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Why do you equate people making relevant jokes to "Reddit"? Humor is fairly universal

• morganvachon 10y ago
  I may be wrong, but I believe in this case it was a weak attempt at trolling in a Reddit-esque style. In other words, it was a recursive jab at both sites. It came off completely flat (at least for me) though.
• na85 10y ago
  Because the upvote/downvote mechanic coupled with easily visible karma totals results in endlessly-increasing numbers of users who simply want to get more imaginary internet points by means of resorting to low-effort, easily digestible joke posts or one-liners. Reddit comments are invariably a cesspool of shit outside of a handful of decent, smaller subs.
  • dredmorbius 10y ago
    Humour is spice, and often an exceptionally effective mode of criticism. Reddit subs lack a consistent moderation quality, though the ones who moderate well, and I'll give AskScience and AskHistorians as stellar examples, maintain exceptionally high-quality discussions. They are also not entirely humourless (AH's FAQ addresses this and points to some examples), but there's a difference between being overrun by cheap jokes, and using dark humour to point out an obviously unclothed emperor. I've used Google+ since public beta, was tremendously enthusiastic for it, and have been washed through disillusionment after disillusionment in the process. The extent to which it's exposed what I'm finding to be the true Google -- a largely evil advertising empire with a vestigal, and yes, sometimes principled technology arm attached -- has been both profound and ironic (I doubt this was the original intent). It's not that Google are alone in being an evil tech company, the most evil, or even above average. But something huge rotted in that beast and is consuming it from the inside out.
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