Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

medium.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 519 posts

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#71

Post by bawolff »

unconed wrote: post #51
noasaservice wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're against treating people with respect and dignity? That's what your little "woke" slur means.

Woke refers to an ideology that, among other things, uses manipulative arguments, framing and emotional appeals to hide the fact that it is intellectual quicksand, serving people who want to morally elevate themselves without substance. Exactly like you just did.

You're basically just calling people names that have no commonly agreed definition. Something something about glass houses and stones.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#73

Post by Capricorn2481 »

coffeeblack wrote: post #54
labrador wrote: post #13

People complaining about Reddit remind me of that quote from Bjarne Stroustrup about computer languages: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” A lot of people use Reddit. I've been on since nearly the beginning and seen it go through various phases. They started getting serious about moderation after Gamergate and they're still serious about it since they wa…

My critique of Reddit isn’t so much about moderation per se, as it is about one-sided moderation. The ban of anything that opposes “the message”. It started around 2015/16 and it was very clearly visible in all subs.

They have only banned extreme political ideologies with vaguely violent leanings, and have done so for both sides of the spectrum

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#74

Post by bawolff »

tux2bsd wrote: post #65
ivraatiems wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We won't agree on whether reddit becoming politically more leftist is a good thing or not. But setting aside whether we want it to be, I'm not convinced the evidence is compelling that that's what's happened, or that if it has, that a community which wasn't "woke" wouldn't suffer all the other problems reddit suffers. Blaming politics you don't like is convenient, but not always helpful or accurate.

Quoted post unavailable.

Why? The poster expressed an opinion. Seems like they are living an opinionful life.

Don't mistake people disagreeing with you for people failing to hold an opinion. Those are two very different things.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#75

Post by watwut »

unconed wrote: post #51
noasaservice wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're against treating people with respect and dignity? That's what your little "woke" slur means.

Woke refers to an ideology that, among other things, uses manipulative arguments, framing and emotional appeals to hide the fact that it is intellectual quicksand, serving people who want to morally elevate themselves without substance. Exactly like you just did.

This is not true. Woke is used conservatives use when they want to fismiss and insult, but don't have much argument.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#76

Post by tux2bsd »

kfrzcode wrote: post #38
noasaservice wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're against treating people with respect and dignity? That's what your little "woke" slur means.

No, xer right it's a cesspit of self-proclaimed wokensheep

No post body was provided.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#77

Post by lupire »

winternett wrote: post #57
mjr00 wrote: post #18

As someone who was involved with many internet communities long before reddit, it sounds like the author is just experiencing the eternal September[0]. Pretty much since the day I found out about reddit in... 2008-ish?, everyone in the online communities I knew thought it was filled with awful pseudointellectual teenagers and college students, that the upvote/downvote system was horrible and encouraged people to post…

Reddit is hijacking content by requiring it to be hosted on it's own CDN... It's one of the main reasons why they put up walls. Many reddit users are actively involved in content and credit theft as well, but no one knows about how deep it runs. In a world where creators are going unviewed from IG to TikTok, there is literally an underground repost network that literally steals and reposts content to claim credit and…

Reddit only bans links when the Reddit post is mockery/harassment of the original content/creator, as an anti-doxxing measure. Otherwise linking to source is common and encouraged.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#79

Post by tux2bsd »

unconed wrote: post #51
noasaservice wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're against treating people with respect and dignity? That's what your little "woke" slur means.

Woke refers to an ideology that, among other things, uses manipulative arguments, framing and emotional appeals to hide the fact that it is intellectual quicksand, serving people who want to morally elevate themselves without substance. Exactly like you just did.

No post body was provided.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

#80

Post by unconed »

bawolff wrote: post #71
unconed wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Woke refers to an ideology that, among other things, uses manipulative arguments, framing and emotional appeals to hide the fact that it is intellectual quicksand, serving people who want to morally elevate themselves without substance. Exactly like you just did.

You're basically just calling people names that have no commonly agreed definition. Something something about glass houses and stones.

Why would it not have a definition? Here's one.

"Woke": an extreme form of contradictory progressivism popularized in the 2010s, which favors censorship and ostracization over intellectual engagement.

The idea that you can't define it is an example of the dynamics at play. The notion that non-woke people know exactly what's going on is unbearable to the woke. It implies that they are not at all "changing the status quo", but that they are the status quo. That their rebellious ideology is in fact the norm in corporate HR departments and colleges everywhere. That their behavior is in no way welcome, or positive, or empathetic, and is really just a LARP of the social causes of the late 20th century, divorced from principle and fact.

Post reply on HN