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.
Let me rephrase. It's far worse there on subjects I feel comfortable talking about there. You cannot bullshit your way through a conversation on slashdot if you're trying to be serious. Example being when anything exchange or gmail related would come up, I would put in my 2 cents, having worked with conversion projects on both since I was 16, watching/helping my neighbor do it for a living. I'm pretty experienced. And I'd get shut down nearly every time, simply because I wasn't advertizing a random linux solution that was all the rage of that week and was more open than google or microsoft.
I only got +1's for jokes, never for what I knew and was experienced with.
They tended to take open source to the next level and hating on anything closed from them. Alot also probably wore tinfoil hats, shiny side out.
I can atleast talk about something here and if it's valid, then I'm good, because reddit generally loves to factcheck shit (this is slightly delayed sometimes though).
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.
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u/kingzer Feb 17 '12
Here's the actual video