The Magic of Reddit

Good afternoon readers,

As a quick forward, this entry was typed with only my left hand partially due to boredom, and partially because of my right wrist being about as messed up as eating all the marshmallows from your roommate's Lucky Charms. Hopefully you appreciate the effort.

Bo Cao introduced me to Reddit, a brilliant forum that I have somehow missed all my life before. Hopefully you have run across it, and if not you should go there now and prepare to be entertained.

Reddit exceeds all expectations by having an enormous and diverse user base, as well as a sleek moderation implementation. Where many forums and sites like Youtube are overrun by trolls, Reddit dodges the issue. You will rarely see posters sharing with the whole web such witticisms as "FAGG!!" "AMerIca Haaaates gOd111" and "OmG ur sO ffucking Sadddd".

Reddit accomplishes this feat of troll pruning with aggressive moderation and a good post rating system. Users rate topics and posts by voting them up or down. Only the threads and replies with highly favorable records find their way to viewers. Initially this approach removes most of the forum offal, and since everyone likes to have their voice heard people actually try to write well.

We get to enjoy the result of this, an unending supply of novel tidbits and provoking discussion.

Until next time,
Wilder