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

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

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Post by AlecSchueler »

3qz wrote: post #319
AlecSchueler wrote: post #179

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I've been on Reddit since 2008 myself and was an avid user of forums etc for years before that. When I started on Reddit there was already an element of things having changed, a move away from niche technology discussion towards lowest common denominator stuff and discussion by meme. In general this was fine as you could just move to smaller subreddits, and the bigger pages had fun cultures that permeated the others…

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This is pure FUD and very dangerous. Firstly, you're talking about a different sub that what I linked to, grouping these together. The subs I linked are female led and moderated, at least BFHS.

Secondly, they also have large numbers of participants from a range of backgrounds with a range of motivations. The subreddits they are discussing tend to have 10s of 1000s of followers actively engaging in various levels of harassment, I doubt that's a single sock puppet.

Thirdly, do you have a source for anything you're claiming?

Finally, if what you're saying is true then someone is posting child pornography to Reddit. Regardless of his intentions we should be concerned about that.

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

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Post by GekkePrutser »

I think reddit died for me when they more than doubled the price of premium membership (previously called 'gold'). It's just not worth it anymore.

I always used to love how open it was. Don't communities were toxic sure but there were lots of fringey subreddits with people really enjoying themselves. For example exhibitionism. Conde Nast are trying to clamp down on this a lot to make it more mainstream palatable. IMO this is when such platforms start to decline though I have to admit reddit has so far lasted longer than I expected (especially when considering predecessors like Digg)

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

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Post by lapcat »

leereeves wrote: post #338
lapcat wrote: post #336

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> Honestly, it's like the WaPo article and the madison.com article are describing different events, except they aren't, just two perspectives on the same event. The Washington Post article is literally labeled an "Opinion" by the Washington Post, and it was written by Marc Thiessen, who coincidentally co-wrote a book with Scott Walker: https://www.amazon.com/Unintimidated-Governors-Story-Nations... Talk about obvious…

Absolutely biased, no doubt. Not a word in that story about why the bill, maybe, should have failed. Not a single quote from protesters. Both are undoubtedly guilty of selective reporting. But let's be clear, are you accusing the WaPo piece of lying , not merely choosing what to cover?

> Both are undoubtedly guilty of selective reporting.

Act 10 had been covered extensively by the Wisconsin State Journal for the previous month. You wouldn't expect every new story to say every single thing. It was already a familiar issue to us all.

> But let's be clear, are you accusing the WaPo piece of lying, not merely choosing what to cover?

I would say exaggerating. Take it from Republican Representative Glenn Grothman, who was there for both events. "It never reached that pitch (during Act 10)."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/01/08/wisconsin-act...

During the Wisconsin Capitol protests, Grothman was personally surrounded by protesters, who chanted "Shame!" at him but didn't harm him physically. There's even video of this.

"Grothman downplayed the situation and told the paper he didn't think he was ever in any real danger."

I do think we've strayed very far off topic, which is supposed to be Reddit...

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

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Post by nunez »

Outside of a few subreddits and many smaller ones, quality discussion on reddit at large scale never really existed (or at least not since i joined in 2012) because the type of content that was/is upvoted most heavily is quick, low-thought, quippy and usually low-quality.

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

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Post by ipaddr »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #284
Dracophoenix wrote: post #199

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> The difficult change I've seen in the past few years is the rising number of hate and harassment subs, and Reddit tolerating them. If you scroll through the top of /r/BanFemaleHateSubs or /r/AgainstDegenerateSubs you'll see how bad things have become and how unsafe the general environment is. The r/BanThisandThat subreddits are little more than morality police. Many of those posts will take statements out of contex…

Have you looked at the subs they're talking about? They're sharing collections of zip folders of girls openly advertised as as young as 13, they're stalking women via social media sending descriptions of their potential rape to their family, they're robbing women's houses and sharing their stolen belongings, they're flashing, groping and ejaculating on women in public and filming it for upvotes. Call it morality poli…

If the purpose of the sub is to get other users to visit these 'bad' sub aren't they doing harm be acting as a place to discover these types of subs

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

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Post by RickJWagner »

I don't frequently visit Reddit, but I think in the last year or two it has become more prone to mono-think and feels a bit like high school.

I hope it changes direction and becomes a better public forum. We need more of those kinds of environments.

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

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Post by 3qz »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #341
3qz wrote: post #319

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This is pure FUD and very dangerous. Firstly, you're talking about a different sub that what I linked to, grouping these together. The subs I linked are female led and moderated, at least BFHS. Secondly, they also have large numbers of participants from a range of backgrounds with a range of motivations. The subreddits they are discussing tend to have 10s of 1000s of followers actively engaging in various levels of h…

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

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Post by koshergweilo »

0des wrote: post #281
koshergweilo wrote: post #85

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> I made a terrible life changing mistake by reading too much of these subreddits. I don't understand. How could you make a life-changing mistake by reading the news?

I don't know if it is the same person, but there was a quite disheartening story posted by a person who due to internally misunderstood depression transitioned at the suggestion of people on reddit, regretted it, then later went dark and everyone assumes took their life.

Yeah something like that came to my mind as well. Even if that is the case it seems a little odd to blame the news subreddit specifically and not their own poor decision-making. It's like if someone who panic sold during the covid scare blaming the news.

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

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Post by jaggs »

Reddit is not so simple to pin down. On the one hand all the 'bad stuff'. On the other, a huge selection of really interesting niche subs where you can find intelligent, valuable and even expert information and guidance. The big subs are not everything that is Reddit. The real treasure is found in the specialist places which very few people know about, staffed by enthusiast hobbyist mods and devoured by equally passionate readers.

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

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Post by amp108 »

ivraatiems wrote: post #12

I have a different take: The main problem with reddit is in how badly it's bungled its several different redesigns over the last few years, and how it's slowly ruined its users' experience in misguided attempts to drive mobile traffic to its app. Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Navigate to subreddit. Find out which of two (non-NSFW)…

> Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app:

1. Use rif is fun for Reddit (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....), or other third-party apps.

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