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RSS --> Digg --> Reddit --> Snapzu

I seem to keep migrating when these sites want to change what made them good. I understand the endgame for most websites is to "monetize", but the owners of these sites need to do it in a non-disruptive way. These sites were successful because the content was created by the users and not manipulated to appeal to advertisers. I hope Snapzu does its best to avoid this problem in the future.

8 years ago by WillWorkForFood with 8 comments

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  • bogdan
    +3

    I personally still use RSS to keep up with the actual news. It's an amazing way to read aggregated content and I hope sites will have RSS feeds forever.

  • jarekb84
    +3

    My path has been similar, except starting with Fark. I'm not sure how Snapzu will turn out, but horribly implemented monetization is what killed Digg, and looks like it's starting to happen with Reddit. One thing this place has going for it is the reputation system, which may help it grow, but I'm interested in seeing how they prevent people from gaming that system. I hope we don't see what power users were able to do in Digg.

    • MAGISTERLUDI
      +2

      What is unique to the "reputation system"? It's controlled by user responses just as all other sites.

      • jarekb84
        +2

        I'm a new user, so maybe I need to dig a bit more into what the xp, points, levels, and reputation actually do here. But based on this post from the blog, seems reputation will affect visibility of submissions.

        Spamming will also be down voted and thus lowering a spammer's reputation score. This will make it difficult for content to be seen by anyone other than the spammer thus destroying the incentive to spam.

        It's not a unique feature on similar websites, but something Reddit didn't have.

        • MAGISTERLUDI (edited 8 years ago)
          +2

          "Spam" is subjective. I don't mean to be negative about this site, but is is subject to the same abuses as any other.

          • jarekb84
            +1

            I should have quoted a smaller part of that point. I wanted to emphasize the bit about reputation affecting visibility of posts. Reddit had karma, but it didn't (as far as I know) affect the chance a post makes it to the front page or top of a subreddit.

            • MAGISTERLUDI (edited 8 years ago)
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              As a matter of survival, all social sites defer to users. Good or bad, is again subjective. If your looking for an agreeable one (whatever the context) , then I suggest no site of this ilk will or should suffice. Someone, out of necessity, is always in control.