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reddit appears to me to have a lot of crap with the few nuggets in the rough. subs like personalfinance seems to be on net helpful for people, but "cousin" subs

by ausbah 7y ago

reddit appears to me to have a lot of crap with the few nuggets in the rough. subs like personalfinance seems to be on net helpful for people, but "cousin" subs like investing are cesspits of grifters and ill informed maniacs

swarnie_ 7y ago
Reddit also suffers from the dreaded circlejerk effect which simply reinforces an idea regardless of if its correct or not. Using your example of /r/investing, if you propose anything which isn't a broad market index your post just doesn't get seen, it just buried under 10 other comments which blindly followed the subs meta. I believe a sub is best when its small and focused, 5-10k subs max. Beyond that the ideas and culture get diluted by the mass mob. God help you if your little sub ever ends up on the front page, may as well just shut it down at that point.
snowwrestler 7y ago
Sub-reddit quality on Reddit has a high correlation with how actively the sub-reddit is moderated.
- jcims 7y ago
  And the quality of that moderation. Any experience with heavy-handed moderation is incredibly frustrating. While I wouldn't call it a predictor because there are many many counter-examples, my favorite subreddits are generally between 10k and 100k subs. Much less and they are a ghost town, much more and you start getting too many drive-by assholes.
  - snowwrestler 7y ago
    /r/askscience is a good example of where pretty heavy moderation has protected the high quality of the comments.
    - jcims 7y ago
      Funny you mention that. Its sister subreddit /r/science is my example of something that has frustrated me greatly in the past. Most of the stories are something I'm trying to learn about, not an expert in, and I've found it very frustrating to try to engage. So if i see anything interesting there, i'll find somewhere else to talk about it.

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reddit appears to me to have a lot of crap with the few nuggets in the rough. subs like personalfinance seems to be on net helpful for people, but "cousin" subs

by ausbah 7y ago

swarnie_ 7y ago
Reddit also suffers from the dreaded circlejerk effect which simply reinforces an idea regardless of if its correct or not. Using your example of /r/investing, if you propose anything which isn't a broad market index your post just doesn't get seen, it just buried under 10 other comments which blindly followed the subs meta. I believe a sub is best when its small and focused, 5-10k subs max. Beyond that the ideas and culture get diluted by the mass mob. God help you if your little sub ever ends up on the front page, may as well just shut it down at that point.
snowwrestler 7y ago
Sub-reddit quality on Reddit has a high correlation with how actively the sub-reddit is moderated.
- jcims 7y ago
  And the quality of that moderation. Any experience with heavy-handed moderation is incredibly frustrating. While I wouldn't call it a predictor because there are many many counter-examples, my favorite subreddits are generally between 10k and 100k subs. Much less and they are a ghost town, much more and you start getting too many drive-by assholes.
  - snowwrestler 7y ago
    /r/askscience is a good example of where pretty heavy moderation has protected the high quality of the comments.
    - jcims 7y ago
      Funny you mention that. Its sister subreddit /r/science is my example of something that has frustrated me greatly in the past. Most of the stories are something I'm trying to learn about, not an expert in, and I've found it very frustrating to try to engage. So if i see anything interesting there, i'll find somewhere else to talk about it.