Why cant this place be more like Reddit?

June1992

There's 3,300 posts in the Trump thread for example. Who wants to read all that?

Why not have the best, most upvoted (or liked in the case), posts rise to the top like Reddit and make things far more readable?

Im back reading Boards after a sabbatical but I see nothing has changed. It's still very much Old Web and a chore to peruse. What a shame and a wasted opportunity.

Back to Reddit for me it is then.

Fr_Dougal

Bye now.

OldMrBrennan83

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colm_mcm

Oh well.

June1992

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Bye now.

Typical Boards thanks whoring.

wakka12

Because they are different websites , whats the point of having Boards and reddit if theyre both the same

Fr_Dougal

June1992 wrote: »

Typical Boards thanks whoring.

Bye, bye bye, bye, bye, bye.

gctest50

Dignitas is where you need, show them this thread and I'm sure there'll be no charge

Because its boards!!

Duckworth_Luas

June1992 wrote: »

Typical Boards thanks whoring.

It would be the top post in the thread on Reddit

SimonTemplar

June1992 wrote: »

There's 3,300 posts in the Trump thread for example. Who wants to read all that?

Why not have the best, most upvoted (or liked in the case), posts rise to the top like Reddit and make things far more readable?

Im back reading Boards after a sabbatical but I see nothing has changed. It's still very much Old Web and a chore to peruse. What a shame and a wasted opportunity.

Back to Reddit for me it is then.

Unless you browsed the internet using Netscape or IE3 using dial up when rounded corners were considered cutting edge web design, you know nothing of the 'old web'

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

June1992 wrote: »

There's 3,300 posts in the Trump thread for example. Who wants to read all that?

Why not have the best, most upvoted (or liked in the case), posts rise to the top like Reddit and make things far more readable?

Im back reading Boards after a sabbatical but I see nothing has changed. It's still very much Old Web and a chore to peruse. What a shame and a wasted opportunity.

Back to Reddit for me it is then.

Well , as they say, if you prefer Reddit then go use Reddit. This is boards and does what Boards does. It's not rocket science.

aaronjumper

I for one will miss you terribly. I can only hope that time heals my wounds.

DontThankMe

Make boards great again!

Alf Stewart.

**logs into Reddit to tell its users he's going back to boards**

Reminds me in a mickey comparison competition.

Skylinehead

June1992 wrote: »

There's 3,300 posts in the Trump thread for example. Who wants to read all that?

Why not have the best, most upvoted (or liked in the case), posts rise to the top like Reddit and make things far more readable?

Because we're not an echo chamber. I like Reddit but not for debate, if you hide the unpopular opinions at the bottom of the page then it's not a discussion, it's a circle jerk.

KERSPLAT!

DontThankMe wrote: »

Make boards great again!

We'll have no more of that!!

If you prefer Reddit then use Reddit. I can't catch on to it at all but sure different strokes for different folks

kfallon

Skylinehead wrote: »

Because we're not an echo chamber. I like Reddit but not for debate, if you hide the unpopular opinions at the bottom of the page then it's not a discussion, it's a circle jerk.

Tbh you're not really allowed voice the unpopular opinions here anyway

aaronjumper

kfallon wrote: »

Tbh you're not really allowed voice the unpopular opinions here anyway

Ban the heretic!

lawlolawl

I don't really "get" Reddit.

It's basically an image hosting/hotlinking site with votes. Just really low content and not even vaguely conducive to discussion.

Lady Haywire

Search thread > * > Sort by > Most thanked.

Really fúcking difficult so that was. :rolleyes:

Grayson

kfallon wrote: »

Tbh you're not really allowed voice the unpopular opinions here anyway

Except for all the threads that have unpopular opinions. Including the one called unpopular opinions.

Skylinehead

kfallon wrote: »

Tbh you're not really allowed voice the unpopular opinions here anyway

> says everyone from all sides

Unless you're talking about racism or whatever, in which case good.

If you want boards to be more like Reddit, then why not just go to Reddit ...?

Star_Nupa

Use both? So far, none of my computers have exploded having a tab in Reddit and one in Boards open at the same time...

KingBrian2

Boards should be more like Stormfront. Get the controversy out of the way.:)

Fleawuss

OP has been devoured. Only small bits of fur and scattered bones remain.
Next!

