Newcomers: Let's make sure Saidit is better than Reddit. This shouldn't be a place to waste time, but to have productive and intelligent discussions.

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[–]Somebody 26 insightful - 5 fun26 insightful - 4 fun27 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

The best thing about (early) reddit was the fact that you could make it whatever you wanted by subscribing to subreddits with similar taste. If you wanted memes, subscribe to memes, if you wanted (insert topic) discussion, you could find a place for it. I would argue that the decay of this principal is what's killing reddit now. Their are too many people that want every sub to fit their own sensibilities.

Beside, saidit already has the insightful/fun upvote system which is a stroke of genius and should ideally make it much easier to sort through the memes and find real discussion.

[–]cloudrabbit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Could you elaborate on the upvote system? It only seems to have two 'positive' ratings: insightful and fun. No downvoting. How would it make it easier to sort through memes?

[–]xigoi 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Insightful rating for serious posts, funny rating for memes. You can sort by the individual ratings.

[–]cloudrabbit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

hmm I see. But then it'd require people to click on funny for memes. I feel like many would just click on the closest upvote button; or click both

[–]xigoi 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As long as most people do it as intended, it should work.