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About time. It is almost impossible to browse the front page without seeing some hateful content. And I am not talking about the political stuff. You can uploa

About time. It is almost impossible to browse the front page without seeing some hateful content. And I am not talking about the political stuff. You can upload video of a random dude getting beaten to death, make some absurd claims like "the guy is a pedophile caught in the act" and watch the hateful comments roll in. Basically, you can make any claims and the ones that keep people's blood boiling seems very popular way of getting clicks and upvotes.

PunchTornado 6y ago
maybe you should unsubscribe from subs you don't like. plenty of people like violent subs, like justicesurved or others.
- panpanna 6y ago
  Mate I got news for you: they are getting so popular they are all over the front page. I sometimes wonder if Reddit has resulted in a generation completely unable of critical thinking.
  - PunchTornado 6y ago
    I don't understand what you mean by frontpage. it is made only from posts from subs you subscribed to. if you don't like it, unsubscribe. or the thing that bothers you is that other people like it and want to see it
    - zo1 6y ago
      I get /r/politics all the time recommended to me, filled with hateful content. I can't "block" it even though I've looked.
      - DuskStar 6y ago
        old.reddit.com is the only way to reddit.
  - uniqueid 6y ago
    You're not alone! I feel exactly the same way. Not only the submission and upvoting of mean-spirited, tasteless content, but the utter sense of entitlement when someone tries to remove it: "it's our right to watch videos of people dying and being maimed!" At the same time, it seems impossible to find any sentence on Reddit that isn't just a few expletives mixed together with a stock catch phrase. That combination (ie: of depravity and vapid language) makes me snort with disgust at the idea that people conduct "serious debate" on Reddit. Maybe we should just embrace the concept of an Internet License, after all.
    - yew 6y ago
      > Maybe we should embrace the concept of an Internet License, after all :( Likewise. Regulation of communication is beginning to look like the only way out of this trap.
zo1 6y ago
I don't know about others, but for me the "top" subreddits are filled with things that I consider very hateful and it goes way passed the "hate" radar of most of the mods due to the politics. E.g. I was on the main gifs subreddit the other day when a gif of a wall being erected around the Whitehouse was shown. The amount of vitriol, hatred and borderline violent/violence-encouraging comments I saw that was at the top and mostly directed at conservatives/Donald Trump was just too much. It was truly hateful, but because it was directed at the right groups/people, it went unpunished and mostly upvoted. Here's hoping that all hate and violent stuff like that gets removed from reddit, instead of just having it aimed at "the right", because that's their goal here really. Maybe we can then have an honest conversation about left/right politics.

PunchTornado 6y ago

maybe you should unsubscribe from subs you don't like. plenty of people like violent subs, like justicesurved or others.

panpanna 6y ago
Mate I got news for you: they are getting so popular they are all over the front page. I sometimes wonder if Reddit has resulted in a generation completely unable of critical thinking.
- PunchTornado 6y ago
  I don't understand what you mean by frontpage. it is made only from posts from subs you subscribed to. if you don't like it, unsubscribe. or the thing that bothers you is that other people like it and want to see it
  - zo1 6y ago
    I get /r/politics all the time recommended to me, filled with hateful content. I can't "block" it even though I've looked.
    - DuskStar 6y ago
      old.reddit.com is the only way to reddit.
- uniqueid 6y ago
  You're not alone! I feel exactly the same way. Not only the submission and upvoting of mean-spirited, tasteless content, but the utter sense of entitlement when someone tries to remove it: "it's our right to watch videos of people dying and being maimed!" At the same time, it seems impossible to find any sentence on Reddit that isn't just a few expletives mixed together with a stock catch phrase. That combination (ie: of depravity and vapid language) makes me snort with disgust at the idea that people conduct "serious debate" on Reddit. Maybe we should just embrace the concept of an Internet License, after all.
  - yew 6y ago
    > Maybe we should embrace the concept of an Internet License, after all :( Likewise. Regulation of communication is beginning to look like the only way out of this trap.

zo1 6y ago

I don't know about others, but for me the "top" subreddits are filled with things that I consider very hateful and it goes way passed the "hate" radar of most of the mods due to the politics. E.g. I was on the main gifs subreddit the other day when a gif of a wall being erected around the Whitehouse was shown. The amount of vitriol, hatred and borderline violent/violence-encouraging comments I saw that was at the top and mostly directed at conservatives/Donald Trump was just too much. It was truly hateful, but because it was directed at the right groups/people, it went unpunished and mostly upvoted. Here's hoping that all hate and violent stuff like that gets removed from reddit, instead of just having it aimed at "the right", because that's their goal here really. Maybe we can then have an honest conversation about left/right politics.