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Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website (www.huffpost.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...

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[โ€“] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.

Uh, Reddit hardly created the idea of nested comments. You can go back to usenet or Prodigy/Compuserve in the 90s and find nested conversations. Slashdot did it, Daily Kos did it, shit, even the old school VN Boards did it.

Unless I misunderstand your point?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I do think reddit was the one that popularized it though, maybe it would be more accurate to say "combination of nested comments and vote based instead of time based sorting"?

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, here's a Slashdot thread from 2005 (https://web.archive.org/web/20020923232012/http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/10/0517248.shtml?tid=134) from archive.org showing not only voting, but nested comments.

    Slashdot's "voting" was a little less direct and focused on using what it called "moderation" to keep content on the site relevant. I found the write-up, still pretty much unchanged, here.

    Here's a 2004 thread article from kos with straight up reddit-like voting, not only showing the cumulative score but the # of votes, too.

    Reddit was founded in 2005.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago

    One could make the argument that Reddit successfully leveraged it to attract the traffic away from Fark and Digg at the time. They weren't just a place to get away from Diggs changes, they were a better place.

    Threaded forums go back to the late 90's.

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