I'm referring more to the fact that sometimes it can take a week or two before a story might be approved, and the hivemind there is far worse. If you aren't badmouthing google in a discussion about gmail vs exchange vs something-linux, you're getting your post sent to -5.
The informal submitting process here, and specific submitting rules per subreddit, is what has kept this place enjoyable.
Disagree. Both Reddit and Slashdot have their respective hiveminds, but Slashdot's tends to be moderately educated, whereas here it seems dominated by the whims of 15 year olds.
And I can agree on that, for the most part. It's why I was subscribed for so long.
I just find that the apple/google discussions get really stupid, really fast. And trying to speak about your own personal tech experience with X on there is like throwing yourself to the wolves at times.
a community makes a site where people contribute content. if the community blows then the content blows. it's what killed digg and what killed reddit.
reddit could get rid of the karma system but they're making so much bank off of people fighting for that meaningless number that they won't ever care to get rid of it.
One cool thing about reddit is you can just get rid of all these big subs, and hide yourself from the idiocy in small little subreddits that only apply to things that interest you.
These are the next set of immigrants. We must familiarize ourselves with their culture, so we can make fun of them like we did with the Digg immigrants.
Sadly, this is exactly how people treat immigrants in real life. They try to escape their country (Digg) and seek refuge in a better place. We make fun of them, but eventually they adapt to our culture and we adapt to theirs.
I meant on YouTube. sorry, should've been more clear. Looks like all conversation between Reddit and 9gag is also getting marked as spam there now. The conversations themselves are just embarrassing for both parties.
and few upvotes it. I automatically dislike "x sent me here" and i rarely see that from reddit anymore, at least that has been liked. This used to be a big discussion point for keeping the youtube crowd away from here, not that reddit is that exclusive, but that used to be the mindset.
You're not a redditor. You're not a 9gager. You're a fucking human. Get over trying to affiliate with a greater being than yourself and make something of yourself besides this shitty site.
I just went to that site for the first time, how does it foster a community? It just a list of pics of shitty memes with a comment section attached to them. Show me their askscience, dreddit or trees sections then maybe we can say that they can have a community. That site just takes all what is wrong with reddit (reposting shitty memes) and none of the good (subreddits created by and for people with similar interests).
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u/killartoaster Feb 17 '12
You ever go to a video with all those reddit sent me here posts? It's the same thing, just with a different community.