Poll: Anyone following the meltdown on Reddit?

/r/yes/no/meh

  • /r/like

    Votes: 23 20.4%

  • /r/dislike

    Votes: 9 8.0%

  • /r/meh

    Votes: 81 71.7%
  • Total voters
    113
randal said:
My first thought when after reading how many people abandoned the site based solely on the format. There's some excellent, excellent content on there that's worth putting up with a format you don't get on with.
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I think the main issue is either people are too stupid to know how threaded conversations work, or aren't old enough or been on the internet long enough to have used them (which would mean they're too stupid since kids can work it out in several minutes). They're not prepared to learn how threaded conversations work, which is their problem, not the site. Or they're simply too cool for school and only ever read OCUK and the Daily Mail.
 
Thread needs more of Peter Griffin 'who the hell cares' gif

Also, there's plenty of meltdowns on here to amuse folk let alone on reddit :p
 
Love Reddit, it and OCUK are my two main sites tbh.

Todays drama from what I can gather and I'm really not following it is that the lady who handled the "ask me anything" events where celebs (not just movies but science celebs etc) took questions from anyone about anything has had her position at the company removed, effectively sacked after she wasn't too keen on some of the ideas senior management had for making the AMAs more commercial.

Similar to your boss asking you to do something, you saying you didn't think it'd work, so they decided your post in the company was no longer required. So they didn't sack you, just removed the job you did..

As daft as I think the over-reaction is, I could see a similar thing happen here if one of the beloved Dons was treated in a similar fashion by OCUK. Not that I'm saying they ever would.
 
Jokester said:
I guess it must just be the content generated by the gibbering idiots that post on there then.
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The default subreddits are the equivalent of popular rides at a theme park. Make an account, unsubscribe from subreddits you're not interested in and then subscribe to ones you are and it becomes a much greater source of data and information.

My default subs; android, books, BSD, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, gnome, ireland, linux, liverpoolfc, and more. That way when I'm signed in my front page isn't filled with crap from /r/creepy and /r/nosleep. I think /r/books is probably the only "default" sub I subscribe to and only because I was already subscribed to it before it was made a default.
 
OhEsEcks said:
I think the main issue is either people are too stupid to know how threaded conversations work, or aren't old enough or been on the internet long enough to have used them (which would mean they're too stupid since kids can work it out in several minutes). They're not prepared to learn how threaded conversations work, which is their problem, not the site. Or they're simply too cool for school and only ever read OCUK and the Daily Mail.
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Its still a horrid format that has long been out-dated by more efficient ways of displaying information though.
 
went on reddit earlier saw the videos section was locked.

mods be crying do I care no? just seem like a bunch of egotistical idiots from my perspective.
 
Rroff said:
Its still a horrid format that has long been out-dated by more efficient ways of displaying information though.
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No it's not. It's still used by nearly all dedicated email clients and web based email, including gmail. As well as multiple forum software. Slashdot. Hackernews. In commenting software that appears on most blogs and websites (such as disqus).
 
smoove said:
It's not full of nuts people it just caters for every possible interest out there. Ocuk has its fair share of righteous biggots as well. Reddit has finally had its moderation turn on ocuk style and that's entirely not what the users want. It was free speech now it's not and it will be the death of it, exactly like what happen to digg.
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Ah, so thats whats happened. I wondered why all the software piracy sub-reddits had suddenly gone behind closed doors.

I've seen sites raided and their software distributed by Reddit pirates, seems to be endemic in some areas.
 
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The problem with Reddit's management is that they haven't realised how precarious their business is. It relies exclusively upon user submitted content, which means that its critical you keep your user base happy. Furthermore, when the user base is unhappy about something, that grievance often appears right on the front page, further fanning the flames of discontent.

There have been grumbling for months now. I can see Reddit going the way of Digg. And whatever takes Reddits place will surely go the same way eventually. Its very difficult to make an effective business which is so dependent on user created and submitted content.
 
Pao (the recently hired reddit CEO) is also a special kind of idiot. She has several law suits on the go, that she started, regarding sexual discrimination at previous places of work - even though there is much evidence that a) there was no such thing and b) she instigated an affair with at least one of the people she has accused.
 
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