What is it about Reddit's userbase that makes them so insufferable? - "Edit: Thanks for the upvotes and the gold!"

[Dolphin Lundgren]

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These are the MOST CONTROVERSIAL posts of the past year.

I don't get what's so controversial about the pantyhose. That's sounds very useful if it's true.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Suffers the same issues as Imgur. They think they're a close-knit community because "there's billions on the internet and we're only 250k in this subreddit!", so they act accordingly. Act as if everyone knows the same things based on what hits the frontpage and act as if every encounter is personal. It's one of the most popular websites on the internet, just like how Imgur is top 10 on the app store and used by creeps and pedos alike.

Every subreddit has a specific tone. You need to hit the perfect mix of positive-but-quirky to get a lot of upvotes; state the obvious, or be very lucky and say something controversial. LiveStreamFails is a good example; depending on current trends and consensus, you can get +2500 or -100 votes from "what a thot", "what an incel", and "wow that's so wholesome pepeclap". It's a breeding grounds for autism like any other social media. What kind of person would rather post several times a day on a subreddit for points as opposed to a place as lowly as KF where you'll actually get some discussion out of it?

 

[AnOminous]

The dumbest, most autistic weeb shitposter on 4chan is better than the smartest person on reddit.

 

[HG 400]

The dumbest, most autistic weeb shitposter on 4chan is better than the smartest person on reddit.

lol talking shit about @Feline Darkmage but too afraid to tag her.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

It's because Reddit is not designed for individual expression. It incentivizes saying or doing what will be most popular; if you do, people give you points and gratification, and if you don't, you lose those points and your thoughts are buried where nobody can see them.

People like to fit in, so they will start to change their speech and behavior in order to adapt to their respective climate. Before long, they're just another mouthpiece for the agenda or collective beliefs of their subreddit of choice, regurgitating their memes and mantras. Whatever gets upvotes is gospel.

Reddit would be a much different (and better) place if there were no voting system, because then anyone could contribute without that fear in the back of their minds of being downvoted and thus silenced. People could no longer just look at a comment's points and decide based on that whether to agree with it - they'd have to actually read it for themselves to react to it. When you're not chasing some arbitrary number, you're much more likely to contribute something useful, and much less likely to be an annoying faggot.

 

[Count groudon]

My favorite has to be the spergs in gaming fandom subreddits. Seeing some mouth-breathing trogs whining about how broken and unbalanced a game is and how (insert company here) is nothing more than a shallow shill grubbing for money, and then a few posts later seeing the same spergs gushing about how cool they think the game is and how much they appreciate all the hard work that (insert company here) put forth to make something so amazing happen.

It’s a simple thing, but the insane dissonance is truly amusing.

 

[cornucopia]

people on reddit just circle jerk about how smart they are for using reddit

 

[TiggerNits]

Unfunny nerds with no prospects or personality making themselves a "Cool kids table" is probably a part of it

The other part is probably that they're all diddlers

 

[Feline Darkmage]

The dumbest, most autistic weeb shitposter on 4chan is better than the smartest person on reddit.

lol talking shit about @Feline Darkmage but too afraid to tag her.

I'm both the dumbest and most autistic on 4chan AND the smartest on reddit so I don't see any difference here.

 

[kadoink]

Everyone on Reddit thinks that their either a genius, political scientist, comedian, edgelord, gatekeeper, authority, or special. Really irritating knowing how many of them are fags traded in self awareness for smarm.

 

[UQ 770]

The site started out as a cool place for people to gather, then became infested with neurotics. They can't get off the fucking website and do something else with their lives.

Fear entropy, Kiwi Farms. The bitter end will come for us all someday.

 

[queerape]

Because people think downvote=disagree. Downvotes are for irrelevant content, not opinions you disagree with.

 

[TP 200]

I use the HipHopHeads subreddit for keeping up with music news, but good god, they are a bunch of weirdo dickriders lol they called out a meme rapper (Lil B) for possibly being a pedo, the artist actually shows up and calls the subreddit out, and they just sucked his dick throughout the entire thread. A lot of them also have a weird infatuation with white people and Donald Trump supporters. They seem to disdain the whites, but need Anthony Fantano to hold their hand through an album review so they can make his opinion theirs or they revolt against him for difference of opinion.

Besides that specific subreddit, the recycling of jokes and the amount of nonsensical posts clutter up threads. You'll quickly notice the amount of "I agree" posts that invalidate their entire upvoting/downvoting system, but they're too busy banning anything that doesn't align with them to see it. Userbase is mostly smug, pretentious faggots who can't debate or speak on anything of note without mods locking shit once it gets mildly controversial or interesting, especially large subreddits. There's so much to bag on when it comes to Reddit and their userbase

 

[cypocryphy]

Fear entropy, Kiwi Farms. The bitter end will come for us all someday.

We all fear @entropyseekswork . At least I know I do.

 

[QI 541]

They're tech-literate normies who think being able to operate a computer automatically makes them smarter than people who can't, despite being worse at pretty much everything else. Also the easiest way to farm karma is to post stupid overused memes.

 

[Faket0Fake]

If you want the easiest ways to farm karma, then go on /r/AskWomen and say you're a man who took your wife's name after marriage or /r/relationships and say you got cheated on. On Reddit, the absolute worst thing you can ever do is cheat on somebody and no matter the situation or if you have regrets you are an evil person.

These days, the only joy I get from Reddit is /r/BDSMpersonals because the adds are hilarious.

 

[MG 620]

Come to think of it that's pretty much how most communities work, reddit is just a general intersection of normiedom and e-culture so you get more cases than specialized forums like REE.

People are getting stupied by the minute. On Reddit I was instantly downvoted and called names for saying that people were shitting on a person (they really were). I left Reddit too, because if that's all it takes, then no thanks.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

What always drove me nuts was the leftie shitposting. Not the shitposting itself because, y'know, it's great. But how no matter where you went somebody would be shitting up something and the mods would let it slide. However, if you shitposted right back at them something right-leaning ban ban ban "god, that's why we have a no politics rule" dogpile. You had to frame everything in the nicest possible terms or you got hammered.

Either that kind of thing flies or it doesn't, right? Walking around on eggshells so as not to offend the feral Marxists that inhabit the place and their buttbuddies on the moderation staff was no bueno. Shit like that reminds me of SA circa 2003-4 right before it fell off the cliff and banned fun in favor of Bay Area catlady circlejerks.

 

[Slimboy Fat]

Reddit users are insufferable because they spout the dumbest most inane shit and then tell themselves just how incomprehensibly smart they are in an endless feedback loop that turns a normie into the personification of the Dunning Kruger effect. And they're the ones people listen to for large scale feedback so you don't have a choice but to acknowledge they exist because of their notable influence on everything you enjoy.

 

[remura]

the moralfagging, circlejerking and the pseudo intellectualism from the userbase just makes them absolutely intolorable. the typical reddit humor is also garbage tier but it doesn't compare to how smug they are about their "intellect" or their refusal to accept any views which differ from their own.