early results from the redditor survey

Only because this didn't do terribly well when it was submitted from our dev blog. Here it is again, with a different font! And to those of you who have already filled it out (and likely contributed the following answers) -- thanks. This thanks will also be extended to those of you who do the survey after reading the answers of your fellow redditors, even the one who said reddit jumped the shark during "Paul Graham's breakfast."

We've gotten back some of the early results from our survey (that's right, you too can tell us about yourself!)

We thought you'd be interested in seeing these...

Q3. When do you believe Reddit jumped the shark?

• nyeh, i dont much worry about that.
• not sure
• Some time this year.
• The day Digg started censoring users over the HD DVD key
• stupid question. Why can't reddit just be evolving into a new paradigm?
• Has it?
• Jun-07
• February 14th, 2007 at 11:14am
• Uh, leading question? Not sure it has, just yet. I guess the overall quality of posts had declined since early '07.
• the shark had it coming
• ?
• sharks? where? SHARKS??? SHAAAARRRKKKKSSS!!!! (chomp)
• Lipstick
• During the Digg AACS key riot, the tenor of the site changed noticably.
• When it adds a reddit.reddit.com section. Then it will have jumped the shark.
• wtf does that mean?
• No real specific time. It's slowly been getting more like digg (with spikes here and there) as the userbase grows without having the ability to section reddit off into groups of similarly interested people. We need the new version!
• When Digg got caught censoring stories... well, probably a few months prior but that was when it became apparent.
• When it was purchased by Wired
• When it became an almost-entirely U.S.-politics-driven site. I'm very interested in politics, but very not-interested in re-re-re-re-re-posted variations of the same uni-dimensional political shrieking...
• When Digg deleted all those HD-DVD keys
• When the digg kids surged in.
• Yesterday.
• I don't know
• it hasn't yet
• When politics, America-sucks, and cops-suck took over the front page
• I don't understand the question. Now?
• It hasn't yet.... has it?
• Never!!
• when the digg users flooded in
• what?
• never
• don't know what you mean
• Paul Graham's breakfast.
• Probably a while ago; i would have to say, unfortunately, as soon as it became popular. Funny how that works...
• I'm not sure it has. But if I had to pick a time when it was closest, it was when I started getting 20 political articles out of 25 instead of the nice mix of several genres I used to get.
• Never. Reddit is a great resource.
• May 2007 -- When Digg users migrated en masse and the front page became extremely politics-centric.
• It was gradual. For once, I think it's fair to blame Bush: the Impeachment Day (in February, I think) was awful, and reddit never got better.
• Within the past six months.
• When they went to the West Coast
• If the "new" version never comes out, yes otherwise no.
• the time i sat next to alexis at a dinner and he was a totally self-centered, sarcastic, holier-than-thou, oh-i-am-so-cool asshole.
• Shark, what shark?
• I don't think it has jumped the shark, maybe it happened before I joined. I mostly stick to programming.reddit, which for the most part seems to be great.
• Ron Paul
• I don't think Reddit has jumped the shark yet. Asking this question is proof of that. I still have faith.
• There has been no shark jump yet.
• I don't think it has yet.
• Almost when there was the Digg fiasco over the magic DRM number, but seems to have recovered.
• I'm new here. I like post-shark reddit :)
• i think it never even reached the shark.
• It never really got up on to its waterskis for me. Just... it never settled in to my routine of reading; I suppose that the crowded design and not-quite-close-enough-to-useful bubble-up meant it wasn't for me.
• After all the political crap and pictures showed up.
• Well, you guys are still doing alright, but the quality of the front page really took a dive starting somewhere around November last year I think. Probably can't be helped though. The masses like their lolcats.
• I don't think it has, really.
• While I don't know real numbers, would say after it was bought by CondeNasty. Just hold up a Wired from 2000 to one from today an you'll see what I mean. But I still tell people about Reddit everyday.
• It didnt
• Did it?
• Reddit jumped the shark when subreddits moved everything except politics off the front page.
• What a pointed question! Hard to quantify with a specific time frame, but the main page started sucking since at least a few months ago. Well, noticeably at least. There were always the lingering, repetitious LOLcats and their ilk, but eventually that's ALL that the main page was. So I jumped ship to programming.reddit.com. The whole site hasn't "jumped the shark", just that the main page is rather uninteresting these days (blame it on the Digg users! Haha).
• Hah. Funny that you just assume that your users are dissatisfied. It was a gradual thing, of course. I remember all these great articles that used to be on the top all-time. Stuff about the Socratic Method, why so many numbers begin with 1, extreme learning, etc. And Paul Graham's essays, although I guess that's mainly because he was writing a lot then. Now it's mainly political stuff, and since I've personally decided that reading about politics is a waste of time, I try to stay off the site. But I get bored a lot.
• When Ron Paul became the ad hoc candidate of interest
• What?
• When DIDN'T it jump the shark? Reddit jumps the shark almost hourly.
• I believe that reddit started taking a dive a month or two before the buyout announcement. I don't think this was the fault of Reddit, but instead, the influx of new users. The programming subreddit (the only one I read daily), is still fairly decent.
• when you sold out
• September 2006, give or take a few months. I still hope it will recover.
• Last summer.
• I don't have enough information to say.
• 4-6 months ago, give or take.
• Needed the money.
• I don't think it did.
• After Digg's HDDVD rebellion
• When the digg users came.
• 2005
• Not yet