Stigura

lawlolawl wrote: »

I don't really "get" Reddit.

It's basically an image hosting/hotlinking site with votes. Just really low content and not even vaguely conducive to discussion.

Yep. I only ever end up there looking at some amusing meme, or what ever, from a link elsewhere. I really don't care about the comments below them. Who gives a f**k what some random stranger thinks of another random strangers Confession Bear?

I look at the subject matter and f**k off.

Wibbs

Skylinehead wrote: »

Because we're not an echo chamber. I like Reddit but not for debate, if you hide the unpopular opinions at the bottom of the page then it's not a discussion, it's a circle jerk.

This in a big way. For me anyway. OK I'm an old fart, so that may be one reason I don't like reddit style layouts, but the echo chamber tendency is far greater on such a platform. Sure it's easy to read the top up voted replies, but that reflects the local ecosystem and worldview of the sub. Grand for techies stuff, even welcome, but not nearly so much for actual debate. Granted, it does seem as if more and more people want more and more echo chambers, but again for me I usually learn far more about myself and my position on a subject from those who disagree with me.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I really want to see what Reddit is like but I actually couldn't be arsed going to the effort to check. It's a sorry day when you're too lazy to type a website address into an address bar.

Senna

I never really got reddit, I have visited the site many time, but I can never understand what I'm looking at.

Harry Palmr

Senna wrote: »

I never really got reddit, I have visited the site many time, but I can never understand what I'm looking at.

You're looking at random posts, which are the ones most upvoted.

RDM_83 again

Using Reddit more has made me appreciate that while Boards has its flaws it could be a lot worse, Reddit got astroturfed to bits with the US elections in its main forums to a point that you might as well be reading official Hillary clinton press releases. That and the super SJW cadres that go around inflitrating moderatorship on seemingly innocuous forums.

That said the reason I have been using it more is because with the Reddit is Fun app I can actually read the site on a slow mobile phone data connection, with the apparent death of m.boards.ie my usage has fallen hugely

mahamageehad

I like Reddit. I use it for conversation and fan theories about TV shows that I follow. Things that dont have much of a following on boards like Orphan Black. I also like reading some of the more interesting AMAs as they get big names and that's cool or mad stories like the guy with two working cöcks.

I like boards for something completely different. Take the new werewolf game forum for example, that'd never work on boards. I use boards for general news, after hours randomness, aforementioned werewolf game and just to generally keep an overview of what's happening at home.

Amazingly I've found that you can use different websites for different things!

tomwaterford

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I really want to see what Reddit is like but I actually couldn't be arsed going to the effort to check. It's a sorry day when you're too lazy to type a website address into an address bar.

Probably ok on a computer


But absolutely terrible on the phone.....too much effort to use it is found


That site that rhymes with orange....but can't be named :rolleyes: at least when it was working you could look at it on the phone....

Edups

tomwaterford wrote: »

Probably ok on a computer


But absolutely terrible on the phone.....too much effort to use it is found


That site that rhymes with orange....but can't be named :rolleyes: at least when it was working you could look at it on the phone....

I want to know the site now

Arghus

Reddit hurts my eyes and, frequently, my brain.

Jericho Caine

Edups wrote: »

I want to know the site now

Imagine Boards with no rules frequented by people who make Mussolini look like a centrist. Credit where it's due, the place is a comedy goldmine. I spent four hours laughing reading the posts on there.

Horses for courses. I'm a boardsie, boyfriend is a Redditor. He says "Oh you guys are so sad!"; also has this weird idea that boards mods HATE reddit. Sure I've never even looked on the site (outside of the Elevator Ritual) - maybe you would do better staying over there? If you like it better, like.

Del.Monte

Jericho Caine wrote: »

Imagine Boards with no rules frequented by people who make Mussolini look like a centrist. Credit where it's due, the place is a comedy goldmine. I spent four hours laughing reading the posts on there.

I thought that was Politics.ie

CruelCoin

June1992 wrote: »

There's 3,300 posts in the Trump thread for example. Who wants to read all that?

Why not have the best, most upvoted (or liked in the case), posts rise to the top like Reddit and make things far more readable?

Im back reading Boards after a sabbatical but I see nothing has changed. It's still very much Old Web and a chore to peruse. What a shame and a wasted opportunity.

