Reddit - Democratic Feed Filtering & the Come to Me Web
February 18th, 2006
While I still hold to everything I said in my Social Bookmarking “Research” post, I am developing more respect for Reddit’s radical democratic culture every day. I credit this post with helping me reorient my thinking.
My initial frustration came from receiving negative feedback on bookmarked stories (sometimes a great deal) with no context provided by comments. Now that I understand why the feedback comes without context, I can put it in its proper perspective.
Reddit’s feedback mechanism is so heavily used, at least from what I can tell, because of its ability to predict stories that will interest a reader based on their likes and dislikes. After I voted several stories up and down (I’d rather just ignore the ones I don’t like), I started receiving recommended stories that interested me without having to filter through the entire list of submitted stories myself.
Though I’m not sure that Reddit will be an everyday tool, it is an example of the rapidly emerging software built around the come to me Web structure that is made possible by RSS feeds.
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