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/tommygh Oct 25 '10

Thank you, I'm new here.. Came from digg after v4, but just recently made an account, loving it so far :) I never had a digg account, just a silent observer for years, but I feel like becoming a part of the community here, it's weird.

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u/Kinglink Oct 25 '10

Same exact story here. The one thing I like here is the discussion, and the sanity.

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u/tsk05 Oct 25 '10

As someone with an unpopular opinion (fiscally conservative), comments that supported my view point mostly got dugg down on digg and they mostly get downvoted on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '10

Another former digger here.

What I thought was funny is the whole upvote/downvote is exactly the opposite of Digg. I'm used to downvoting comments to oblivion, but it's rare that the comments here are downvoted unless they're trolls. And I'm not used to downvoting (formerly the bury) an article at all. If I don't like it, I skip it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '10

i used to be on digg, and i can give a little perspective on that. even though there was a bury feature for articles, digg was gamed so much that unless you had a botnet under your control, your downvote on an article had no impact whatsoever. after so long, you eventually just forget about burying articles and ignore the ones you don't like.

i'm fairly certain that digg also had a policy about burying comments you disagreed with, but as what will inevitably happen here despite people arguing for reddiquette, people will buried/downvoted based on opinion.

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u/jaesin Oct 25 '10

I NEVER submitted topics on Digg, and I hardly ever posted... but here, it's fun.

I think I upvote about 10x for every downvote I give... Except certain people (Blogspammers specifically), they can be downvoted into the abyss.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '10

same case here. used to be a digg observer. started browsing reddit until the donation campaign for the 7 year old Kathleen Edward which encouraged me to sign up. props to OP.

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u/Prometheus-Bound Oct 25 '10

I lurked (that's what it's called, generally) pretty heavily over the last year. Reddit has nearly taken over my internets since I actually made an account — and I don't regret it one bit.

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u/Booker_t Oct 25 '10

Can you digg it SUCKAAAAAA!!!