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The few subreddits I follow have also become hostile towards users wrt participation. People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily reco

The few subreddits I follow have also become hostile towards users wrt participation. People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns. I'm not saying there's a concerted effort (by Reddit or 3rd parties) to sway public opinion -- but it certainly feels that way. And yes, the site has become horrible for usability. I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit. That's not to say that they shouldn't get rich in the process, just that they should be building something incorruptible. I'll donate $1000 to a crypto address if others are willing to match.

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johnmarcus 8y ago
Um...are you looking for steemit.com?
yellowmoneybank 8y ago
I was thinking about building a blockchain-backed, distributed forum like reddit alot lately. I haven't started anything yet, but if somebody reads this and is interested in building anything alike, or needs an helping hand, PM me.
imglorp 8y ago
Remember to keep mods (volunteers who curate a subreddit) separate from admistrators (employees with legal and $ constraints). They usually have no contact with each other. So if you got banned from one sub for some reason, it was the mods. The beauty of reddit is, you're free to take your friends and, in 5 minutes, make another sub which you guys mod. Perhaps you'll outgrow whatever sub you're ditching.
- pavel_lishin 8y ago
  > So if you got banned from one sub for some reason, it was the mods. The beauty of reddit is, you're free to take your friends and, in 5 minutes, make another sub which you guys mod. Perhaps you'll outgrow whatever sub you're ditching. The problem is that you lose most of the community. Starting a new sub is easy, growing one is hard.
  - go1dfish 8y ago
    This is why you make it possible to fork a community, retain the content and as much or as little of the moderation decisions as you agree with.
pavel_lishin 8y ago
> * The few subreddits I follow have also become hostile towards users wrt participation. People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns.* Which subreddits?
freehunter 8y ago
>People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns. Reddit makes it way too easy for bots to post and act like real humans. It's also way too easy to run multiple accounts to outweigh everyone else's votes and make a post seem more popular than it is. Because of that, many mods are quick to ban suspicious-looking accounts, because on the subs where they don't, the conversation quickly becomes bots parroting the same thing over and over. Reddit is gamed to shit by god-knows-who-all, and you can't trust anything on there that isn't a meme. The quick and easy answer is to forcibly mark bot posts as being made by a bot, which reddit won't do for whatever reason.
Crespyl 8y ago
There's notabug.io, which is a federated link aggregator/discussion platform, has optional anonymity, and uses a PoW voting system (which allows for anonymous votes). There's some interesting elements to the design, such as peers not needing to be in total agreement about the state of the world, so content can be replicated or moderated/censored/blocked at the whim of each peer, and each peer can build their own unique features on top of the same datasets (eg, different tagging or voting systems on different peers, while still working with the same underlying content).
go1dfish 8y ago
> I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit. Enter my project: https://notabug.io https://notabug.io But honestly at this point in its development code contributions are more important than crypto if you can spare it. https://github.com/notabugio/notabug https://github.com/notabugio/notabug
rolleiflex 8y ago
I’m doing this, and I’ve been working on it full time since February. I don’t want to spam HN so I won’t copy / paste the link again, but I’ve posted it on this thread once, take a look if you’re interested.

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johnmarcus 8y ago

Um...are you looking for steemit.com?

yellowmoneybank 8y ago

I was thinking about building a blockchain-backed, distributed forum like reddit alot lately. I haven't started anything yet, but if somebody reads this and is interested in building anything alike, or needs an helping hand, PM me.

imglorp 8y ago

Remember to keep mods (volunteers who curate a subreddit) separate from admistrators (employees with legal and $ constraints). They usually have no contact with each other. So if you got banned from one sub for some reason, it was the mods. The beauty of reddit is, you're free to take your friends and, in 5 minutes, make another sub which you guys mod. Perhaps you'll outgrow whatever sub you're ditching.

pavel_lishin 8y ago
> So if you got banned from one sub for some reason, it was the mods. The beauty of reddit is, you're free to take your friends and, in 5 minutes, make another sub which you guys mod. Perhaps you'll outgrow whatever sub you're ditching. The problem is that you lose most of the community. Starting a new sub is easy, growing one is hard.
- go1dfish 8y ago
  This is why you make it possible to fork a community, retain the content and as much or as little of the moderation decisions as you agree with.

pavel_lishin 8y ago

> * The few subreddits I follow have also become hostile towards users wrt participation. People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns.* Which subreddits?

freehunter 8y ago

>People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns. Reddit makes it way too easy for bots to post and act like real humans. It's also way too easy to run multiple accounts to outweigh everyone else's votes and make a post seem more popular than it is. Because of that, many mods are quick to ban suspicious-looking accounts, because on the subs where they don't, the conversation quickly becomes bots parroting the same thing over and over. Reddit is gamed to shit by god-knows-who-all, and you can't trust anything on there that isn't a meme. The quick and easy answer is to forcibly mark bot posts as being made by a bot, which reddit won't do for whatever reason.

Crespyl 8y ago

There's notabug.io, which is a federated link aggregator/discussion platform, has optional anonymity, and uses a PoW voting system (which allows for anonymous votes). There's some interesting elements to the design, such as peers not needing to be in total agreement about the state of the world, so content can be replicated or moderated/censored/blocked at the whim of each peer, and each peer can build their own unique features on top of the same datasets (eg, different tagging or voting systems on different peers, while still working with the same underlying content).

go1dfish 8y ago

> I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit. Enter my project: https://notabug.io https://notabug.io But honestly at this point in its development code contributions are more important than crypto if you can spare it. https://github.com/notabugio/notabug https://github.com/notabugio/notabug

rolleiflex 8y ago

I’m doing this, and I’ve been working on it full time since February. I don’t want to spam HN so I won’t copy / paste the link again, but I’ve posted it on this thread once, take a look if you’re interested.