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How to use Reddit more effectively as a platform for sharing links!
Reddit is used by millions of people and has been the platform for sharing and activism for many years. However there is a fatal flaw with using Reddit's great power in that, unless you get extremely lucky, you need to already have a following that is ready to click and "upvote" your links as soon as they appear.
For those who are unfamiliar with Reddit, it basically allows its users (redditors) to submit pictures, articles, videos, questions and opinions (links) which appear on the site in order of how "hot" they are. Basically, this means high quality content with lots of views, or sometimes simply, controversial stuff that everyone is talking about gets to the top of the home page of Reddit, whereas boring stuff simply falls off the list into oblivion.
If your post were to get on the front page of Reddit then it would be seen by millions worldwide, and generate millions of views for your content. From being on Reddit for a couple of years and actually talking to people on Reddit, not just looking at all the content and up or down voting it, I have learned a few things about it's algorithm.
1) People with a following usually give a call to action for their audience to upvote their links on Reddit.
2) This means everything on Reddit is usually upvoted initially by some big audience getting it higher up on the pages, and meaning that it's harder, although not impossible, for any links to get high in the ranks, because there is always something there by someone with an audience.
3) Timing is taken into consideration with posts, too, so for example if 50 people upvoted something in an hour it would be wayyyyy higher than something 500 people upvoted in a week.
3b) Also, if 50 people upvoted something in the same hour but it was a week after the thing was submitted, the thing with 500 over a week would probably be above it.
4) Links don't stay high up for more than a few hours except in rare cases.
5) You can cheat the game by posting in multiple subreddits (kinda like forum topics) using the same link if you use link shorteners for each link posting (you can't post the same link twice in the same day, usually)
6) The hardest subreddits to climb, but if climbed will net you the most views (obviously) are the default subreddits (again, obviously) but in particular, atheism, gaming, funny, wtf and pics. Worldnews, technology and politics are slightly easier to climb because people that browse and submit to those links are more likely to actually read things whereas the other threads just want pics and comic strips.
7) Videos rarely go up the list, surprisingly, or less often than articles with loads of reading involved.
So, knowing this, I think in the future, once this site takes off a bit more (although it might help to practise now) we should submit links of significant I-Power content to Reddit and ask all of our members throughout the day to go to that link and upvote it, preferably at the same time. Maybe waiting to submit the link until a few people are online that can all go there simultaneously to upvote the post as soon as it is submitted would also help.
Let me know what you guys think of using Reddit :)
EDIT 1:
Reddit isn't perfect, in fact, like many other social platforms, it...
Tags: 4, Attention, Audience, Degrees, Four, Project, Reddit, Share, Sharing
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Davies on -
I really like the idea of trying to get I Power stuff on Reddit, and Shiznit has been talking about this for a long time now. If we can get a group of people that frequent reddit together than I'm all for it. I will be registering an account this week and hopefully spending some time learning a bit about how the site works. Thanks to your post, I have a little more to go on.
Getting content to go viral is what Four Degrees is all about. We're trying to work two concepts: exponential sharing, and ratios. Every person who shares content with their friends expands our audience exponentially, giving us access to a much larger group of people. That in itself is only half of the concept. The other half is the ratio of that audience that will actually engage in the cause. If you think about it, if information about a charity is shared with 1,000,000 people and only 1:20 actually contribute $1, you've still raised $50,000 by only sharing links to good content. That's the power of slacktivism, and I think your reddit idea applies to the second concept very well.
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Permalink Reply by SparTom007 - Tom on -
Crap, forgot to mention, age of account that submits the link effects it too- not cos of the algorithm, but most people on reddit have this kinda superiority complex about how long they've been members and will downvote links simply because it's by a new member :\
so people submitting links will have to be those with older accounts, but everyone can upvote :)
Mine is eh, apparently only 3 months old... I've used reddit for like a year... dammit must've made multiple accounts and forgot :| damn new PC thats what it mustve been :|
Btw yeah that is the idea :D Reddit is awesome when it works :)
I'd go into explaining how karma works but it's also kinda... I dunno, more complicated. Or maybe not...
Basically, when your link gets upvoted, you get "karma" which shows on your profile that you've uploaded good links. If your links get downvoted, you lose karma. A lot of people are judgemental on reddit about the state of your karma. I'm lucky in that although I don't have much link karma (for submitting links, which I don't often do), I have relatively higher than average for the age of my profile, high comment karma (you can upvote comments on links people have submitted too, commenting is the social aspect of reddit) Not sure if it's relevant much apart from we can't have people with bad "karma" being the ones who submit ipower links to reddit :)
Also, I love that way of thinking :)
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Davies on
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Sounds like they have a rather advanced algorithm for promoting posts, but I'm sure there has to be a way to game the system some, even if some of us have to let our accounts age some. I guess just participating for a while and making good comments will help too, so I'll be signing up now. I'm just not sure how often I'll be able to get on and actually comment on stuff as between work and this project I'm going to be fairly busy.
What would be awesome is if someone could find a great guide to reddit, almost like a "reddit for dummies". -
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Permalink Reply by SparTom007 - Tom on
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I've added a problem list and I'm working on looking for a decent guide or mixing a few of them together and summarising them / making them more relevant to how it would be used to benefit this project :D
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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on -
This is an awesome idea, Tom; and it would definitely be a very useful tool in the 4-Degrees arsenal later. You're right though about the fact that we would need to have our own supporters for it. Reddit already has groups {or cliques} of people who support each other there, like you mentioned, so we would be competing with them to get our posts upvoted and noticed.
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How to use Reddit more effectively as a platform for sharing links!
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