Comments on: The Mefi guide to Reddit

The Mefi guide to Reddit

mendel — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:25 -0800

Some mefite has a great guide to reddit on their user profile, that talks about getting rid of the default subreddits and a bunch of other tips that are good for a new reddit user. In fact I want to point a new reddit user to them, but I can't find a link to that user! Does anyone recall who it was?

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:01:12 -0800

Geocities seems to have deleted my page. Can anyone help me find it?

By: mendel

mendel — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:02:23 -0800

(On their MetaFilter user profile.)

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:03:30 -0800

I vaguely recall something like this, but I'm pretty sure it was in a comment on the blue. Or it could be a totally different comment I'm thinking of. I'll poke around in my favorites.

You probably know that if the new redditor isn't also a mefite, they won't be able to see this user's profile - those are invisible to non-mefites.

By: Ritchie

Ritchie — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:07:04 -0800

Is it Jpfed?

By: mendel

mendel — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:09:41 -0800

Whoever it is links to it regularly in threads about reddit, which makes it doubly frustrating that I can't find it!

I can see my own profile when I'm not logged in...

On preview: Yes, it's Jpfed Thanks!

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:16:18 -0800

Doh, I confuselated myself - I was recently in the flag meta a few doors down and somehow conflated spiders/robots and regular people.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:17:25 -0800

You probably know that if the new redditor isn't also a mefite, they won't be able to see this user's profile - those are invisible to non-mefites.

Actually, you can see MetaFilter user profiles even if you aren't logged into MetaFilter. The only hidden part is some of the personal data in the left column.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:06:58 -0800

Here are a few of my favorite sub-reddits:

Botanical Porn (safe for work; just pics of flora)
Breaking Bad
Android
TrueReddit

By: box

box — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:30:24 -0800

I realize that this is a way that people name their things, like fuckyeahwhatever tumblrs, and nothing I say will change it, but I suspect that there are workplaces where nothing with 'porn' in its name is entirely SFW.

(Not mine, thankfully.)

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:39:26 -0800

lifeprotips

By: nadawi

nadawi — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:35:40 -0800

artisan videos

By: bukvich

bukvich — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:43:17 -0800

This here is the jpfed++ guide that I have most recently come across.

By: RogerB

RogerB — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:47:22 -0800

Wow, Reddit just changed from a seeming shit-firehose to someplace I might actually be interested in spending time once in a while. Thanks!

By: Scientist

Scientist — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:09:00 -0800

Uh, yeah. Wow. I think tomorrow morning I may poke at Reddit a bit over breakfast. I always had a hunch that there must be good stuff in there, but I couldn't be bothered to go sifting through the shit to find it. Hmm.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:12:32 -0800

What you need is some kind of filter.

By: peep

peep — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:16:30 -0800

Damn it, I fell into the breaking bad subreddit rabbit hole and I'm never coming out.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:25:08 -0800

Oh, this is great. I've been verging on closing my account, but this may keep me from jumping ship for now.

By: pseudonymph

pseudonymph — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:22:22 -0800

This comment on Reddit changed my entire experience there.

It explains how to (using the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension - very easy to install) set up individual Reddit accounts tailored to specific interests, and switch between them with a single click.

The author provides some pre-made subreddit bundles and once you understand the concept it's easy to make your own. I've got about 8 now and any time my regular account's front-page is making me rethink my participation there, I switch over to one of the interest-specific ones. Fantastic stuff.

By: pseudonymph

pseudonymph — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:24:13 -0800

Andddd now I feel silly, as that same comment is indeed linked above. I figured they were different due to different author names. That'll teach me not to double-check.

But still! Give it a go, it really changed Reddit for me.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:35:06 -0800

Actually, multireddits were change a few months ago to use a normalizing sort, so the advice that you need RES and multiple accounts is no longer necessary. RES is still inordinately useful, though.

By: Grither

Grither — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:16:12 -0800

Can someone with an account over there go kick whoever 'Grither' is in the pants and tell them to give me my account name back? Thanks!

By: Jofus

Jofus — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:20:00 -0800

/r/popping.

I WILL NOT APOLOGISE.

By: synecdoche

synecdoche — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:02:06 -0800

Wow. jpfed's guide is excellent. I think I was using Reddit pretty well. I wasn't into a lot of the main subreddits and had found a few strong ones that I checked now and then. I didn't realize how much quality content was available though. /r/depthhub is amazing.

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:50:01 -0800

TrueReddit crossed 40,000 and has been experiencing a degradation in signal-to-noise.

I suggest r/foodforthought to supplement.

By: Wordwoman

Wordwoman — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:11:13 -0800

jpfed's guide pointed me to discover subreddits that I am actually very interested in, so much so that I've had to set up a reddit Leechblock set. Yay! Boo!

By: telstar

telstar — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:16:36 -0800

This thread de-swampifies reddit.

By: mendel

mendel — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:29:17 -0800

Here are a few of my favorite sub-reddits:
Botanical Porn (safe for work; just pics of flora)

It's funny how things that are labeled "Porn", and things that are porn, never intersect on Reddit. At least /r/pornporn exists.

Also, applying Usenet principles to Reddit works surprisingly well.

woo look what I started!

here is my obligatory mlp link

By: antifuse

antifuse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:56:40 -0800

Wil Wheaton is always going on and on about how much time he spends on Reddit, and I could just never understand it. Now I'm motivated to give it another shot. Because, you know, I need more reasons to spend time on the interwebs.

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:09:28 -0800

Whoa! I was not expecting a MeTa!

Uh, this is embarrassing. The stuff on my profile is a teensy bit out of date. Aside from /r/DepthHub , there is a new set of reddits that I would encourage people to give a spin. Blackstar9000 spearheaded the creation of a new kind of subreddit with a number of new rules aimed at improving quality. These are the RepublicOfReddit reddits.

The RoR reddits have a barrier to entry in terms of posters- submitters must request and be manually approved by an RoR mod. This barrier to posting has made them less popular than DepthHub reddits, so any given post might not have a lot of discussion. They need subscribers! Go forth and multiply!

By: Evernix

Evernix — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:05:47 -0800

Oh my, Jpfed. Thank you sooo much for this.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:13:03 -0800

Oh, also look for subreddits related to your own city. If you live in an area with a sizable population, chances are there are one or more subreddits for it.

By: Ery

Ery — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:43:23 -0800

This makes a much bigger difference than I thought it would. Thanks.

By: MrVisible

MrVisible — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:07:45 -0800

Okay, I've been at this all day now, and it's changed my opinion of Reddit completely. I used to never understand what people saw in it; now I'm wondering how I'll get the time to read all the great stuff I just discovered.

Thanks, Jpfed and mendel too!

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:23:01 -0800

The neat part is, if you set up your subscriptions right, it's like reading MetaFilter from the future.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:29:38 -0800

I recently discovered r/vexillology which is awesome because the Reddit thumbnail is the perfect size to show off some cool flags I've never seen.

By: Ritchie

Ritchie — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:11:20 -0800

r/malefashionadvice is like AskMe for men's clothing.

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:49:19 -0800

And a reddit comment on beginning to refine reddit.