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by dmingod666 1933 days ago
Very well written.

Bill burr on his podcast was talking about, when he first discovered reddit. He couldn't understand what it was... He then realized later.. "it's a site for people that really like to type.. that's what it is.."

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I like to think of Wikipedia as a site for people who like to correct other people.
One of my favorite reddit shower thoughts:

"Wikipedia built the biggest modern information hub using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other."

It's really quite astonishing how powerful a force that is, and how well Wikipedia channels it toward something good!
"Well actually..." given form.
I'd never actually tried to describe Reddit so succinctly; in the same vein as yours, maybe Reddit is just Jeopardy where every comment must be in the form of a correction.

Perfectly accurate or not, I think the venn-diagram of "People unlikely to already know what Reddit is" overlaps heavily with "People who know and understand what Jeopardy is", making it an excellent analogy :)

This is brutal, and potent. Nicely done.
Oh, that cuts to the quick.