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They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well. I used to occasionally visit /r/watchpeopledie as a reminder of my own mortality and some of the horror

• ssnistfajen 8y ago
  Yeah the horde of edgelords in WPD totally isn't one of the reasons the sub got quarantined. Gore will always be considered shock content, but the comments in WPD are almost always downright repulsive.
  • 1123581321 8y ago
    Can you elaborate? I assumed that quarantining a sub was about the posts, rather than the comments. This is based on my experience of every subreddit having lots of offensive comments (granted, mostly downvoted.)
    • ssnistfajen 8y ago
      Posts and comments are all contents. Offensive posts will not spawn inoffensive comments. In WPD you can probably get more upvotes by being more offensive. From what I've seen there, it's usually the ones trying to call for basic decency being downvoted.
    • linkingday 8y ago
      To somewhat further your point, take a look at /r/greentext and /r/4chan. While the posts themselves are only somewhat racist, the comments that accompany them are disgustingly edgy and juvenile - they're not being downvoted however. I don't think anything is likely to be done to these subreddits.
  • ModFightsCron 8y ago
    Yes. Let's ban repulsive stuff defined by democratic vote. Since the country is mostly Christian, no more talking about gay people - that's repulsive. Welcome to Russia. What is downright repulsive is people who think like you do. Here's an idea - you don't like it, don't go to the subreddit and let them do what they want. We don't need people like you dictating the repulsiveness level of what others can say. I know it makes you feel more in control of your life, but who would want to live like you do? That would be one sad existence.
  • bleriot 8y ago
    A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.
    • MRD85 8y ago
      A lot of subreddits had that happen to them. It's sad because they are choosing who can speak and who cannot.
      • rhizome 8y ago
        Perhaps interestingly, this is exactly what people criticize Twitter/Jack for not doing.
        • vonmoltke 8y ago
          The problem is, it's generally different people in those cases. These two groups are fundamentally opposed, and satisfying them both is impossible.
          • rhizome 8y ago
            You're right, when GP says "people want less X for Y" and I say "people want more X for Z," we aren't talking about the same "people."
      • throwaway773321 8y ago
        Yeah like /r/theredpill
      • deminature 8y ago
        They're not stopping those people from speaking, they're just hiding that content from average users. It's reasonable to think the average redditor probably doesn't want to see death videos alongside their cat pictures and memes.
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  • pc86 8y ago
    Which has nothing to do with the content.
  • mattigames 8y ago
    "edgelords"? Really? That's the best word you found to describe them?
    • alexanderdmitri 8y ago
      What would you suggest?
      • mattigames 8y ago
        Offensive? Anyway got dowvoted a lot so maybe "edgelords" its the best word for it! Even I should start using it against people I dissagree with.
        • Aeolun 8y ago
          It doesn’t mean you disagree with them. It’s that they write their comments for maximum shock value. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s hardly desirable.
          • mattigames 8y ago
            That's the intended meaning, but someone could always call someone else that just to dismiss their argument pretending that it was said for shock value instead of persuasion; and for what I have read that's how it is commonly used.
            • Aeolun 8y ago
              That’s a possibility, but most well reasoned and argued thoughts do not turn into a shock piece, so I’m inclined to think not.
  • RobLach 8y ago
    Fighting/dealing with that repulsion is an endeavor some people seek.
  • jotm 8y ago
    Eh, they went back to Youtube. I've read the vilest, most shocking and dumbest comments on Youtube (and they had quite a few upvotes) - Reddit is meek by comparison.
    • dageshi 8y ago
      That's cause to my knowledge you can't downvote on youtube, or rather you can thumbs down but I don't think it has any effects on comments.
  • irrational 8y ago
    Dare I ask what an edgelord is?
    • DaiPlusPlus 8y ago
      Imagine someone who makes an edgy joke, then imagine someone who makes only edgy jokes, constantly - then they stop being funny.
      • hexane360 8y ago
        It's the difference between making jokes that are edgy and jokes whose sole component is shock value.
    • michaelbuckbee 8y ago
      Urban dictionary definition - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=edgelord https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=edgelord But in general people who try to be "edgy" and "dark" to a fairly ridiculous degree.
