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Observotron said:
I can't figure out of reddit users talk like robots, or if most reddit accounts are actually just bots. I've been noticing it more and more lately, but so many comments read like PR statements now that I'm really starting to believe the dead internet theory.
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I've noticed this a LOT on the grief support subreddit, except instead of trying to be overly officious or lelfunny, it's being cookie-cutter touchy-feely and overly familiar? I'm not saying a forum with such a personal focus shouldn't be more understanding in tone, but it's like almost every damn comment is the same variation of "Softly, gently, might I suggest giving yourself grace, being gentle with yourself, and reaching out to a good therapist? I love you and I'm proud of you. Grief has no timeline and we're all just walking each other home ❤." For a sub that's supposed to be about personal feelings and support there's almost no sign of distinct or unique voice anywhere. It's so crazy to read a comment from someone waxing purple prose about the universality of love and compassion with a comment history full of tardraging and wishing death on anyone right of Marxist.

In fairness it was my fault going to fucking Reddit of all places for a topic like this, fortunately it made me so fucking irritated to read the same cloying platitudes over and over that it actually drove me to move the fuck on and deal with it, lest I become the same way.
 
Observotron said:
I can't figure out of reddit users talk like robots, or if most reddit accounts are actually just bots. I've been noticing it more and more lately, but so many comments read like PR statements now that I'm really starting to believe the dead internet theory.

Go to any somewhat mainstream reddit - doesn't matter if it's about a general topic or something more specific, but read some of the top comments. They're either bots or Chris-Chan level autists that write/talk like they're in a commercial.
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Reddit is full of bots but even then the users of Reddit subscribe to a very corporate culture due to the karma system and overly heavyhanded moderation. The entire website is built around a system which mercilessly beats users down and actively promotes a regression to the mean by causing people who speak out in any way deemed "unacceptable" to be silenced via their posts going to the bottom of the results or silenced through bans. Basically the whole website is a corporate cubical farm with a censorious and overzealous politically correct human resources department.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
The entire website is built around a system which mercilessly beats users down and actively promotes a regression to the mean by causing people who speak out in any way deemed "unacceptable" to be silenced via their posts going to the bottom of the results or silenced through bans.
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The funniest thing is that the trained hamsters of Reddit will pile on downvotes on any comment that's already been downvoted. When I was fucking around with Reddit more I was able to get completely innocuous comments buried and sent to the shadow realm if I could get them to -1.

Reddit just seems like some grand experiment in how to encourage mob behavior.
 
Steam Deck Verified said:
I've noticed this a LOT on the grief support subreddit, except instead of trying to be overly officious or lelfunny, it's being cookie-cutter touchy-feely and overly familiar? I'm not saying a forum with such a personal focus shouldn't be more understanding in tone, but it's like almost every damn comment is the same variation of "Softly, gently, might I suggest giving yourself grace, being gentle with yourself, and reaching out to a good therapist? I love you and I'm proud of you. Grief has no timeline and we're all just walking each other home ❤." For a sub that's supposed to be about personal feelings and support there's almost no sign of distinct or unique voice anywhere. It's so crazy to read a comment from someone waxing purple prose about the universality of love and compassion with a comment history full of tardraging and wishing death on anyone right of Marxist.

In fairness it was my fault going to fucking Reddit of all places for a topic like this, fortunately it made me so fucking irritated to read the same cloying platitudes over and over that it actually drove me to move the fuck on and deal with it, lest I become the same way.
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All of the support subreddits are like this. At this point they are just goldmines for lolcow content featuring Munchies faking everything for attention.
All of the posts starting with or mentioning "My boyfriend/Husband" seem to always be followed by some form of "-and then we had lunch with the person that attempted to murder me on a whim and skin my pet alive the next day like nothing happened anyway and everyone clapped as the credits rolled." All of those posts seem to be automated/fake and all following the same ISA scripts.
 
Helghandidnothingwrong said:
All of the posts starting with or mentioning "My boyfriend/Husband" seem to always be followed by some form of "-and then we had lunch with the person that attempted to murder me on a whim and skin my pet alive the next day like nothing happened anyway and everyone clapped as the credits rolled."
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They also tend to add how they have autism/ADHD or some other disorder in their stories. Another thing that I noticed is that when they get in a conflict or confrontation, they will write how during the confrontation they were holding back tears and trying not to sob (even if the other party didn't act aggressive or violent). I assume it's to paint the other person as a big bad buwwy.
 
DumbDude43 said:
>Facebooks-black-market-sperm-donation-industry
:story:

but seriously, how is this even a thing? like, if they're intentionally looking to become single mothers, what's stopping them from just booting up tinder and getting their free 'donation' from there?
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Thats funny, because "black sperm" is exactly HOW they get to be single mothers.
 
Observotron said:
Alternatively, just use desktop mode. Works on my phone at least.

Unrelated to the above reply;

I can't figure out of reddit users talk like robots, or if most reddit accounts are actually just bots. I've been noticing it more and more lately, but so many comments read like PR statements now that I'm really starting to believe the dead internet theory.

