Do my subreddits qualify for MeFi Projects?

July 28, 2009 7:35 AM

MeFi Projects Question: Can I post links to some subsites I've created on reddit?

I've created a couple of subreddits, and wanted to see if it would be kosher to post links to them in MeFi Projects.

Thanks!

posted by reenum to Etiquette/Policy at 7:35 AM (21 comments total)

Not not be a total n00b here but what is a subreddit? [googling some...] Ah, if you mean something like this, then no, not really. We're looking for projects you've created and these seem to me, on first glance, to be more like micro-communities that share links within a reddit structure, is that about accurate?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:53 AM on July 28, 2009

Filling out a form is a project, now?
posted by Plutor at 8:13 AM on July 28, 2009

Plutor: "Filling out a form is a project, now?"

Some forms, yes.
posted by boo_radley at 8:14 AM on July 28, 2009

Previous subreddit project with a "jessamyn has reservations"
posted by chrismear at 8:51 AM on July 28, 2009

You got your reddit in my MeFi!
You got your MeFi in my reddit.
Two tastes that do NOT go great together.

Please don't cross the streams.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 10:41 AM on July 28, 2009

boo_radley, which forms?
posted by the aloha at 11:47 AM on July 28, 2009

Some of the work that goes into a subreddit includes creating a custom style sheet, a few people who know the site can even add or remove features to the site via the style sheet. For the redditchan project, the subreddit had the ability to post images in the comment thread and every poster would show up as 'anonymous' which I thought was kind of neat.
posted by hellojed at 12:39 PM on July 28, 2009

total protonic reversal would occur.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:57 PM on July 28, 2009

that's a really big twinkie.
posted by loquacious at 1:24 PM on July 28, 2009

Can I post links to some subsites I've created on reddit?

Maybe it would be more palatable to everyone here if you allowed them to change all those subsites to Comic Sans.
posted by davejay at 1:54 PM on July 28, 2009

No human being would stack subreddits like this.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:40 PM on July 28, 2009 [1 favorite]

...which forms?

I'm not boo_radley, but I am familar with a certain form 1040.
posted by TedW at 2:40 PM on July 28, 2009

Mostly hipaa and ferpa stuff to transfer information between agencies.
posted by boo_radley at 3:02 PM on July 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

reenum, when someone asks you if you're a mod, you say "YES"!
posted by Liver at 3:33 PM on July 28, 2009 [2 favorites]

Oh God I'm feeling dizzy. The world is flat, metafilter is edgy, the world is flat, metafilter is at the edge....
posted by Elmore at 3:55 PM on July 28, 2009

Wait, wait! I know this one!

Is it.... Ghostbusters 2?!
posted by zarq at 4:47 PM on July 28, 2009

So can I post my tax returns to Projects? I used TurboTax.com!
posted by mullacc at 4:48 PM on July 28, 2009

Only very creative tax returns, and I'm not sure if you'd really want to publicize them.
posted by wendell at 7:47 PM on July 28, 2009

I think it would be really neat if Metafilter had as little to do with Reddit as possible.
And I'm pretty sure Reddit is the online community equivalent of Comic Sans in the first place.
posted by dunkadunc at 12:39 AM on July 29, 2009

Why don't you link to your "subreddits" (whatever that actually means -- what's a reddit?) here so we can consider them as potential project postings and as examples of this sort of thing? If they're good and appropriate, people will say "Yes!" If they're not, you'll know directly.
posted by pracowity at 3:15 AM on July 29, 2009

This sort of thing is becoming a blurry line these days -- not everyone needs technical web chops to create things on the web. A subreddit does feel borderline (although I don't really know what's involved in creating and maintaining a subreddit). But say someone were to create a Ning social network around a particular topic of interest, and nurture it into a unique and important community. I'd consider that a 'creation' worthy of posting on Projects.
posted by chrismear at 4:15 AM on July 29, 2009