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Um reddit anyone?

Posted by pointlessbanter • 4/10/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: promotion, reddit, stumbleupon

So I really haven't been a big reddit user, someone discovered an old post that I had on stumbleupon and it is going off on reddit. So if you have an account and want to give it a thumbs up that would be cool.

reddit.com/r/funny/info/6f8mg/comments/

What I am seeing on reddit is that it takes the karma points of the individual and gives them a little power. I only have three thumbs up but have gotten a good amount of traffic today. I am in the top ten for comedy.

What is interesting about this is that this is one of the posts I am running a stumbleupon advertising campaign on for ten dollars a day. People are taking a post which I think is pretty solid and submitting it to other places, which is interesting. Also it is picking up traffic on stumbleupon again after a bunch of new people thumbing it up from the advertising campaign.

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4/10/08

ThriftShopRomantic

It is interesting that they're taking your Stumble post and sending it other places. Do you know if these are people who already know you or not?

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1. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  this post was from august so I doubt it is anyone I know or that is a current reader... well maybe they subscribed my RSS has increased after being fixed and moving my blog to b5media's server
4/10/08

scifidriver

tried reddit got some visits but not much:
reddit.com/info/6ecrm/comments/

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4/10/08

DeadRooster

The problem with reddit is that people down-mod you without ever reading your post. I think what happens is that they try and improve there own rank by knocking yours down. It's a bad system.

Here's my latest:

reddit.com/info/6f22h/comments/

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1. 4/10/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  What? Now I've got zero, are you guys down-modding me?
  
  I just noticed Pointless has lost 2 points since I first up-modded him too!
2. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I am going there and upping you right now...
  
  damn people don't like me there too
3. 4/10/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  I wish they would do like mixx or propeller and let you see who downvotes you.
4/10/08

scifidriver

that's a tough system like in days of the wild west. maybe we should form a posse?

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1. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  round em up
4/10/08

ekim941

I thought you were one of the Diggheads?
Any excuse to use that word

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1. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I am on them all... I have been hitting mixx.com hard this week.
2. 4/10/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  I like mixx. Now if they would only get enough people on there to do some good.
  
  By the way, I could use some mixx friends:
  
  www.mixx.com/users/deadrooster
3. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Me too....
  
  www.mixx.com/users/kp2575
4. 4/10/08
  
  MadameX
  
  Define "like"? I like the Mixx community and the way you can submit things generally and to specific groups and the selective notifications and all that, but I've never seen it generate a lot of traffic. A few articles from my former employer did very well (on the Mixx scale) in terms of votes, but it just didn't seem to amount to anything.
5. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  Yeah I haven't seen a lot of traffic on there. But I think it is building. And if I can get my account built up on there in a quick period of time it might have positive repercussions in the long run.
6. 4/10/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Pointless,
  
  I just went in and up-voted a bunch of your mixxes. And thanks for adding me, I added you as well.
4/10/08

MadameX

I think I'm blacklisted on Reddit, so I'm not voting for either one of you in case it has a negative effect.

I have seen the same cross-over effect with the last couple of posts that have seen some success on Digg, but another interesting phenomenon as well--one that I thus far have no explanation for: every time I start to get a significant amount of Digg traffic, my Stumble traffic picks up significantly ON OLD POSTS. If it were onthe same post or the home page, I'd think some of the Digg visitors were stumbling and that explained the little spike, but it's generally not--it's generally on unrelated posts that have seen Stumble traffic before and tapered off.

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1. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  My stumble traffic dropped dramatically the last two weeks. So I kind of laid off posting stumble requests and doing anything with it.
  
  I am actually working on a major redesign of my site that removes the share this and puts up buttons like Icanhazcheezburger.com hopefully that will inspire some people coming in from various sources.
4/10/08

DeadRooster

Since this discussion started, I've gotten 3 down votes. After checking my statcounter, I see that NOT ONE person visited my site from reddit before down voting.

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4/10/08

trips262

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1. 4/10/08
  
  MadameX
  
  Damn, I can't remember whether I reported this one already...
2. 4/10/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  No problem. I just did, so it'll get there one way or the other.
3. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  I earlier... Because I am cool.
4. 4/10/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  And modest.
5. 4/10/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  shh don't tell anyone
4/10/08

pointlessbanter

I am at 1000 page views from reddit today... not bad so far. I probably should write a new post at some point.

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4/10/08

filmasia

reddit helped me gained extra traffic

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2/28/09

Gadgetmang

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