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I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place. It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it real

I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place. It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).

points 16y ago
They probably thought they were buying a broad general "What news will look like in the future" website. In fact they ended up with a liberal pro drug, pro gay, pro adblock, anti capitalism, anti consumerism, anti advertising, athiest website. As time has gone on Reddits userbase seems to have become narrower and narrower even though it's obviously grown massively. Maybe it's groupthink at work, or maybe it's just come to be known as a hangout for liberals being outraged by stuff.
- drivebyacct2 16y ago
  I can't believe that comments like this are upmodded but yet HN has the audacity to tout some air of supremacy while laughing at the notion of a "digg vs reddit" flame war. The community remains remarkably split on adblock use (especially on sites they like, etc). There are people that oppose plenty of drug use (calling pot a drug is disingenuous for shock factor of "calling out" reddit) and being antigay is yes, unpopular on a social voting news site, shocking.
  - kmfrk 16y ago
    Any source on the split adblock opinion? Sounds interesting.
  - points 16y ago
    The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Reddit.
    - wvenable 16y ago
      The power of reddit (and for that matter hackernews) is the top-voted comment on most articles is a thorough debunking/rebuttal. I'll often read articles that seem perfectly reasonable but are quickly ripped to shreds by the community. So while you are getting a pre-filtered view of the news, you're not getting a single viewpoint on that news. Furthermore (edit), the subreddits that you subscribe to radically change the articles you encounter on the homepage.
      - points 16y ago
        That's not the case at all IMHO. The top voted comment is just whatever the groupthink agrees is the 'right' stance on that issue. Over time online communities such as HN and Reddit gravitate towards a specific set of viewpoints. It means that you start only seeing certain types of article, you only see certain types of comments, comments that 'toe the party line' are upvoted to top, etc. The other funny thing is how much Redditors etc love to sneer down their noses at the 'idiots' who watch TV. They don't seem to realize that spending hours on reddit looking at funny pictures, being outraged by liberal news etc isn't really any better than watching American Idol and being outraged by the stuff on Fox news. </rant>
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        davidw 16y ago
        Precisely. Which is why we should not have politics here.
    - Herring 16y ago
      >the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion Arguing that it should be taken seriously without evidence really doesn't help your case.
    - thingie 16y ago
      I don't watch general news on reddit (and I don't subscribe to /r/atheism, which is almost unbelievably bad, though I'm an atheist), but subreddits that I'm interested in seems to present much more diverse opinion. /r/energy isn't that small and while it's generally very pro-nuclear, there are, time to time, anti-nuclear opinions and a lot of "renewables" as well. And there aren't that many places to get opinions and news about such topics (that can match reddit in diversity and even in objectivity).
  - Sukotto 16y ago
    What can't you believe? Us are always better than them it's a cornerstone of human culture.
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- guywithabike 16y ago
  So... They didn't to a single minute of due diligence?
- zavulon 16y ago
  Don't forget "anti-semitic". And before anyone even has the audacity to say "it's anti-Israel, not anti-semitic", this: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ccnir/im_gonna_get_so_banned_for_this/ http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ccnir/im_gonna_get...
  - gruseom 16y ago
    Gee, I don't think it takes much "audacity". As far as I can tell as an occasional reader, there's some anti-semitism and a lot more anti-Israel politics. But the picture you linked to is neither of those. It's garden-variety 4chan shockerism, and it looks like it worked.
    - zavulon 16y ago
      I was talking about the highest-rated comments in that thread

points 16y ago

They probably thought they were buying a broad general "What news will look like in the future" website. In fact they ended up with a liberal pro drug, pro gay, pro adblock, anti capitalism, anti consumerism, anti advertising, athiest website. As time has gone on Reddits userbase seems to have become narrower and narrower even though it's obviously grown massively. Maybe it's groupthink at work, or maybe it's just come to be known as a hangout for liberals being outraged by stuff.

drivebyacct2 16y ago
I can't believe that comments like this are upmodded but yet HN has the audacity to tout some air of supremacy while laughing at the notion of a "digg vs reddit" flame war. The community remains remarkably split on adblock use (especially on sites they like, etc). There are people that oppose plenty of drug use (calling pot a drug is disingenuous for shock factor of "calling out" reddit) and being antigay is yes, unpopular on a social voting news site, shocking.
- kmfrk 16y ago
  Any source on the split adblock opinion? Sounds interesting.
- points 16y ago
  The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Reddit.
  - wvenable 16y ago
    The power of reddit (and for that matter hackernews) is the top-voted comment on most articles is a thorough debunking/rebuttal. I'll often read articles that seem perfectly reasonable but are quickly ripped to shreds by the community. So while you are getting a pre-filtered view of the news, you're not getting a single viewpoint on that news. Furthermore (edit), the subreddits that you subscribe to radically change the articles you encounter on the homepage.
    - points 16y ago
      That's not the case at all IMHO. The top voted comment is just whatever the groupthink agrees is the 'right' stance on that issue. Over time online communities such as HN and Reddit gravitate towards a specific set of viewpoints. It means that you start only seeing certain types of article, you only see certain types of comments, comments that 'toe the party line' are upvoted to top, etc. The other funny thing is how much Redditors etc love to sneer down their noses at the 'idiots' who watch TV. They don't seem to realize that spending hours on reddit looking at funny pictures, being outraged by liberal news etc isn't really any better than watching American Idol and being outraged by the stuff on Fox news. </rant>
      - deleted 16y ago
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      - davidw 16y ago
        Precisely. Which is why we should not have politics here.
  - Herring 16y ago
    >the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion Arguing that it should be taken seriously without evidence really doesn't help your case.
  - thingie 16y ago
    I don't watch general news on reddit (and I don't subscribe to /r/atheism, which is almost unbelievably bad, though I'm an atheist), but subreddits that I'm interested in seems to present much more diverse opinion. /r/energy isn't that small and while it's generally very pro-nuclear, there are, time to time, anti-nuclear opinions and a lot of "renewables" as well. And there aren't that many places to get opinions and news about such topics (that can match reddit in diversity and even in objectivity).
- Sukotto 16y ago
  What can't you believe? Us are always better than them it's a cornerstone of human culture.
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guywithabike 16y ago
So... They didn't to a single minute of due diligence?
zavulon 16y ago
Don't forget "anti-semitic". And before anyone even has the audacity to say "it's anti-Israel, not anti-semitic", this: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ccnir/im_gonna_get_so_banned_for_this/ http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ccnir/im_gonna_get...
- gruseom 16y ago
  Gee, I don't think it takes much "audacity". As far as I can tell as an occasional reader, there's some anti-semitism and a lot more anti-Israel politics. But the picture you linked to is neither of those. It's garden-variety 4chan shockerism, and it looks like it worked.
  - zavulon 16y ago
    I was talking about the highest-rated comments in that thread