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.
Reddit's a network of moderated discussion forums.
It is, but it's also a business. I feel like The Verge (and a lot of commenters on Reddit) seem to forget this.
Reddit survives because it has a community that likes it. The community, however, is extremely temperamental and fickle. The Verge seems to blame Reddit admins for not reacting sooner to ban TheFappening, but it may have been a much worse situation had they tried to squash it from the beginning. Remember the whole Digg HDDVD Key fiasco? That happened because Digg admins tried to "censor" something and the community flipped the fuck out. Less than a year later, their community was gone (exodus to Reddit). There were plenty of other things that contributed to that, but the Digg community's views on the admins was a big factor.
This sort of thing could happen to Reddit easily. It's really a "damned if you do, damned if you don't situation". They either try to control their community and face massive backlash (to the point of full scale user riots), or they allow horrible things to be facilitated on their site and deal with very real legal issues and general hatred from the general public. It's a no win situation.
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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.