Talk:Reddit

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Here is the original discussion. PLEASE DON'T REMOVE ANY MATERIAL FROM THIS TALK PAGE. Feel free to contribute your thoughts, and don't forget to sign them.--qwerty967 01:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

This article is pretty pathetic. Its a poorly written page with lots of outgoing links to advertise Reddit. Brinkost

Agreed, reddit is not popular enough for an article at all. 60.241.50.163 07:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

--OK. That settles that then. Obviously if you don't use the site then it's not worth knowing about. Jackass. --59.167.104.22 06:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Reddit is an excellent site, the information on how the link ranking works is very interesting.

Since I came here for the purpose of finding out about the history of reddit, I think it merits a entry. 198.162.45.143

Reddit is an extremely popular site with tons of active memebrs and it surely deserves an entry. Shabda 14:33, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I spend a lot of time on Reddit, and I think it deserves an entry.

Agreed. If the editors delete this article, then be consistent and remove the article on Digg, a site much like Reddit.

Reddit should have an article. Wikipedia editors should stop meddling with stuff they don't actually know about...

Reddit should definitely have an article. To the best of my knowledge, it has tens of thousands of unique visitors a month and is unique in its way of user participation in news reporting. The statement that it isn't popular enough to be worth an entry surprises me to the point that it must either mean that the commenter has no idea what he is talking about, or that he is making a deliberate attempt to cover up reddit's existence. 16:32, 1 October 2006 84.48.164.139

reddit is as good as these recent comments make it out to be, but the wikipedia entry is as bad as the editors say. It doesn't even link to digg when it has the chance, for god's sake. --71.231.224.252 16:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I started using Reddit when I got tired of Digg...it's a great link site, and definitely superior (IMHO) to almost any user-supported link site on the net. The articles linked on Reddit are usually of a better quality than Digg. Reddit's popularity has been steadily growing. It definitely deserves an entry!

Didn't Jimmy Wales state that he wants there to be an article on everything by a certain date?

Reddit is my primary source of news and computer related stuff. I think it's far better than other similar sites on the web, digg included 87.11.120.47 17:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Reddit is as entry-worthy as digg or slashdot. The page just needs some improvement and elaboration. --Blogjack 19:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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This whole discussion is a prime example of why I don't contribute to Wikipedia anymore. Of course Reddit deserves an article, and of course the article should link to http://reddit.com. The "Site Purity Team" seems way more concerned with grammar and with censorship of anything that's not their pet thing than with letting actual information escape into Wikipedia. They can have it. --Bart Massey 17:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I vote to have an article on reddit because it is significant in its category (social networking link blogs). I use it regularly also. --MMX 18:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I find that Reddit has an unusually large amount of political articles and do not agree that it should have its own entry

Reddit definitely should have an article. It may be smaller than Digg, but has higher quality. Which matters?

While Reddit is my primary source for both cs/tech news (programming.reddit.com) and regular news (it has supplanted both Slashdot and Digg for me), the crux of this argument seems to be whether Reddit is popular enough for a Wikipedia article. Question: does Wikipedia have an objective standard for popularity that, once met, allows a page on the topic to be created, and if not met, denies that permission? Or is that determination based solely upon the subjective estimate of whoever has the power to censor Wikipedia articles? Second, is there any objective data Reddit (or Digg, etc) could apply against either standard? The only two sources I can think of are 1) traffic stats for reddit.com and programming.reddit.com (yes, both must be considered), which only the site owners can provide, and 2) a Google trends analysis, which is freely available and illustrative, though not necessarily conclusive. fbg111 20:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

reddit is a great site it should be held in the highest regards.

[edit] The Great Reddit Crash?

This section seems overly dramatic for a simple site outage. Nobody is going to remember or care about a short outage in the future, it happens all the time. The content in this section is certainly not encyclopedic. I propose this section be removed. --Ghewgill 18:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Of course it should be removed/rewritten sooner or later. But right now, it feels right. Right now, I'm suffering serious withdrawal syndromes. 84.137.115.18 18:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

What's up with the crash? I can't find any other info anywhere. 206.210.72.22 19:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The IP is 72.5.28.218, add it to your hosts file. Blog post. Deadfones 19:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

There was a lot of bullshit written on there. Very unencyclopedic, and unsuitable for Wikipedia. I removed most of it. Freshyill 19:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The "outage" section is no longer relevant as reddit is back online. Wikipedia is not a news service. --Ghewgill 21:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not seeing it online Freshyill 22:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Fear not: The internet is self-healing! --Ghewgill 23:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I still don't see it. --Danlock2 04:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Going on 24 hours and I still don't see it. I think that a major site like this being out for an entire day with no word from the admins may qualify as being Wikipedia-worthy. Freshyill 06:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

reddit continues work for me. They posted a blog entry explaining the dns blunder. If you can't read that yet, here's the google blogsearch result for it. Again, wikipedia is not (WP:NOT#OR) a news service. --Ghewgill 08:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

The reddit blog posts don't work either, since they're hosted on reddit.com. The site doesn't work, but the rss feed keeps updating with new headlines for me, whats going on? 70.107.64.60 20:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

It's okay guys. I put it back up.