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>As an occasional user of reddit, this whole ordeal has confirmed the reason why I prefer not to hang out in its forums. It's really been awful and hard to avo
by KVFinn 11y ago
>As an occasional user of reddit, this whole ordeal has confirmed the reason why I prefer not to hang out in its forums.
It's really been awful and hard to avoid. I saw more racism on reddit in a couple few weeks (while the police shootings were in the news) than I've seen in the rest of my life combined. That and the increasingly popular /fatpeoplehate and I was pretty close to never visiting even the small well-moderated subs, the leakage was too strong.
And this recent thing, where there have been days where 5 of the top 10 highest voted stories across the entire site were literally titled: "Ellen Pao is a cunt"
- aneil 11y agoI'm a pretty regular user, but have unsubscribed from a number of the default subreddits. Still, there is often a feeding frenzy mentality that takes over there. The racism during Ferguson was appalling. I saw a Pao subthread where people were discussing how sexually unappealing she is. It degenerated from there. Pretty awful stuff.
- ScootyPuff4000 11y agoYes, the racism during Ferguson was appalling. Asian storeowners getting their stores looted and burned down, just for being Asian. White cops getting shot at just for being white. And a violent robbery suspect's family calling for a town to be burned down over phony charges of bias.
- bsder 11y ago> I saw more racism on reddit in a couple few weeks (while the police shootings were in the news) than I've seen in the rest of my life combined. Welcome to reality outside the Silicon Valley distortion bubble--Reddit's userbase is not confined to the Mandarins of technology.
- pauleastlund 11y agoSilicon Valley might not be representative of the nation or the world, but (thankfully!) anonymous internet forums aren't, either.
- philwelch 11y agoIf they were, we'd be in the final years of the Ron Paul administration.
- agildehaus 11y agoI doubt your last sentence, as I regularly use Reddit and never saw anything like the story you mention. Certainly there were bad comments in more sanely named threads, but no highly upvoted threads with that title like you mention here. Mind linking it?
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- KVFinn 11y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/20150611050725/https://www.reddit.com/r/all http://web.archive.org/web/20150611050725/https://www.reddit... http://web.archive.org/web/20150611112054/http://www.reddit.com/r/all http://web.archive.org/web/20150611112054/http://www.reddit....
- etherealG 11y agoCan I suggest not browsing all
- BorisMelnik 11y agoone of the craziest things about all the racism is that much of it is trolling from non-racist or not normally racist people looking to get a rise out of people. I see the same thing on YouTube and Reddit all of these troll parody accounts created by ant-social 20-somethings in an attempt to get a reaction or "shock" people. Reddit can be a great place. Subs like /r/webdev and many, many others are very informative and a great way to meet people. I don't think I've ever seen any kind of racism / hate on the subs I frequent because none of them are main line.