Reddit and why is such a cesspool

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

It is a shit hole because it is all fake now.

Reddit sold out to public investors and public investors have no idea what real internet culture actually is and have replaced the website culture with a sanitized "advertiser" friendly lifestyle brand version of it.


Edit: on second thought Reddit was always a shit hole because the site design is fucking ass, but the site culture getting replaced with boring advertisement friendly horseshit is still true.

 

[Catler]

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The average plebbitor looks like this. Of course they can't take any jokes.

Holy fuck it’s literally all the stereotypes in one image, even the dog doesn’t look like it wants to be there.

“If Only You Knew How Bad Things Really Are”

 

[Space_Dandy]

Reddit used to be cool, but like most things on the internet, once it becomes big, corporate, and mainstream it becomes over-regulated until its a shadow of its former self.

 

[The Feline Solution]

I had a short-lived reddit account years ago which eventually got banned completly for troon-related hatespeech, what pissed me off the most was the endless repitition of completly unfunny jokes and memes in the comments, regardless of the post or subreddit. I say this as someone who spent years on /v/ but even PS3HASNOGAEMS wasn't as tiresome and grating as the shit under virtually any reddit post.
The repitition wasn't limited to unfunny shitposting, the amount of times i read some random comment and thought "wait a minute, i read that exact comment a minute ago" is uncountable.

Apart from that, reddit is shit because it's the ultimate echochamber, niggers on there bloviate about how the chinks and russkis spread their propaganda online while being astroturfed like a motherfucker themselves simultaneously. Fuck Reddit, and fuck me for still being forced to use it sometimes because virtually everything gaming related i'm interested in is either on there or, even worse, Discord.

I also unironically blame reddit ruining the last good boards on 4chan, especially /tg/ got borderline unusable past 2016 with the influx of tourists who do not understand that not every board acts like /b/. That's probably the only thing i'm legit mad at, regarding redditors.

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The average plebbitor looks like this. Of course they can't take any jokes.

Giga-Gunt with black child sends me every time.

 

[Milkis]

Something about the Reddit experience just feels so off but I can never put my finger on it. This goes way deeper than overt political signal boosting or censorship; there’s something just creepy about the overall tone you get from the site. A previous poster said that there’s no unifying Reddit culture but I’m not sure I agree.

There seems to be a weird drive towards overt politeness which makes everything seem extra artificial. Because of this, no one seems bothered to be even slightly skeptical of obviously fake stories as that may come off as unacceptably rude. Obviously, that’s extremely ironic for a site that fucking loves science so much.

The front page is also littered with posts that I genuinely cannot understand why a human would upvote. I don’t mean idpol I disagree with or topics I just don’t like; I mean absolute sub-boomer tier humor or things that stretch the definition of “mildly interesting”. Posts that I can’t imagine a human having any reaction at all to.

This all comes together to give the unshakable feeling that Reddit is extremely manipulated but you can’t ever get a specific sense of exactly how or to what ends it’s manipulated

I know what you mean. My perception is: they're all submissive in tone. It's like trying to have a normal discussion at a masochist club where everyone's saying "YES... hurt me MORE!" every time you disagree with them, and not in the cool Gray Fox way. It offends the normal human sense of dignity to see people acting that way.

Hackernews is like that too, but with more passive aggression.

 

[Halmaz]

The upvote system is great at destroying all chance of meaningful conversation, as it enables low effort shitposts to float to the top, while genuinely interesting discussion is subjugated. Even on small subreddits the top comments are unfunny joke/meme posts, or humble brags about how amazing "teh wife" is. It doesn't really help the updoot system can be easily abused.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Something about the Reddit experience just feels so off but I can never put my finger on it. This goes way deeper than overt political signal boosting or censorship; there’s something just creepy about the overall tone you get from the site. A previous poster said that there’s no unifying Reddit culture but I’m not sure I agree.

There seems to be a weird drive towards overt politeness which makes everything seem extra artificial. Because of this, no one seems bothered to be even slightly skeptical of obviously fake stories as that may come off as unacceptably rude. Obviously, that’s extremely ironic for a site that fucking loves science so much.

