r/circlebroke • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '12

Dear Circlebrokers, what changes would you make to fix reddit?

Perhaps as a way of pushing back against the negativity, I challenge my fellow circlebrokers to explore ways of how they might "fix" reddit.

What would you change? Defaults? Karma System? The People?

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u/IcyDefiance Jun 29 '12

Actually it does, but only with a certain degree of accuracy. If the only posts in a thread are all one or two sentences long, it's probably just a series of jokes with no depth. Typical for a meme post. However, if someone types a 5 paragraph essay, he probably said something important.

However, there are storytellers in joke threads, so the "fluff" would work its way in once in a while, and there are very deep posts where there's really not much to comment about. These are exceptions, but not exactly rare exceptions.

So it would be a lot better, but maybe not good enough.

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u/SolarWonk Jun 30 '12

Right. The optimal solution is one that does enough to overcome the fluff, but reduces the bloat. Thought-provoking posts would still fall through the expository filter, just like funny/original posts still fall through the current system.