Re: reddit engagement

[Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>]

On 10/25/2014 10:12 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 2014-10-25 13:22, Oliver Propst wrote:
> > A few of us had quick chat on irc yesterday about reddit[1] and came
> > to the conclusion that there is some positive buzz there [2] about
> > GNOME these days, maybe we should think more about how to better
> > engage with the reddit community/users.
>
> I personally find Reddit's lack of response on certain topics and legal
> manners [1] misaligned with my values and those that I think are values
> of the wider GNOME community.
> It's not something I would like to use for outreach myself. I plain
> don't want anything to do with it.

I agree that reddit has terrible management and many spiteful and
oppressive users. I'm not sure of many other GNU/Linux-focused community
forums though. Slashdot is even more hostile than /r/linux, but I'm not
sure about hackernews (I feel like hackernews is more programmer-focused).

Regardless, while I've learned useful things from /r/linux and had some
decent conversations there, I would strongly avoid encouraging people to
go there.

As a compromise, there's also https://www.reddit.com/r/srslinux and
https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSTechnology/ (and
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/ ?) which are populated by far fewer
racists, sexists, etc.

> What I would focus on is more proactive instead of reactive outreach.
> Spreading good stories instead of trying to fire control the bad ones.

That is what I've already been doing for the past 9 months
https://www.reddit.com/user/hnasarat/submitted/

I have focused on making sure that people there see and hear about
GNOME, and what GNOME people are working on. There's often a fair deal
of support for the things I post, but I don't have the patience (nor
think it's a useful endeavor) to engage with detractors that inevitably
show up.

> 1. http://pento.net/2014/09/10/lets-have-a-chat-about-reddit/
> - Andreas
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