Reddit is wretched hive of scum and villainy. Don't take it personally. Your best bet is to find a knitting subreddit and stick to that. If that's what you have already done, see my first sentence again.

Well, it was worth a shot I guess. Their guidelines say that you're not supposed to link to your own stuff in more than 10% of your comments/posts. Not an unreasonable rule, but it means if I want to keep posting there I have to be a participating member of the site, and I don't want to have to sink more time in yet another community web site, especially when I can tell it isn't going to be one I'll enjoy all that much.

It's such an ugly site to read, visually speaking. As with Twitter, it's like reading code.

AskHIstorians and AskScience are good cause they're regularly moderated and useful.

The rest is uuuh good for keeping track of fandoms but basically totally useless if you're not twelve.

What can you people tell me about StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious and Technorati? Those are some other sites that are recommended for promotional purposes.

I've only tried Technorati so far, and damn but it is the most frustrating, unwieldy site I ever used. I'm still in the process of claiming my blogs and filing out my user profile. It makes me jump through hoop after hoop, and then says I haven't done it right.

StumbleUpon has sent me many eyes but I have no idea why.

There, I just joined StumbleUpon and added my page to it. It was an easy and quite pleasant experience, though who knows if I'll ever get any traffic from there.

Arse_hat, I'm guessing you're getting traffic from StumbleUpon because someone else added your page to it.

Twitter, to me, is a thousand times more functional and readable than reddit. The interface truly sucks. And the people are awful.

Reddit is kinda like the modern equivalent of Usenet, I think. Lots of crap, lots of creeps and hard to figure out.

Anyway, this mefite has a "guide" to reddit on their profile.

Using those tips I've found reddit to be much more enjoyable. But I'll admit I also use it to indulge in the internet-version of junk food (lulzy pics and pron).

Reddit is the modern usenet is the best metaphor I've ever had.

yea reddit is really only useful after a bit of lurking, and then only if you filter aggressively, and I would never consider it useful for self-promotion in any way - they actually tend to really resent that sort of thing in the way only a cynical internet mob mentality can.

I generally limit myself to my subreddits of choice, and I guess I have a thicker skin than most or whatever because most of the bathroom humor I see doesn't really bug me. That said, there are certainly places I won't go and have no use for.

I have seen a lot of good (both good deeds and good content) on reddit though, so I'm not quite willing to condemn it as an unredeemable pit of infamy.

It's just too much cruft for the small amount of good/interesting info. I don't have time. When someone does an interesting AMA or the like, it gets summarized elsewhere. Happy to let others do the massive filtering required.

reddit wasn't very nice to me and my wife.

You and your wife look like a wonderful couple, mrmoonpie.

Whoever wrote this infographic on how to promote your blog was obviously wrong about Reddit being "a must" for one's self-promotional strategy, and I don't think I'm going to bother with it after this.

by the time reddit started really growing a few years ago I had spent enough time on internet forums to not want to get involved in another one. especially not one full of lulzy young white dudes. (although since then reddit grown a lot and has a bunch of sub communities)

for me it's a bit like video games, I purposefully make a decision to stay away from them and managed to avoid getting my time sucked into them.... same with reddit

Yes. I mean, I regularly spend time on Metafilter and here on Metachat, on Facebook, and on Twitter. Those venues meet all my online needs for social connection, entertainment, and information. I just don't want to get involved in more social networking/community sites that will take away from other, more important activities. Every other site I use I use strictly for their practical purposes (i.e., Flickr, YouTube), and just won't do any networking on there, unless I run into someone I already know.

Reddit, like a lot of the generic web, is a haven for adolescent males of all ages. They like to hate things, because they don't have the confidence to like things unless the other adolescent males like them. I occasionally look at the front page for LOL pics. I'm sure there's good stuff buried in various subreddits, but I have plenty to read on the web already. Please don't let them get you down.

Oh, no, a thousand times no. Besides the basic stuff of making sure search engines find your blog, do it organically and authentically or else you are just shooting yourself in the tuchus.
I dunno, but I always stick by the old school rules of the net: give credit where credit is due and let the cream rise to the top.
I assume you've been posted on metafilter projects at least, but link to people/things you respect and such, as obvious calls for attention are not the most flattering shade of limelight. Yes, "network" vs no, "whoring." Catch the attention of those you admire with merit. Know your audience. Etc. etc.

The thing about the internet that is different, though, is that people will support you as a person more obviously, even if they don't particularly care for your product. Being more accessible and human is much more a part of your "brand" than in other media, so more media: pictures, video, but, of course, rule 34 does apply more if you are female.