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It is indeed bad, but there are gems to be found. Some of those gems may not always avoid this issue, but they at least strive to. For example /r/geopolitics. I

It is indeed bad, but there are gems to be found. Some of those gems may not always avoid this issue, but they at least strive to. For example /r/geopolitics. It's obscure enough and the mods participate well enough that generally you can find some really good discussion there. There are a few subs like this, but they are rare and the exception.

Czarcasm 6y ago
Idk if it's just me, but I feel that even r/geopolitics has begun to slide in the last few months. Mods are typically great though. They seem to try very hard to keep the discussion academic.
- ra7 6y ago
  r/geopolitics has been on the downturn from at least a couple of years. Mods try very hard to keep it academic, but it’s hardly that anymore with opinions (without sources) being passed off as academic routinely. It’s still great for analysis related to American foreign policy, but it’s hard to take any other analysis seriously especially when it comes to Asian countries as the quality is lacking.
sudosysgen 6y ago
Geopolitics has really degenerated. It is now dominated by users that post unending barrages of unrealistic, low-quality "fall of China" articles. Incidentally, I was banned for saying that China would end up with less deaths due to the coronavirus than the US, as a result of their stricter interventions, which turned out to be true. The moderators of that subreddits decided that it was such an egregiously incorrect point-of-view that it had to be deleted, and the poster banned. So no, r/geopolitics isn't really good anymore. It was interesting a few months to years back, though. But now it's mostly biased, moralistic and americentric takes with artificially limited debate, with such scathing and interesting discussion as "Western culture is the best culture, and that's why the US will be an eternal empire", or "China will be sublimated by the US just like the US beat Japan". This is a stark contrast to the more realpolitik, realist discourse of yesteryear. Non-China related threads are better, though.
- 101404 6y ago
  And that's the problem of today's Reddit. People get banned for disagreeing with the mainstream of a sub. Fear of controversy.
  - raverbashing 6y ago
    Because for the 1% that have a legitimate disagreement/different opinion, there are 99% of "new posters" that act like that sub was worldnews or some other frontpage subreddit Then it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and the mods, (as much as I agree that in some subs are totally going for the echo chamber) have a lot of work to do.

Czarcasm 6y ago

Idk if it's just me, but I feel that even r/geopolitics has begun to slide in the last few months. Mods are typically great though. They seem to try very hard to keep the discussion academic.

ra7 6y ago
r/geopolitics has been on the downturn from at least a couple of years. Mods try very hard to keep it academic, but it’s hardly that anymore with opinions (without sources) being passed off as academic routinely. It’s still great for analysis related to American foreign policy, but it’s hard to take any other analysis seriously especially when it comes to Asian countries as the quality is lacking.

sudosysgen 6y ago

Geopolitics has really degenerated. It is now dominated by users that post unending barrages of unrealistic, low-quality "fall of China" articles. Incidentally, I was banned for saying that China would end up with less deaths due to the coronavirus than the US, as a result of their stricter interventions, which turned out to be true. The moderators of that subreddits decided that it was such an egregiously incorrect point-of-view that it had to be deleted, and the poster banned. So no, r/geopolitics isn't really good anymore. It was interesting a few months to years back, though. But now it's mostly biased, moralistic and americentric takes with artificially limited debate, with such scathing and interesting discussion as "Western culture is the best culture, and that's why the US will be an eternal empire", or "China will be sublimated by the US just like the US beat Japan". This is a stark contrast to the more realpolitik, realist discourse of yesteryear. Non-China related threads are better, though.

101404 6y ago
And that's the problem of today's Reddit. People get banned for disagreeing with the mainstream of a sub. Fear of controversy.
- raverbashing 6y ago
  Because for the 1% that have a legitimate disagreement/different opinion, there are 99% of "new posters" that act like that sub was worldnews or some other frontpage subreddit Then it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff and the mods, (as much as I agree that in some subs are totally going for the echo chamber) have a lot of work to do.