You don't know how oddly content it makes me to know that I'm not the only motherfucker with a bag of puns in my back pocket, just waiting for the right time.
If it is like anything else, including when I rolled into the place, 100 people make accounts, 10 will post, 3 will stay and become a part of the community. Shitposters and trolls don't work all that well here and they will ass back to 4chan and 9gag.
This is the thread I rolled in on: I believe I am the sole survivor of that shit show. 49 shared and 277 comments about nothing.
This place does it perfect when it comes to trolls as we never really pay attention to them and when that happens trolls never stick around. They always want attention and they never get it here.
Hey hey, I just lurk from time to time. It's just that hubski looks at things in such depth, that I cannot cover all the topics that I'd like to when I'm working 10 hour days during these times. I love the conversation quality here, but having a larger sample of opinions is the advantage of a larger site. The reason I reached out for an alternative to Reddit was when I began to see the addendas of the admins and mods and when I began to notice plain text comments from users that were really the face of a company's add.
Waves of reddit refugees are an annual thing. A lot (most?) of us came on them. Hubski gets hectic for a while, we have a few giant threads sobbing about the injustice of muting, and then things go back to normal with the addition of a handful of new active users who fit.
I did at least. Not really a refuge since I still use Reddit but back when fatpeoplehate was banned (not that I disagree) a bunch of alternatives were posted and I ended up here.
The problem is that as the good content becomes harder to find, the people who actually create that good content are less and less motivated to contribute. Thus you end up in a death spiral of memes and circlejerky injokes. Worse, a lot of the expertise is fake. Like, in the two games I'm playing right now I'm finding that the communities on Reddit that serve them end up being wrong more often than right. Finally, as the community overgrows its mechanics, visibility becomes ever more reliant on timing. Thus, you can say something insightful and relevant and be ignored while a not-great pun shoots to the top because more people saw it. Also, more people are under 15 and have no real appreciation for, you know, knowledge especially when it has to compete with fart jokes. And then you recognize that any time you say something useful about anything and it actually does get noticed, some bot is going to cross-post it to where trolls eagerly await the opportunity to make you regret contributing at all. It's been years since I've felt motivated to contribute to any subreddit ostensibly about any of my professional expertise. It's basically an excuse for a twelve-year-old kid to insult you and force you to explain standard terms while everyone calls you mean for using words they don't know.
I totally believe it. It's a systemic problem that outfits like /r/Askscience attempt to CSS away but then you end up with bullshit like the /r/politics posse arguing that Mother Jones is a spam hive. The basic problem is that Reddit was designed as a virulence engine and any attempt to tune it to community runs directly contrary to its core design. It's like trying to make a speedboat into a cargo hauler or a 747 into a pylon racer. Worse, from the top down they always institute the changes needed three years ago. I was talking about community stuff back before Reddit Gifts was a year old - top level shit. No one was interested. It would have been a double opt-in plugin that would have been invisible to anyone who didn't wanna play and there was straight crickets from the powers-that-be. Now? Now, in the year 2017, Reddit is discovering Facebook, long after everyone under 40 has given it up for Instagram and Snapchat.
You're backing into the truth despite bad data. Reddit's published numbers are between a factor of 10 and a factor of 100 off of what any other measurer uses. There are blog posts early on where the team slags on Alexa and the like because they aren't measuring "true" metrics. Those same rankers also point out the major terms that bring people to Reddit - and it's all porn. All of it. All porn. But reddit's numbers and reddit's monetization aren't inextricably linked because they bill you based on what they say the numbers are (and they rip you off HARD). However, they can't count when you have adblock on either, so yeah - it makes sense for them to serve the communities too stupid to run adblock. For the longest time, the only thing that gave you karma was outbound links. That's not by accident. Outbound links increase Reddit's siterank, internal content does not. Things flipped when 9gag and the like started raiding Reddit content; now you get points for pretty much everything you do... but it's still all about "what can we do to inflate the metrics." And yes. Nothing in /r/depthhub will do that. Imgur started out as a Reddit plugin. It now has higher profit and higher numbers. That's when Reddit decided to do their own image hosting - when they were basically an Imgur optimization engine. It's a shitshow from stem to stern.
I sorta think the VCs told Imgur to quietly add comments and become a community separate from Reddit because reddit is legit toxic. There's a reason they dont' get more money. Toxicity doesn't sell.
Voat, aka Whoaverse, was a conservative circle jerk alternative to the liberal circlejerk that still is Reddit. Then Pao happened and Voat took in all the, er interesting, people and the community could not handle the influx. Go there now and YIKES. Not even the tech and gaming areas are decent at Voat any more.
voat was not mucked up as it was specifically designed as a welcoming place for the most ridiculous reddit rejects and that is what it got. Mission accomplished.
I use reddit daily. Love it. Way more content than Hubski. But I also don't have pretty much anything that's a part of r/all or the defaults. I don't go there for news, politics, etc. Because it's garbage for that. But I do go there for this. I go there for r/Drugs, r/RedditLaqueristas, r/Tinder, r/Woodworking, r/Mustang, r/WhatIsThisPlant, r/BirdsWithArms, and r/NatureIsFuckingLit. Because the internet is fun time for me, and Reddit at its heart for me is just a forum site that is super effective at getting me the information that I need for hobbies and stuff. And memes. Hubski is more thought time for me, which is why I don't always make time for it. My mind gets space taken up by other things, and so I do those things. Memes require a hell of a lot less brain power and commitment to take a look at. So a profile for Reddit doesn't really mean anything to me. Your profile was already your comment history anyway, and very few people are going to be stupid enough to link a photo, and their name to their reddit profile (Ken Bone, ha!). It's the reason google+ failed (among other reasons), why would Reddit be any different. Although I hope my girlfriend makes one so I can creep on her shit.
mk, What are the functions that were Hubski's but then reddit later introduced? I'm forgetting a couple.. insomniasexx? forwardslash ya'll remember? Badges Shout-outs ...
The filter for r/all seems awfully familiar, too.
Badges -> gold is the one I remember. They haven't done cards yet so... :P Oh their failed newsletter....
I doubt anything significant will change with the profile pages, I doubt people will even notice or care enough about them. I mean at this point didn't the CEO of Reddit come out and openly modify posts on Reddit. People were mad for a few weeks then it was business as usual. I don't see this being any worse.