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‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Re: ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Post by dwild »

pathseeker wrote: post #443
moomin wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby. (I’m from a country where owning a gun is legal, but controlled, and has no school shootings. We used to have less control, and school shootings happened.)

>The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It's still theorizing because there are no comparable countries to the US that have done it when it comes to the number of guns already out there (300+ million) and the importance of the 2nd amendment to many of the citizens. >It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby. If you see it…

> Would you also suggest banning protests in response to violence and death at protests because it's even more of a "minority hobby" than gun ownership?

He didn't suggested banning, he suggested controlling them which is extremely different.

I don't know for your country (but I'm pretty sure it's the same), but in mine protest are controlled too. You need to give your plan well in advance and it need to be approved first. You never seen a protest becoming illegal and people getting arrested for it?

Re: ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Post by bhandziuk »

paulcole wrote: post #156
lechiffre10 wrote: post #18

I've significantly reduced my time on Reddit. Used to pull up the website out of curiosity every day but the atmosphere is incredibly toxic. My front page was riddled with Russiagate stuff too for some reason and every time you'd bring up an argument that isn't the norm you get a mob after you.

Every time you see a post on the front page you don't like, filter that sub from your front page. So easy. Unfortunate that Reddit limits you to filtering 100 subs from your front page.

So you're subscribed to them but filter them out of your front page? Why not unsubscribe entirely?

Re: ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Post by pathseeker »

chillwaves wrote: post #334
notMick wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.

Over a dozen indictments say otherwise.

How so? None of those seem to imply anything about a Trump/Russia connection so far.

If you start a fishing expedition for the Loch Ness monster, you're bound to find some fish but that doesn't prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

Re: ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Post by [deleted] »

TomMckenny wrote: post #458
naasking wrote: post #355

> I had conversations with Jason [Citron] a year ago about the problem of white supremacy on his site, and he said, “I don’t want to invade their privacy by going into their channels and reading what they’re doing.” And I said, “They’re gonna cause deaths because you’re not doing that.” And he said, “You really think so?” And I said, “Yeah.” And sure enough they didn’t do anything, and sure enough deaths were caused…

>...blames gun manufacturers for school shootings... If a new item today entered the market and was misused to the tune of 30,000 deaths per year. Misused far more often than legitimately like stopping an intruder. And the manufacturer knew in advance this would be the outcome, I think we would be right to blame them. There are many extremely dangerous substances with legitimate uses that would instantly be widely ab…

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Post by shostack »

tomcam wrote: post #245

Reddit has been a completely positive force in my life. I subscribe to hundreds of subreddits and they all seem quite well-moderated. If I want to ask a question of doctors, engineers, lawyers, or manufacturers, I can. If I want to spend some time look at cute baby elephant pictures, I can. If I want to learn about a new GarageBand feature, it's easy. I literally didn't know about the things like jailbait until they…

Reddit has been mixed for me, but overwhelmingly positive. I'm a part of industry subs that have incredibly high signal-to-noise ratios and counts founders and executives as some of its members. I've gotten amazingly deep answers quickly, and for free, for some of the most challenging and technical problems in my space. And for hobbies, it is now my goto place for really deep dive info.

I've received consulting opportunities, and also just connected with people IRL (including someone who ended up working literally around the corner from my office).

If I had to summarize my negative experiences, it would come down primarily to being made increasingly aware of how broken the world is with places like /r/politics and /r/worldnews, and the sheer amount of my free time Reddit ends up consuming that is, let's face it, mindless scrolling and brain candy.

To help with the negativity I've found adding more positive subs to my list helps balance it (like /r/uplifitingnews). It really is a balancing act though and I'm constantly aware of the self-imposed filter bubble I'm cultivating, so it is important to step outside of that.

Re: ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Post by pathseeker »

allemagne wrote: post #294
lechiffre10 wrote: post #18

I've significantly reduced my time on Reddit. Used to pull up the website out of curiosity every day but the atmosphere is incredibly toxic. My front page was riddled with Russiagate stuff too for some reason and every time you'd bring up an argument that isn't the norm you get a mob after you.

Why is it toxic to share stories about an investigation of the US President?

It's the commentary that's toxic. Nobody is allowed to criticize anything about the investigations or tenuous connections to Russia without being labeled a russian propagandist and downvoted out of visibility.

Look at this commentary from just today: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_wel...

Do you think this is constructive? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_wel...

What about this? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8dga0r/trump_tol...

There is no intelligent discourse occurring in those comments. It's just a big echo chamber.

Re: ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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Post by aplummer »

pathseeker wrote: post #443
moomin wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby. (I’m from a country where owning a gun is legal, but controlled, and has no school shootings. We used to have less control, and school shootings happened.)

>The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It's still theorizing because there are no comparable countries to the US that have done it when it comes to the number of guns already out there (300+ million) and the importance of the 2nd amendment to many of the citizens. >It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby. If you see it…

1st point:

It’s been done for hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of millions of guns, and it’s regulation not removing all guns, which is already done in the US, you can’t get a rocket launcher, so why am assault rifle?

No banned guns, just licenses, gun safes, regulation on types, reasonable ownership limits (all farmers I know in Aus have 5+ guns) - that’s all it takes to stop mass shootings.

If it’s a hobby that’s fine, that’s a valid application reason for example, you just have to prove you like guns and go to a range or subscribe to a gun magazine and you can buy them. That 30 minute hurdle provides a barrier to enough people.

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Post by aplummer »

cl0ne wrote: post #461
moomin wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby. (I’m from a country where owning a gun is legal, but controlled, and has no school shootings. We used to have less control, and school shootings happened.)

It's not a hobby to everyone, some people survive by subsistence hunting.

I think they should have clarified in urban environments, people outside of cities use guns is basically every country, even japan.

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Post by StellarTabi »

trophycase wrote: post #326
pessimizer wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're a straight up communist sub. Why wouldn't they? You seem to be complaining that a board game site bans you when you repeatedly post "board games are stupid, you should play video games."

Board games aren't an abstract concept greatly up for debate and they don't influence the minds of thousands of young kids and adults who will and do vote.

Sure, but at the same time, the video game enthusiast club isn't the right place to barge in and argue with everyone that violence causes video games.

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Post by Dramatize »

cl0ne wrote: post #461
moomin wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, you don’t really need to theorise about how to stop school shootings. It’s been done. It just required people to prioritise children’s lives over a minority hobby. (I’m from a country where owning a gun is legal, but controlled, and has no school shootings. We used to have less control, and school shootings happened.)

It's not a hobby to everyone, some people survive by subsistence hunting.

Which is why he said controlled not banned.
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