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Piga Dgrifm said:
Reddit is okay so long as you stay the hell away from the political subs.
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You should probably stay away from any official game subs as well. It's been found that the community managers hired by the game companies are the subreddit moderators. Not that it's such a huge issue, since only the most mindless fans like to hang out there. You want to talk about serious issues with a game, and brainstorm solutions to it? No, there is no problem, there never was, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
 
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So many threads I could post this in, but I think it fits best in here to show how cancerous the r/news mods can be.

The reddit thread discussing the "woman" who won a recent cycling competition.

As removeddit shows,75%, 5294 of 7102 comments have been removed. That's ridiculous.
 

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A list of questions for redditors

1) which is better - a 500 point post or 20 50 point posts?
2) how many upvotes is your friend’s opinion worth? Eg: I’d rather tommy think I’m right than have 100 upvotes?
3) would you rather have a 20 point post, or someone gild a zero point post
4). What is your opinion about someone that upvotes all your posts? 1/2 your posts? Upvotes half and downvotes half?
5) would you rather have a front page link, or a highly upvoted comment?
6) would you rather someone upvotes or comments your post?



When Ingroup idiots agreeing with you is worth the same as outgroup people agreeing with you, I think it fucks up your heads. Similarly, when you are mentally discarding your unloved comments, you start to optimize your discourse for the highest rated ones. This goes beyond simple stage 1 “spouting popular opinions” and gets to something stranger which is reddit spear fishing.
 
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Boss Bass said:
3) would you rather have a 20 point post, or someone gild a zero point post
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Now there is a reason to gild negative posts, gilding keeps the post from ever being deleted and stay visible. So if you see a post saying "We should be able to eat our infants if they cost us too much money" that post will stay up until reddit servers shut down and everybody can laugh at that idiot.

Other people will gild the post when it's in the positive though because they too agree we should eat babies.
 
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Boss Bass said:
A list of questions for redditors

1) which is better - a 500 point post or 20 50 point posts?
2) how many upvotes is your friend’s opinion worth? Eg: I’d rather tommy think I’m right than have 100 upvotes?
3) would you rather have a 20 point post, or someone gild a zero point post
4). What is your opinion about someone that upvotes all your posts? 1/2 your posts? Upvotes half and downvotes half?
5) would you rather have a front page link, or a highly upvoted comment?
6) would you rather someone upvotes or comments your post?



When Ingroup idiots agreeing with you is worth the same as outgroup people agreeing with you, I think it fucks up your heads. Similarly, when you are mentally discarding your unloved comments, you start to optimize your discourse for the highest rated ones. This goes beyond simple stage 1 “spouting popular opinions” and gets to something stranger which is reddit spear fishing.
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I was a plebbitor, and I have top posts on a few reasonably large subs. Lemme try:

1) which is better - a 500 point post or 20 50 point posts?
Both are chump change. Probably one 500 point post in a smaller sub, and 20 50 point posts in a larger sub.
2) how many upvotes is your friend’s opinion worth? Eg: I’d rather tommy think I’m right than have 100 upvotes?
I mostly stuck to shitposting, but having someone I recognise join in the joke was better than a bunch of goons upvote the joke.
3) would you rather have a 20 point post, or someone gild a zero point post
Never got gilded, but it's always used to express that a post is good to one person, not actually a good post. The more flamebait a post has, the more likely a gilding is.
4). What is your opinion about someone that upvotes all your posts? 1/2 your posts? Upvotes half and downvotes half?
You can't see who does what.
5) would you rather have a front page link, or a highly upvoted comment?
Front page link, because comments are a dime a dozen.
6) would you rather someone upvotes or comments your post?
Comments are rarer, and provide more tangible feedback. From memory, the ratios for views:votes:comments was something like 100:10:1, with less comments per vote/view when a post gets popular.
 
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