Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd advise staying away from any sort of psuedo-anonymous discussion platform without moderation because they always end up the same. Slashdot. Digg. YouTube. Online gaming. Xbox Live. Hacker News. Your vitriol against just Reddit is a bit over the top. All of your complaints apply here too. Food for thought.
They do apply to HN, but HN is still very small compared to Reddit, and it's just one page dedicated to one (albeit) broad topic. The difference between Reddit and HN is HN has a reputation amongst a certain culture, so users fight to maintain their own reputation on here. How many times have I seen CEO's and founders of multi million dollar companies freely offer their insight on here? That's valuable, and for the m…
HN is what reddit was like 8 years ago.
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#113This is really admirable of you. To be clear, you have nothing to defend, you only had to point out how shitty other people are.
Why do I always seem to be running into the word "shitty" in criticisms or attacks that can't substantiate themselves?
Please explain how my criticism of those people's behavior can't substantiate itself.
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#114WARNING: 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.
Grow up.
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#115Just 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…
Reddit 8 years ago was like HN now. I would learn a lot from discussions, and there was no concept of subreddits.
Later, I remember being shocked to hear some co-workers who I considered kind of dumb, discussing reddit-this, reddit-that a few years ago.
I occasionally visit reddit these days, but it's more as a reminder that I live in a bubble and that there's all kinds of people. It's fascinating. People are just tragically stupid, and yet the world sort of works.
I wonder whether this is what the Eternal September felt like.
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#116Just 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…
"The comments are always terrible. You can argue that some smaller subreddits have really good content, but do they really?" Yes, they really do. And no, the comments aren't always terrible. You can't simply make absurdly absolute statements and contrived caricatures and expect them to fly. You seem to have a deep emotional investment in Reddit, as if you put unrealistic expectations in it and now you strike out like…
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Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#117This is really admirable of you. To be clear, you have nothing to defend, you only had to point out how shitty other people are.
Why do I always seem to be running into the word "shitty" in criticisms or attacks that can't substantiate themselves?
Why do those who can't hack the "exercise left for the reader" never directly ask for help?
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#118Controversially, this is what I love Reddit for. 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. Re…
I see it a bit differently myself. All online communities seem to end up the same way, people group together based on shared interests, which tends to lead to a false-consensus bias. Ironically, I think much of reddit has fallen victim to this bias, while simultaneously believing reddit is resistant to these kinds of biases because it is free-speech friendly.
But in actuality, reddit is generally filled with straight, white, English-speaking, college educated, single, 18-25, middle-class males [1] [2]. Reddit sees more of traits, perspectives, problems, etc of these groups and less of others. I see a lot of hostility towards perspectives that come from groups who fall outside the criteria above.
In other words, I see plenty of racists on reddit -- just not non-white racists. In my opinion, this is not looking outside my bubble, it's looking in at a smaller part of my own bubble.
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gzb2w/i_made_a_b... [2] http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-stats/2012-soc...
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#119Controversially, this is what I love Reddit for. 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. Re…
I see it a bit differently myself. All online communities seem to end up the same way, people group together based on shared interests, which tends to lead to a false-consensus bias. Ironically, I think much of reddit has fallen victim to this bias, while simultaneously believing reddit is resistant to these kinds of biases because it is free-speech friendly. But in actuality, reddit is generally filled with straight…
IMHO, Reddit is just too big a community, there's no shared interest. Just too many people. I'm speaking about large subreddits like the one discussed here, /politics, etc.
Also, there's no problem "seeing" plenty of racists on Reddit or whereever, but I was talking real life.
Re: How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit
#120WARNING: 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.
Grow up.
This has nothing to do with growing up. I feel uncomfortable seeing someone with such condition. I also cannot watch America's Funniest Home Videos where people get hurt constantly.