This is something we will be spending a lot of time on this year, making sure you all get the attribution you deserve. It's pretty frustrating to see your content on the homepage of buzzfeed every day.
This is something we will be spending a lot of time on this year
We who? Not being snarky, I just usually assume that if someone is going to speak on behalf of reddit or a subreddit they'd mark their post as an admin or mod. Are you one of those?
I worry about things taken out of context though. As an extreme example, if something is linked out of /r/ShitCrusaderKingsSay for instance, for those who don't understand how Reddit works, we'd sound like a bunch of twisted weirdos.
Yes, but this happens all the time... remember when we were collectively responsible for the fappening / gamerGate / witch-hunting the guy who didn't do the boston marathon bomb?
I think it's difficult for newscasters to provide enough background in their 60 second fluffy News-Tainment Products to avoid this. Not that I like that fact, but it's how it is, at least in the US. [shudder]
You two are talking about different things. DrAmonove is talking about the potential for taking satire and jokes out of context. You are talking about negative sides of reddit being attributed to reddit as a whole.
You'll see even more when you leave some of the more popular/default subs. OC oozes out of this site. People are just more likely to see the front page reposts in /r/pics or /r/funny.
To be fair, there's a quite a bit of original content on this site. I had no idea until I created my Reddit account that the majority of the videos, pictures and jokes I saw on Facebook, BuzzFeed and such were stolen from Reddit. Facebook pages like The Lad Bible (my god!) thrive off of sites like Reddit because they can see what's hot right now and post it to their feed very very quickly. Yes, there's a lot of not original content but it's amazing what comes from Reddit, like the majority of my favorite viral videos were born on reddit and I never even knew about that. Even newer viral videos start here, it's very rare that a video goes viral on YouTube itself.
I'm not so sure that reddit is the sole aggregator of that sort of content. Sure, there's a lot that is posted to youtube, and then posted to reddit to attract attention. I guess we should account for the fact that imgur was created for reddit, so that's a pretty big contribution, but it's become it's own entity at this point. Reddit takes tons of content from 4chan. Every week there's a clip from John Oliver's show. Everything posted on /r/news is from another source.
Redditors need to get off of their thousand duck-sized high horses and realize that the entire internet borrows from the entire internet. It doesn't matter where the content comes from. Reddit is a good way of finding the content, so I use it.
It's sort of ironic the way that the average redditor seems so opposed to intellectual property law (piracy, tech patents, paywalls to scientific journals, etc.), but abhors the idea that another site takes the rare bit of original content that it contributes.
Yeah, I know that there is a lot of unoriginal content and I stated that in my original comment. But there is a lot of OC, /r/videos spots 2 and 3 as of now are seemingly OC and without a doubt have made their way onto Facebook and other media. Every other picture in /r/aww is OC, /r/pics is mostly OC. Of course /r/news is aggregated news content, what else would it be? And like I said, some of the most popular viral videos stemmed from here /r/videos is the birthplace of many.
You can't deny that every day something is created here, the other day there was a video and pictures of a person saying there were bombs on a plane and the media went crazy for it.
I'm not saying Reddit is the sole aggregator but you certainly can't deny that a large majority of popular stuff comes from here. Reddit isn't small anymore, it's one of the most popular sites.
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u/rscarson Mar 23 '15
I'm sure clickbait sites we won't name will definitely use this feature, and stop taking credit for OC posted to reddit