Gosh, this is my first post since 2008. I can't believe how time flies. Sometimes I think about Slashdot. Most of the time I don't though....but it was my go to site for many years when I was boredd.
Nowadays I hit Reddit when I am bored.
Wow! When did user ids get longer than 6 digits? That's craaaazzzzy!
I see reddit mentioned often on slashdot. Everytime I'm like "Since slashdotters mention it, it must be a very good tech site". And everytime I look, I'm immediately appaled, thinking I'm looking at 4chan. Here's what I currently saw at the frontpage of reddit:
Well shit... (i.imgur.com) That's correctRehosted webcomic -removed (i.imgur.com) Dead mayflies at a gas station in Minnesota. I think I'll pass. (i.imgur.com) A NYC man is suing to protect his First Amendment right to flip cops the bird. He had raised h
Reddit's default homepage is horrible, I'm not going to beat around the bush about that... But when you sign up, and find subreddits you like, you can add them to/your/ frontpage, and usually, the most upvoted content (The stuff people like) from each of those subreddits gets aggregated onto your front page, meaning if you have made subscriptions according to your interests, it's/far/ more interesting than most sites. The default subreddits are often there because of people that just want to quickly browse
reddit is really a collection of sections pertaining to different subjects, called subreddits. As such, your experience on reddit will vary wildly depending on which subreddits you subscribe to, as they each have difference themes, rules and degrees of moderation. For example,/r/pics is pretty much a catch-all place for any midly interesting picture, and as such posts there probably won't lead to deep, insightful discussion in the comment section. However, if you swing by/r/askscience, you'll get a whole
The Reddit front page is hopeless. It's like the Firehose on this site. The Subreddits are where the action is really at, and most seem to have enough moderators who are interested in the specific subject matter to handle the large number of dupes, bin spam, etc. that get posted. Here are some examples of great parts of Reddit:
Blast from a past (Score:1)
Gosh, this is my first post since 2008. I can't believe how time flies. Sometimes I think about Slashdot. Most of the time I don't though. ...but it was my go to site for many years when I was boredd.
Nowadays I hit Reddit when I am bored.
Wow! When did user ids get longer than 6 digits? That's craaaazzzzy!
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I see reddit mentioned often on slashdot. Everytime I'm like "Since slashdotters mention it, it must be a very good tech site". And everytime I look, I'm immediately appaled, thinking I'm looking at 4chan. Here's what I currently saw at the frontpage of reddit:
Well shit... (i.imgur.com)
That's correctRehosted webcomic -removed (i.imgur.com)
Dead mayflies at a gas station in Minnesota. I think I'll pass. (i.imgur.com)
A NYC man is suing to protect his First Amendment right to flip cops the bird. He had raised h
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The default subreddits are often there because of people that just want to quickly browse
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reddit is really a collection of sections pertaining to different subjects, called subreddits. As such, your experience on reddit will vary wildly depending on which subreddits you subscribe to, as they each have difference themes, rules and degrees of moderation. For example, /r/pics is pretty much a catch-all place for any midly interesting picture, and as such posts there probably won't lead to deep, insightful discussion in the comment section. However, if you swing by /r/askscience, you'll get a whole
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The Reddit front page is hopeless. It's like the Firehose on this site. The Subreddits are where the action is really at, and most seem to have enough moderators who are interested in the specific subject matter to handle the large number of dupes, bin spam, etc. that get posted. Here are some examples of great parts of Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/ [reddit.com] popularized Rage Comics. Anyone can make a comic and the moderation system works pretty well for those.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayil [reddit.com]