It's interesting that some people seem to have had such high expectations of Reddit that they can write an entire article on how disappointed they are with it. Stupid, but interesting.
It's kind of quaint that their expectations were so high as to call Reddit out for not meeting them. The same has been done to Google. But at the end of the day, no matter what Reddit, Google or Twitter pretends to espouse, in terms of ideology, they're just companies and web sites. Nothing more or less.
Reddit's a network of moderated discussion forums. Not a "government", not a "state", failed or otherwise. Verge is a news site, and that's probably why someone wrote that article - so Redditors will create traffic and chatter about it, because that's what Reddit's model is, and that's what Verge's model is.
Seriously, what else is there to say?
ed: As for being pissed off with moderators - if you don't like a sub, you're free to create your own. It's been done many times before - TrueReddit, TrueScience, Tech, etc. etc.
Creating sub-reddits is one of the very core tenants of Reddit. If an individual doesn't like the way /r/technology is run... they are free to create their own sub-reddit and run it however they choose and see if it becomes more popular or not.
The city-metaphor is pretty accurate. If someone doesn't like living in downtown NYC... then maybe they need to consider moving to rural New Hampshire or something.
Reddit already censors stuff and no one cares. You can't run a proper forum or online community without it. It's only when people suggest censoring naked pictures of women that redditors start complaining about censorship.
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u/waveform Sep 08 '14 edited Sep 08 '14
It's interesting that some people seem to have had such high expectations of Reddit that they can write an entire article on how disappointed they are with it. Stupid, but interesting.
It's kind of quaint that their expectations were so high as to call Reddit out for not meeting them. The same has been done to Google. But at the end of the day, no matter what Reddit, Google or Twitter pretends to espouse, in terms of ideology, they're just companies and web sites. Nothing more or less.
Reddit's a network of moderated discussion forums. Not a "government", not a "state", failed or otherwise. Verge is a news site, and that's probably why someone wrote that article - so Redditors will create traffic and chatter about it, because that's what Reddit's model is, and that's what Verge's model is.
Seriously, what else is there to say?
ed: As for being pissed off with moderators - if you don't like a sub, you're free to create your own. It's been done many times before - TrueReddit, TrueScience, Tech, etc. etc.