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Very well written.

Bill burr on his podcast was talking about, when he first discovered reddit. He couldn't understand what it was... He then realized later.. "it's a site for people that really like to type.. that's what it is.."



I like to think of Wikipedia as a site for people who like to correct other people.


One of my favorite reddit shower thoughts:

"Wikipedia built the biggest modern information hub using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other."


It's really quite astonishing how powerful a force that is, and how well Wikipedia channels it toward something good!


"Well actually..." given form.


I'd never actually tried to describe Reddit so succinctly; in the same vein as yours, maybe Reddit is just Jeopardy where every comment must be in the form of a correction.

Perfectly accurate or not, I think the venn-diagram of "People unlikely to already know what Reddit is" overlaps heavily with "People who know and understand what Jeopardy is", making it an excellent analogy :)


This is brutal, and potent. Nicely done.


Oh, that cuts to the quick.




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