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Ever since the fall of Digg, Reddit has risen, even if the design isn’t the greatest. People now refer to Reddit as being the front page of the internet, it receives millions of visitors a month and has even made some people become “internet famous”. If your website gets on the front page of Reddit, be prepared for your site to go down with surge of visitors that will come to the site....
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June 7, 2012 3:12 PM
Spend some quality time with Reddit -- you'll find it an essential resource, a self-correcting marketplace of ideas. Get started with our guide.
To the uninitiated, Reddit looks like a mess — text links, comment threads, points, upvotes, downvotes. At best, posts seem contextless — at worst, totally random.
But spend some quality time with “The Front Page of the Internet,” and you’ll find it’s an essential resource, a self-correcting marketplace of ideas that’s nearly impervious to marketers.
Simply put, Reddit is a message board wherein users submit links. What differentiates it from a real-time information network like Twitter is that the stream of content is curated by the community. Items of value are “upvoted,” and those deemed unworthy are “downvoted.” This determines a post’s position on the site, and items that hit the front page are seen by hundreds of thousands of people (consequently, sending boatloads of traffic to the linked website).
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After President Obama's “surprise Q&A appearance Wednesday,” Poynter's Jeff Sonderman says, “it’s time for journalists to understand Reddit and the role it plays not only in culture, but in specific news events.”
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