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I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has j

I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it to the 1 billion monthly pageview category. But, then again, that's kind of a good thing because I don't visit reddit anymore so I'm a million times more productive than I used to be :)

ilovecomputers 16y ago
Having more people is a blessing and a curse. Same with having a tight nit group of people. With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this, you have an effective mechanical turk of some sort since there are so many people to get help from and one of those people can be very useful. The con is that conversations are overloaded, so many try to post one liners to achieve top listing status in a thread. This discourages those with better experience and insight to make a comment since they have to spend a long time on a comment only to have it buried and ignored. The other con is that only pop submissions or submissions that take the least amount of time to consume (r/pics) have the most upmods. Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Now with so many people, the most we can relate to are tech gossip. With less people conversations are more focused and detailed. The con is you have to be lucky to have experienced individuals to provide better insight. Still, don't quote me on this stuff. This is something a social scientist can explain better. Nonetheless, complaining about the degradation of an online community isn't really something to get worked up about (and this is from a guy with a signed reddit bobble-head and a first issue reddit sticker). Entropy is a fact of nature. It's like a group of friends who had such a fun time together for a certain era then end up hating each other. Or like Forrest Gump who reminded me as a child that how your life is setup now isn't how it will always be. I cried when I saw that movie as a child for I knew my care-free childhood life was gonna be over anytime now and...shit, I just realized that happend.
- thinkalone 16y ago
  > Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Well, there's http://news.usethesource.com/news http://news.usethesource.com/news :)
jedberg 16y ago
Did you adjust your subscriptions? If you adjust them, you'll find all the old content you knew and loved. Just don't read the front page. I certainly don't (well, not often, still need to keep up on the goings on).

ilovecomputers 16y ago

Having more people is a blessing and a curse. Same with having a tight nit group of people. With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this, you have an effective mechanical turk of some sort since there are so many people to get help from and one of those people can be very useful. The con is that conversations are overloaded, so many try to post one liners to achieve top listing status in a thread. This discourages those with better experience and insight to make a comment since they have to spend a long time on a comment only to have it buried and ignored. The other con is that only pop submissions or submissions that take the least amount of time to consume (r/pics) have the most upmods. Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Now with so many people, the most we can relate to are tech gossip. With less people conversations are more focused and detailed. The con is you have to be lucky to have experienced individuals to provide better insight. Still, don't quote me on this stuff. This is something a social scientist can explain better. Nonetheless, complaining about the degradation of an online community isn't really something to get worked up about (and this is from a guy with a signed reddit bobble-head and a first issue reddit sticker). Entropy is a fact of nature. It's like a group of friends who had such a fun time together for a certain era then end up hating each other. Or like Forrest Gump who reminded me as a child that how your life is setup now isn't how it will always be. I cried when I saw that movie as a child for I knew my care-free childhood life was gonna be over anytime now and...shit, I just realized that happend.

thinkalone 16y ago
> Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Well, there's http://news.usethesource.com/news http://news.usethesource.com/news :)

jedberg 16y ago

Did you adjust your subscriptions? If you adjust them, you'll find all the old content you knew and loved. Just don't read the front page. I certainly don't (well, not often, still need to keep up on the goings on).