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u/John271095 Jan 28 '23
I agree. It’s impossible to have decent conversations and counterpoints without getting downvoted to hell. I guess if you don’t tell people what they wanna hear, you’ll just get automatic downvotes from an angry mob.
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u/Chasin_Papers Jan 28 '23
I see a lot of misinformation about the thing I have a PhD in. When I try to correct misconceptions I'm called a shill and talked down to.
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u/the_original_Retro Jan 27 '23
I think this depends at least partially on the sub you're posting to.
Some subs are MASSIVELY biased and brutally censor. Example: some of the political subs (no, not all).
Others are simply low-effort and so a lot of people hang out at them that downvote anything that they don't 100% agree with because they're so casual. Example: /r/pics, /r/funny
A few (insert Gollum saying 'precious-s-s-s-s' here) subs work hard to adhere to a standard of quality and manage to at least partially stay above the mess that is the rest. Example /r/askscience
In some of the higher quality subs, I've seen points of view that I cannot rationalize myself, but they're well expressed and defended, and I've even awarded some of them for helping me learn about how other people tick.
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u/square_tomatoes Jan 28 '23
I think this depends at least partially on the sub you're posting to.
This sub is this worst one I’ve experienced, granted I don’t post/comment on many subs so I’m working with a very small sample size.
But it’s so frustrating that a sub like this is supposed to be about discussion and gathering different perspectives. And yet this is where I’ve had my worst encounters with getting dog piled on with downvotes simply for trying to give a more nuanced take on some complicated topics that people like to oversimplify.
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u/Cakey-Baby Jan 28 '23
Yes!! Having your own individual thoughts and opinions that are not in agreement with the general consensus will get you downvoted. It’s as if we can not still have meaningful conversations while voicing different points of view. As you stated, it’s not in every subreddit but it definitely exists.
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u/JustnInternetComment Jan 27 '23
Mods.
Ban me without telling the reason and mute me when I ask questions.
And that's not breaking terms of service, so, I can kick rocks.
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u/citytiger Jan 28 '23
yes I agree. Bans are too quickly used, How can one learn from mistakes if its just simply a ban?
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u/Exciting-Dream8471 Jan 28 '23
Yeah…I got a permanent ban on a mom group where I had no previous offenses. I know “why” but when I messaged mods, no reply. There was an OP teenager who had 2 children who were largely being taken care of by her mom, and was pregnant with her third. She was saying that she hates her kids and claimed her daughter tried to “murder” her during birth. I suggested she figure out one of the many available methods of preventing pregnancy and said it was grossly inappropriate for her to claim her child tried to murder her. Kid didn’t ask to be born, and any complications during birth certainly weren’t the fault of the child. Anyways, this went against their “kindness” rule. I still believe it was a troll post, and a first offense permanent ban is so exaggerated.
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u/KodahIV Jan 27 '23
Many subreddits are just echo chambers
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u/bublebass Jan 27 '23
I think that’s due to the nature of the upvote system, the most common upvoted comments only represent the majority and nothing else
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo Jan 28 '23
All of reddit is an echo chamber. I've never seen an actual discussion on an unpopular opinion. It's downvoted and met with insults, especially if they make a good point. Reddit is full of dumb people who think they're smart, so they can agree with what makes them feel belonging, but they couldn't defend it. And if you remind them of it they just get mad.
You can really tell because I'll see someone agree with a person and they still get attacked because you're average redditor is so dumb and defensive yet defenseless at the same time they panic if they don't actually know what they're talking about.
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u/RobbinsBabbitt Jan 27 '23
Weird thing is I’ve been seeing subs be polar opposite echo chambers depending on time of day. Wild
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u/travelling_tree Jan 28 '23
And self defeating. Like unpopular opinion sub, no disrespect to it, but obviously the highest voted posts are simple untrue.
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u/I_like_cake_7 Jan 28 '23
That sub is such trash. r/unpopularopinion has basically turned into a sub where people talk about things they don’t like instead of unpopular opinions. Most of the opinions posted on there aren’t actually unpopular, either.
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u/dinoroo Jan 28 '23
I think the echo chamber mentality has become very widespread in the last decade. It’s not just here on Reddit. Other forums and Facebook groups have the same thing going on. You must bow to the belief, whatever it is, and never challenge it.
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u/Jail_Chris_Brown Jan 27 '23
How much time you can waste and how you always come back.
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u/DJbuddahAZ Jan 27 '23
Even if you have good intentions and mean well in a post , someone is gonna tear it apart.and try and make you look stupid
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u/MercyReign Jan 27 '23
I saw a post of someone posting a selfie of them smiling and wishing a happy new year to everybody on the r/aww sub Reddit and his post got downvoted but some of us just wished him back and our comments got downvoted as well.
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u/DJbuddahAZ Jan 27 '23
Reddit can be pretty toxic most of the time, ecspecially if your comment is opinion based
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u/NeverNude-Ned Jan 28 '23
And if you have an opinion that goes against what's already being upvoted, you're going to get shat on. Even if you back it up with actual facts, it doesn't matter. Once the downvote train starts, nothing can reverse it.
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u/Guilty-Celebration25 Jan 27 '23
Everyone is a red flag, and everyone is a narcissist.