The front page is also littered with posts that I genuinely cannot understand why a human would upvote. I don’t mean idpol I disagree with or topics I just don’t like; I mean absolute sub-boomer tier humor or things that stretch the definition of “mildly interesting”. Posts that I can’t imagine a human having any reaction at all to.

This all comes together to give the unshakable feeling that Reddit is extremely manipulated but you can’t ever get a specific sense of exactly how or to what ends it’s manipulated

You're on the right track. The reason why Reddit feels so weird is that there is a unified Reddit culture... among the mod teams. What makes Reddit stand out among other social platforms is rather than ban communities outright, they found it is better to hand troublesome subreddits to their personal stable of super jannies to subvert them. The gender critical subreddits are a perfect example of this, what was originally subs to challenge transgenderism were handed over to the janny trannies. So you end up with a hand full of power users enthusiastically overseeing the moderation of all the major subreddits. Another reason why Reddit sucks is that it buries unpopular opinions with its rating system. So it creates an eco chamber, and if a politically incorrect opinions do bubble to the top they get deleted by mods. And lastly Reddit shadow bans posts at seemingly at random. So best be polite and mild so your post makes it to the public. It creates a weird paranoia among users and makes them easy to get them to follow peer pressure.

Also, RIP r/cringeanarchy who decided to self destruct rather than give in to the tranny jannies. But I do miss coffee table posting...

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Reddit is severely control with nothing that can organically rise from it, boring, and overpopulated. Reddit is a good example of why small populated dedicated forum websites like the kind Kiwifarms is based around is still superiors to large social media giants.

 

[Saint Agustin]

So I was banned PERMANENTLY by reddit FOR PROMOTING HATE without a warning, just for a comment.

The comment in question was deleted, but what was so wrong about it? It annoyed some reddit mod.

I replied to the question of "What everyone should have two of?" With a cheeky answer: "Two tits and two ovaries = women"

That really pissed reddit mods.

Now I started thinking.... They don't even send you a warning or put you in time out or shadowban you or ban you from subreddit, they straight up ban your account for the slightest offense against The Cult.

Reddit is fucking dead if they ban everyone like that. Is full of bots and troons accounts. Is not even interesting if you have to carefully say anything unless you slightly offend someone, not even directly even, just as an offhand comment is enough to get you banned from the site.

Reddit is a cesspool of censorship and degeneracy. If they were good people they would promote opinions instead of outright yeeting you of their site.

Redditors are not good people.

 

[Delta Integrale]

I'm just reiterating what others have said so far but just to add my two cents:

The "hot" threads system basically ensures any even remotely interesting topic gets pushed into the ether within 24 hours at most. Most people who casually browse don't deviate from that mode.

Anything popular media related gets botted into the popular section.

While I get the original intention of the upvote/downvote system, it didn't account for the average retard on the internet. I think they would've been better off keeping the threaded commenting system they have currently but opting for a highlighting system like KF has without the karma bullshit. The comment threads should just be ordered by time. Yea you'll get the retards going "first" but that's probably no worse than what it is now.
Also, as far as I'm aware the entire "muh internet points" stuff was popularized because of reddit.

The users have always been bad to my knowledge. Even going back to 2014, especially in the larger communities, it felt like every post was someone making the same dumb pun and it always had a chain of people quoting even dumber jokes from tv shows. It has just gotten worse since then.

And all that before we even get to the shitty power mods/trannies and their little fiefdoms.

Just the fact that a half-baked internet forum is somehow a "multi-billion dollar silicon valley" company is outrageous.

 

[SwanSwanson]

I feel like when alot of people are complaining about reddit their minds are stuck in the 2015 interpretation of it. Do you have really any idea how bad things really are?

Getting downvoted is completely miniscule compared to reddit being astroturfed into taking a side in a war for a machiavellian struggle for an imperialistic government. The front page being completely astroturfed and the majority of posts getting removed by the mods is way worse than downvotes. People don't even get downvotes these days since mods just ban people at the drop of a hat. Man, I miss the days when getting downvoted was the worst thing to happen on reddit because all I needed to do was not give a shit.

