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Congrats and good luck on your next adventure. Reddit is still my favorite site on the internet. I can't count the number of times I've laughed out loud while

Congrats and good luck on your next adventure. Reddit is still my favorite site on the internet. I can't count the number of times I've laughed out loud while reading AskReddit and IAmA. My wife probably spends 2-3 hours a day on reddit. We both have reddit t-shirts. Yeah, I'm a fan.

potatolicious 17y ago
Am I the only one who has the opposite impression of Reddit? Maybe I should read more of the humor reddits instead of the "serious" ones, 'cos my impression of Reddit's userbase is a group of judgmental, yet poorly informed people, yelling and screaming at things about which they know little. I actually installed a Greasemonkey script to filter for words like tazer and Sears :S It's still incredible how much throughput reddit can push for content of all types - but I've long since given up trying to read the comments (Slashdot on the other hand, seems to be maintaining its quality of discussion fairly well).
- quizbiz 17y ago
  No you are not the only one. I guess Reddit comments in most part are not to be taken seriously?
  - potatolicious 17y ago
    But good, insightful discussion and commentary is infinitely more interesting than any source article by itself. 'Tis why I read Slashdot and HN.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Sears?
  - potatolicious 17y ago
    Some link got posted a while back that made Sears look bad. AFAIK Sears threatened somehow and got the link taken off. Reddit responded en masse by flooding submissions with more anti-Sears content than they could deal with. For most of the day the entire front page of Reddit was just things like "Sears rapes babies" or such. Reddit is the ultimate source of kneejerk vigilante internet "justice". I cannot count how many times someone has been able to stir the Reddit crowd into a self-righteous murderous frenzy over something that turned out to be fraudulent, a hoax, or just completely overblown. For a bunch of self-proclaimed progressives the community in general seems to be utterly incapable of independent critical thought. IMHO Reddit would make a terrific psychology study on mob mentality.
    - jrockway 17y ago
      Uh, clearly you have never read /b/. (Reddit is /b/ for people that don't want as much child porn mixed in with their political campaigns.)
- kn0thing 17y ago
  What'd you think about the new 'xkcd' sort we implemented for comments last week? http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
- llimllib 17y ago
  > Slashdot on the other hand, seems to be maintaining its quality of discussion fairly well See, news.yc can be funny too!
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kn0thing 17y ago
I'm thrilled to hear it. Especially the part about you both having t-shirts. In all these years I still haven't met any stranger randomly in public (at a non-reddit event) wearing a reddit shirt - yet we've sold thousands... One day... (and I know I'm going to act like such a freak when I accost them).
- Shalen 17y ago
  Alexis, Shalen here. I just wore that green Reddit shirt you sent me today at Microsoft. Oh btw, one time I'd Reddit shirt on and the bouncer at a bar waiver my cover. He said, "Reddit alien, you go free!" :)
  - kn0thing 17y ago
    w00t! Did you breakdance thru Microsoft with it on, tho? That's a pretty great bouncer trick - I'll have to try it sometime. See, reddit will open doors for you... maybe it's become a geekier Illuminati?

potatolicious 17y ago

Am I the only one who has the opposite impression of Reddit? Maybe I should read more of the humor reddits instead of the "serious" ones, 'cos my impression of Reddit's userbase is a group of judgmental, yet poorly informed people, yelling and screaming at things about which they know little. I actually installed a Greasemonkey script to filter for words like tazer and Sears :S It's still incredible how much throughput reddit can push for content of all types - but I've long since given up trying to read the comments (Slashdot on the other hand, seems to be maintaining its quality of discussion fairly well).

quizbiz 17y ago
No you are not the only one. I guess Reddit comments in most part are not to be taken seriously?
- potatolicious 17y ago
  But good, insightful discussion and commentary is infinitely more interesting than any source article by itself. 'Tis why I read Slashdot and HN.
ryanwaggoner 17y ago
Sears?
- potatolicious 17y ago
  Some link got posted a while back that made Sears look bad. AFAIK Sears threatened somehow and got the link taken off. Reddit responded en masse by flooding submissions with more anti-Sears content than they could deal with. For most of the day the entire front page of Reddit was just things like "Sears rapes babies" or such. Reddit is the ultimate source of kneejerk vigilante internet "justice". I cannot count how many times someone has been able to stir the Reddit crowd into a self-righteous murderous frenzy over something that turned out to be fraudulent, a hoax, or just completely overblown. For a bunch of self-proclaimed progressives the community in general seems to be utterly incapable of independent critical thought. IMHO Reddit would make a terrific psychology study on mob mentality.
  - jrockway 17y ago
    Uh, clearly you have never read /b/. (Reddit is /b/ for people that don't want as much child porn mixed in with their political campaigns.)
kn0thing 17y ago
What'd you think about the new 'xkcd' sort we implemented for comments last week? http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
llimllib 17y ago
> Slashdot on the other hand, seems to be maintaining its quality of discussion fairly well See, news.yc can be funny too!
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kn0thing 17y ago

I'm thrilled to hear it. Especially the part about you both having t-shirts. In all these years I still haven't met any stranger randomly in public (at a non-reddit event) wearing a reddit shirt - yet we've sold thousands... One day... (and I know I'm going to act like such a freak when I accost them).

Shalen 17y ago
Alexis, Shalen here. I just wore that green Reddit shirt you sent me today at Microsoft. Oh btw, one time I'd Reddit shirt on and the bouncer at a bar waiver my cover. He said, "Reddit alien, you go free!" :)
- kn0thing 17y ago
  w00t! Did you breakdance thru Microsoft with it on, tho? That's a pretty great bouncer trick - I'll have to try it sometime. See, reddit will open doors for you... maybe it's become a geekier Illuminati?