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It's interesting how all these people arguing against Reddit are unaware of the prime principle by which Reddit decides to shut down communities. To reuse his a

It's interesting how all these people arguing against Reddit are unaware of the prime principle by which Reddit decides to shut down communities. To reuse his analogy: Communities are shut down when they don't stay inside their rooms. There's a term for that, brigading. On 4chan the principle was called "anonymous isn't your army". Generally the people who build such "high amounts of free speech" places don't mind if literally everything is discussed, but they, and over time also the userbase, reacts strongly if sub-groups try to use the power of the crowd amassed to actively and negatively influence other people, be this other sub-groups on the site, places elsewhere on the internet, or even physical places or people. Edit: He also says "tens of floors", which further demonstrates the ignorance, since Reddit would be better described as thousands of floors. ( 676,951 sub-reddits according to redditmetrics. )

tzs 11y ago
> Edit: He also says "tens of floors", which further demonstrates the ignorance, since Reddit would be better described as thousands of floors. ( 676,951 sub-reddits according to redditmetrics. ) It's an analogy between Reddit and a big community center building with different groups having rooms in the building. The point is the relationship between the groups in the above ground rooms, and the groups that are hidden away in basement rooms. The number of floors is completely irrelevant to the validity of the analogy as long as it is enough to qualify as a big community center by community center standards. Tens of floors is sufficient. If he had said tens of thousands of floors so that the number of rooms would have more matched the number of sub-reddits, there would be people complaining that no building has tens of thousands of floors.
- Mithaldu 11y ago
  It's relevant because the cost and responsibility of closely managing something of "community center" size is wildly different from something of "arcology" size. Also see problems faced by: Youtube, almost every ISP ever.

tzs 11y ago

> Edit: He also says "tens of floors", which further demonstrates the ignorance, since Reddit would be better described as thousands of floors. ( 676,951 sub-reddits according to redditmetrics. ) It's an analogy between Reddit and a big community center building with different groups having rooms in the building. The point is the relationship between the groups in the above ground rooms, and the groups that are hidden away in basement rooms. The number of floors is completely irrelevant to the validity of the analogy as long as it is enough to qualify as a big community center by community center standards. Tens of floors is sufficient. If he had said tens of thousands of floors so that the number of rooms would have more matched the number of sub-reddits, there would be people complaining that no building has tens of thousands of floors.

Mithaldu 11y ago
It's relevant because the cost and responsibility of closely managing something of "community center" size is wildly different from something of "arcology" size. Also see problems faced by: Youtube, almost every ISP ever.