Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Practicum #6 Reddit
Reddit has been abuzz with the news of Osama bin Laden's death since Sunday. People have been posting articles about everything bin Laden related and discussing everything bin Laden related. One of the hot debates is whether the celebrations over his death is warranted. Other discussions have a little more levity or humor. Reddit's main page features the most popular posts and the posts that have accumulated a large amount of upvotes quickly. I don't know if it is some algorithm the puts these posts on the main page or if the site's moderators pick what goes on the front page. I also don't really know what the moderators do beyond fielding questions or complaints and taking down offensive posts or comments.
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I just recently started visiting Reddit at the suggestion of a friend, and yesterday I saw some posts on the front page about Osama Bin Laden's death that had over 1000 comments in them. Pretty crazy. I kinda read through some of them and it was interesting seeing what users from other countries thought about the situation.
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