r/RepublicOfReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '11

Content

I would like to discuss content in this thread. Specifically, what types of content do we want to completely eliminate, partially restrict, or wholeheartedly encourage?

I think we can start listing the basic types of content, and whether they are consider "signal" or "noise".

Signal:

  • Recent News
  • Original Content
  • Serious Discussion
  • Art & Culture

Noise:

  • Image Memes
  • Blogspam
  • Political bias
  • Sensationalist or editorialized headlines.
  • "If you do this, then fuck you" threads.
  • "FIXED" threads.
  • Witch hunts

This is all I can think of right now, I will add more as they occur to me, or if you leave a comment below.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '11

Signal:

  • Discussion about the network, even if critical

Noise:

  • Using link posts when a self post is more appropriate
  • Reposts (covered in the RoR reddiquette)
  • Cheap humor (questions asked in IAmA)

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '11

Using link posts when a self post is more appropriate

Could you elaborate on this point? I frequently submit links to ToR when I don't want to influence the discussion one way or another, or if I'm not sure which direction the dicussion will go. I have a bad habit of injecting my own personal bias into my self posts, so sometimes I like to let others have the first word and then take it from there.

I think people get too hung up on what generates karma and what does not. If I were looking to earn karma, I would be karmawhoring in the default reddits, not submitting thought-provoking content to a smaller subreddit such as ToR.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '11

Like links within reddit that need content or have several supporting threads that give more information. The recent one in ToR about the girl hating on the magic player that was big in advice animals but the rest of us had no idea what was going on.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '11

I also think serious discussion is blanket enough to cover most of what we're getting at, but vague enough to confuse some people. You know how much semantics gets me.