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Most of the sub reddits I hangout in don't have those tones or maybe I'm used to ignoring those types of comments online. I think any community starts to have t
by johnward 11y ago
Most of the sub reddits I hangout in don't have those tones or maybe I'm used to ignoring those types of comments online. I think any community starts to have those problems as they grow. HN isn't immune but it's still a small enough niche that we tend to still get higher quality comments than your average site. If you're in r/funny you're going to get comments from the lowest of the low just like youtube. I don't see it as a reddit issue it's more of a human nature problem. When you get enough of people in one area you're going to find the assholes.
- mreiland 11y agoI don't see those issues either, OTOH I have a tendency to stick with specific subreddits of interest to me. I've never viewed reddit as a community, but as a community of communities, and I've always chosen to be a part of specific communities, ignore others, and stay the hell away from yet others. I don't go anywhere near /r/politics or /r/programming, for example. I just can't deal with the people in either. But I love me some /r/cpp and /r/startrek.
- Karunamon 11y agoPretty much this - at least it was while I still used reddit. The default large communities were crap, not because of any "-ism" as the article states, but because people were just plain disagreeable, non-contributing assholes, up to and including the moderation staff. It's the YouTube comments problem, writ large.