Zetice

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by Zetice 3y ago
There's a reason people are missing the mark here; the "community" feature is not what gives Reddit its crazy high value for the vast majority of its users. The ceiling is a lot lower for a community engine than it is for a
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by Zetice 3y ago
Reddit's valuation is insane right now, they got in before the "correction" so it's at some absurd multiple. Anyone trying to buy Reddit would need to basically lowball the hell out of them and make the case that an IPO
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by Zetice 3y ago
People are really going to miss attitudes like yours on Reddit, because that is the critical part of what makes the community great... Edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Be kind. Don'
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by Zetice 3y ago
Yeah, and "wherever the community happens to be" will be Reddit. Mods have zero control over this.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Great point, mods are acting like the users support them, when in reality a tiny handful support them extremely loudly, but it's unclear how the vast majority of users feel.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The mods of Reddit are 100% replaceable, and not comparable to HN moderation, mainly because HN pays dang and he is specifically accountable for maintaining the site. If dang did poorly enough for long enough, he'd be replaced (or th
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by Zetice 3y ago
By definition the protest will always be meaningless, because ultimately the vast majority of users don't care. Reddit can weather this storm because most of the people who they make money off of are confused about what this is abou
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, the members of /r/startrek are vowing to not use Reddit anymore. /r/startrek will be considered abandoned and given to anyone who asks for it. Reddit will take it away from these mods and I don't blame them. M
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by Zetice 3y ago
The implication here is that, "...or else users won't participate." Which I agree, needs to be justified. You see this kind of talk a lot when power imbalances exist; the person with no power tries to speak on behalf of eve
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by Zetice 3y ago
The article was so long, if someone here read it top to bottom I would be very impressed. The "how" is taught in a lot of places without those people knowing what they're referring to; immediate feedback. In golf this take
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by Zetice 3y ago
How do you imagine user conversations take place, if not from "random HN folk"? Do you want an appointment? A lab?
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by Zetice 3y ago
I cannot possibly emphasize this more strongly. It's so important to deliver complete and working products quickly and regularly, that it's worth the cost of the occasional lost customer who leaves because all of their needs ar
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by Zetice 3y ago
Couldn't disagree more, both on future vision of what this could be, as well as the implication that I said, "paying the servers is enough." "Sustain the site" involves growing the site, but none of that involves o
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by Zetice 3y ago
“Enough” is relative, how many do you really need to sustain the site?
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by Zetice 3y ago
You are not a very desirable user for a company to attempt to sell ads to. You don’t fall for tricks, you don’t click on bait, you don’t generate value easily for the sites you use. The people who like memes are a lot easier to make money
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by Zetice 3y ago
Except that’s kind of the whole problem with Reddit; little fiefdoms developed where some users controlled the content other users consumed. It’s not how anyone would actively choose to create a network now, knowing what we know about how o
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by Zetice 3y ago
Then I don't think what you've said is a given. Maybe many people do it, but does that matter to Reddit? That's not certain, and it is even less clear that such a thing would be relevant to Non.io. Besides, there are many
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by Zetice 3y ago
Not really a given, that’s just how you use the platform. You’d have to show thats a substantial part of Reddit’s traffic and therefore revenue, for it to actually be given.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Estimation skills and general understanding that the exact value is less important than the larger point.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Completely disagree re: moderation. The goal for sites like this is never "high quality content", it's "maximum traffic". If he can get 50k paying users, he's a millionaire. If that means low effort meme pos
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by Zetice 3y ago
You should scrape the popular posts off of Reddit's /r/all and post them on here as well. And, IMO, you should ignore (and possibly even actively flaunt) any of Reddit's TOS.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The hook is that it's not run by spez, IMO. And I'm not trying to pile on, I'm just saying there's value to people in that fact.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Depends on what you used Reddit for.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Check out an app called Artifact, if you're looking for that infinite scroll on published articles relevant to you. It's made by the original founders of Instagram, and they're using AI in some interesting ways, e.g. rewritin
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by Zetice 3y ago
> but I consider operating a web server at this point a labor of love, not a business model. Hey, at least you're open about your entitlement!
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by Zetice 3y ago
Why wouldn't it just describe the competition of sentiment if there was one? Edit: > Zetice starts off by suggesting the value of being able to summarize comments, positing it as a significant improvement to an unspecified system or
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by Zetice 3y ago
If you could find a way to summarize the comments too, that would be a huge win IMO. Either way, very cool.
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by Zetice 3y ago
That's how you use it, but I'd argue that 90% of Reddit's users don't operate the same way, considering they don't even have accounts to begin with. In fact, I would even argue that Reddit is actively trying to push
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by Zetice 3y ago
The "value" of Reddit as a website is vastly overrated anyway. There's nothing on Reddit that can't be obtained elsewhere, folks just get stuck in patterns that are familiar and presume it's because options are lim
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by Zetice 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand why you can't do this. I, a user of Reddit, will be able to generate an API key. Obviously I'll have to associate a CC with it (or whatever their new process is), but I can generate one for free. Wh

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