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by onecaseman 5011 days ago
Yeah, I for space reasons I treated them as more similar than they are. Definitely a weakness of the post. My problems with Reddit are more my lack of ability to use it to filter only relevant content for me and strip out, for lack of a better phrase, the "geek content" that's always on its home page. Just seems really hard for a non-tech guy to navigate/get value out of. My concern is not getting content there, but being able to only read the right content for me as a user.
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skymt 5011 days ago
Reddit's mechanism for filtering content is "subreddit" subscriptions. For example if you're only interested in links about movies and music, you subscribe to the subreddits for those subjects. Of course, as Reddit's demographic is geeky, so is its taste in entertainment, so the best that'll get you is geeky movies and music.

The big killer feature that could have helped is user-created subreddits. You could create reddit.com/r/quibb, run it on an invite-only basis, and moderate the submitted content to keep it close to your ideals. Of course, that would only solve the problems of content and membership; it would do nothing to fix Reddit's design.

You're right that Reddit does context poorly. Perhaps you should look at Metafilter as an example of how to add context to aggregated news. Take this post for (an exceptionally long) example: [http://metafilter.com/120387] It has a single main link summarized above the fold, with a large amount of historical context and supplemental links below it. Most posts to Metafilter don't go quite that deep, but almost all provide at least one or two extra links on the subject.

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enfinity8 5011 days ago
News content is distinguished from all other content by the nature of its time sensitivity value and geographic relevance to information consumers. nwzPaper has launched a system that can push content in real-time from a global level all of the way down to the local level instantly when a journalist publishes. The UI is intuitive and much better than reddit. It also provides a journalist perspective for added background on the author. Did I mention direct subscription...and it's not rss?

Check it out:

http://nwzpaper.com/articleView?articleId=4

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