In my reading on Paul Graham’s recent article about Web 2.0, I learnt a website called reddit.com. It is about a phenomeno that the web has evolved mechanisms for selecting good stuff. The following introduces the basic working of reddit, which I extract it from Tyrantmizar’s Blog
Reddit is set up like so: Someone submits a website that they like. It shows up on the “Newest” list, and if people like it, they click on the up arrow. If people don’t like it, they click on the down arrow. It is a pseudo-voting system on websites.
This is most certainly web 2.0 software, as there is very little site restrictions. Anyone can post anything (as long as it isn’t adult content) and people will promote it, or demote it into oblivion. The good stuff ends up on the “Hottest” page, and the really good stuff ends up on the “top all-time” page.
Reddit has a karma system. If the stuff you submit is good and people rank it highly, then you get good karma. If it is bad, you get bad karma.
In addition to reddit, the following lists a few more websites that have similar nature of social selection of good stuff in the Web. The list is not complete; there must be more websites using social networking to select good stuff and beat damping in the Web. The following websites are what I frequently use to discover delicious stuff.
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