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I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote br

I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.

emodendroket 11y ago
You can just go to some other subreddit with a right-wing hive mind instead. Problem solved.
- overcast 11y ago
  No, I can't, because if I want information on a particular game/field/whatever, it's been overrun with trash by now. Sure, you can find your little niche subreddits that are civil, but how is that helping me? I don't want to use it, just to use it.
  - emodendroket 11y ago
    I didn't mean that comment to be entirely serious; sorry.
- 55acdda48ab5 11y ago
  You actually can't. Lefty types show up in pretty much all the otherwise good topical sub-reddits and signal and get their upvotes. There will be some utterly irrelevant aside with Trump bashing, or whatever, on thread about single cylinder engines. There are some guys upthread here arguably doing it, for example. Ask the lefty signaler to shut up and stay on topic and you get downvoted or even deleted. Reddit is dominated by entry-ist lefties to the point it's too annoying to read.
  - 59nadir 11y ago
    > You actually can't. I had to download Reddit Enhancement Suite today (where I previously didn't bother at work) only to be able to hide r/The_Donald from r/all. It's just fucking everywhere, I can't take it. 50% of the posts are doomsday prophecies and just pure and utter shit. During every US election this happens, and your/their election process is so long you're basically wading in bullshit for 2 years.
    - 55acdda48ab5 11y ago
      I'm not talking about /all. I'm talking about how, for example, on the C++ subreddit some lefties lost their shit and ruined a bunch of discussions because some guy innocently mentioned as an aside using the King James Bible as a text corpus for algorithm testing and interview questions. Only a crazy person would care that this guy mentioned using the KJB, but apparently a fifth of the people there are crazy. Which is weird because a lot of the specific crazies are otherwise very smart and interesting people. But they just couldn't let it slide. This is the totalitarian nature of the left.
      - Kadin 11y ago
        While I can appreciate the annoyance when people take a discussion off-topic, in a threaded forum like Reddit, you always have the option of just clicking the little 'close' button and collapsing a comment and all of its children. This is really the beauty of threaded comments; it lets people have their sidebar conversations in detail, without permanently dragging the discussion there. Everyone else can just continue to respond to the comment upstream of the derail while interested parties hash it out. (Without this, you end up with something like Metafilter, where there's a huge amount of active moderation and fairly severe community-norms-enforcement, much of it aimed towards keeping discussions on track and dissuade trolling / derails.) And depending on the context of the conversation, I can totally see why placing "the Bible" and "interview question" in the same sentence would attract attention. My internal HR-department DEFCON meter just went up about two points just thinking about it, and I'm certainly less attuned to Bad Ideas than most. I'm not sure that's a reasonable thing to expect people to just leave alone, particularly again when you have threaded discussions so there's not a ton of social pressure against nitpicking. Reddit does have its share of problems, but given their apparent goal of being sort of the heir to Usenet in terms of an everything-to-everybody discussion platform, rather than simply a subject-specific discussion site, they seem to do rather well. I sometimes think they're insane and hubristic for the whole "platform" ambition, but they're one of the more successful attempts around right now.
        55acdda48ab5 11y ago
optimuspaul 11y ago
I don't really go for reddit either for similar reasons. It's not so much the left/right thing, just the general lack of maturity.
KKKKkkkk1 11y ago
It's funny you mention this, but Reddit was always this way. Nobody remembers this now, but two election cycles ago, Reddit was the Internet epicenter of the Ron Paul reLOVEution that was about to take over the world. That's when I got tired of Reddit.
frabbit 11y ago
Left wing? I don't bother with Reddit because they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. Left-wing definitely not.
- overcast 11y ago
  Reddit is absolutely a liberal dominated forum.
  - c0nducktr 11y ago
    > they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. > Reddit is absolutely a liberal dominated forum. Sounds like you two agree.
- Pxtl 11y ago
  Liberals think Left is too right-wing because of its strong libertarian and racist/sexist contingent, and Conservatives think Reddit is too left-wing because of its hatred of religion and wall-street economics. The truth is that Reddit is just full of assholes.

