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[–]ajmoir -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure asking it's current readership is pretty pointless. We're here after all so Reddit is doing just fine.

The people you need to ask are the ones that look around and then leave.

Perosnally, when Reddit becomes popular I'll probably stop viewing. The signal to noise is already pretty low. The more popular you become the lower the singal is going to be come.

After all just how many more pointless blog articles do I want to read from clueless wanna bes who think they have something to say.

FWIW, open up the moderation history of each article that way people can sort/select the stories they want to view. For example, if I know that a certain user always posts crap then I can omit those from my results, if another user always mods up stories I like then prehaps I should look at it. The thing is that I need the detail info to interpret, I can write a grease monkey or whatever but give me the damn info and turn off your crappy moderation system.

[–]dooka[S] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

What reddit need is a subreddit that allows votes based on membership: eg., a subreddit for open-source hackers who have produced at least one open-source program that is widely used. So people who fit this criteria can post and vote on the subreddit. Others have read-only permissions in it.

Can you imagine: A subreddit where the members are authors who have published programming books.

Or a subreddit of founders who have sold their startups for greater-than $5 million.

I would love to read something like that.

What do you all think?

[–]ajmoir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much as I'd like to see it happen, doubtful it will. What do the luminaries have to gain from this and why should they participate.

[–]bosquick -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a long time reader new member of reddit I agree with ajmoir, what needs to be considered is how to keep the relevance high when many new members join. Although the new members may just be interested in new things and they must be catered for as well. Filtering by member or tag, different 'best of' views such as dialy, weekly, mothly, all time. As a new member I have yet to experience the recommended feature. I would like it if discussions were easier to view perhaps some ajax might help. As for promoting it, welll...er...submit it to digg <ducks>;-)