Back to Reddit for me it is then.

"Why cant this place be more like Reddit?"

You mean you want Boards to become the same as the circle-jerking, vote brigading, yes-man ****hole Reddit is?

Here we can something approaching a debate, without getting a vote brigade auto-ban.

_Kaiser_

Boards is not Reddit, or Facebook, or Twitter (although to be fair, with some of the decisions that have been made in recent years you'd sometimes forget that)

Boards is a discussion forum, built around the idea of conversations and the natural flow of them. I'll agree on the thanks whoring to a point (particularly in AH), but it can be a useful thing too to acknowledge a post/idea you genuinely agree with or which was well put - everything in moderation though. Personally I find the "gimmick posters" far more annoying myself as it's just the same line every time regardless of the topic.

I can see how the "short attention span" types of the smartphone era might get frustrated though. Myself I find the Reddit/Twitter style of media virtually unusable but they can't be avoided either as particularly the latter is leaned on more and more for news and comment elsewhere.

_Kaiser_

Wibbs wrote: »

This in a big way. For me anyway. OK I'm an old fart, so that may be one reason I don't like reddit style layouts, but the echo chamber tendency is far greater on such a platform. Sure it's easy to read the top up voted replies, but that reflects the local ecosystem and worldview of the sub. Grand for techies stuff, even welcome, but not nearly so much for actual debate. Granted, it does seem as if more and more people want more and more echo chambers, but again for me I usually learn far more about myself and my position on a subject from those who disagree with me.

I'd agree with this one except that I've noticed that the same echo chamber effect has definitely seeped into the more "controversial" topics here in recent-ish times.

There's definitely a greater intolerance among Generation Internet for differing views or indeed anything that doesn't conform to the "validated" position, and rather than debate/counterpoint, you get pages and pages of childish name-calling, whataboutery and every "ist"/"ism" they can throw at you, but because of the echo chamber effect (and lazy "traditional" media staffed increasingly by these types themselves) the effects of this are magnified hugely which distorts the reality.

Bongalongherb

I tried reddit myself for a while but it's an intergalactic kegger of display, all over the place and not neat. Sh!te really. In my opinion.

ThisRegard

Because Reddit is a popularity circle jerk of a mess.

Lovely Bloke

Wibbs wrote: »

I usually learn far more about myself and my position on a subject from those who disagree with me.

No you don't.

Wibbs

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

No you don't.

I said I learn something about my position or myself, I didn't say I then agree with the contrary opinion. Spot the diff.

Four Phucs Ache

Hope boards stays the way it is.Reddit is a graphic mess on a screen.

Boards is a nice, well designed, neat set up that suits my eyeballs.

seamus

There are benefits to both styles.

Reddit's upvote system for threads means that absolute drivel ends up being unseen and if you browse in the standard layout, then you see all the worthwhile content first.

Boards on the other hand doesn't become an echo chamber because a particular viewpoint happened to get itself upvoted in a thread. The funny thing about reddit is that the same viewpoint will get very different reactions in different threads based on which "side" has inhabited that thread. Whereas on boards you can be pretty sure to get a consistent reaction to your opinion.

But the main difference here is scale. Boards wouldn't work at reddit scale. Every forum would be choked with nonsense threads with one or two responses, and any popular topics would be an unreadable 500-page mess within an hour.

And reddit wouldn't work at boards scale.

I've mentioned before though that it would be nice on boards to be able to optionally sort some threads into branches and sub-discussions. Once a heated thread has 4 or 5 discussions going on across eachother, it becomes painful to try and follow the whole thing. A branched format would make for a much nicer time.

Riddle101

The idea of most thanked posts being at the top of a thread seems like a popularity contest to me. Posters who are popular would tend to get more likes then ones who aren't, and then there would be an imbalance on threads. Knowing After Hours, every poster who makes a joke on a serious thread would be at the top due to the amount of likes they got which would detract from the discussion I think.

Lovely Bloke

Wibbs wrote: »

I said I learn something about my position or myself, I didn't say I then agree with the contrary opinion. Spot the diff.

I was quite simply disagreeing with you.

It was a joke, probably badly timed or something, but that's all it was.

You stated something about learning when someone disagrees with you. I disagreed with you.

Meh.

This is AH, not Feedback. Chill out man.