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I think anyone who reads the default subs can corroborate the rampant sexism and racism. When I'm on women-centric subs like /r/askwomen, I frequently see comments that would absolutely get torn apart in most other parts of the site. Not offensive or provocative ones, either. Just normal conversation that would get a slew of "shut up, SJW" anywhere else.
That last comment is not necessarily anything-ist. Someone who reads a community centralized around the finder points of, say, raising kittens, probably doesn't desire social politics and its associated toxicity injected. (Imagine this conversation we're having here, right now, in the middle of your favorite place to relax, and talk to people, except a lot less civil, and that's before the meta communities find it an…
Anyway, I've found that the people who use shorthand insults like "SJW" are typically part of the entrenched majority group of their subculture — and want nothing more than to keep those pesky "outsiders" away from their clubhouse. (Despite the fact that those outsiders had, in fact, been there all along.)
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That last comment is not necessarily anything-ist. Someone who reads a community centralized around the finder points of, say, raising kittens, probably doesn't desire social politics and its associated toxicity injected. (Imagine this conversation we're having here, right now, in the middle of your favorite place to relax, and talk to people, except a lot less civil, and that's before the meta communities find it an…
Well, the fact of the matter is, most Reddit communities are dominated by male voices. So the "social politics" often aren't artificial incursions into the discussion, but underrepresented groups just trying to be part of the conversation. For example, there was recently some controversy about the portrayal of a female character in Metal Gear Solid V. It's not good when a woman says "I don't like how this character w…
"I don't like how this character was portrayed" is a fine criticism on its own, but behind that is the shadow of "..so what should be done about it?". Absolutely nothing of value lays down that path.
Put another way: Talk of frame rates leads to discussions about optimization. Talks of nonsensical writing leads to discussions of something else they could have done. Talks about portrayal of a "minority" character go straight into "the developers are *ist".
Why does "being part of the conversation" always seem to wind up in "I don't like this, the devs are assholes, it should be changed?"
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> Reddit 2006 would not reflect mainstream US values and opinions, Reddit 2015 would be much closer. While I agree Reddit 2015 does reflect more of the US mainstream, it is still far from being an actual reflection of popular US opinion. Reddit is far more atheist/libertarian than the US mainstream. And I would argue it is right now far more reactionary/right wing as well. It has become very popular among young white…
> young white males who have unhealthy attitudes towards women due to the abundance of porn You sound just like the fundamentalist Evangelicals I grew up with.
That reads as if you intended it as a personal attack. Such comments are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't post them here.
I wonder if an analysis of this and the comment corpus could quantifiably show shifts in the opinions of the Reddit "hivemind" since the start. Has the Reddit userbase turned more conservative over the years, or is that just my impression?
I wonder if an analysis of this and the comment corpus could quantifiably show shifts in the opinions of the Reddit "hivemind" since the start. Has the Reddit userbase turned more conservative over the years, or is that just my impression?
http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/09/dois-in-reddit.html
HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10303295
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Do you have any of the source on Github? I'd be very interested in taking a look and potentially using it as an excuse to get playing with a natural language toolkit (in all my spare time haha)
Yes https://github.com/Houshalter/amabot
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Could you share "C:\\Users\\Daniel\\Documents\\Programming\\AMAbotData.txt" as well or it is not neccessary to run the bot?
Presumably that's the large dataset he was referring to.