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

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Post by rfnslyr »

corresation wrote: post #25
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…

"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…

My post was a bit emotional yeah, just wasted way too much time on it and it shaped me in a bad way.

There are some great posts/comments in very niche subreddits, but when you compare that to the entirety of the website, it's a very very small outlier.

Read my comment as if you are only subbed to the defaults, since that's where OP's picture was posted, that's what I'm arguing.

The existence of a few rare good comments doesn't negate all the shit that Reddit generates.

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

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Post by meritt »

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…

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.

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

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Post by skinnycow »

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 don't stand to gain anything from Reddit ever. The comments are always terrible. You can argue that some smaller subreddits have really good content, but do they really? Maybe you'll find a few cool links and an odd article or two.

Your exaggerations and self aggrandizing is stupid and just makes you look ignorant.

If fact, coming here and storming off about it the way you are says more about YOUR personality type than it does about reddit. I love how all of this is your own personal shit that you get to offload on reddit. Pathetic. Pathetic.

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

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Post by rfnslyr »

dionidium wrote: post #19
rfnslyr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I use reddit to discuss stories that only people in my town would discuss (r/stlouis) or to discuss things about the local sports team that only the people in my town would discuss (r/stlouisblues). Neither of those places are particularly toxic and there isn't really a better place on the web to discuss those things. But that's the thing. There is no actual real reason to go on Reddit. There's no actual real reason…

I use it for small subreddits too once in awhile. I'm posting about the main subreddits because that's the context of OP's post since her picture was posted in r/WTF.

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

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Post by rfnslyr »

meritt wrote: post #32
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…

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 most part, it's verifiable, and that matters to me, so I stick around here.

It's much easier to fling shit about a photo than it is about a very specific/complex product or technology. I can't exactly bullshit my way to top comment about something I don't know anything about on HN.

A lot of the users here, if you click their profile, you can find their startups, places of work, code they wrote, their blog, etc.

On Reddit it's a straight up free for all.

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

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Post by Kluny »

rfnslyr wrote: post #16
dmunoz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Pretend like it doesn't even exist, because it shouldn't. Why not? I get a ton of useful content from reddit, and find that the discussions in the comments are often enlightening. The biggest problem with reddit is that you have to spend some time up front customizing your subreddit subscriptions. Once you've done that, the (custom) front page still has issues, and there is still bad discussion in the comments, but…

That's not the point. > Why not? I get a ton of useful content from reddit, and find that the discussions in the comments are often enlightening. How are you going to determine whether a comment is bullshit or not, especially on something super niche like some very specific question in r/Askhistorians? You can't for the most part. I do agree you can find good content, but by design Reddit is flawed. The upvote system…

> How are you going to determine whether a comment is bullshit or not, especially on something super niche like some very specific question in r/Askhistorians?

Boy, that sounds awfully familiar... like a very recent Bestof comment, originally posted in AskHistorians, about why reddit comments aren't useful sources for anything. Sounds like you're still reading the comments, despite your low opinion.

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

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Post by mandlar »

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…

It really depends on what you subscribe to. I subscribe to things to help improve me. Things like /r/personalfinance, /r/financialindependence, /r/frugal.

But most of the default reddits, yeah, they can be complete trash and a waste of your time.

Unsubscribe from default reddits and pick the ones that really matter to you.

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

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Post by rfnslyr »

tlrobinson wrote: post #30
smtddr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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…

/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.

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

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Post by dmunoz »

rfnslyr wrote: post #16
dmunoz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Pretend like it doesn't even exist, because it shouldn't. Why not? I get a ton of useful content from reddit, and find that the discussions in the comments are often enlightening. The biggest problem with reddit is that you have to spend some time up front customizing your subreddit subscriptions. Once you've done that, the (custom) front page still has issues, and there is still bad discussion in the comments, but…

That's not the point. > Why not? I get a ton of useful content from reddit, and find that the discussions in the comments are often enlightening. How are you going to determine whether a comment is bullshit or not, especially on something super niche like some very specific question in r/Askhistorians? You can't for the most part. I do agree you can find good content, but by design Reddit is flawed. The upvote system…

What's not the point? I think you seriously underestimate the quality of participants on reddit. As an example, across just two subreddits I can bump up against Andrei Alexandrescu, Martin Odersky, Walter Bright, the STL maintainer at Microsoft, and many other great programmers who are working on the languages and libraries that I might use. Also, often videos from a conference talk will be posted by the author, who will then respond to questions in the comments. Where else do I get this sort of interaction? If there is somewhere else, I'm certainly missing out on it.

Just the other day, a pointer to Knuth's Annual Christmas Tree Lecture [0] was shared. I wouldn't have found it as soon otherwise.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3vgJYYIok

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