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/D_A_R_E Jun 29 '12

Wouldn't that reward people for making their 10 second cat GIF into a 10 second cat youtube video?

You know, like people will make images of text and fake iphone screenshots to get karma with text posts.

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u/conor_smith Jun 30 '12

But I'm much less likely to watch a video, any video, no matter how long the length than a GIF because I can't watch a video on my phone, but I can easily view a GIF.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '12

Let them be, it'll probably be a minority. There will be less rivals for the "real" submissions anyway and that's the point