Reddit, a collaboration or more of a community?

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During this day and age, the internet is used for a lot of different reasons. There are sites that were made so that people could come together and discuss various topics. Now normally when you think of a bunch of people coming together to discuss things, you think of people who are collaborating together to put ideas together. One site that is extremely popular is reddit, which generally has millions of people on it per day.
When it comes to reddit, many people can come together and talk about different ideas in categories called subreddits which are like mini communities. Now you would think these are good examples of people collaborating because they are coming together like they are to discuss a specific topic. However, to me this is not the case seeing as not everyone in reddit are there to actually do anything. Some people are there just to waste time, or in some cases be complete trolls. This doesn't follow how a collaboration should be, which in turn makes it out to be more of a community because a community has a range of different people and whether they are contributing or not doesn't matter as much compared to a collaboration.
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  1. ETSeptember 15, 2017 at 12:24 PM

    So, I understand your argument that Subreddit’s aren’t communities but apart from the communities that Reddit itself subscribes you too you have to subscribe to each community individually. Wouldn’t the fact that you have to subscribe to the subreddit make it a community? For me the subreddits that I am subscribed to feel like a small community where I have even formed friendships based on seeing people who comment regularly. I totally agree with you that the front page of Reddit isn’t a community but disagree that subreddits aren’t because of inactive people and trolls.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 15, 2017 at 6:10 PM

    I do not believe that Reddit can mainly be seen as a collaboration. While it is true that Reddit is thousands of users coming together to discuss various topics, they lack what true collaboration is. I believe that for collaboration their needs to be a certain amount of commitment to reaching goal. No only is there rarely a goal to strive for, but most users will not display the level of commitment needed to reach the goal. Reddit is a great website that can be used for collaboration, but it can not be seen as collaboration as a whole.

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  3. AlanCastilloSeptember 15, 2017 at 11:10 PM

    Though I can definitely see where you're coming from when you say that Reddit is not a platform for collaboration as a whole, I still find that it is necessary for a wide sense of collaboration to be present in order for this website to serve its primary purpose. Of course, not every individual user is required to contribute each day, as a majority likely doesn't; however, there is still a sense of collaboration at play when thousands of users work together to bring an interesting post to public attention through the simple process of upvoting. Collaboration is also necessary in order to maintain the quality of individual subreddits, as each has multiple moderators that work to enforce rules and filter out toxic users.

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