlines for the one golden post. >The community. Most of the value is in the comments. The "community" on reddit is incredibly forced in nature. It's almost entirely based around memes that have been coopted from elsewhere and feel-good circle jerking. Oh, and let's not forget when the community decides to rage about something, jumps to conclusions, and often as not ends up being completely wrong about it, but only after a significant portion of the users have taken to harassing or otherwise disrupting some innocent person's life. There's still value to be had on reddit, I just increasingly feel like it's being pushed out more and more to the smaller subreddits.
HolyoakeD 16y ago
I got sick and tired of /r/iama once I saw the fifth or sixth 'IAmA Shut-In. AMA' post.