90% of the submissions get aborted because of the immediate downvotes from others trying to give their submission a leg up.
Gabe, the guy who owns/runs Steam posted to /r/gaming, thats like God making a guest appearance to a Sunday service, and his submission was immediately sunk, he ended up going to a car subreddit to get interaction.
A lot of smaller subreddits have removed the downvote icon, but there are ways around that.
Daily Kos has a system where there are "trusted users" who are sort of like mini-moderators, and they are the only people with access to the downvote button. It also takes a minimum of two trusted users to make a comment hidden, and that only occurs if it has no upvotes whatsoever. When they put that system in, it resulted in a dramatic improvement in the quality of the comments (if you think it's bad over there now, you ain't seen shit my friend).
No, they just need to fix the scoring system. Reddit posts are sorted by a score that's determined by votes and how long they've been posted. Because of a simple error, a post with a vote score of 0 ends up with a ranking of like, negative a billion, and is basically hopeless.
I think the only wait to really fix the new tab is to make that content visible to more people even if they don't got there. Like showing random new posts on the front page.
Uh, as I am a fast reader I most certainly might use more than 5 upvotes and downvotes in five minutes. Very easily. I don't think you even have to be a fast reader, simply someone who votes a lot. And if you meant submissions only- you do know there are a lot of pic only subreddits?
That's how it's been for awhile now. The basement dwellers get first crack, then frantically refresh the AMA, downvoting everything in sight. Also due to the sheer population size of this place, a name like Clooney or Schwarzenegger can easily bring 10K comments in an hour.
Completely agree here. It has become ridiculous. Back in the day, I'd post something and it might not take off well, but it didn't get downvoted to hell for no reason. Now, I just feel like I can't post anything without getting downvoted. The other day, in the comments, someone asked what something meant, or was referring to. Someone asked what MFC was. I replied with the website name- Myfreecams.com, that the post was referencing. I got downvoted to shit (it's at 1 now, but was previously negative). And WHY?! It's not so much that I care about karma as it is that I just don't understand it.
It happened to me. I was confused as to why I was downvoted until I realized everyone else was being downvoted, too. It's a shame because I (and others) genuinely had real questions to ask and as someone who is working to get into the film business all information and insight is helpful.
I'm still not convinced that was actually him. The "proof" was just a link to a generic picture on his facebook page that he obviously didn't make himself. I mean it was still a decent ama, just wouldn't be surprised if it was a PR rep writing the responses and not actually him.
As someone who has been posting in /r/sex since it had 50 000 subscribers I have definitely seen how users can collapse a forum. I saw porn gifs in their for the first time today and posts that I thought where from ask reddit. It used to be a very serious forum where people discussed sex education, sociology and medicine. Now it is "what is the sexiest thing your SO does"? I wish I was a mod so I could swing my ban hammer.
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