A good portion of you would know about it but I bet there are a few who don't. I am fairly new to it.
reddit is a site where users can post links or topics about anything they want, with subreddits for appropriate content. It has a massive userbase. There is a very popular subreddit for Australia with nearly 20,000 users.
A lot of the good parts of reddit were largely overrun with 4chann and digg people. If you really want the best out of reddit, unsubscribe from anything with memes for circlejerking like r/pics, r/atheism and r/politics (r/circlejerk doesn't count). I'd recommend looking on the sidebar in r/truereddit as an interesting starting point. Subscribe to r/brisbane (or your own city major city), it's not hugely popular but there's sometimes some local relevant stuff on there and you could always help by posting stuff. r/games and r/gamernews are generally better than r/gaming. If you like wasting disposable income on useless. Subscribe to individual game subreddits, I like r/tf2, r/starcraft, r/eve and r/wow.
Or not whatever, sometimes the main subreddits can be great (even the memes THERE I SAID IT)
Just keep an eye on r/all and subscribe to anything that rises to the top that piques your interest.
Haha Reddit. Where original content goes to die. Example, the arrow to the knee joke started on 4Chan's /v/ but lasted all of a day. Now Reddit took and smashed it to the ground, where even people who didn't even know what Skyrim was were saying it.
Reddit is a site that people post content to (like a forum), which the users can either "upvote" or "downvote." This way, popular content goes to the top, saving you from having to look at the crap. In theory. People can then comment on posts, and comments can also be upvoted or downvoted.
It also has "subreddits" which are basically just sub-forums. They are usually dedicated to different topics, e.g. gaming, technology, politics, cat pictures, etc.
You can subscribe to the subreddits that interest you, and your "front page" will show the most popular content from those subreddits.
It's just a place where people post random shit from around the internet for various types of categories and other reddit users get to make comments on said shit.
Reddit is good to waste a bit of time. I try to avoid it unless I am dead bored because it's full of sexless nerds and diehard atheists with superiority complexes.
heardY: reddit is basically a giant bin for everybody's brainfarts of the day and other hosted pics or links of interest. Every registered user can vote each new posted brainfart, pic or link by giving a downvote or upvote (much like imgur) and the cream rises to the top.
Arising out of each new posted item is also a discussion thread, with embedded reply chains, and all those comments can be voted on too. So Reddit has a real mind hive thing going on. This site is definitely not for the independent thinkers or conspiracy fans.
It is a very left leaning site on the whole as far as the users go, but there is no reason you can't start your own subreddit and talk about anything you like. There is also such a broad range of content on there that you can subscribe to whatever subreddits you like that support "independent thinking", such as http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism.
Since this thread I somehow got made a mod in one of the larger subreddits, which I absolutely hate, and have to hold back from banning every single person every other day because that would be an abuse of power. :(
It is also the home of unfunny image macros, insufferable internet atheists, shitty recycled humour, friendzoned whiney babies and just general online douchebaggery. It pretty much completely sucks.
Given the ability of users to create their own subreddit and make it private it is not surprising that that sort of thing would happen. It is such a massive community that it would attract all types.
If you spend a reasonable amount of time there you can find a lot of interesting and/or funny original content. The "Ask Me Anything" threads are also an entirely unique and absolutely brilliant feature of the site.
Given the ability of users to create their own subreddit and make it private it is not surprising that that sort of thing would happen.
As you probably noticed the thread I linked is old so I don't really remember the full details. I do remember that the administrators knew about the child-porn and only acted on it when public pressure forced them to.
Their reasons weren't that they like child-porn, but that they wanted to preserve reddit's total freedom of speech. I am sure that has all been cleared up now and the site is clean, but these are some hard things to forgive and forget. If the site wasn't such a huge clusterfuck of all things terrible and trite I might give it a pass but nah.
edit: nice try dais but fuckpot requires a Beatles reddit and a Shane Warne reddit to be fully satisfied.
The Last Airbender subreddit and the AskScience subreddit, I both really enjoy.
Having been indoctrinated into religion as a kid and then forced into churches and youthgroups for years after, the atheist subreddits are pure venty therapy, and I can fully understand where everybody there is coming from. The only annoying thing is that some top posts aren't always factual (The christmas one today, for example, it seems).
It is also the home of unfunny image macros, insufferable internet atheists, shitty recycled humour, friendzoned whiney babies and just general online douchebaggery. It pretty much completely sucks.
I'll only source Reddit in news posts if I can't find it anywhere else. You have to be careful in that some of the stuff (read: most) is either copied from 6 months ago, or might not even be real. It is a bit annoying when developers only talk on Reddit, like ArenaNet or Blizzard do sometimes, but I guess that is just the way of social networking.
I'll only source Reddit in news posts if I can't find it anywhere else. You have to be careful in that some of the stuff (read: most) is either copied from 6 months ago, or might not even be real. It is a bit annoying when developers only talk on Reddit, like ArenaNet or Blizzard do sometimes, but I guess that is just the way of social networking.
Think AN were too busy getting their shit in a pile to worry about supporting in house communications platforms. Reddit was convenient and popular way to reach their users.
Their forums and blogs seem to be where they are doing the talking now.
Oh yeah I definitely understand the ease of social networking and getting information out, just sometimes it can be annoying when a game doesn't have an official page, but instead relies on something like Reddit or even a Facebook fan page. Can be really detrimental for contacting about press information.
imgur is fresher than reddit but has less cunts than 4chan. plus there are heaps more lolz in imgur.
Yeah i find myself addicted to imgur - check the new pics daily. I dont comment or vote on the comments but i find the pics are a good time waster and keep me up to date with internet crazes. I saw the gangnam thing a week or 2 before it was posted on QGL.
Yeah, they have cool as stuff but most of the time i find their stuff is really only if you have plenty of cash to spare or want some kind of cool present. I mean a water powered jetpack for $100k or a space invaders couch for $5k? There are some cheaper things that are a bit more realistic but they are normally pretty pricey.
reddit and 4chan are not the same. OK so it has been established that a lot of reddit's content is sourced from 4chan, but there is just as much, if not more original content on there. Most of the communities are about much more than images and you can create your own.
In summary: don't you dare say things about my reddit!
Reddit has its uses, more specific sub-forums is the main advantage (for me) over 4chan. Also, the connotations of people that hear "4chan" and think "/b/"
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