Poll: WYSIWYG Editor
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As I was saying earlier, thousands of people manage to post on reddit using markdown every day. They are not all technical people, and a lot of them are, shall we say, not very bright.
You make a good point, although I have never posted anything on there so I have no idea how their text input is done. Reddit is another site that I have no fucking idea why it is a thing.
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@Intercourse said:
Reddit is another site that I have no fucking idea why it is a thing.
It's a collection of online communities. Just about anything you might be interested in has a subreddit.
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It's a website version of Usenet, except it's owned by a single company instead of being peer-to-peer.
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Just about anything you might be interested in has a subreddit.
I get that, but it is like going to a restaurant that has a 20 page menu. When you try to do everything and be everything to everyone, you do nothing well. In the case of Reddit, everything they serve just tastes like moderators turned in to dictators. And cat memes. Lots of fucking cat memes.
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I would say it's more like going to a food court that has 400 restaurants. You won't see any cat memes on r/haskell, for example. The power-hungry mod thing, on the other hand is a real issue, but I'm not sure how to fix that. If you make a subreddit, you're a mod, and so is anyone you pick to be a mod, and anyone they pick, etc. So basically any idiot can be a mod on reddit.
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thousands of people manage to post on reddit using markdown every day.
Markdown is great for simple formatting like bold and italic. Trying to use it for anything more complex is a problem. And Discourse's implementation is just broken.
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If you make a subreddit, you're a mod, and so is anyone you pick to be a mod, and anyone they pick, etc. So basically any idiot can be a mod on reddit.
They should adopt a trust algorithm like Discourse. A person has to read 25% of all the posts in order to remain a mod. With the traffic they get, that would weed out the posers...
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All posts in all subreddits that have been posted in the last 100 days to stay mod in your 10 post subreddit. That should be enough to keep them busy for a few years.
Filed Under: Keeping them busy and away from the rest of the internet.... pretty much the same way it is now
