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I loved BBS's back in the day and I missed that feeling :/ Any subreddit suggestions for me ?

by rawoke083600 6y ago

joshocar 6y ago
r/AskHistorians is amazing. It is probably the most well run and informative subreddit on the whole site.
- distances 6y ago
  It's indeed goldmine for anyone who's into history. I'm debating myself if this sub is good enough to keep Reddit around or am I better off to just stay completely away.
  - boomboomsubban 6y ago
    Log off and bookmark the specific reddit. It's only addictive if you use the home page features.
    - distances 6y ago
      I was usually using the Reddit is Fun app, but yeah maybe a direct subreddit link in browser could be a good middle road.
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  What's keeping it on Reddit, just inertia?
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Every highly curated subreddit seems to have a regression toward some sort of lowest common denominator and any sort of deviance gets crushed even if it's good correct content that shouldn't be. I'm no historian but seeing this behavior in every subreddit where I have the experience to recognize BS makes me very skeptical of the idea that other subreddits are not doing the same.
- deleted 6y ago
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- Chathamization 6y ago
  r/AskHistorians has some very good posts, but it also has a good deal of misinformation, even coming from flaired users. The big problem with it is that the user base and the mods tend to believe that it's accuracy is better than it actually is (and comments from the mods seem to encourage this overestimation). I've seen many people who believe that if a flaired user on r/AskHistorians says something, then it's true (there seems to be a lot of people like that on the aptly named r/badhistory sub, for example). In addition, their yearly April Fools' events (a bad idea in my view) as well the generally poor quality of posts during the first few years makes searching for past answers a pain. You get a ton of information that's flat out wrong, and in the case of April Fools' events the wrong information was actually encouraged (or written) by mods.
Fnords 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadStapledToTrees/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadStapledToTrees/ Always delivers exactly what it promises.
- tomsmeding 6y ago
  Okay so sure BreadStapledToTrees contains images of bread stapled to trees. But why? I mean, why do people go around stapling bread to trees, photographing it and posting it on r/BreadStapledToTrees and enjoying it, and enjoying others posting the same? I am confused.
  - codetrotter 6y ago
    There is only one way to truly understand. Take a slice of bread, bring a stapler, staple the slice of bread to a tree somewhere, snap a good picture of it and upload the picture to the subreddit. Then you will understand. It is the only way. It cannot be explained, it needs to be experienced in order to be understood.
    - dredmorbius 6y ago
      Sometimes you're the tree. Sometimes you're the bread. Sometimes you're the staple holding it all together.
Sebb767 6y ago
/r/homelab is great, but you'll probably end up with a rack in your living room at some point. /r/mechanicalkeyboards was great at least, but due to my inactivity I can't talk about the last few months.

I loved BBS's back in the day and I missed that feeling :/ Any subreddit suggestions for me ?

joshocar 6y ago

r/AskHistorians is amazing. It is probably the most well run and informative subreddit on the whole site.

distances 6y ago
It's indeed goldmine for anyone who's into history. I'm debating myself if this sub is good enough to keep Reddit around or am I better off to just stay completely away.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago
  Log off and bookmark the specific reddit. It's only addictive if you use the home page features.
  - distances 6y ago
    I was usually using the Reddit is Fun app, but yeah maybe a direct subreddit link in browser could be a good middle road.
pbhjpbhj 6y ago
What's keeping it on Reddit, just inertia?
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
Every highly curated subreddit seems to have a regression toward some sort of lowest common denominator and any sort of deviance gets crushed even if it's good correct content that shouldn't be. I'm no historian but seeing this behavior in every subreddit where I have the experience to recognize BS makes me very skeptical of the idea that other subreddits are not doing the same.
deleted 6y ago
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Chathamization 6y ago
r/AskHistorians has some very good posts, but it also has a good deal of misinformation, even coming from flaired users. The big problem with it is that the user base and the mods tend to believe that it's accuracy is better than it actually is (and comments from the mods seem to encourage this overestimation). I've seen many people who believe that if a flaired user on r/AskHistorians says something, then it's true (there seems to be a lot of people like that on the aptly named r/badhistory sub, for example). In addition, their yearly April Fools' events (a bad idea in my view) as well the generally poor quality of posts during the first few years makes searching for past answers a pain. You get a ton of information that's flat out wrong, and in the case of April Fools' events the wrong information was actually encouraged (or written) by mods.

Fnords 6y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadStapledToTrees/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadStapledToTrees/ Always delivers exactly what it promises.

tomsmeding 6y ago
Okay so sure BreadStapledToTrees contains images of bread stapled to trees. But why? I mean, why do people go around stapling bread to trees, photographing it and posting it on r/BreadStapledToTrees and enjoying it, and enjoying others posting the same? I am confused.
- codetrotter 6y ago
  There is only one way to truly understand. Take a slice of bread, bring a stapler, staple the slice of bread to a tree somewhere, snap a good picture of it and upload the picture to the subreddit. Then you will understand. It is the only way. It cannot be explained, it needs to be experienced in order to be understood.
  - dredmorbius 6y ago
    Sometimes you're the tree. Sometimes you're the bread. Sometimes you're the staple holding it all together.

Sebb767 6y ago

/r/homelab is great, but you'll probably end up with a rack in your living room at some point. /r/mechanicalkeyboards was great at least, but due to my inactivity I can't talk about the last few months.