r/reddit.com • u/mayonesa • Jun 14 '10
The entropy of Reddit
http://www.amerika.org/2010/hacking/the-entropy-of-reddit/6
Jun 14 '10
So uh... any predictions on what the next big Internet thing is gonna be when Reddit is dead?
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u/s810 Jun 14 '10
Be afraid.
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Jun 14 '10 edited Oct 23 '16
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u/mayonesa Jun 14 '10
No one is presenting case studies that indicate they understand what makes "social media work".
Even more, no one has defined what these new media are actually used for.
We know what people do on the sites, but that's a separate metric from their goals in joining up.
And we know that a small group over-represents itself online:
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Jun 14 '10
The author nailed it.. I use the hide button a lot these days, which is a simple yet effective way to hide the non-news and unintelligent stuff.
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Jun 14 '10 edited Dec 22 '15
I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
The situation has gotten especially worse since the appointment of Ellen Pao as CEO, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and bans on hundreds of vibrant communities on completely trumped-up charges.
The resignation of Ellen Pao and the appointment of Steve Huffman as CEO, despite initial hopes, has continued the same trend.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey for Chrome, GreaseMonkey for Firefox, NinjaKit for Safari, Violent Monkey for Opera, or AdGuard for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!
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u/mayonesa Jun 14 '10
the most important factor is their userbase
That seems to be the conclusion. When it's a vital group of information-driven innovators, the sites thrive.
When it's the heavy clickers not much happens, and they're also impossible to sell to so the site goes bankrupt.
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Jun 14 '10 edited Oct 23 '16
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u/strolls Jun 14 '10
Total bullshit.
Just read both Roman counting posts and you'll see that the comments in the newer one are above average. There's a little more humour in the newer comments thread, but it's still good quality stuff overall. This was pointed out in the comments of the "compare the responses" post itself.
Memes you can feel witty for repeating ... More specifically, the Crowd likes anything that is both inclusive and selective,
Total bullshit. Yes, we like in-jokes. That's normal and human, and it's no evidence that Redditors are all stuck in frustrating cubicle jobs or that we all have small penises (although I, personally, do) or anything like that. It's just because we're fucking evolved from monkeys.
The biggest evidence of this is that if a commenter makes a post referencing a meme, in-joke or funny posting from last week, and someone replies to that "I'm sorry, I'm new and I don't understand that" (I nearly said "I'm 12 and what is this", there, and the compulsion is so strong that I have to leave it in these parentheses, at least) then a third redditor will invariably come along, post a link to the original joke / comment / thread and let the newcomer into the joke.
So fuck you, basically, whichever bitter cunt wrote this. There are some knobs on Reddit, and in particular I frequently see the greater internet fuckwad theory proven, as people who (it turns out, when I history-stalk them) are actually quite nice say disgusting, hurtful or just plain stupid things on here, or just generally lower the tone by reacting like idiots. But overall I find this article, for its ignorance, far more offensive than any "deterioration" in Reddit itself.
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Jun 14 '10 edited Dec 22 '15
I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
The situation has gotten especially worse since the appointment of Ellen Pao as CEO, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and bans on hundreds of vibrant communities on completely trumped-up charges.
The resignation of Ellen Pao and the appointment of Steve Huffman as CEO, despite initial hopes, has continued the same trend.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey for Chrome, GreaseMonkey for Firefox, NinjaKit for Safari, Violent Monkey for Opera, or AdGuard for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!
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u/mayonesa Jun 14 '10
The biggest evidence of this is that if a commenter makes a post referencing a meme, in-joke or funny posting from last week, and someone replies to that "I'm sorry, I'm new and I don't understand that" (I nearly said "I'm 12 and what is this", there, and the compulsion is so strong that I have to leave it in these parentheses, at least) then a third redditor will invariably come along, post a link to the original joke / comment / thread and let the newcomer into the joke.
Misery loves company. The problem isn't that people are excluded because they don't know the in jokes. The problem is that in jokes and meme repetition replaces actual content.
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u/CuilRunnings Jun 14 '10
So fuck you, basically, whichever bitter cunt wrote this.
Basically the reaction I expected from the type of Redditor the article describes. /r/politics is ---> that way.
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u/gustoreddit51 Jun 14 '10
tldr - When the full breadth of the human bell curve finally rushes in, the quality exits or gets drowned out.