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How Smart Are Reddit Users?
socialmediatrader.com — A couple of our readers emailed us to say that the Reddit community was also one of the most intelligent - so we decided to put that theory to the test…
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- mpind, on 01/07/2008, -40/+2hmm...nice to see you dave!!!
i've been busy with my exams...whats going at your corner? - ukdave, on 01/07/2008, -42/+2Not much really, trying to get my digg account working again, since Christmas, all of my friends have either done one, been banned or just stopped digging my *****.
- royshechter, on 01/07/2008, -14/+2Not me!
- Scheissen, on 01/07/2008, -7/+4R
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- mpind, on 01/07/2008, -40/+1LOL...the same problem is with me too...few days break and all hard work gone in vain...:(
I sometimes feel pity over my college life..which prevents me to give time for my works!!!- unicronband, on 01/07/2008, -0/+40Get a room guys.
- spudnic, on 01/07/2008, -0/+9They're adding comments so it gets promoted easier.
Buried for submitter spam.
- spudnic, on 01/07/2008, -0/+9They're adding comments so it gets promoted easier.
- unicronband, on 01/07/2008, -0/+40Get a room guys.
- FyreGoddess, on 01/07/2008, -6/+48This is completely flawed. Using a readability score to attempt to judge the intelligence level of the users is ridiculous.
Ideally, on a social site like Reddit, or Digg, the content that is submitted should be accessible by the majority of the community. As such, a high school reading level is ideal because it means that most of the people using the site will be able to read and understand the content that has been submitted. To assume that because some 50% of the content is Elementary School level means that the users of the site can only read at that level is ridiculous and belittling.
Honestly, I think that the decision to use a readability tool in an attempt to determine the intelligence level of Reddit users says a lot more about the author's (lack of) intelligence than about the site in question.- wiggles, on 01/07/2008, -4/+4I don't think this was a score of the submitted articles, but of the comments. You can certainly judge a person's education level by their writing skills.
- elint6, on 01/07/2008, -1/+4Not necessarily. I mean I hardly use proper punctuation online, except at Digg. And that's because I feel peer-pressured into it. I mean honestly, I have never experienced another comment section where people actually capitalize the first letter of every sentence.
- SSUK, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2Comments are also far worse to judge, since you just have the obvious trolls putting idiotic comments in.
- zmjone2992, on 01/08/2008, -0/+2I love how digg users are grammar nazis. Keeps me sharp :)
- Magistrate, on 01/08/2008, -0/+1"Grammar National Socialists" is correct nomenclature, and is more politically correct.
- wiggles, on 01/08/2008, -0/+1But, with nothing else to go on, the only way to make an impression on someone who reads your writing is to write like an educated person. If you write like a junior high dropout, people will view you as such.
- elint6, on 01/07/2008, -1/+4Not necessarily. I mean I hardly use proper punctuation online, except at Digg. And that's because I feel peer-pressured into it. I mean honestly, I have never experienced another comment section where people actually capitalize the first letter of every sentence.
- zmjone2992, on 01/07/2008, -1/+3also the use of wordpress denotes a certain lack of intelligence.
- Magistrate, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1Actually, from what I can tell, the whole thing is made up. The 'Blog Readability Test' they link to doesn't seem to do anything. Nothing at all. I would assume it would scrape a site and calculate the reading level necessary to comprehend the content, but it doesn't even retrieve the site. I checked. No hit on my site registered from that server.
Oh, and it seems to be spitting out random rankings based on the domain. Google's main page requires a genius level IQ to comprehend according to that tool. - Dankness, on 01/07/2008, -0/+0"As such, a high school reading level is ideal"
I have been told many times by reasonably intelligent people, with minor variances, that you should write as if to people in the middle of 7th grade (for general audiences). Though I have been unable to find any support for that actual statement. I have applied it successfully on many occasion with better comprehension than if I had written it with the normal techy language that I usually spew from my mouth. I also found that the best way to get back to 7th grade is by the all magical beer (liquor can be tricky as you might end up in pre-school before you know it).
- wiggles, on 01/07/2008, -4/+4I don't think this was a score of the submitted articles, but of the comments. You can certainly judge a person's education level by their writing skills.
- ukdave, on 01/07/2008, -6/+7@ FyreGoddess - I think it is just a bit of fun, I don't think that the author really thinks that half of the reddit users are only educated to elementary school level.
- bossm4n, on 01/07/2008, -1/+3That's probably true, but having visited reddit, that chart might have some validity.
- PixelCloud, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Really? I try not to post on either of these sites; mostly because I find the discussion boring; and the view points, uninspiring. I believe that reddit and digg maintain the same level of retardation. Reddit just happens to have wonderful subreddits with interesting articles that you just dont find on Digg. Digg on the other hand has amazing dicussion about.... windows vista, the iphone, xbox, etc. The articles on Digg seem to be very dumbed down and I think the fact that this got front page proves that. (this comes from someone who reads both sites on a daily basis)
- bossm4n, on 01/07/2008, -1/+3That's probably true, but having visited reddit, that chart might have some validity.
- cvonwallenstein, on 01/07/2008, -3/+5Forget intelligence scores... how about Attention Deficit scores?!?
