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Reddit Gets into Crowdfunding with Redditmade
- raldi 12y ago> The move comes at an interesting time for the cult website. An obscure cult, consisting of roughly 175 million members.
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- alexis 12y agoToo much data! Too much data!
- gravity13 12y agohttp://i.imgur.com/TWrzM5l.gif http://i.imgur.com/TWrzM5l.gif (yeah, I did it)
- JonnieCache 12y ago"Cult" does not necessarily have the same meaning as "niche" or "obscure." Here they're using it to describe the fanaticism rather than the small audience. You could legitimately call star trek a "cult show" IMO.
- raldi 12y agoDo you think it would be fair to refer to football (either one) as a sport with a cult following?
- JonnieCache 12y agoGood point. Probably not. It needs some sort of outsider status. Which star trek doesn't really have any more but that's debatable.
- raldi 12y agoBut that's my whole point -- reddit may once have been comprised of outsiders, but those days are long gone. It's bigger than Twitter was in 2012. Could you imagine a journalist in 2012 calling Twitter a cult website?
- JonnieCache 12y agoI didn't know it had grown that large. How much bigger has twitter gotten in the last two years? I agree that in the context of journalism it's a loaded term that's probably not fair. The outsider status is about more than the user count though. They maintain that status with all the weird stuff they get up to.
- raldi 12y ago> How much bigger has twitter gotten in the last two years? They're up to 284M: https://about.twitter.com/company https://about.twitter.com/company
- glomph 12y agoI think users of reddit still approach it like it is composed of outsiders (even though it isn't). For example plenty of people I know use the site but people don't talk about it like they would twitter. Using twitter is a sort of normal social network. Reddit is treated far more analogously to a tv show that some people like and others don't. Of course I can't really back this up with anything as it is just a feeling.
- riffraff 12y agoI don't think "cult" means "small group" in this context, but "strongly followed". At least, that is how I always interpreted stuff like "apocalypse now is a cult movie".
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- minimaxir 12y agoConsidering the increased scrutiny behind authenticity of crowdfunding (e.g. Anonbox), and given the anonymity of the campaign owner, this seems like an accident waiting to happen.
- danielki 12y agoLooks more like a Teespring-type thing than a Kickstarter-type thing, which should mitigate this quite a bit
- untilHellbanned 12y ago"the best designs and products by the community" That's pretty non-t-shirt-y language. They'll have to tighten that.
- danielki 12y agoI meant that Reddit handles the manufacturing, so there's less risk than with Kickstarter, where the creator also does manufacturing. It's like more like Teespring or Quirky than like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo From https://redditmade.com/create https://redditmade.com/create : > If enough people pledge to buy your product by then, we’ll start making it! From https://redditmade.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202364265-What-do-I-need-for-a-custom-product-campaign- https://redditmade.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202364265-W... : > Most importantly, you'll also need to be willing to work with us. We'll connect you with sourcing partners, work with you to finalize designs, and help you step through all the other creative, legal, logistical, promotional, and financial hoops to make your campaign happen, but we can only help you as much as you'll let us.
- untilHellbanned 12y agoThat sounds nuts. So what will be next? Apple is gonna sell hamburgers?
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- gravity13 12y agoI just like imagining the discussion that happened at the conception of this idea. It probably starts something like this: "Guys, we need a way to monetize the reddit."
- imjk 12y agoI know you're just joking, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. Reddit has given birth to a lot of successful businesses, websites, projects, and careers. I bet internally the question was more along the lines of, "how do we monetize without taking away from the community, and perhaps, even further enhancing it?" This is one solution that helps them monetize by further supporting the community.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoIf they've got the traffic, and they can provide the same or better experience as Kickstarter or Indiegogo, why not? Better it fund the community than a third-party site.
- untog 12y agoInteresting idea, but it's going to be a hell of a sight when the first one goes catastrophically wrong. Think back to the Boston bomber hunt - in a repeat of that incident, not only does Reddit accuse the wrong person of being guilty, they also crowdfund an attempt to track him down with private detectives or something.
- Pxtl 12y agoReddit has already swallowed gallons upon gallons of bad press. Half the time Reddit hits the mainstream news it's about paedophilia or harassment or misogyny. Not saying that Reddit is full of incredibly vile people, but that's the "if it bleeds it leads" news about Reddit that hits the larger media world. At this point anybody who uses Reddit is either immune to scandal or already gone.
- electromagnetic 12y ago> At this point anybody who uses Reddit is either immune to scandal or already gone. At this point anybody who uses Reddit is hearing the scandal via Reddit.
- swalsh 12y agoWe've kind of learned from that incident now. It's still very fresh in people's minds, and mentioned quite often.
- DieRedditDie 12y agoThe article calls it a "cult website". I can't stand the place personally. They want to be mainstream so bad , they call themselves the front page of the internet.