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This is bizarre to me - the average comment quality on /r/politics is both more informed and higher level than about 90% of subreddits. Granted it's center-lef
by abritinthebay 9y ago
This is bizarre to me - the average comment quality on /r/politics is both more informed and higher level than about 90% of subreddits.
Granted it's center-left most of the time (from a US perspective anyhow - as a European it is at best centrist) but that's more a function of a reaction to the current climate than anything else.
So I guess I'd ask: "what kind of comments are you looking for?" because outside of the science communities you're not going to find better discussion threads.
- abnry 9y ago/r/politics does have quality comments that also get upvoted. However, you have to dig through 90% of bad comments. For instance, you get one article about Trump's nickname for Sessions being Mr. McGhee. The comments decide this is bad. Then you read the comments on other stories and people are gleefully calling him a racist elf. That's just pointless and is a disincentive to visiting. But I keep returning to the subreddit because of how helpful it is in keeping up with the Russia stuff and because of the rarer insightful comments that give reasonable perspectives you will never hear a major publication speculate on.
- abritinthebay 9y agoWell... poor quality posts tend to attract poor quality comments so I don't know if that's a great metric but sure, I get what you're saying.