Reddit Flaws

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10 points·zeeone··9 comments

Point 11/12 completely contradicts point 1.

Points 9, 10, 17, (at least) have pretty much nothing specifically to do with reddit but could be said of pretty much any online community.

Also, this is from 2006, and while I don't wish to suggest simply being a few years old automatically and inherently makes an article worthless, in this case it doesn't exactly help. An up-to-date feature on reddit flaws would probably include "is a SFW 4chan".

Overall a poor piece, feels like it was cobbled together as an excuse to drive traffic to the "Download mp3s Faster than limewire free!" section.

> You Can't Submit An Article Again

This isn't entirely true. You can't submit identical URLs to the same reddit. To resubmit you can add superfluous characters to the URL. It isn't very intuitive or easily discoverable but... it works.

EDIT: Nevermind, he points this out at the end and lists it as a problem. WTF.

I think the main flaw of reddit today is the fact that 50% of the userbase has migrated from 4chan and digg.

Why is this article here ? This is a poor excuse for him driving traffic to his website. Crap.

I think the main flaw of Reddit is that it allowed kids from Digg to overtake it and flood it with their personal drama, bullshit memes and uninteresting photos/videos.

>Atheists Rule

wow. is that a problem? ;-)

Not if you're FRDB or the Richard Dawkins forum, but if you're a site that seeks popular appeal or bills itself as for the general populace, you'd do better to not alienate 80% of the US population.

Why not? If it can attract 20% of it plus the millions of atheists worldwide.

This post itself is spam. Check out his awesome anchortext for "mp3 and file search." :-|

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