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/r/bitcoin has gone to shit. Try /r/bitcoinserious
And then it's going to be /r/truebitcoinserious, then /r/seriouslyguysthisistherealbitcoinsubreddit, then /r/thefinalbitcoinsubredditsolution and so on and so on. It doesn't change anything. It just fragments an already shit community into a smaller shit community.
Just COMPLETELY ignore it. I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person by being exposed to the same regurgitated/top voted opinions on things nobody should be talking about unless qualified (which you can't verify). I realized after a few years after taking an objective look at my life how much I had changed. If you dwell in a medium, you tend to absorb it, and that's the only medium…
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You are using reddit wrong. You don't have to use Reddit in default setting. Unsubscribe from everything and then select those subreddits that are nice. You don't have to look at comments if you don't like their contents. There are several nice and tightly moderated reddits that are great. For example /r/askhistorians and /r/askscience and several others.
But that's the thing. There is no actual real reason to go on Reddit. If I want to read something about the French Revolution, I'm going to pick up a book about it by a qualified author that I'll research before hand. By simple virtue of being on Reddit, regardless of subreddit, you are wasting your own time. It doesn't matter HOW good the top comment is, ultimately it's a gamble. How do you know if what you're readi…
Yes, without a doubt.
"But that's the thing. There is no actual real reason to go on Reddit."
Something like r/AskHistorians is fantastic and I could never take in such a diverse array of knowledgable points by "picking up books by qualified authors" - I simply don't have the time, nor the niche interest to read every topic to that depth. AskHistorians is full of very knowledgable contributors, has effective and tight moderation, and it's generally fascinating.
I don't have a Reddit account, so I just visit that subreddit (and a few others - AskScience, NBA, an anthropology one, etc) directly. Sure, there's trash elsewhere but the same is true of almost everywhere, anonymous or not.
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>You don't stand to gain anything from Reddit ever. Oh come on, really? I'm a hobbyist game developer. I frequent a few subreddits including /r/gamedev. It's a fantastic community and I've learned a lot there, and I've been able to use it for free promotion. It's been very valuable to me and I've enjoyed using it. If your statement was "you don't stand to gain anything from /r/funny ever" I might agree with you, but…
You're better off going to a website entirely dedicated for that topic than sub section of a link aggregator. Why not just frequent http://www.gamedev.net/page/index.html or conceptart.org or something?
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. See this post [0], to which the person from the picture responds [1]. Reddit does seem to have a problem with people who want to make fun of others posting, and unfortunately the content does get upvoted. I can't stand the people on reddit that take secret photos of others and post them. But don't write reddit off because of this juvenile behaviour. Read my…
I always thought that's because there are many teenagers active on Reddit. I think ridiculing others in an attempt to elevate ones own status is a very common phase for insecure teenagers to go through.
My experience is almost everyone grows out of it.
WARNING: Potentially disturbing image of a skin illness edit: Dear downvoters, I found that image disturbing and wish I had not seen it. I am sorry if this offends the person depicted but it is the truth.
The image is NOT disturbing in the slightest. She looks a little bit different than "normal." Get over it.
Looks don't mean much about a person and I am sure she is nice. No one should be ridiculed for their looks. But please have some sympathy with people who feel uneasy looking at diseases (not a native speaker, probably the wrong term).
That's probably a natural question for the curious 12 yr olds of reddit to be asking. I wouldn't take offense.
It's interesting how the (out of character) resentment undermines an otherwise high road response: "I fought back" "I felt a bit sick" "I was content (...) and these posters were making fun of a stranger on the Internet" "Think about how that impacts a stranger. Their parents, their partner, their children. Stop being a coward behind a screen." "the Internet is full of pretty awful people"
This is really admirable of you. To be clear, you have nothing to defend, you only had to point out how shitty other people are.
How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit: Explain to them how they're ridiculing a disease they didn't realize you had. If you are ridiculed doing something actually ridiculous, especially something that's your own fault, you're going to have a much harder time defending it...
Nobody should be ridiculing anybody for their looks, disease or not.