Go to any somewhat mainstream reddit - doesn't matter if it's about a general topic or something more specific, but read some of the top comments. They're either bots or Chris-Chan level autists that write/talk like they're in a commercial.
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Bots sound like Reddit users not just because a lot of them are bots but also because Reddit is a big part of the training data for bots.
 
An rdrama user TedKaczynski (thank you uncle Ted!) is reporting that the identities of powermods Merari01 and Bardfinn are both hard filtered by reddit admins, by making a new sub to test this in the wild. (archive)

Reddit has hardcoded in removing Merari01 and Bardfinn dox, even from private subreddits​

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I created a private subreddit in order to test if posting the Merari01 or Bardfinn dox would be immediately removed and wasn't the result of Merari or Bardfinn having enormous control of all of Reddit and the thousands of moderators under them.

As it turns out, the minute you post either the Bardfinn or Merari dox, it is immediately removed, even from private subreddits you own. You cannot manually approve the post either.
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
The entire website is built around a system which mercilessly beats users down and actively promotes a regression to the mean by causing people who speak out in any way deemed "unacceptable" to be silenced via their posts going to the bottom of the results or silenced through bans. Basically the whole website is a corporate cubical farm with a censorious and overzealous politically correct human resources department.
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This is one of the best descriptions of Reddit I've ever read. The cubical farm and HR comparison is so accurate.
 
Steam Deck Verified said:
I've noticed this a LOT on the grief support subreddit, except instead of trying to be overly officious or lelfunny, it's being cookie-cutter touchy-feely and overly familiar? I'm not saying a forum with such a personal focus shouldn't be more understanding in tone, but it's like almost every damn comment is the same variation of "Softly, gently, might I suggest giving yourself grace, being gentle with yourself, and reaching out to a good therapist? I love you and I'm proud of you. Grief has no timeline and we're all just walking each other home ❤." For a sub that's supposed to be about personal feelings and support there's almost no sign of distinct or unique voice anywhere. It's so crazy to read a comment from someone waxing purple prose about the universality of love and compassion with a comment history full of tardraging and wishing death on anyone right of Marxist.

In fairness it was my fault going to fucking Reddit of all places for a topic like this, fortunately it made me so fucking irritated to read the same cloying platitudes over and over that it actually drove me to move the fuck on and deal with it, lest I become the same way.
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Someone post that reddit comment going "Jarvis, I'm low on karma. Post a trans come-out story on r/femboy".
 
Every post in r/sports about transwomen gets removed and the comment section gets almost entirely nuked. It's been like this for years:

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And posts about transwomen in women's sports always get removed and sanitized in practically every general subreddit. I know troons run things online, but how has this become like the most forbidden topic (within reason) on mainstream reddit?:
 
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std::string said:
The funniest thing is that the trained hamsters of Reddit will pile on downvotes on any comment that's already been downvoted. When I was fucking around with Reddit more I was able to get completely innocuous comments buried and sent to the shadow realm if I could get them to -1.

Reddit just seems like some grand experiment in how to encourage mob behavior.
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The experiment has already been done and proven. I am absolutely positive groups are using bots to upvote a certain opinion, downvote comments that go against it, and that it has successfully manipulated the reddit hivemind into doing the work of the bots for them.
 
std::string said:
The funniest thing is that the trained hamsters of Reddit will pile on downvotes on any comment that's already been downvoted. When I was fucking around with Reddit more I was able to get completely innocuous comments buried and sent to the shadow realm if I could get them to -1.

Reddit just seems like some grand experiment in how to encourage mob behavior.
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Yeah, I've really noticed that whichever direction the votes go early on (up or down) has a significant effect on what direction it will keep going from then on. Part of it is probably people who disagree with the majority share of votes going "oh, my vote will barely make a scratch, not worth it," like some part of their brain is afraid that being the sole objector to consensus will negatively impact their social standing, even though those votes are anonymous. They'll be more likely to give dissenting votes on comments with a small score in either direction, since it feels like it has more of an impact and they aren't breaking from the herd as much.

It really seems to be on a per-comment basis, controversial comments that manage to bootstrap themselves with upvotes early can manage to stay that way, even when other comments saying the same thing under the same post are downvoted left and right (because they didn't get lucky with their first votes). This works the same way with common opinions getting arbitrarily downvoted early. I think Redditors just subconsciously place too much faith in the "democracy" of the voting system and assume that there must be a reason that these individual posts are exceptions, and that other voters simply knew something they didn't, so they go along with it.

I've actually noticed this to a limited extent with reactions over here too. Even if it doesn't actually sway people on a comment, it'll make dissenters a less likely to be the first to leave a reaction that breaks from the pack, especially since people will be able to see it was them (and some threads have problems with spergs starting sticker slapfights over this).
 
AnOminous said:
If you're a woman period, you should have genetic screening to make sure you aren't giving birth to some fucking retard, and if you are, abort the thing. Fuck Christoids. They actually want potatoes to be born to degrade the human species because they're morons themselves.

Eugenics was right.
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Slow down, Moviebob.
 
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