Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] our bridge collapse

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 8/30/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Bryan Venable wrote:
>
> > It peaked at #4, I think.
>
> That's the highest I saw it.  I've had 16,522 hits in the 15 hours since
> it was posted, and that was from 15,265 different IPs (so not too many
> reloads).
>
> Clearly, reddit is an excellent way to get people to see your web page.
> Unfortunately, people can write outrageous or inaccurate comments

Outrageous and inaccurate comments on reddit?? No way; I can't believe it!!

> and
> these sometimes get pushed to the top because when people write to correct
> them, the comment gives them some points.  More clearly wrong means more
> corrections and more points and you get your baloney pushed to the top of
> the list.  I hope they'll fix that.

(Note that the problem of people citing crap a lot also happens in
academia sometimes.) The problem with something as big as reddit is
clearly that even if 99.9% of people have enough frontal cortex not to
feed the trolls, the other 1 in 1000 will still flood the first page.
My solution is not to read comments at all, ever, unless there are
fewer than 20 or so. And even then I usually skip it.

> People can post anonymously, and they do so.  They seem averse to telling
> us *anything* about their background and expertise, or lack thereof, but
> they are very willing claim great certainty about their ideas.  It's a way
> for losers to show off.  If I get on reddit.com again, I will ignore the
> stupid comments.  Unfortunately, that might not solve the problem and the
> very stupidest comment of all might be found right at the top of the list.

The comments are mostly just graffiti, so I would recommend that you
ignore them.

jking

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