Just so you know the website Reddit.com does have a Straight Dope subreddit.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Many of you know this site along with the now deceased digg. There is a subreddit on reddit.com for the straight dope. Currently only 19 readers but we can increase that. I know some of you may not like reddit or may be confused by it but it really is a great community with a lot of thoughtfully discussions about an array of topics.

http://www.reddit.com/r/straightdope

Is just one subreddit along of thousands, everything from cars, guns, politics, every country, video games, science, chemistry, conspiracy, ex-mormon, suicide watch, offbeat, Reddit even donated 178,000 to the Hatti humanitarian fund, all coming from the users pocket

Registering is free and you do not even need to supply an email. I think it would be nice to have a second meeting spot for the members of the straight dope.

Lets get going

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I like reddit, but I’m confused at the point of a StraightDope reddit. What does it add that we can’t already do with the message boards?

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Digg died? Odd, it seems like it’s working for me.

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Digg is alive but in August of this year they went to Digg v4 was so ill received it might not be dead but it was massacred by it’s loyal users.

I never used Digg so I don’t know the story but just google around for “Kevin Rose is a (insert any negative word here)” and you’ll see what I mean

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Oh, yeah, I’m not thrilled by it. Won’t work on a machine that Flash has crashed on.

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Digg is dead all the links are populated paid advertisers with fake user accounts

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Is there a cite for that? I have visited the site maybe twice ever, but going to it now it looks about the same. How are they all paid links?

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Apparently, there isn’t much point:

/r/answers isn’t the most active subreddit, but it is open and accepting submissions.

Anyway, there is evidence that Digg’s numbers bottomed out recently:

http://socialkeith.com/the-digg-effect-v4/

The bigger issue is the number of pissed off ex-Diggers, but the quantifiable effects are there.

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I’ve been lurking on reddit roughly since stumbleupon started denying access for people who didn’t sign up to it. I created a reddit account a few days ago

(I’m perfectly willing to sign up to a site on principle if it doesn’t deny access to guests)

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I check out reddit quite a lot, fun time, mostly. Its like if 4 chan was taking its meds.

But if I take over that subredit, do I get to rule with an iron fist like Giraffe does at his place? And could I ban people for making bad puns or being a douche? Because that would be cool.

I know how I’d do it, it would be (user) and then “Banned Name!”.

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Please check with someone about your user name. Three user names ain’t cool.

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I didn’t mean anything bad: TubaDiva could help you straighten it out. But if it’s not that important to you, see ya around.

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The charity may be worthwhile, but it seems to me there already are two places that a lot of Dopers already belong to, many of them with the same user names–namely Giraffe’s and Opal’s boards.