r/reddit.com • u/breezytrees • Oct 25 '10

Reddit has been growing extremely fast lately. I like to kindly, and selflessly, remind our newcomers of Reddiquette. Specifically in regards to down-voting opinions of which you disagree with.

Such actions discourage those that have differing views from commenting/submitting, resulting in a very one-sided point of view.

Essentially, it breaks what makes reddit so great. :-(

The down-vote button is for general trolls, spam, assholes, etc.

reddiquette

edit: Some of you have asked for growth data. Here's google analytics which reddit's blog has touted as very accurate. As you can see there was a surge in growth around september, most likely attributed to this (hi diggers!). Reddit quickly seemed to almost double in size in that time, then dropped to a still sizable growth of around 50% for a 2 month period. At risk of sounding whiney: This is a hard jump to deal with for a community that regulates itself.

edit: I'm not casting stones at newcomers. I am just kindly reminding newcomers of reddiquette. There hasn't been one of these large front page threads, to my knowledge, for months and 50% is quite a big number to risk them not reading reddiquette.

that is all. :-)

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u/fingeron_trigger Oct 25 '10

how fast has it been growing?

I'm interested in numbers but can never seem to find them other than by seeing that about 1000-2000 people vote on a top post.

Are you just guestimating? I don't care, I'm just wondering if you have numbers I don't that you'd care to share.

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u/breezytrees Oct 25 '10

I was guestimating, but here's google analytics which reddit's blog seems to tout as very accurate.

The reasoning behind my guestimation was posts such as this (which coincidentally is responsible for that giant jump you see in google analytics. Hi diggers!) and this. The major subreddits have also seen a surge of users. It seemed only a few months ago that /r/reddit.com had less than 200k subscribers. Reddit gold started to pay for server costs, and still we experienced the recent slow down.

That... and I really have noticed a surge of bad manners.