For the former, I was thinking of novelty accounts, and how on the larger subreddits jokes about usernames and reddit personalities are rampant at the top comment levels. That's what I would call user-centric rather content-centric. (Additionally, things like bestofreddit, and also subs that are dedicated entirely to non-content things like helping people through charity or advice. Strays from news aggregator status into the internet community arena.) For the latter, I don't think that would be a particularly bad change, especially if you had to earn it first, in the same way you have to earn retagging privileges. I also notice there is no way to hide comment strings on hubski.
>For the former, I was thinking of novelty accounts, and how on the larger subreddits jokes about usernames and reddit personalities are rampant at the top comment levels. There hasn't been a novelty account that has lasted more than a couple months since PIMA went down. Before him, there weren't any noteworthy ones since PACG. The remaining "novelty accounts" are all moderators and are universally despised. >Additionally, things like bestofreddit, and also subs that are dedicated entirely to non-content things like helping people through charity or advice. I've been bestof'd more than 40 times and created /r/favors. To say they are "user-centric" is incorrect.
Disagree. There are the various "draw/read/sing/dramaticize your comment" guys. I imagine there are other examples but I'm not on the big subs enough to see them. In any case, I regret giving specific examples, because that always runs the risk of letting the person you are debating "debunk"* those examples and ignore the larger point -- which was that reddit is more about the community of 'redditors' than it is about the content these days. In some subreddits more than others, because of course lumping all of them together is a silly generalization. *in quotes because your response to bestofreddit (not r/bestof) was not adequate in my opinion.
>Disagree. There are the various "draw/read/sing/dramaticize your comment" guys. And since SIDT none of them have caught on. He's been out of the limelight for a year. "I imagine" is not a valid point of argument. >reddit is more about the community of 'redditors' than it is about the content these days. That wasn't your point - your point was that it was user-specific. There's a big difference between "favors internal content" and "favors individual users." I asked you to provide examples because you're making allegations you cannot defend. Saying "I shouldn't have given examples because they ignore my larger point" isn't argumentatively sound - if you have assertions, you must back them up with data. What you have is a feeling. Your feeling is based on lack of information. I have data. And that's why I said you are wrong. "Adequate in my opinion" is syntactically the same as "truthiness."
I've seen comments by the watercolor guy, the dramatic post guy, the sing your post guy, and the read your post guy in the last two weeks. Don't have them saved because I don't care. If you want "data," you'll have to do with that. Don't tell me what my point is. reddit is seen more and more as a 'community' and less and less as a news aggregation site. That is my point. It is still both, but its focus has changed semi-recently. I did provide some examples, and you refuted them without actually refuting them. A caveat -- reddit can be about the content. It's a matter of where you are on reddit and how you use it.