I got really interested in reddit about ten days ago when digg introduced diggbar (and I immediately responded with no frames WordPress plugin, thanks but no thanks) and also when I've seen that 'Myth Busters' Adam Savage is an avid reddit user.
Crowd on reddit seems to be much more technical than digg and also unlike digg you don't really need to have any powerful friends to push you. If the story is good, it will simply make it to the front page (which is now something that I can confirm).
First few days I submitted couple of articles in all topics and that didn't work very well. These stories never got any votes.
I then decided to focus in only one topic which I felt I was the strongest in and for couple of days submitted really good articles (I knew they were good as that's my area of expertise). Since I was active only in one topic, I also got the chance to read very targeted, high quality articles on that topic that other users submitted.
And it took exactly nine days before I had my story up on the front page of reddit.com.
Which leads me to believe in the following:
- there is a human editor (topic moderator) who is promoting the story they like to the front page
- the human editor is getting signals from 'rising' stories, which works algorithmically probably calculating in your karma
- you don't need any powerful friends to make your story popular which makes reddit so good and makes submitting actually rewarding (unlike digg)
Make no doubt about it, front page of reddit is as powerful as front page of digg traffic-vise.
After this experience I can only wholeheartly recommend reddit.
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3 Comments
It easy to say "add interesting material" but actually this is a nightmare. Not all websiter has "interesting" material. For me Reddit was a waste of time, not only my stories never get even a single vote but even if i search on Reddit for my bookmarks i receive no results at all and of course i never fet even a single nofollow backlink from this site...
It is powerful as digg, but digg gives you more backlinks from my experience. I was at digg and reddit FP more than few times.
Vladimir, I might follow your lead and abandon Digg. It really burns me when people spoil a good thing or the powers that be come up with an idea that does not benefit IMO the community of users as a whole. On the other hand, I have been using Reddit as well as Stumbleupon. These I like. I guess sites on the Internet go through cycles, what has hot five years ago is not hot now. Digg may have dug its own hole (pun intended).