It makes Oregon Reddit more useful, even if the rest of the OregonLive site still belongs somewhere in the last century.

I submit that if anybody was using Oregon Reddit for the sole purpose of getting a link on the front page of OregonLive, they had a fundamental misunderstanding of how social bookmarking sites are intended to work.

What frustrates me is that the rest of the internet learned about the Digg/Reddit-style medium a few years ago. For some reason, OregonLive has decided that popularity doesn’t matter and instead they’re just going to display whatever’s been submitted latest.

That’s fine, god knows that OregonLive doesn’t do anything else that makes sense, but it means that the traffic incentive is totally gone for bloggers. Instead of writing interesting content in the hopes of some sustained local traffic for a few hours, one can now just post shit, and it’ll take it’s place on the OregonLive homepage.

The reddit section used to be the only place on oregonlive.com where quality mattered. Now, quality is completely ignored.

For a while now, I’ve been using Oregon Reddit, a local version of the social bookmarking site hosted by OregonLive, the sort-of Web front for that dying dinosaur of Portland media,The Oregonian.
For a while when it first started, before people r…

It’s not about who has the most points, or who’s the King of Reddit. Who cares? What are you gonna go to Starbucks in the morning and tell the barista how many points have on Oregon Reddit? It’s about submitting stuff and sharing stuff you find interesting with the peeps.

The main Reddit page displays the hottest, http://reddit.oregonlive.com/

And the new page displays the newest, http://reddit.oregonlive.com/new

Or you can search Reddit. It’s sortable by how the user wants to experience Reddit.

You can still vote on it if you really want. But I think the purpose is share. I don’t even downvote things. If I like it, I vote it up.

Just because it doesn’t show up on the Oregon live homepage doesn’t mean it’s not good. All the stuff that stayed there as hot was just political junk anyway.

I think Mike Mathews is right. It’s new still and kinks are still being hammered out.

Betcha this changes again as they learn more about the medium.

score = (votes + comment_count) - ((today - post_date) * 2 )

then order by score. I’m sure that the math could use some work but if there is no current desire for the story then it will slowly drop in the ranking, giving the ability to float for ‘new and shiny’ with out totally stomping on the readers ability to vote and comment.

Great post, thanks for sharing.