Reddit and What I Found There

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1. What kinds of things do people in the Reddit forums seem to be arguing about, debating, disagreeing about or otherwise engaging in meaningful exchanges of ideas about? Give us a descriptive and clear sense of the kinds of stories you're seeing in the Reddit forums.

Marketing Reddit commentators use the forums to give their personal takes on the effectiveness of mainstream marketing, in addition to giving advice from personal experience. For example, I saw debates over the flaws in TIDAL and TheFineBros's marketing schemes, each thread giving their suggestions on what should have been done.

2. In your opinion, what are the two most interesting debates/disagreements you found in the Reddit forums? Hyperlink us to the two different Reddit threads and explain why you found those debates interesting. Be specific and honest and be yourself.

The two most interesting debates I saw focused on evaluating the effectiveness of Jay-Z's streaming service TIDAL and the elements of design in a landing page.

The commentator expanding on how streaming cannot be viewed as a luxury item made an astute observation, in my opinion. As someone who followed the Tidal debacle closely in 2015, I found my thoughts mirroring this commentator's.

The thread about landing pages provides solutions for tightening a visitor's focus. The techniques suggested in their article remind me of the elements of effective slideshow design that I learned in my Management Information Systems class, and I found it interesting how similar elements of contrast and size carry over between the mediums.

3. Overall, what impression do you get of your discipline based on what you saw happening in the Reddit forums? Were the people in those forums talking in ways you expected or did not expect, about things you anticipated they'd be talking about or things you had no idea they'd be discussing? Explain in concise specific detail.

It seems that most users use Reddit to give their views in a more one-sided manner, not expecting dissent. Their speech is much less formal than it was on Twitter. This is to be expected, as Reddit handles are more anonymous, and there is less concern with image maintenance when only one person controls an account.