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but really a pretty accurate depiction of how many people (both inside and out) perceive the reddit community. Shout something long enough and hard enough, and
by Karunamon 11y ago
but really a pretty accurate depiction of how many people (both inside and out) perceive the reddit community.
Shout something long enough and hard enough, and people will widely begin to believe it. Wired doing what they just did here is at least part of the reason that perception exists. Certain rabble-rousers within the community itself are another.
It's an accusation. A smear. For it to be otherwise, there'd need to be proof, something sorely lacking from this meme.
- kaitai 11y agoBut it's pretty easy for the average user to find offensive content on Reddit -- things that would upset them if they or one of their children was involved. An existence proof for ugly stuff on Reddit is trivial, while it's much harder to give an average user a feel for what ratio of content they find offensive vs not.
- sonnyz 11y agoI think a lot of the offensive comments that are easy to find on Reddit can also be found on other popular sites, such as Youtube, Facebook, or comment sections on news sites.
- tomjen3 11y agoSo? That is an excellent argument for not including those subreddits in the default home page (for users who are not logged in) or /r/all. But you can find offensive things, or things you don't want your children to see, on just about any site (also, yes, your teens know about redtube).
- johnward 11y agoIf you make it easier for people to find the sub reddits then you get those people who are making the comments in the sub reddits now. It's a catch 22.
- pdeuchler 11y agoYou could very easily replace "reddit" with "the internet" and wow, all of the sudden it's like we've time traveled back to the early naughts with hysteria over kids having internet access
- LesZedCB 11y agoI have been a participating member of the community for years. I can see it myself, I'm not being shouted at. EDIT: Honestly, looking at everything that happened a few months ago with the blackouts and multiple events surrounding Ellen Pao, it's nothing but embarrasing how vocal some communities can be that cause many people there for good reasons to be silenced and unheard.
- notJim 11y agoI am neither shouting, nor being shouted at, but I use reddit a lot, and the large default subs are rampant with racism and sexism, and people defending the same. And when people from marginalized groups say hey, this is not cool, and you ignore them or call them rabble-rousers, that is exactly what you are doing.
- diogenescynic 11y agoThere are also a lot of rather large subs like /r/shit____says that serve as downvote brigades to harass people over their opinion. It's online-bullying at its worst.
- mahouse 11y ago/r/shitredditsays is liberal-leaned and is supported by the administration.
- eertami 11y ago>is supported by the administration. Well duh, hence why fatpeoplehate got banned and shitredditsays stays because they're pretty much the same subreddit, except the latter actually breaks the rules.
- mahouse 11y agoshitredditsays engages in open active vote manipulation, which is against the rules.
- SolaceQuantum 11y ago> fatpeoplehate got banned and shitredditsays stays because they're pretty much the same subreddit, except the latter actually breaks the rules. Except for that time that fatpeoplehate doxxed the staff at Imgur on reddit when Imgur no longer tolerated FPH posting images of fat people to laugh at on their servers.