Reddit Chemistry: Year One
by mitch on Mar 10 2009 (4848 Views)
I’ll briefly explain Reddit for those that don’t know about it. Reddit started as a social bookmarking website, but has grown into a method of determining what is popular on the internet on any given day. Reddit allows you to “vote-up” stories / webpages / news / blogs that have interesting content and based on a simple algorithm will display the most popular stories of the day. Roughly a year ago Reddit allowed its users to make their own specialized sub-reddits and I made the: Chemistry Reddit
Here are the stats after a year in operation of the Chemistry Reddit:
Members: 863
Links Submitted: 250
Banned Users: 2 (although I think they are the same person)
Top 5 links:
- 20 votes: A death in the science family. Be carefull with tert-butyl lithium! submitted by vastib
- 19 votes: Today I am (beta) launching my attempt to give chemists a place to discuss reactions while building a free open chemical reactions database submitted by kbrower
- 16 votes: Nitrogen Triiodide submitted by mitchandre (me!)
- 15 votes: You know you’re a Chemist when… submitted by mitchandre
- 14 votes: Chemist (Elisa Najera) Comes in 5th in Miss Universe Contest submitted by mitchandre
Most unpopular link:
-1 vote: vote up if you think carbon should rhyme with boron/neon/argon/krypton/xenon/radon submitted by spacefaced
If you’ve never looked into social bookmarking I highly recommend Reddit. It has a good community, and a large active chemistry group.
Click this to view the Chemistry Reddit: Chemistry Reddit
Mitch
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