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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Reddit: Don't Leave Your Volunteer Moderators Lonely, Either: Associations Now - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • It’s clear here that reddit—a site that is pretty much nothing but community—faces the same kinds of disconnects between executives and ground-level support that happen in associations where communities are only small parts of the total member offerings.
  • Reddit highlights how harmful a poorly handled staff transition can be for these volunteers.
  • When it comes down to it, an online community is about people, not just technology. And keeping that trust between community managers and the community at large is hugely important.
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  • Respect Your Volunteers A few weeks back, my colleague Joe Rominiecki made the case that we need to show that we’re supporting our community managers, who may be playing an important role without a ton of support.
  • “For those that host online communities for their members, the new front-line staff may very well be the person managing the online community,” he explained before hopping into The Community Roundtable’s latest “State of Community Management” report.
  • It’s clear here that reddit—a site that is pretty much nothing but community—faces the same kinds of disconnects between executives and ground-level support that happen in associations where communities are only small parts of the total member offerings.
  • The ripple effects of what happened to Taylor only highlight this. Because of the role people near the front lines play in keeping a community moving, they often have tribes of their own, and those tribes may instill a high level of passion among your most active community members—your moderators.
  • Because of the role people near the front lines play in keeping a community moving, they often have tribes of their own, and those tribes may instill a high level of passion among your most active community members—your moderators.
  • “Everything about which Reddit talks a big game—curbing abuse, protecting free speech, being the ‘front page of the Internet’—is directly tied to a model of content curation over which the company has little authority.”
  • tied to a model of content curation over which the company has little authority.”
  • In other words, volunteer moderators hold huge amounts of control, despite not getting a paycheck. They deserve to know what’s going on, and you have to keep them happy.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15
     
    Interesting assessment of the value of volunteer moderators, July 7, 2015, by Ernie Smith on Reddit
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Reddit's most powerful members are holding the site hostage | The Verge - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • AMA sessions are the jewel in Reddit's crown. The interviews are conducted with individuals and groups from all walks of life, from presidents, to pop stars, to people with two penises, and act as a carrot to attract people who might otherwise by put off by the site's insular in-jokes and questionable subcultures. Without Taylor to act as a buffer, sifting through questions and writing up replies as they were originally stated, it's easy to imagine AMAs in which PR teams can cherry-pick questions and mete out bland responses.
  • AMA sessions are the jewel in Reddit's crown. The interviews are conducted with individuals and groups from all walks of life, from presidents, to pop stars, to people with two penises, and act as a carrot to attract people who might otherwise by put off by the site's insular in-jokes and questionable subcultures. Without Taylor to act as a buffer, sifting through questions and writing up replies as they were originally stated, it's easy to imagine AMAs in which PR teams can cherry-pick questions and mete out bland responses. AMAs done right make notable figures appear personable; done badly, they can shred a public image.
  • ong-running feeling among their number that Reddit does not value their work or communicate effectively.
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  • As much as Victoria is loved, this reaction is not all a result of her departure: there is a feeling among many of the moderators of reddit that the admins do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits, which they feel is expressed by, among other things, the lack of communication between them and the admins, and their disregard of the thousands of mods who keep reddit's communities going.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Jul 15
     
    Interesting article on how Reddit fired a popular staff person who facilitated the AMA (Ask Me Anything) guests going into different subreddit communities without notifying volunteer moderators of these communities ahead of time. Volunteer moderators closed their communities except to passworded members to show their unhappiness with Reddit executives' lack of early communication, etc. by Rich McCormick, July 2, 2015. Communities reopened within a couple of days.
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How Much Is a Click on the Internet Really Worth? - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 12 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • To that end, supplying attention itself can be an act of complicity in the unethical actions of a platform. The mere act of choosing to look at something online generates real value for a company, materially helping to support its staff, its content, and the social interactions that a platform plays host to. This is why a website like Do Not Link exists: It promises a way to share a link from a website without boosting that site’s standing in search rankings.
  • attention boycott
  • ethical attention
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  • refusal to link or click
  • I don’t want to reward them or contribute in any way to this disgrace by linking to it: Google it if you must.”
  • The choice not to link is therefore a personal moral act
  • The web of information stitched together by an individual as they browse and publish across the Internet is also implicitly a web of support for the content being linked to.
  • Reddit introduces a wrinkle precisely because it is a user-generated platform. For one, no one (yet) has claimed that the individuals contributing racist or sexist content are affiliated with Reddit as employees of the company.
  • platform plays host to a sizable, and perhaps one of the largest, community of racists online.
  • What appears to be relevant in the Reddit case is the notion that the company has exercised a kind of negligence towards the organic behavior emerging on the platform. While Reddit does not create the content or even promote the content, the failure to act makes continued use of the platform tantamount to a moral complicity in the emergent behavior of other users.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 12 Aug 15
     
    very interesting article on morality of linking to platforms or articles that might engage in racist or certain harassment behaviors and when to not link anymore
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5 (less traditional) ways to create and share knowledge online | Scoop.it Blog - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Jun 13
     
    Blog by Lindsay Brunner, June 19, 2013, Scoop.it curated, that identifies less known tools for sharing--Scribd, Reddit, Yarny, Scoop.it, and Google Drive and their advantages.
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Why Are You Still Skeptical That Pinterest Can Work For You? - Copyblogger - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 12 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 12 Mar 14
     
    "Pinterest, with its 70 million users, is driving an avalanche of referral traffic to websites and blogs. Right now, Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+ … combined. And contrary to popular belief, maybe contrary to even your belief, that traffic is converting … because many pinners use the site specifically for product and content discovery. (Get ready for some compelling stats about this in a minute.) This makes Pinterest a powerful tool for ecommerce."
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