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RussianParasite said:
We are, but we at least know it. Redditors tend to have all of the magical qualities of Autism mixed with a know-it-all college student in a political science 101 class.

You want Reddit gold or more upvotes? Simply memorize these simple things to post about:

  • Trump is bad and stupid
  • Climate change is going to destroy the whole earth tomorrow
  • Trannies are great
  • Bernie Sanders is god
  • Europe is a utopian paradise unlike the society run by stupid Americans
  • Russia also bad
Am I missing anything?
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There are also the right wing subreddits, which simply involve the inverse of the positions you describe in similarly lazy clickbait format. They're a minority of the site though due to its general leaning.

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Reddit has always been exceptionally left leaning from day 1, when it was silicon valley folks. Every single wave of people to Reddit since outside of the people from /r/the_donald, has been left leaning. From Diggfugees, to the 4chan posters wanting more content, to the tech interested normies, it's mostly been people of the left persuasion.
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Not really. There was actually a surprising amount of Ron Paul support there back in 2012. The site didn't really turn very left wing until the 2016 election, at which point a lot of the conservative users left for 4chan and sites like this, or retreated to their own safe spaces like /r/conservative.

These days there are ChapoTrapHouse socialist types everywhere there, but it wasn't like that for most of the site's existence.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
There are also the right wing subreddits, which simply involve the inverse of the positions you describe in similarly lazy clickbait format. They're a minority of the site though due to its general leaning.
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Perversely, both right and left wing reddits trend toward being reddits even more than they are left wing or right wing. There is a disturbing sameness between things like KotakuInAction and GamerGhazi. Reddit is where thought goes to die.
 
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AnOminous said:
Perversely, both right and left wing reddits trend toward being reddits even more than they are left wing or right wing. There is a disturbing sameness between things like KotakuInAction and GamerGhazi. Reddit is where thought goes to die.
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Those subreddits were centred on goobergrape so the autistic subject matter doomed them from the outset.
 
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BlueSpark said:
They're a minority of the site because the admins shut them down regularly for breaking rules that they apply selectively.
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Not that regularly, aside from the openly white supremacist ones like /r/coontown. The_Donald still exists under quarantine, as ChapoTrapHouse, its leftist counterpart, also does. Ironically the chapos mostly think Reddit is right wing for this policy.
 
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FireGod365 said:
Who here has an actual hatred of Reddit vs. having more of a love-hate relationship with Reddit?
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I hate reddit way more then I should honestly. I pretty much use it as a pcgaming news outlet so I know what coming out or if there are any major updates coming.

Outside of that most subreddits are worthless once you get to reading comment because it's either some trying to be hard to be funny,a repeated joke,a derailment because someone sentence was a line in a famous song, or something else dumb. I think reddit doesn't lend it self to having a productive discussion and function like a place to post your thoughts. I guess I have always preferred forums as a go to online community.
 
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Otis Boi said:
I hate reddit way more then I should honestly. I pretty much use it as a pcgaming news outlet so I know what coming out or if there are any major updates coming.

Outside of that most subreddits are worthless once you get to reading comment because it's either some trying to be hard to be funny,a repeated joke,a derailment because someone sentence was a line in a famous song, or something else dumb. I think reddit doesn't lend it self to having a productive discussion and function like a place to post your thoughts. I guess I have always preferred forums as a go to online community.
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personally I think the user base is beyond fucking stupid in most aspects. the community itself is full of hive mind people who can't really think for themselves due to (((the media and leaders of subreddits))) which is why derailment and attempting to be funny is a constant occurrence with them. correct if I am wrong but I think reddit in a couple of years will probably die out to other competitors at some point, give or take 5 years and it will probably happen. especially due to the monopoly Over social media and the saturation of the market its bound to be bought at some point as well.
 
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Redditors seem really naive? As the best word maybe. Channers are edgy fucks but if you venture into the non shitposty science/history boards you get the impression that when they're not calling everyone nigger channers are real people with real education and real life experiences. Regardless of the subreddit I've never gotten this impression from Redditors, they all seem really ignorant and naive. I don't know if it's because the userbase tends to be extremely young or if the simplicity of the site appeals to idiots but that's what I've observed.
 
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Ruin said:
Redditors seem really naive? As the best word maybe. Channers are edgy fucks but if you venture into the non shitposty science/history boards you get the impression that when they're not calling everyone nigger channers are real people with real education and real life experiences. Regardless of the subreddit I've never gotten this impression from Redditors, they all seem really ignorant and naive. I don't know if it's because the userbase tends to be extremely young or if the simplicity of the site appeals to idiots but that's what I've observed.
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The old saying is 4chan is where smart people go to pretend to be idiots and reddit is where idiots go to pretend to be smart people. It isn't entirely true, but it is (or at least was) true enough.
 
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AnOminous said:
The old saying is 4chan is where smart people go to pretend to be idiots and reddit is where idiots go to pretend to be smart people. It isn't entirely true, but it is (or at least was) true enough.
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There's something to that.
Reddit is, at a surface level, non-conductive towards good discourse by virtue of upvote/downvote and a more heavy handed moderation style. There's a thing you don't like, downvote.
On 4chan, you have to tell the person why you disagree if you want them to know that. Or else everyone else will call you stupid and gay for not giving reasons.
Also, 4chan is much more about screaming into the void. You are Anon, you can share whatever you want without the posts being tied to each other. On Reddit, you always see "I dug through his post history, and yikes." I've seen that in arguments about anime on Reddit. On 4chan, you can say "I think that Hitomi is Shy With Strangers is more enjoyable and cute than Komi is Bad at Communication, though both stand well on their own", then tab over to /pol/ and scream about the Jews. No one will ever know they are the same OP. You have to respond to ideas, not people.
 
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Ruin said:
Redditors seem really naive? As the best word maybe. Channers are edgy fucks but if you venture into the non shitposty science/history boards you get the impression that when they're not calling everyone nigger channers are real people with real education and real life experiences. Regardless of the subreddit I've never gotten this impression from Redditors, they all seem really ignorant and naive. I don't know if it's because the userbase tends to be extremely young or if the simplicity of the site appeals to idiots but that's what I've observed.
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the whole upvote-downvote and karma features is pretty dumbed down and simple. plus it gives the incentive to endlessly circle jerk for karma and upvotes. with that you then have talks about the same shit over and over again, effectively dumbing down everyone
 
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