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What a tempest in a tea cup. Reddit users have a far too high opinion of themselves. We're all getting tired of their angsty drama leaching over into real life.

eclipxe 11y ago
Who is we? Speak for yourself.
- nness 11y ago
  I'm tired of it. I'm glad most of these stories are being flagged for removal on HN.
  - bluecalm 11y ago
    It's not much of an effort to not click those stories. I see your attitude as damaging. "Let's remove content which makes me uncomfortable discussing even though it's very popular and a lot pf people want to discuss it" thinking. I mean, reading one sentence (topic description) and moving your eyes one row down isn't much of an effort even if you were to do that for 2 weeks several times a day. Just do it and leave the topics for people how want to read about it and discuss it.
baby 11y ago
It's a vocal minority. Most of people browsing reddits don't have an account OR couldn't care less about these stories. And I'm not even talking about the good part of reddit who unsubscribe from default subs to get in touch with more interesting smaller subs.
- brymaster 11y ago
  > vocal minority That's interesting because it mirrors Ellen Pao's attitude: > But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours. - (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderators-shut-down-parts-of-site-over-executives-dismissal.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato...) ... yet here we are with over 100K signatures and quickly rising. When your largest subreddits and influential content creators take a big chunk of the site down, it's not a vocal minority with zero ramifications - it's you about to become the next Digg. This isn't an issue for Reddit to take lightly. If content creators pack up shop, Reddit becomes just another cat photo and yesterday's news dump like your facebook feed (read: low quality content). Users will end up where ever your cool content creators defect to.
  - baby 11y ago
    Who says that most content creators are against her? Also, if you're talking about /r/funny and other default subreddits content creator, I think they will easily be replaced.

eclipxe 11y ago

Who is we? Speak for yourself.

nness 11y ago
I'm tired of it. I'm glad most of these stories are being flagged for removal on HN.
- bluecalm 11y ago
  It's not much of an effort to not click those stories. I see your attitude as damaging. "Let's remove content which makes me uncomfortable discussing even though it's very popular and a lot pf people want to discuss it" thinking. I mean, reading one sentence (topic description) and moving your eyes one row down isn't much of an effort even if you were to do that for 2 weeks several times a day. Just do it and leave the topics for people how want to read about it and discuss it.

baby 11y ago

It's a vocal minority. Most of people browsing reddits don't have an account OR couldn't care less about these stories. And I'm not even talking about the good part of reddit who unsubscribe from default subs to get in touch with more interesting smaller subs.

brymaster 11y ago
> vocal minority That's interesting because it mirrors Ellen Pao's attitude: > But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours. - (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderators-shut-down-parts-of-site-over-executives-dismissal.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato...) ... yet here we are with over 100K signatures and quickly rising. When your largest subreddits and influential content creators take a big chunk of the site down, it's not a vocal minority with zero ramifications - it's you about to become the next Digg. This isn't an issue for Reddit to take lightly. If content creators pack up shop, Reddit becomes just another cat photo and yesterday's news dump like your facebook feed (read: low quality content). Users will end up where ever your cool content creators defect to.
- baby 11y ago
  Who says that most content creators are against her? Also, if you're talking about /r/funny and other default subreddits content creator, I think they will easily be replaced.