I'm thinking about creating an SL-oriented sub-community on Reddit, the extremely popular and (in my opinion) pretty excellent online content sharing community -- who's interested?
There's a number of advantages of such a community on Reddit, as opposed to another site:
- Reddit has a karmic system, which is a great way to filter out Spammers and griefers.
- Reddit is generally all pseudonymous users, so you could use your SL name or another one for an account.
- A Reddit subcommunity would put all the quality SL-related content onto a single page, as opposed to diffusing it out, as happens on Plurk, Twitter, and SL's own social network.
- This would be a great way of promoting high quality SL content to the larger Reddit community, and therefore, the broader Internet. A Reddit link which gets even a few hundred upvotes generally gets thousands or hundreds of thousands of pageviews, and often, coverage on major blogs.
If you're interested, please let me know in Comments! To be valuable and gain traction, I think we'd need at least, say, 50 or so interested folks to start.
Great idea! I live on Reddit, and would really love an SL centric sub-Reddit.
Good luck, hope it happens!
Posted by: Kitty otoole | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:21 PM
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Posted by: william.gide | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM
sounds awesome. some crowdsourcing! maybe make a whole network. I want a Karim Marquette Show! lol
Posted by: karim marquette | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM
oh, can u give us a little time to get with buddies in SL? Or could i give u a list of names? i'm usually online in the evenings and may not be able to get to buddies right away. i think you'll get a lot of support dude.
Posted by: karim marquette | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12:36 PM
I'm in.
Posted by: Domchi Underwood | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 01:26 PM
We already have one. Have had for quite some time.
Posted by: Tateru Nino | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 06:31 PM
That would be this: http://www.reddit.com/r/secondlife
Posted by: Tateru Nino | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 06:42 PM
Sounds good. It would be nice to have another social networking option that I can add to my "social networks for avatars" page without an asterisk.
Posted by: Nexus Burbclave | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 07:40 PM
Somehow I didn't see the existing SL Reddit group when I searched for it, but Francis Chung (there's an old school SLer!) told me it was there 15 minutes after I posted this. Could certainly use more promotion and members, so I'll be trying that out starting this week!
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Monday, September 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM
There was a round of promotion on about a dozen SL blogs a few months back. The Reddit audience isn't generally fond of Second Life stories (except ones that say it's doomed or full of perverts) though, so most SL-related pieces that start to gain some serious traction just get down-voted.
Nevertheless even with a few determined down-voters looking in regularly, it's still worthwhile in and of itself, IMO.
Posted by: Tateru Nino | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 12:33 AM
I'm in!
Posted by: webspelunker Ghostraven | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 04:27 AM
yup - i was thinking the same thing.
Posted by: qarl | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 08:37 AM