Reddit

One of the most notorious open forums live is Reddit. The name "Reddit" comes from "read it". It is an entertainment, social network service and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts and direct links. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". 

            The website is known for its open nature and diverse user community that generate its content. The unique possibilities that subreddits provide create new opportunities for raising attention and fostering discussion across many areas. In gaining popularity in terms of unique users per day, Reddit has been a platform for many to raise publicity for a number of causes. And with that increased ability to garner attention and large scale audiences, users can use one of the largest communities on the internet for new, revolutionary and influential purposes.

            It's popularity has enabled users to take unprecedented advantage of such a large community. Its innovative socially ranked rating and sorting system drives a method that is useful for fulfilling certain goals of viewership or simply finding answers to interesting questions. User sentiments about the websites function and structure include feelings about the breadth and depth of the discussions on Reddit and how the site makes it easy to discover new and interesting items. One of the projects which I myself have used is University of Reddit, a subreddit that exists to communally teach, emerged from the ability to enter and leave the online forum, the "classroom," at will, and classes ranging from computer science to music, to fine art theory exist. The "teachers" are plain ordinary people who tend to have time for teaching others. There are such subjects as "Introduction to C++: A video guided tutorial" or "Wetshaving 101 - Learning the Art of Shaving Properly".

            As you can see Reddit has gone far away from being just an open forum to a platform where people learn, work and entertain eachother.

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