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Reddit; Favourites and suggestions
Topic Started: May 20 2015, 09:51 AM (821 Views)
Miva
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I decided I wanted to try out reddit today. All I've ever used it for was advertising GS related things on the appropriate board.

Those who use reddit: can you give me ideas of good boards to join, please?

Those who dislike it: this is the wrong topic for you, please don't post here telling us what you think of it and why.
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Nikki
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One of my favourites is TIL (today I learned...), about small general knowledge trivia. Also, LPT (life pro tips), about small hacks to fight those little annoyances of everyday life.

I know other good subreddits, but they are much more interest-specific. I suggest you try to think of the topics that interest you, and write them in the search bar. You will be directed to several subreddits that coincide with that, then I recommend you have a look at them, and after a process of trial and error, you subscribe to those you like the most. That's how I found the ones I like best.
Edited by Nikki, May 20 2015, 11:35 AM.
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RedliwLedah
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If this is a specific topic about what people's favorites boards are, or suggestions for boards, it should probably have a more specific name.

Whole point of Reddit is that there are a crap ton of user governed subreddits. Search for things you like. Browse the front page for a while, and if you ever notice that links you enjoy keep being from specific subs, then go check those out.

For general things in a similar vein of TIL, there's life hacks, which is going to be very similar to LPT, and TIFU.
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Diego, the mentor
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/r/AskHistorians is awesome because itīs heavily modded so thereīs not much jokes and everything needs to have a source to back it up
/r/IamA sometimes has interesting people that actually have nice discussions
/r/Whowouldwin is also a hit or miss, sometimes they have interesting matches and sometimes they are just silly
but it does depends on your interests, so find something to fit your needs; Iīd reccomend not taking anything seriously and be prepared for jokes and stuff
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cipher
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I agree with Nikki, search for and subscribe to the forums that fit your specific interests.

On top of that I suggest unsubbing some of the default subreddits that don't fit your interests, otherwise they will clog up your feed.

Also a fair warning that some of the larger subs tend to be trashy, and medium size ones tend to have a good balance of activity, passionate users, and civility.

Some of my favorite sub's:
R/askhistorians
R/askreddit
R/askscience
R/badhistory
R/changemyview
R/relationships
R/subredditdrama
Edited by cipher, May 20 2015, 06:22 PM.
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Miva
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Thanks for the suggestions guys.

First thing I did was unsubscribe to a load of them.

It's funny Diem just got home and told me he's just signed up to Reddit, we thought the same thing on the same day. It's partly because a lot of people said they used it on the news topic. And then a few days ago we watched what CGP Grey had to say about it. (I've been finally working my way through his back catalogue.)
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Ashtoro
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I don't post much, sitting around 750 comment Karma and no Link Karma. I unsubsribed a bunch of defaults and subscribed to /r/FireEmblem, /r/Pokemon, /r/SmashBros, and /r/GoldenSun.
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Miva
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Do smaller reddits (like golden sun) still make it up your front page despite rarely having 30 people up vote them?
I'm lead to believe they have pretty good maths behind the system, but I don't know much about how it works in practice.
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cipher
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Yeah they still make it up onto your page. I'm not sure how the formulas work but I still get smaller stuff (like a score of 10) in my feed interspersed among the huge ones.
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td260
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I tend to follow subreddits with a reason behind them, like going to r/loremasters, r/dnd and r/rpg for inspiration and advice regarding tabletop roleplaying games.

The "porn" network is pretty great as well. No, it's not actual porn. It's subreddits like r/earthporn, r/spaceporn, r/foodporn, etc. They're all high quality images of beautiful scenery/food and stuff like that.

When the light is strong the shadows thrown out, become a deeper Darkness.... But It's those dark shadows that allow the world to be so..." Solar Boy Django
"Even the darkest night turns to dawn eventually... Our sun will rise again." -Miles Edgeworth
"What's done is done. You can't change the past. But it doesn't mean that the future is decided! What you do right now... That's what will determine the future!"-Master Otenko
"Every night will have a day. Even forever has to come to an end"- Chrono Trigger
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RedliwLedah
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And for those looking for that sort of thing, there is a very wide variety of actual porn subreddits. Good place to get into specifics.
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Sagie
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Gonna cut that line of conversation off before it goes any further. :P
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td260
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see, I just wanted to share the pretty backgrounds and nature pictures, not delve into the internet's collection of depravity.
When the light is strong the shadows thrown out, become a deeper Darkness.... But It's those dark shadows that allow the world to be so..." Solar Boy Django
"Even the darkest night turns to dawn eventually... Our sun will rise again." -Miles Edgeworth
"What's done is done. You can't change the past. But it doesn't mean that the future is decided! What you do right now... That's what will determine the future!"-Master Otenko
"Every night will have a day. Even forever has to come to an end"- Chrono Trigger
"I am a traveler of both time and space, and a swimmer of dreams" -Luke Atmey
To err is human... to really F*** things up, you need a computer.
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Catman
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Reddit is literally Imgur links for days. If you're looking for better, 4chan will have everything you want... and don't want.
Edited by Catman, May 22 2015, 08:43 AM.
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Miva
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I have been on 4chan once or twice, but yeah it's not for me. I understand that it isn't all bad, but the attitudes there and the culture aren't inviting for everyone. It's also smaller, with a smaller range of interests being discussed.
Reddit (as far as I can tell) is what you make of it. If a particular subreddit is only giving you imgur links and you don't like that then you can just unsubscribe and find things you do want. There seems to be quite a few toxic subreddits too, but yeah just don't sign up to them.

Anyway like I said this isn't really the place of this debate. Make a new topic in the soap box if you care to discuss it more. I probably wont though.
I still don't really feel like I've got the hang of reddit. I added a load of general and specific boards, but I dunno: most of what's coming up on the first page isn't of interest to me. I haven't found it useful as a news source yet. Any advice?

(First thing to do is remove /aww, as much as I like cute animal pictures it's saturating my feed.)
Edited by Miva, May 26 2015, 12:43 PM.
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