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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
inb4 hivemind
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This is honestly the main reason. r/FRC could in theory be a good community, but just happens not to be, mostly for historical reasons.
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Originally Posted by EricH
Hah.
Ever watch someone's reputation bar turn red in under an hour? I have. Some folks have no trouble just dishing out negative reputation--and I'd be more than willing to bet that most of those folks would have no trouble just downvoting any thread that they felt was "in the way". No matter if the question was answered or not!
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I'm honestly not so sure this kind of thing is bad. Some posters are real pieces of work, and I think they deserve to have that reputation follow them around for a while. Getting negreped is also a humbling experience, people who you know think what you said was really bad. I know getting negreped changed how I behave, and helped me be a better part of the community. I believe red dots can be a force for good, when sparingly (or sometimes not so sparingly) applied.
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Originally Posted by Joe G.
Also, I'm going to go ahead and point out that of the top 25 posts of all time on r/frc, the breakdown is as follows:
- 9 mildly funny, but meaningless and tangentially related images (most being bad photoshop jobs)
- 8 memes
- A screencap from FRC Confessions
- A reaction GIF
- A joke CAD (Accumulating more than twice the votes of the highest voted legitimate CAD review post)
- A news item presented in GIF form
- A photo of another team's robot, with a title arguably making fun of it
- A post congratulating the 2014 championships winners (to their credit, top post of all time)
- A genuinely touching post about a user's FRC experience over the years
- A genuinely cool feat of engineering on an FRC robot
Interesting/funny? Maybe (I'd argue that various facebook pages are effectively filling this role). Comparable to ChiefDelphi in value? Not even close; I'm really only interested in three out of the 25. Increasing the community's size won't impact the kind of content that inevitably rises to the top with a voting system.
Others have also made excellent points about anonymity. On reddit, using your real name is frowned upon. Here, we can get to know each other as people. |
This is another great reason why FRC type discussion wouldn't fit well on reddit. Reddit for whatever reason tends to be basically democratized clickbait, and although there are some great communities on reddit (looking at you
r/surfing), they involve images or questions that generate somewhat random discussion. The feel to the site even across different subreddits is very different from CD, in a way I'd argue is largely negative.
That's annother great thing about CD, even if a user is anonomous (which almost none are), I still can "get to know" their username, and find out their rep, how many posts they have, how long they've been posting, etc. Usually, I know a fair bit about their team or region, and sometimes even know them personally. On reddit, I essentially never care about who posted what, unless they are a mod or something.