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First there was Slashdot, but CmdrTaco insisted on picking the stories for us. He called it an "omelet". Kuro5hin came along to fix this, but discouraged posts that were just links to pages elsewhere on the web. IIRC, this was called "link farming". How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many. Digg then encouraged links, but sh…
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I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
Left wing? I don't bother with Reddit because they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. Left-wing definitely not.
The truth is that Reddit is just full of assholes.
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It's not that conservatism is hateful, but that the brand of conservatism propagating on Reddit is a particularly hateful one.
It may not be obvious, and not everyone participating is aware of it, but there is a lot of parody going on in /r/the_donald. I think the prime motivation is disgust at how deeply political correctness has permeated our culture. What this all morphs into if (when) he wins the election remains to be seen. I'm both excited and scared to find out.
They don't say that anymore.
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> I generally unsubscribe from all of those defaults (except maybe /r/WorldNews) Maybe I don't understand how bad the rest of the default subs are, but the last time I went to the comments in r/worldnews, I saw nothing but awful, racist garbage. Maybe the links and headlines are worth reading, but those comments have completely killed any interest in discussion there.
They also think the US isn't part of the world. I get it, you want a news place that's not all US, all the time. I'm right there with you, but if I am going to "world news", then I expect news from everywhere in the world.
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unsub to all the political nonsense, and reddit's still a valuable resource.
He said /r/all and not the default subs. /r/all is generally a cesspool nowadays, especially with all the #TREMENDOUS /r/the_donald shitposts. I have seen Trump-tier shitposting leak into /r/China and other completely unrelated subs as well. It's getting out of hand.
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> I generally unsubscribe from all of those defaults (except maybe /r/WorldNews) Maybe I don't understand how bad the rest of the default subs are, but the last time I went to the comments in r/worldnews, I saw nothing but awful, racist garbage. Maybe the links and headlines are worth reading, but those comments have completely killed any interest in discussion there.
The comments are probably as terrible as you describe. Keep in mind that the comments on the website of every major newspaper are as bad or worse.
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You can just go to some other subreddit with a right-wing hive mind instead. Problem solved.
You actually can't. Lefty types show up in pretty much all the otherwise good topical sub-reddits and signal and get their upvotes. There will be some utterly irrelevant aside with Trump bashing, or whatever, on thread about single cylinder engines. There are some guys upthread here arguably doing it, for example. Ask the lefty signaler to shut up and stay on topic and you get downvoted or even deleted. Reddit is dom…
I had to download Reddit Enhancement Suite today (where I previously didn't bother at work) only to be able to hide r/The_Donald from r/all. It's just fucking everywhere, I can't take it. 50% of the posts are doomsday prophecies and just pure and utter shit. During every US election this happens, and your/their election process is so long you're basically wading in bullshit for 2 years.
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It may not be obvious, and not everyone participating is aware of it, but there is a lot of parody going on in /r/the_donald. I think the prime motivation is disgust at how deeply political correctness has permeated our culture. What this all morphs into if (when) he wins the election remains to be seen. I'm both excited and scared to find out.
Eh. People used to say /pol/ and /k/ were parody, too. They don't say that anymore.
http://gawker.com/ipad-hacker-and-troll-weev-is-now-a-straig...
Straight up swastika tattoo.
I am going to predict that Reddit will soon collapse because it is overrun with conservative minded people. It's starting to become a really hateful community.
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Perhaps the FilteReddit[0] feature (under Filters) of RES is what you're looking for? [0] http://redditenhancementsuite.com/features.html
Like I said, is it possible without a browser extension?