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It may not mention Reddit, but you can be sure that all the social networks used core ideas from it.

Community voting in general was popularized on Reddit (and Digg before that) and then the big guys started implementing it on their own networks in the late 2000's. I'm talking about all those thumbs up/down functions that eventually showed up on Youtube, Facebook, etc.

I just recently launched a SaaS that is now trying to do the same for traditional bloggers since they've been left behind more than anyone.




>Community voting in general was popularized on Reddit (and Digg before that) and then the big guys started implementing it on their own networks in the late 2000's.

Does anyone have a history of community voting / moderation? Slashdot is really the first example that I can think of, but what, if anything, was before that? And is anyone else doing the multi-dimensional sorting like Slashdot (Informative / Interesting / Funny). That seems like something that might be due to make a come back.




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