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How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by bendmorris »

rfnslyr wrote: post #52
bendmorris wrote: post #41

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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?

Sure, other options are out there, but why should I? I like Reddit. I was challenging the statement that it's impossible to derive value from Reddit. I do.

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by corin_ »

transitionality wrote: post #80
ahuth wrote: post #64

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Nobody should be ridiculing anybody for their looks, disease or not.

Most of the time, your ridiculous looks are your own damn fault, and deserves ridicule. Yes, this includes fatness.

Fatness is the one I can't stand people getting upset about (as in, upset when people make fun of it). I'm fat, if anyone wants to take the piss then I'm fine with it.

Sure, there can be situations out of your control - I, for example, do believe that my genes aren't helpful to my weight based on family members and anecdotal evidence, but at the end of the day if I really cared I'm perfectly aware that I could be skinny, I just happen to chose to eat great food, and too much of it, and do far too little exercise.

If you mock me for being gay I might be offended, but for being fat.. that's my own damn fault, I know how to stop being fat but I don't care enough to do it, currently. If anyone wants to laugh at that, give a shit,

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by djillionsmix »

stefantalpalaru wrote: post #60

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"

No it doesn't

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by harvestmoon »

Reddit is useful to me because I read subreddits that are interesting. Stuff like /r/offmychest /r/confession can provide a unique perspective on life.

For discussing TV shows (which I have to admit, I enjoy), it's also quite good. And if you are an artist making music, I honestly think Reddit would be one of the best ways to succeed if you carefully researched the right subreddits.

So it's not all bad. The default pages are generally quite brain-dead, particularly "adviceanimals."

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by supergauntlet »

rfnslyr wrote: post #24
WizzleKake wrote: post #22

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reddit used to be great, but the level of discourse plummeted when it became popular. I read slashdot mostly for the comments, but I generally stay out of the comments on reddit unless I'm looking for an explanation of something that was posted. Even then, I often have to scroll through pages of idiocy and in-jokes before I find the information I'm seeking.

It used to be indeed. Wish they made it invite only.

Small private subs still are good. They're honestly the only ones that are, because a ban there actually means something.

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by tyrust »

sanskritabelt wrote: post #89
tyrust wrote: post #87

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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.

Communities don't form in a vacuum, site ownership abetted, if not encouraged, the reddit culture: 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…

Reddit has pretty much always had a laissez-faire approach to administration of subreddits. As long as it was legal it was ok. I really don't want to touch the violentacrez case, but he was given that award in recognition for serving as a moderator of a boatload of subreddits. It's not like the admins said "nice CP, here's a pimp hat".

And once again you are simply ignoring the fact that Reddit is not one entity. There is no single "reddit culture".

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by brc »

rfnslyr wrote: post #3

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…

You have hit upon a truth that many do not ever discover. What you take into your hands or eyes, you take into yourself.

If you read negative hateful rubbish, it will rub off on you.

If you watch a lot of pron, you will develop a warped sense of what human relationships are about.

If you absorb a lot of politics from a biased (one way or the other) source, you will start to dehumanise your political opponents.

Balance and real human discussions are the key. Your time is precious. Your keystrokes are precious - you only so many of them - http://keysleft.com/ - don't waste your keystrokes of pointless ragefests.

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by transitionality »

corin_ wrote: post #92
transitionality wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the time, your ridiculous looks are your own damn fault, and deserves ridicule. Yes, this includes fatness.

Fatness is the one I can't stand people getting upset about (as in, upset when people make fun of it). I'm fat, if anyone wants to take the piss then I'm fine with it. Sure, there can be situations out of your control - I, for example, do believe that my genes aren't helpful to my weight based on family members and anecdotal evidence, but at the end of the day if I really cared I'm perfectly aware that I could be ski…

I like to summarize all that with: No fat Somalians.

People tend not to argue.

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by ceol »

rfnslyr wrote: post #18
smtddr wrote: post #8

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>> I hate Reddit so much, it's such an absolute shit hole. Pretend like it doesn't even exist, because it shouldn't. I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person. 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 I dwelled in. I very strongly agree with this. When D…

It's actually hilarious reading some of the top posts in r/bitcoin. 18 year old basement arm chair analysts giving their fantastic insight into the future of bitcoin based on: reading a few articles, reading bitcoins whitepaper, and reading other similarly misinformed comments.

If you have an extra liver lying around, take a drink every time someone posts, in complete sincerity, "It has no where to go but up!"

Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit

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Post by ceol »

sergiotapia wrote: post #45
rfnslyr wrote: post #28

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When I was young and I found this site, I thought it was the best thing in the world. In my head, I could throw out every other site because all the links are here first! Then I saw the comments, and it's very easy to feel like you're being informed on a topic when you see it has X upvotes (if it's this upvoted, it MUST be true!) when in reality, you have no position to judge the quality of a post because you don't k…

So the problem you have with Reddit is that the barrier of entry is too low? Join subreddits like /r/sciece or /r/askscience for hardcore 'truths' - they ban memes, etc. Again, it seems like you just went out of your way searching for things to hate.

The fact you claim /r/science is for "hardcore 'truths'" kind of proves you aren't in a position to talk about this. :(
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