It's funny, I gave up Reddit for a year for the same reasons. Then I went back, and within three months it was just as bad as before. I closed my account. Now I

It's funny, I gave up Reddit for a year for the same reasons. Then I went back, and within three months it was just as bad as before. I closed my account. Now I still let myself read it but I don't comment on anything and mostly it's alright; the rage of seeing someone say something I strongly disagree with is fleeting. I started commenting here about a year ago, and I've found it a lot better. People respect long-form comments and they are more generous with upvotes than downvotes. On Reddit, it seemed like there was always a lot of trolling, and stupid jokes are voted up a lot over meaningful content. Another plus around here is that after a couple days, people give up on their fight. There's no "mailbox" reminding you that you're having a flamewar somewhere. I still do sometimes spend way too much time on a comment or a thread though. But it isn't yet anywhere near the kind of problem it was on Reddit. Which is particularly strange because I see most of the people here that were on Reddit and we talk about the same things. I think the community is the reason. On Reddit I was never tempted to bite my tongue. Here I do, and I think it makes me respect people here more than I ever did on Reddit--even though I know many of them are the same people.