So let's discuss Reddit

How can Reddit be improved?

What do you hate the most about Reddit, if anything?

What is the most important feature to you that is absent from 2+2 but present on Reddit and vice versa?

Reddit is beyond help

reddit is decent for killing mindless time browsing memes while taking a dump

otherwise it's too big, there's no discussion, just a sea of noise where a bunch of cookie cutter and predictable comments and contents rise t the top

it's decent for smaller niches as it's the path of least resistance filtering down a global userbase in the tens of millions down to a small subreddit that has a few thousand members and is your area of interest but then again it's not ever really good/quality discussion - mostly people clout farming with memes or using it to generate clicks onto their website/twitter/youtube etc

in general, reddit is pretty garbage and mindless, yes it is popular but we're never going to be competitive in kitten memes and clout farming so i think future growth should center on focusing on the strength of 2p2 being a center for fairly high level intellectual discussion

What is your opinion on Likes and Karma stuff on Reddit? Do you think it played a role in Reddit becoming what you've described it to be? What I mean is that people are posting something that they think will generate likes or Karma and it's not possible to have any kind of meaningful discussion when a big portion of users care about Karma more than the topic being discussed.

i worked for a major social network

there's 100% an addiction at play where people seek validation and post and comment purely to get that endorphin fix of getting that notification telling them people liked their posts

i don't think this necessarily fits here, think we're such a niche and high level discussion that if we pivoted towards karma farming then a lot of the old guard would stop showing up here because it's just become a karma farming place

look at what quora did, they used to be somewhat high level discussion and eventually gave up and went to the reddit model - a place where you could stumble upon a discussion over the trade networks of medieval spain written by a history phd has been replaced by this



but... if you have a way of tracking likes and can put an unobtrusive like notification it'll definitely incentivize people to post more for that endorphin hit



i personally think it'd be bad to follow the reddit model, it'll kill lot of what we currently have with no guarantee of real growth since why go here if it's just a much much much smaller reddit?

we can maybe include some addictive properties, but to become a reddit clone will spell death for this place imo

but i really think we need to bring back user location to the new skin, definitely adds a lot of flavor to your interactions with people, lots of fun inside jokes posted there etc etc

Yeah this is why I and others have been asking admin to form an actual politics section for the better part of a decade. Things like reddit are so big it's useless for that. Nobody sane wants to talk about politics with their real life social network online. 2P2 has the size, enough intelligent people, and anonymity that would make it a great platform for people to discuss, sort out, learn, debate, etc politics

Unfortunately admin had made a total nut job the politics mod forever. They cultivated a rabid community. Sadly things have never been fixed (better is still a galaxy away from fixed). You might find it surprising that admin watched and participated in that train wreck and couldn't sort it out, but in that case you should probably be directed to the recent thread discussing admin sending emails to a young floozy threatening an acid attack and advising her to killer herself, having a relationship with a minor that ran away from home while being in his 50's (?), and handicapped women decades younger than him. That's the type of person that has difficulty determining not just ethics but of course what actually is a totally dysfunctional circus

Anyways, while we have new admin is here, I was wondering if there has been anything official on why Mr Wookie is no longer a site mod (orange status). I just assumed it was some boring irrelevant matter but then his friends started lying and being evasive. On top of that mr wookie has shown to be a complete disaster and even after his politics forum was dismantled he was still a site mod and abusing his power for well over a year. So what changed? What happened? Nobody seems to give a straight answer. Did he step down? Did someone finally realize they had been letting a train wreck abuse members of the community for too long?

Regards

I am pro making this site more tolerable for so called attention whores as I have explained previously. There is a real problem with attention whores but it's a very small problem compared to the amount of people labeled as such.
There is an on going witch hunt on this site for anyone who a small group of people could label attention whores.

It's 2% actual attention whores and 98% people who have a more outgoing personality, women, people with status, etc.

In the real world, yes good looking overly confident guys get way too much credit but this site is a galapagos island where those things are a huge negative. When you decide charismatic attractive people are worthless, but not only that a nuisance to be dealt with , then you end up isolated and with ugly so called smart people's opinions.
if that means making it more like reddit so be it.

I am a charismatic attractive person, and everyone on 2+2 loves me.

Yes. Less of floccinaucinihilipilification on 2+2 would be a helpful and positive factor for regrowth, and obviously the new owners know this. Hence, the new rules - which are probably not intended to be followed entirely literally, but merely to make people think twice about their responses to others' posts, no mattter how unintelligent and unintelligible many of them may appear to be.

shirtless sammy in his garden pants would make quite the 2p2 billboard

Stupid reddit. reddit is fun no longer works. Nor do a bunch of other apps. What do people use now?

2+2

Link?

2+2 died in the great fires of 2017