- polyGone, on 01/07/2008, -2/+7What?
- TriSight, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1Well honestly, if that were the case I think you'd need to consider ..... ooooh shiny
- MemeWarrior, on 01/07/2008, -3/+6I prefer Digg, but this is absolutely ridiculous.
- PRlME, on 01/07/2008, -2/+1thank you, a digg vs reddit flame war just proves how inmature digg users are
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/08/2008, -0/+2It's Flamebait. And Digg doesn't need to become some arrogant headquarters for pricks.
- QGYH2, on 01/07/2008, -6/+3So 50% of redditors are like me?
whohoo!- Xerces, on 01/07/2008, -0/+549% you little fool
- ViP3R16, on 01/07/2008, -2/+12Waiting to see how smart digg users are.
- unicronband, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1I found a "Blog Readability Test" here http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
I tried entering digg to no avail. I tried entering just this comment page with no luck either. I was able to use it on the submitted blog which came back with a whopping "Junior High School" level.
KAI THX BAI- mrgono3, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1lol one needs to be a genius to read my blogs. I wonder what it is based on
- masterm1nd, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1I can has...
- unicronband, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1I found a "Blog Readability Test" here http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
- Xerces, on 01/07/2008, -2/+8Am I the only one who likes and appreciates both? Why choose one, they are both great.
- tdous, on 01/08/2008, -0/+1Cos everyone's a prick. Except me. Mac vs PC, 360 vs PS3 ... when did tech companies or sites earn our undying love in such a way?!
- xdvx, on 01/07/2008, -7/+5When I see reddit beautiful design and system, I think percentages should be something like:
99% retards
1% absolute idiots - wiachy, on 01/07/2008, -4/+6"A couple of our readers emailed us to say that the Reddit community was also one of the most intelligent."
have you seen whats on Reddit!?!? AHAHA- aureve, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3I'd just like to point out that a lot of articles made popular on reddit are likewise on digg.
- PleaseJustDie, on 01/07/2008, -0/+5WTH... made popular 50 seconds ago and its down... Anyone got a mirror?
- Pillage, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4http://209.85.135.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ...
- PleaseJustDie, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3thank you
- Pillage, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4http://209.85.135.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ...
- chris9902, on 01/07/2008, -6/+2smart enough not to read digg.
- Ataxia87, on 01/07/2008, -7/+6It's only a website people. ***** off please.
- detree, on 01/07/2008, -3/+1Reddit has a greater share of communists and racial collectivists but besides that the stories that make it to the front page, at least for politicans, are similar.
- slowmotiony, on 01/07/2008, -0/+6Guess what! Duggmirror didn't get it!
Here's a working mirror:
http://209.85.135.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ... - Makaveli604, on 01/07/2008, -3/+2http://duggmirror.com
???
edit: failure - SteeleyDan, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Not smart enough to host the results on a server Digg won't kill
- bluvapor, on 01/07/2008, -1/+2"Error establishing a database connection"
Yeah, and you sure choose a "smart" website with only 99 digs, and you're down. - evi1, on 01/07/2008, -1/+2Obviously smarter then them when they were choosing a server...
- krnldmp, on 01/07/2008, -2/+1Ironically, dumber people are attracted to digg by all the graphics.
- snapple112, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2MIRROR:
http://mirror-wire.com/digg/mediatrader/how-smart- ... - ninjasenses, on 01/07/2008, -2/+1Who gives a fawwwwk
- banmaster, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2Seems as though the twit who decided to do this wasn't very intelligent at all. After all, he used ***** WORD PRESS!
- twiztidsinz, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2Smarter than people who post wordpress pages on Digg
- iam413x, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2They're at least smart enough to not link to sites that will crash right when they hit the front page.
- vbKing, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1Digg users are smarter than Wordpress users.
- Koldewyse, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1They PARSED HEADLINES? Are you kidding me?
- GeneralGore, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1The method that they used to gauge their intelligence is stupid. Just because you take a few stories and used a no name website that somehow calculates how smart you need to be to read it doesn't mean anything. And it's not like Digg is submitting medical journal articles, so I doubt they would do much better.
- skewetoo, on 01/07/2008, -0/+0Feuds between websites are exceptionally stupid. What if you use both? Besides, does it matter, and who really cares?
- Mischi3vo, on 01/07/2008, -1/+0If you run http://wookieepedia.org/ through the Blog Readability Test, you obtain a 'genius' reading level result.
:-) - delfin1, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1I thought it was a real research. I bury.
I like to think that digg visitors are intelligent. Although, nowadays i have to filter all the crap that goes to the front page.
Sometimes there are funny videos or pics, but mostly it's silly which can also be fun. The same with a few posts about blogs, specially when these are opinions or wrong ideas.
I agree with FyreGoddess, most of the stuff in digg can be understood by very young kids. It's mostly news after all. I am not sure how the readability test works, wether it looks for words that only a certain group could understand or w/e, but i believe there are simple ways to explain "genius level" stuff, and sophisticated ways to explain stupid stuff, which is also an stupid thing to do, should always keep it simple. - euping, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Not Found
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