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The user quality on Reddit really has taken a nosedive over the years. I recall looking at some thread recently related to online services for consoles. The ove

The user quality on Reddit really has taken a nosedive over the years. I recall looking at some thread recently related to online services for consoles. The overwhelming sentiment in the thread was something like "I already pay for internet why should I pay for XBox Live". Maybe the thread was just especially full of children. I remember people on Reddit (10 years ago) used to be knowledgeable and when new information appeared, that would matter. There's just so much ignorance now.

DontchaKnowit 3y ago
I gotta say, if thats the stupidest reddit comment you can think kff, you must not spend much time there. Try literally any political subreddit to find people being so absurdly left wing that they end up advocating for despotism.
- Liquix 3y ago
  in all fairness to the people of reddit, this is a top-down propaganda assault, not a grassroots uprising. reddit is 100% used as a controlled-narrative dissemination tool by nation state actors all over the world. monkey brain see upvotes, monkey brain assume group consensus correct, monkey brain follow [0]. repeatedly banning or blackholing anything that goes against your desired narrative leads to a smaller and smaller percentage of users willing to speak out against the consensus, so these opinions become even more marginalized, repeat until desired level of radicalization is achieved. it even happens on HN - heavily downvoted comments are presumed to be barely worth reading because multiple people went out of their way to downvote. you could control the public opinion of a small country with <$50k worth of black market upvotes per year. that kind of power doesn't and hasn't gone unnoticed [0] see 1951 Asch conformity study
  - thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
    Im not conspiracy minded but if you go to the /r/Canada subreddit it is so ridiculously pro Pierre Poilievre that I think something is up. Not a single one of the 3 parties in Canada have a likeable head, it's shocking to see the people on there go nuts for this random goon.
- ukFxqnLa2sBSBf6 3y ago
  I didn’t say that was the stupidest comment I could think of. It was just something that stood out to me recently. Tech literacy among Reddit users used to be pretty decent. Now it’s pretty much the opposite.
- Mouthfeel 3y ago
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DontchaKnowit 3y ago

I gotta say, if thats the stupidest reddit comment you can think kff, you must not spend much time there. Try literally any political subreddit to find people being so absurdly left wing that they end up advocating for despotism.

Liquix 3y ago
in all fairness to the people of reddit, this is a top-down propaganda assault, not a grassroots uprising. reddit is 100% used as a controlled-narrative dissemination tool by nation state actors all over the world. monkey brain see upvotes, monkey brain assume group consensus correct, monkey brain follow [0]. repeatedly banning or blackholing anything that goes against your desired narrative leads to a smaller and smaller percentage of users willing to speak out against the consensus, so these opinions become even more marginalized, repeat until desired level of radicalization is achieved. it even happens on HN - heavily downvoted comments are presumed to be barely worth reading because multiple people went out of their way to downvote. you could control the public opinion of a small country with <$50k worth of black market upvotes per year. that kind of power doesn't and hasn't gone unnoticed [0] see 1951 Asch conformity study
- thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
  Im not conspiracy minded but if you go to the /r/Canada subreddit it is so ridiculously pro Pierre Poilievre that I think something is up. Not a single one of the 3 parties in Canada have a likeable head, it's shocking to see the people on there go nuts for this random goon.
ukFxqnLa2sBSBf6 3y ago
I didn’t say that was the stupidest comment I could think of. It was just something that stood out to me recently. Tech literacy among Reddit users used to be pretty decent. Now it’s pretty much the opposite.
Mouthfeel 3y ago
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