readwriteweb.com — Here's a look at why the idea of a social news site front page that is newspaper-like and presents information in reverse chronological presentation has to change - and how Reddit is flirting with the answer.
Jul 7, 2008 View in Crawl 4
Closed AccountJul 8, 2008
DIGGBASHER!!! Get out of here then! You're the real assh**e... See this? It's for you.???????-????????????????????????????? ????????????? ????????????????? ? ?????????????? ??????????????????????
nervebandJul 8, 2008
Can we get this guy out too? No need for annoying ASCII. Whatever happened to constructive commentary?
hierophantusJul 8, 2008
He has that disease that makes writers think that big words and jargon are the key to good writing. It's a stubborn condition, too.
charlesrayJul 8, 2008
I like interacting with Reddit better than Digg because it's much more lightweight website and doesn't seem to make simply tasks more complicated (i.e. it just lists comments, instead of having unnecessary animations and effects). However, the community there is completely retarded. This is the primary problem with social news sites: the lack of intelligent editors allows bulls**t stories like "BUSH SAYS HE WANTS TO RAPE BABIES" (fake example) to get to the top of the page just because people vote without reading them. People just fired for printing s**t like that in the real media.
brotherfrancizJul 8, 2008
I guess this doesn't apply to me - I use the RSS feed so I rarely ever visit the front page. Using the feed lets me see articles from quite a while ago: since I don't always have the time to check out each article that makes it onto my feed (I set it to update every 10 hours, which gives me around 40 articles each update), when I do get around to reading them, they are usually 2-3 days old and generally have over 1000 diggs.
scottievmJul 8, 2008
The whole article is very poorly written to begin with.
rdomanski1Jul 8, 2008
I've always been fascinated with the huge difference in the types of stories that are popular on Reddit vs. those on Digg. The reason is that Reddit lets users vote up OR DOWN on submissions, whereas Digg only lets us vote for them. This has a tremendous effect on results.Makes you wonder what would happen if we could vote both up or down for political candidates :-)<a class="user" href="http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2008/07/reddit-and-tyranny-of-algorithms-in.html">http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2008/07/reddit-a ...</a>
judsondJul 8, 2008
Thanks! This does mean though that to use reddit you need to look at it more frequently than digg. For example, I can look at all the promoted stories in the last three days on digg in a fairly straight forward manner. Not so with reddit. I do see its advantages though.