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Hard to explain objectively; I think the things that turned me off to reddit back then (now it's more mainstream) were people's willingness to assume tons of kn

Hard to explain objectively; I think the things that turned me off to reddit back then (now it's more mainstream) were people's willingness to assume tons of knowledge of topics they didn't really know about, the general white, upper middle class male from the burbs tastes of things like r/music and other cultural subreddits. It felt like walking into a videogame fraternity and realizing I didn't belong there. That's a highly subjective opinion...but it's how I felt. r/shitredditsays probably captures a bit of what made me uncomfortable.

golergka 11y ago
There's certainly a white fraternity feel in a lot of reddits, so I can imagine how people can feel disconnect to it. But /r/shitredditsays, well... I was subscribed to it for some time, and the posts themselves do a good job at noticing really bad behaviour on reddit sometimes — but then I discovered the comments there, and I must say, it feels like half of the users of this sub are trolls who pretend to be THE worst strawmen feminists/SJW (I hate this term, but since we're talking about strawmen, I think it fits) ever. Just saying.
- morbius 11y ago
  The SRS sidebar makes it pretty clear that the whole SJW façade is exactly that: a façade. They obviously have legitimate complaints but hyperbolise everything to poke fun at it.
  - Jimmy 11y ago
    They don't accept the "it's just a joke" excuse from their targets, why should we accept it from them?
    - vehementi 11y ago
      > targets > we > them Gah.
    - morbius 11y ago
      Because there's no object to their jokes. It's just exaggerated humor not at the expense of anyone.
      - Nemcue 11y ago
        Except it is at the expense of people, so that's not true at all. SRS are notorious for brigading and messing with peoples lives.
    - asddubs 11y ago
      the idea is to expose people to a "taste of their own medicine", for what that's worth.
  - golergka 11y ago
    That doesn't make it any better.

golergka 11y ago

There's certainly a white fraternity feel in a lot of reddits, so I can imagine how people can feel disconnect to it. But /r/shitredditsays, well... I was subscribed to it for some time, and the posts themselves do a good job at noticing really bad behaviour on reddit sometimes — but then I discovered the comments there, and I must say, it feels like half of the users of this sub are trolls who pretend to be THE worst strawmen feminists/SJW (I hate this term, but since we're talking about strawmen, I think it fits) ever. Just saying.

morbius 11y ago
The SRS sidebar makes it pretty clear that the whole SJW façade is exactly that: a façade. They obviously have legitimate complaints but hyperbolise everything to poke fun at it.
- Jimmy 11y ago
  They don't accept the "it's just a joke" excuse from their targets, why should we accept it from them?
  - vehementi 11y ago
    > targets > we > them Gah.
  - morbius 11y ago
    Because there's no object to their jokes. It's just exaggerated humor not at the expense of anyone.
    - Nemcue 11y ago
      Except it is at the expense of people, so that's not true at all. SRS are notorious for brigading and messing with peoples lives.
  - asddubs 11y ago
    the idea is to expose people to a "taste of their own medicine", for what that's worth.
- golergka 11y ago
  That doesn't make it any better.