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imo Reddit does it right: Hot content, new content, popular content, controversial content.

junkscience2017 9y ago
no one goes to Reddit to read the linked articles, they go to Reddit to enter an echo chamber (like HN) or deliberately quarrel
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- nvusuvu 9y ago
  I do.
- e12e 9y ago
  On a tangent you prodded me towards an insight: as mentioned other places news might not be what we lack, but journalism. And for tech news, hn does a great (or ok) job of doing a "collective writeup" of many news items. True, the discussions can get side-tracked - and are often more speculation than analysis. But on any given "news like" story there tends to be enough background and insight to sum up to the content of a decent article on the given event/revelation. No-one actually writes it up, so you might average 150-200% more text than a great article - on the other hand some bias will be balanced out. I'm not sure machine learning is (will ever be?) a good fit to fill in the role of journalist. But I think hobbyist/specialists dedicating a bit of time to commenting paired with a handful of people writing up the emerging concensus could be at least as good as much current mainstream media. I think that's true whether the experts knows the ins and outs of circuit design or schoolboard and neighbourhoods in a corner of Afghanistan - and who's gotten monetary support to build schools or something.
  - visarga 9y ago
    > on any given "news like" story there tends to be enough background and insight to sum up to the content of a decent article on the given event/revelation. Exactly. The investigation, the debate and the plurality of viewpoints are easier to find in a reddit comment thread than a newspaper.
danso 9y ago
I don't mean to bag on Reddit because I agree they do it very well (based on how frequently I personally use it), but I would still agree with folks who've pointed how it can be subverted. r/politics seems to be the poster child of these naysayers.
edkennedy 9y ago
I would say Reddit is a great example of an open platform getting vandalized by the public.

junkscience2017 9y ago

no one goes to Reddit to read the linked articles, they go to Reddit to enter an echo chamber (like HN) or deliberately quarrel

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nvusuvu 9y ago
I do.
e12e 9y ago
On a tangent you prodded me towards an insight: as mentioned other places news might not be what we lack, but journalism. And for tech news, hn does a great (or ok) job of doing a "collective writeup" of many news items. True, the discussions can get side-tracked - and are often more speculation than analysis. But on any given "news like" story there tends to be enough background and insight to sum up to the content of a decent article on the given event/revelation. No-one actually writes it up, so you might average 150-200% more text than a great article - on the other hand some bias will be balanced out. I'm not sure machine learning is (will ever be?) a good fit to fill in the role of journalist. But I think hobbyist/specialists dedicating a bit of time to commenting paired with a handful of people writing up the emerging concensus could be at least as good as much current mainstream media. I think that's true whether the experts knows the ins and outs of circuit design or schoolboard and neighbourhoods in a corner of Afghanistan - and who's gotten monetary support to build schools or something.
- visarga 9y ago
  > on any given "news like" story there tends to be enough background and insight to sum up to the content of a decent article on the given event/revelation. Exactly. The investigation, the debate and the plurality of viewpoints are easier to find in a reddit comment thread than a newspaper.

danso 9y ago

I don't mean to bag on Reddit because I agree they do it very well (based on how frequently I personally use it), but I would still agree with folks who've pointed how it can be subverted. r/politics seems to be the poster child of these naysayers.

edkennedy 9y ago

I would say Reddit is a great example of an open platform getting vandalized by the public.