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PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

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One thing I noticed about Reddit when I used it (someone recommended I try it), is that it kind of operates like a hive mind at times, and the person with the most popular comment, or one of the first comments, seems to inspire most of the other posters to say the same, even in cases where the original message may not be entirely accurate.
 
PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

Veteran Member
Revoltingest said:
I looked up what moderation is like there.
It depends upon the rules for a particular area, "subreddit".
Some are strict. Others aren't.
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True. But I think there are general things you can say, too, in general. Like, unless you visit particular subreddits, the audience on Reddit seems to be even younger and more left-wing than us, I think.
 
Father Heathen

Father Heathen

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Revoltingest said:
I looked up what moderation is like there.
It depends upon the rules for a particular area, "subreddit".
Some are strict. Others aren't.
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r/entertainment is a very broad and large subreddit, which surprises me that they apparently don't vet their mods.
 
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PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

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Father Heathen said:
That shouldn't prevent them from being objective, rational, and mature to a reasonable degree. Otherwise, they've really no business moderating.
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Sometimes I think the opposite is going on, actually. That some young people try to be too "objective, rational, mature [and literalist]", to too high an extent, and miss balancing it out with reasonability, sensibility, etc.
 
Saint Frankenstein

Saint Frankenstein

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Father Heathen said:
So while I was banished from RF I decided to give Reddit a try. It didn't last long.
Someone had posted an innocuous picture of some small rural town holding a festival. Some noted the lack of diversity (most rural communities tend to be predominantly white), and claimed this meant that townsfolk were racists. I replied asking if they expected the townsfolk to kidnap minorities and force them to attend. This lead to users accusing me of defending racism. Another user stated that white people are weird. I pointed out that had they used any other race in place of "white", there would be outcry. This lead to me being banned, with "racism" being the reason cited.

I thought Reddit's reputation for being a hive of rabid SJWs was exaggerated. I was wrong.
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Yeah, Reddit is a woke dump when it comes to political discussion. It used to be much better until they basically banned free speech on that site a few years ago and banned thousands of subreddits. Some of them were pretty disgusting but others were hosting productive discussions and very useful. The quality of that site has been in the toilet since. Almost as bad Facebook. **** Reddit.
 
Father Heathen

Father Heathen

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Saint Frankenstein said:
Yeah, Reddit is a woke dump when it comes to political discussion. It used to be much better until they basically banned free speech on that site a few years ago and banned thousands of subreddits. Some of them were pretty disgusting but others were hosting productive discussions and very useful. The quality of that site has been in the toilet since. Almost as bad Facebook. **** Reddit.
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You know it's bad when someone as liberal as me is labeled a "bigot" simply for daring to question people's choice of verbage and rhetoric.
 
PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

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Anyways, I do have a story of my own about Reddit....

There was a computer hardware subreddit. And a poster seemed to ask an honest question about computer hardware, but didn't follow one of the rules from the template they provide for asking for help. So like 10 people told them, "We can't help you without fully following the template." Then I jumped in and helped them anyway. Reddit rated me down 20 votes for not following the consensus of not helping them yet.
 
Father Heathen

Father Heathen

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Snow White said:
Anyways, I do have a story of my own about Reddit....

There was a computer hardware subreddit. And a poster seemed to ask an honest question about computer hardware, but didn't follow one of the rules from the template they provide for asking for help. So like 10 people told them, "We can't help you without fully following the template." Then I jumped in and helped them anyway. Reddit rated me down 20 votes for not following the consensus of not helping them yet.
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****'s toxic all around.

I very rarely post. I just use it to read subreddits following the Ukraine/Russian conflict and for free Steam keys.
 
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