emodendroket 11y ago

You can just go to some other subreddit with a right-wing hive mind instead. Problem solved.

overcast 11y ago
No, I can't, because if I want information on a particular game/field/whatever, it's been overrun with trash by now. Sure, you can find your little niche subreddits that are civil, but how is that helping me? I don't want to use it, just to use it.
- emodendroket 11y ago
  I didn't mean that comment to be entirely serious; sorry.
55acdda48ab5 11y ago
You actually can't. Lefty types show up in pretty much all the otherwise good topical sub-reddits and signal and get their upvotes. There will be some utterly irrelevant aside with Trump bashing, or whatever, on thread about single cylinder engines. There are some guys upthread here arguably doing it, for example. Ask the lefty signaler to shut up and stay on topic and you get downvoted or even deleted. Reddit is dominated by entry-ist lefties to the point it's too annoying to read.
- 59nadir 11y ago
  > You actually can't. I had to download Reddit Enhancement Suite today (where I previously didn't bother at work) only to be able to hide r/The_Donald from r/all. It's just fucking everywhere, I can't take it. 50% of the posts are doomsday prophecies and just pure and utter shit. During every US election this happens, and your/their election process is so long you're basically wading in bullshit for 2 years.
  - 55acdda48ab5 11y ago
    I'm not talking about /all. I'm talking about how, for example, on the C++ subreddit some lefties lost their shit and ruined a bunch of discussions because some guy innocently mentioned as an aside using the King James Bible as a text corpus for algorithm testing and interview questions. Only a crazy person would care that this guy mentioned using the KJB, but apparently a fifth of the people there are crazy. Which is weird because a lot of the specific crazies are otherwise very smart and interesting people. But they just couldn't let it slide. This is the totalitarian nature of the left.
    - Kadin 11y ago
      While I can appreciate the annoyance when people take a discussion off-topic, in a threaded forum like Reddit, you always have the option of just clicking the little 'close' button and collapsing a comment and all of its children. This is really the beauty of threaded comments; it lets people have their sidebar conversations in detail, without permanently dragging the discussion there. Everyone else can just continue to respond to the comment upstream of the derail while interested parties hash it out. (Without this, you end up with something like Metafilter, where there's a huge amount of active moderation and fairly severe community-norms-enforcement, much of it aimed towards keeping discussions on track and dissuade trolling / derails.) And depending on the context of the conversation, I can totally see why placing "the Bible" and "interview question" in the same sentence would attract attention. My internal HR-department DEFCON meter just went up about two points just thinking about it, and I'm certainly less attuned to Bad Ideas than most. I'm not sure that's a reasonable thing to expect people to just leave alone, particularly again when you have threaded discussions so there's not a ton of social pressure against nitpicking. Reddit does have its share of problems, but given their apparent goal of being sort of the heir to Usenet in terms of an everything-to-everybody discussion platform, rather than simply a subject-specific discussion site, they seem to do rather well. I sometimes think they're insane and hubristic for the whole "platform" ambition, but they're one of the more successful attempts around right now.
      - 55acdda48ab5 11y ago

optimuspaul 11y ago

I don't really go for reddit either for similar reasons. It's not so much the left/right thing, just the general lack of maturity.

KKKKkkkk1 11y ago

It's funny you mention this, but Reddit was always this way. Nobody remembers this now, but two election cycles ago, Reddit was the Internet epicenter of the Ron Paul reLOVEution that was about to take over the world. That's when I got tired of Reddit.

frabbit 11y ago

Left wing? I don't bother with Reddit because they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. Left-wing definitely not.

overcast 11y ago
Reddit is absolutely a liberal dominated forum.
- c0nducktr 11y ago
  > they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. > Reddit is absolutely a liberal dominated forum. Sounds like you two agree.
Pxtl 11y ago
Liberals think Left is too right-wing because of its strong libertarian and racist/sexist contingent, and Conservatives think Reddit is too left-wing because of its hatred of religion and wall-street economics. The truth is that Reddit is just full of assholes.