> Rather it will post sponsored content paid for and approved by advertising partners—and written by the same editorial team that writes editorial posts. “They’re going to be just as interesting as actual content,” Chang says. “It could be a piece on Tesla, a piece on how WiFi works, no matter what it’ll be good content—and it’ll just happened to be sponsored.”<p>This gives me some disquiet. I realise that this is what advertisers want - high quality ads that can't be blocked, but I think its harmful. In general, I avoid going to sites that have a policy of doing this.
As of Tuesday at midnight, here's what you see at <a href="http://upvoted.com" rel="nofollow">http://upvoted.com</a>: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/KsnPvXN.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/KsnPvXN.png</a>
Almost no mention of it on Reddit prior to this story [0] aside from rumors in a couple small Subreddits. Feels weird as a Reddit user to see something like this out in the news without attempts for creating community buy-in, as if the Reddit team has lost faith in aligning with their user base and instead leans toward working around them.<p>EDIT: The Wired article is starting to make its way around [1]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/search?q=upvoted.com&sort=new&t=week" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/search?q=upvoted.com&sort=new&t=week</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3nnw6v/reddit_launching_new_site_called_upvoted_that/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3nnw6v/reddit_l...</a>
I think it's a smart and awesome decision.<p>Curated reddit. It solves so many problems and can offer a lot of value to everybody.<p>- People who want "clean" and moderated reddit get what they want,<p>- advertisers get what they want,<p>- and, hopefully, reddit users get what they want(because there will be less pressure to moderate reddit.com).<p>At the very least they will capture all the value that buzzfeed and other bad blogs are currently taking from reddit.<p>Everybody wins.
> But most importantly, it just isn’t Reddit.<p>I think the thing that would set Upvoted apart, and that's basically the one reason it could work, is the fact that under the hood it <i>is</i> Reddit. Reddit has an enormous community that practically supplies stories and also validates them as "traffic-worthy".<p>I've seen several articles on other news sites that were clearly inspired by a popular post on Reddit, though I can't currently find a good example. If other people are doing it, why not Reddit themselves?
Buzzfeed, usvsth3m, The Metro and their ilk just recycle reddit submissions anyway, I think it makes sense for reddit to take a slice of that pie themselves.
Eh. This feels like what Digg pivoted into, a news website. Except of course, Reddit will be providing the content so it will be more straightforward. Interestingly they mention that it has been in the works for the last year, it seems like this is going to be a basic Wordpress site (unless the hosting page currently is misleading).
I've got a feeling that the Reddit community won't be too keen on this, mostly seeing it as another news organization "stealing" their content. IMO a good way to get users behind this would be to compensate the original posters for their content being posted on Upvoted.
> Nor, despite its name, will it have any kind of upvoting system<p>Well the name says the stories have already been upvoted, so no system of the sorts are really implied anyway. I'm sure there are more takes on that though.
Also <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336961" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336961</a>.