Do you reddit?

I sometimes look at the subreddits, but overall the site is a bit too juvenile for me. I just found (on reddit) this article that asks the same question you do:
Do you use Reddit?

Reddit generates about as much traffic as tumblr, apparently.

I've encountered my possibly useful tools out there in the cloud -- but I write so slow I have problems keeping up with the few I frequent ... if I want to do any creative writing.

fivetoesten said:

I sometimes look at the subreddits, but overall the site is a bit too juvenile for me. I just found (on reddit) this article that asks the same question you do:
Do you use Reddit?

Reddit generates about as much traffic as tumblr, apparently.

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I never quite understood Tumblr. There's an article or link, then there's a list of people who ... liked it? reposted it? I forget, but there appears to be no writing a response to a post as there is to just about every other online social site.

But I clicked on the article and saw the graph with the number of male vs. female users there, and it diddn't surprise me. There's this old man (older than me!) who famously complained about the juvenile redditors:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkan...hatner-dishes-on-his-foray-into-social-media/

More of his rant is quoted here -like knporter, he uses the word "immature:"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/william-shatner-reddit_n_2661932.html

knporter said:

Yes i agree it can be very juvenile. You definitely have to pick your reddits carefully. I usually check out the literary ones so the immature redditers stay away.

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I guess it's good to know there are places on Reddit they don't go.

One can run into such peeps anywhere online, but "online" is big enough that I find it easier to stay away from places known to have many such offenders.

If I could get some upvote love from my fellow Redditors for this post, that would be fantastic.

MUCH LOVE!

http://www.reddit.com/tb/1nodlp

I do reddit reluctantly. Ugh. I have encountered some rude people on the site (either on my own posts or by reading other people's posts), often enough that I wouldn't be using the site if it weren't so good at driving traffic to the blog I write.

You have to not be obnoxious about posting links to your own stuff though. I only do it occasionally because it's pretty frowned upon to link to your own stuff all the time.

I hang out in and occasionally post in the /apple subreddit (day job stuff for me). To me, reddit is what you make of it and where you're making it. As noted above, some subreddits are juvenile, many posters are juvenile, but there are also a bunch of wicked smart folks. I find their opinions, advice, and thoughts helpful and interesting.

The benefit to Reddit for writers in my opinion is the chance of having your comments go viral.

I cleverly disguised a story once to promote an outline course I had open spots for and left a link to the course on the bottom of the page as a side thought and it went viral.

In fact, it went viral in Australia on some website and I had 700 people visit my page in 24 hours. The spots for my course were filled in less than an hour.

So, it has its upside, however I haven't had the same results since.

Reddit is good for entertainment and news, but when it comes to writing advice/help it doesn't start to compare to this forum.

aus10phile said:

I do reddit reluctantly. Ugh. I have encountered some rude people on the site (either on my own posts or by reading other people's posts), often enough that I wouldn't be using the site if it weren't so good at driving traffic to the blog I write.

You have to not be obnoxious about posting links to your own stuff though. I only do it occasionally because it's pretty frowned upon to link to your own stuff all the time.

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It does drive massive traffic, thats for sure. I use it to drive specific traffic to my squeeze page and can average 50-100 sign ups per post. Over the last three months, I've kept 80% of them after further mailings so its not bad at all.