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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.
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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The image is NOT disturbing in the slightest. She looks a little bit different than "normal." Get over it.
I share op's feeling. At least on that image the skin looks very raw, like it has been peeled or burned off. It absolutely does not look normal and can be disturbing to unexpecting observers (me included). If it was normal there would be no post about 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 uneas…
I (and I believe a lot of other HN frequents) live in a bubble. We rarely meet people outside of the bubble - ask yourself when did you speak IRL with a real racist, for example? I remember this recent thread about his/her/them/their and a poor chap from Joyent. This is a special form of "sexism for us in the bubble". You just don't want to know what real sexism is.
Reddit allows me to look outside this bubble without actually meeting these people. And to adjust my gauges, and to educate myself (it's easy to laugh at some weird looking gal on the internets, but much less easy if you've learned what she went through and what her disease means, etc).
TL;DR: If you feel the urge to laugh and you see that the Reddit crowd laughs too, then probably you need to google around first. Chances are you won't be able to laugh and sometimes you'd cry instead. Which in itself a useful emotional exercise for (way too much) rational people.
Reddit is great if you're looking for a place for: * Mens Rights Advocacy * Bitcoin chat * Creepshots * Jailbait creepshots
Reddit is just a platform on which any community can form. If you have a problem with certain subreddits reddit is not your problem, humanity is.
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To add to your point, I literally never go to "www.reddit.com" at this point (for reasons you outlined), but there's a lot of niche subreddits that I love on Reddit itself (/r/hiphopheads, /r/nba, /r/nfl, /r/mfa). The key seems to be heavy moderation and relatively small community size.
The key seems to be heavy moderation and relatively small community size. I wish there was a site like Reddit/HN but on an invite/application basis only to consistently provide good content.
Reddit is great if you're looking for a place for: * Mens Rights Advocacy * Bitcoin chat * Creepshots * Jailbait creepshots
You really haven't contributed anything to this conversation beyond further emphasizing the fact that people in comment sections say inane things for attention. Reddit is just a platform on which any community can form. If you have a problem with certain subreddits reddit is not your problem, humanity is.
A few years ago, while Jailbait was still going strong, Reddit's administrators gave him a special one-of-a-kind "pimp hat" badge to honor his contributions to the site, which he proudly displayed on his profile. Brutsch said he was even in the final running for a job as a customer support representative at Reddit last year.
(http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...)
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But isn't HN just an aggregator too? Just lacking the subsections? When you get down to it, how much specialization do you want? Surely a dedicated objective C site would suit me better, or a dedicated Python site. This generalized site called HN is no good at all. I find, unsurprisingly, that reddit isn't something that is any one thing. There is some good, some bad (well, lots) and some excellent stuff (not enough…
The thing about HN is that you can verify a lot of users on here by going to their profile and seeing who they are (for the most part), a feature Reddit does not have. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938377