Reddit – Share your Views
Reddit is a website where users can post social news through links available on the web which can be voted by other users. On the basis of this voting a news is displayed on the homepage. A news getting more votes can be on the homepage and viewed by users of this site.
Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded it in 2005. These people were studying in University of Virginia. The company that initially formed was name NOT A BUG which was acquired by Conde Nast Publications, owner of Wired, on 31st October 2006.
Ohanian named reddit as short form of “read it”.
Website has a white background with news in blue color fonts. The top bar of the website is in dull blue as well. On the top of this bar there are links to various sections dedicated to particular type of news any user may want to vote submit or read including politics, Pics, funny, programming, world news etc. These links are called sub reddits.
There is a discussion area on this site where users can discuss various links posted. Users can even vote against a particular link. A link is not displayed by default if enough votes are against a particular link. People submitting good articles which gets voted by other users as interesting are rewarded by “Karma” points.
Owners of the readdit don’t moderate it. But a system is available which curtails spam and is based on Users “reports”.
My reddit section is available on this website where user can personalize the type of news he wants to look for while singing in. This is a very good way for a reader of getting the exact type of links and news he is looking for. Search section available on right top of the homepage also facilitates searching of links in a very easy and user friendly way.
In the days of blogging and user generated content, reddit is a very successful and useful medium which lets individuals and websites to reach public in a very effective way. On the other hand it provide users with a platform where they can look out for type of content they want to read without hassles of searching it on various search engines.