 

[Second-Hand Boat Supplies]

I feel like when alot of people are complaining about reddit their minds are stuck in the 2015 interpretation of it. Do you have really any idea how bad things really are?

Getting downvoted is completely miniscule compared to reddit being astroturfed into taking a side in a war for a machiavellian struggle for an imperialistic government. The front page being completely astroturfed and the majority of posts getting removed by the mods is way worse than downvotes. People don't even get downvotes these days since mods just ban people at the drop of a hat. Man, I miss the days when getting downvoted was the worst thing to happen on reddit because all I needed to do was not give a shit.

Wait, are you telling me that all the posts about how all the Ukrainian puppers fuxkin’ love teh science did not make it to the front page organically?

 

[Saint Agustin]

Wait, are you telling me that all the posts about how all the Ukrainian puppers fuxkin’ love teh science did not make it to the front page organically?

Reddit is full of bots and socket accounts.

I wouldn't be surprised there is some blackmarket with accounts with lots of karma just for companies to push their product on idiots, troons and neckbeards: Case in point: FUNKO POPS.

Overpriced pieces of plastic that retards love to collect.

Tell me is that is not a scam.

 

[tankazoo]

I got banned from reddit for calling out some chick, her byline in reddit said mother to 5 kids, and then it said "nonbinary". I simply asked her how she can use the word nonbinary and mother in the same sentence. She proceeded to lose her shit on me, go on some rant about how she can climb a tree and told me she is reporting me. Got permabanned for supposedly promoting hate. Still dont know how she can be a mom and nonbinary. Reddit is a cesspool of extreme left wing tards

 

[Jason Wynn]

Because it’s full of pedophiles, leftists who think even moderate democrats are goose-stepping nazis, no fun allowed sjws, power tripping tranny jannnies, autists who slap their fins together over the 7 billionth dad joke level pun but downvote anything intelligent or any opinion that goes against the grain. Need I go on?

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

The moderators are usually worthless parasites of society
It's constantly being astroturfed to hell
The community is full of retarded manchildren. It's also full of retarded children
The tech community exists on there

Admittedly there are some actually useful small subs that offer helpful resources. Unfortunately there's also a lot of small subs that look like they offer helpful resources but in actuality they either offer bad advice or can only answer basic questions that you could have found in a few seconds yourself if you weren't a technologically illiterate hick.

 

[Kiwisee]

If you ever wondered why jocks used to shove nerds into lockers or give them swirlies, all you need to do is go on Reddit.

 

[Otterly]

It is a model for the way social media is used to control us. You’re tied to identity, you’re given a set of opinions to conform to and things to believe and if you do t you’re crushed to oblivion. If you comply you’re rewarded. The result is an artificial environment where people are trained like pavlovs dogs to believe certain things, to not even think about others and to attack anyone who steps out of line.
Contrast with here and somewhere like 4chan. Here there’s good moderation, where the rules are clearly set out. If I threaten person x irl then I’m in trouble but otherwise the worst that can happen is I’m told I’m a tit. 4chan is even more anonymous and that completely breaks the link of that emotional feedback loop. A post on/pol/ or similar can be reacted to and by the next thread you’re just a number again.
Imagine a world where online anonymity is gone completely. That’s what they want. There’s nowhere to hide from the feedback loop then. The perfect panopticon.

 

[RMQualtrough]

Same reason all of Silicon Valley is. Trannies and recent college graduates.

I cannot believe women are so welcoming of trannies. They're literally just men. It seems anti-feminist.

 

[ロボ﹏§¤r﹏h¶rœ]

I cannot believe women are so welcoming of trannies. They're literally just men. It seems anti-feminist.

The women that were not comfortable with trannies have already left plebbit. Some migrated to a reddit-like site for tranny-hating women (ovarit.com) or the Fediverse instance spinster.xyz