    • rchaud 8y ago
      It's when you behave online like you are 15 years old. Everything about you has to scream 'enlightened contrarian' or 'devil's advocate' otherwise you'll become one of those conformists clicking their fingers to Taylor Swift and Imagine Dragons. Conversations with them are impossible and frustrating because they aren't looking to talk to someone, they're looking to talk AT someone and collect as many upvotes as possible.
      • calvinmorrison 8y ago
        so the entirety of /r/politics?
        • Angostura 8y ago
          I think you are confusing edgelord with circlejerk.
  • triplesec 8y ago
    Then surely you just don't subscribe to that subreddit. I don't like the Trumpy subreddits and their horribleness, but, sadly, I can't see why I should stop them.
  • amvalo 8y ago
    I think WPD is genuinely important. There are edgelords, sure. Watching and thinking seriously about what I saw there changed my perspective on life.
    • culot 8y ago
      I usually can't stand to watch the videos, but the discussions on mortality and the precarious fragility of life in general I've found valuable. Because of that sub I am more careful in many situations and do value life much more.
• HNLurker2 8y ago
  You are right +1 . Meditating on immortality makes you fearless, anecdotally.
• pensketch 8y ago
  Your point aside, this /r/ falls under: things I didn't know existed but reluctantly clicked on, and clicked on, and clicked on, only to feel a need to DoD 5200.28 wipe it completely from my memory while I stewing in my own vat of nauseating regret.
• henriquemaia 8y ago
  I haven't visited that subreddit on a long time, so I'm knowing this from you. What a pity. I visited on a similar reason to yours: to know how my own life can be taken suddenly, without notice or warning. Since I move around exclusively by bicycle, I paid particular attention to the videos where cyclists met their untimely fate. I've learned a lot watching those videos, since it gave me a more clear perspective on how some things, apparently not too extreme, are insanely dangerous traps to a cyclist (riding near a truck with open wheels, for instance, even if at some distance). Shame it's quarantined...
  • worriedcyclist 8y ago
    Getting off topic but I always ask folks what are some more examples of unexpected things to look out for? I’ve become a bit disillusioned with cycling after 2 fairly bad crashes in about 6 months. I didn’t have a fear of metal drawbridges, having gone over a variety of them numerous times. Then I hit one that was slick from rain earlier in the day. Tires swerved like I was on ice and I did not fall gracefully. Broke my elbow, nose, and needed many many stitches. Recently I did all the “right” things- riding in daylight, in a bike lane, in bright clothing with a helmet, and still got right hooked by a careless driver. Walked that one off but limped for a week. after.
    • henriquemaia 8y ago
      I could fill you a long list of dos and don'ts, what do look for and what to avoid, but cycling is inherently practical, and you have to learn it by doing it. As you are by now aware, we're pretty much exposed to all kinds of dangers, and sometimes bad things happen. But if you aren't discouraged, and you keep on practicing, eventually you'll learn how to avoid most of the worst case scenarios where you could find yourself by your own negligence and/or lack of attention. The important thing to retain is that you have to have the muscle memory to know how to react properly when in a tight spot. That's why reading about things isn't much of a help — you don't have time to think in order to act properly. My advice? Practice, and practice riding defensively. I live in a very rough country for cyclists — Brazil. And in order to find my place on the road I have to be twice, thrice as careful as I would have to be somewhere else. But I've found that if you play it safe and learn to be nice and respectful of what the other perceives as its rightful place on the road, thanking everyone that shows you even the smallest act of kindness or basic respect for you, you'll be surprised how much things change on the road around you. Be nice and don't try to be a hero. You're a glorified pedestrian and your skin is no match for steel.
• AngryData 8y ago
  They have also been fairly recently quarantining political subreddits, more specifically socialist subreddits.
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• bionoid 8y ago
  > They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well. What really grinds my gears with this is the fact that you cannot see quarantined activity via the API. If you browse a user's overview on the website, you'll see comments/posts in quarantined subs with a "quarantined" label. But if you fetch the exact same data via API, the quarantined activity is simply not returned at all, even if the account is opted in to the quarantined subreddits. There is no way to retrieve this data, and as a result, my bot can't block users that hail from these cesspools...