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The greatness of Reddit is indeed in the subreddits. Just curious, which subreddits did you try to have reasonable discussions in? The ones I find myself in ar
by vinkelhake 13y ago
The greatness of Reddit is indeed in the subreddits.
Just curious, which subreddits did you try to have reasonable discussions in? The ones I find myself in are moderated efficiently and there's not a trace of memes or rage comics.
- DanBC 13y agoLook at Minecraft - the regular /r/minecraft has active moderation, but threads are full of up-voted low quality comments. /r/trueminecraft should be better, and the submissions are great but there's very little discussion there.
- criley2 13y agoSorry, but /r/minecraft targets tweens and kids. Yes, a subreddit primarily frequented by 8-15 year olds is going to appear "non-academic". Even subreddits like /r/feedthebeast, which has become the de-facto modded minecraft subreddit (for Forge flavors, at least) host much higher quality discussions and content and have almost no memes/jokes upvoted. But again, that's probably because the FTB subreddit has less overall subscribers (less incentive to post for karma, as there are less potential viewers to reward you) as well as an average higher age of the users.
- idProQuo 13y ago> But again, that's probably because the FTB subreddit has less overall subscribers (less incentive to post for karma, as there are less potential viewers to reward you) Hold up, you might be on to something. What if reddit divided karma received by the number of subscribers in the sub where something was posted? They'd need to then multiply it by some constant multiplier or something, there'd be some details to tweak, but that might do a lot to mitigate the problem of subreddits getting crappier as they get more popular.