[nir]

I remember this story from another angle - when Reddit was a few years old you'd see stories claiming his presence, an Israel ex-commando, on the plane "proves" that Israel was behind 9/11. Nutty, but these submissions were doing pretty well, often hitting homepage (IIRC some of them were from a site called "what really happened" or similar)

For me it was an early clue on the "social news" world that's still unfolding. I believe it might turn out to resemble humanity's past in surprising ways.

[littlegiantcap]

Reddit is a great site, but it has a serious issue with confirmation bias among its users. There's a tongue-in-cheek way the users acknowledge it by calling themselves "the hivemind" It's both good and bad though. Good, because you create an addictive experience for current users but new users can sometimes feel ostracized. Then again with 19million users, what do I know they're obviously doing something right with the community. All I know is while I may enjoy it I would never take any news I read on there as entirely factual.