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u/AleshiniaLivesStill Jan 28 '23
Yeah everyone on here is a therapist somehow. And also- someone for the love of god teach “relationships” and “am I the asshole” what gas lighting actually is? Because they use it incorrectly 89% of the time…
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Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
Gaslighting is when anyone says something you disagree with, especially if it causes you emotional discomfort.
Especially if they’ve presented a compelling argument that knocks out your emotional assertions with some indisputable facts.
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u/regnarbensin_ Jan 28 '23
This person is toxic, that person is toxic, that book is toxic, that table is toxic, that car tire is toxic..
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u/red_dawn Jan 28 '23
Yep. If someone is an asshole, it’s apparently mental illness of some sort. Nope has nothing to do with anything else. Just mental illness.
Reddit really struggles to cope with the fact that sometimes people are just fucking shitbags for no other reason than they want to be because there are no repercussions and it gets them what they want.
Someone is always making an excuse for the shitty behaviors. So they are continually encouraged to keep up the behavior.
Ironically, at the same time, if someone is an asshole to them - NOW that person is just an asshole.
Fucking hypocrisy.
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u/Junkman3 Jan 27 '23
When I try to be helpful by giving my perspective on a topic I have years of experience with, only to be called an idiot and told I don't know anything.
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u/red_dawn Jan 28 '23
Go to cscareerquestions where the grads seemingly know more about the industry than the actual industry vets. I’ve been downvoted so many times just explaining salaries and how they vary on location.
So many couldn’t cope with the fact they aren’t going to be banking $350k/yr in a podunk town outside Kansas City much less the understanding that $150k of that is salary and the rest compensation (what do you call $200k in stock options when the company goes under? Nothing. It’s gone.)
Yet at the same time, they are always posting about trying to get a job or not knowing what tech stack to get into or another array of shit that screams ‘I’m flailing in the wind’
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u/RaggamuffinTW8 Jan 27 '23
Theres a definite snowball effect in some threads. Once the prevailing opinion is decided, dissenting ones can't really get a word in.
It's often fine as the prevailing opinion might be benign. But sometimes the prevailing opinion is misinformation or bullshit.
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u/Less-Ad7782 Jan 28 '23
The way that redditors only allow you to have one opinion that they agree with. Anything else and you’re a terrible person. Some of y’all are insufferable
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u/Sookmebeautiful Jan 27 '23
Terrible mods and even worse admins
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Jan 27 '23
Until recently there were a lot of subreddits where you could watch videos of people being murdered or dying in major accidents.
But if you post that people should be able to defend themselves, it gets removed for violence.
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u/1234deal Jan 27 '23
A lot of redditors are just plain dumb. No other way to say it.
Not me of course...
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u/zazzlekdazzle Jan 27 '23
Never in my life have I seen such a group of people who give so much lip service to "critical thinking skills" yet lack them to such a shocking degree.
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u/zazzlekdazzle Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
The very nature of this forum attracts lonely, embittered people who feel like underappreciated geniuses and boost their egos by just acting like petulant, childish jackasses.
They feel others have isolated them - not befriending them, not dating them, not allowing them to work at their jobs how they wish. In reality, however, their isolation is self-imposed.
The more they interface with humanity and perform the normal tasks that would be expected of them, the more exposed they are to the evidence that they are not the intellectual giants they think, so they retreat.
Thus they require the anonymous echo chamber that Reddit can be to sustain their fantasy and further distance them from humanity.
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u/hidden_mosaic Jan 28 '23
Interesting take. I feel this is exceptionally common across the entirety of the internet however!
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u/sublime_mime Jan 27 '23
Repeated posts
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u/Llafy Jan 27 '23
I personally don't think reposts are that bad. It depends on how long the last post was. It's good for people that haven't seen it yet and probably never would have if it wasn't reposted.
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Agreed - I love reposts - it's repeat comments I can't stand - when people repost top comments from previous threads, or tell the exact same jokes. Reposts aren't bad if there are fresh stories in the comments.
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u/thegodfaubel Jan 27 '23
Constructive thinking and valid criticism isn't always taken kindly. Like I'll sometimes agree with some of the sentiment that's being said, but just straight down voting and abusing someone for not agreeing with the hive is toxic AF.
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u/Ill-Produce7700 Jan 27 '23
The inability to consider someone else’s opinion or thought without immediately resorting to arguing.
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u/MarcusXL Jan 27 '23
"You gave a slightly different opinion than mine, therefore you are wrong and I will berate you until you admit that my point of view is the only right one."
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u/plzsendtitpics Jan 27 '23
The mods, the entitlement, the self-righteousness, the lack of common sense, the circle jerks, the sensitivity, everything is 90% reposts, and the mods
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u/Exciting-Dream8471 Jan 28 '23
That you can go to someone’s profile and see every comment they’ve ever made. I have multiple profiles for different subjects in order to maintain some anonymity and avoid crossover.
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u/KM___ Jan 27 '23
*generic post*
Edit 1: wow thank you for the comments kind stranger
Edit 2: wowzers 200 upboats? amazeballs!! thank you all so much
Edit 3: 1000 upboats!?!?! man im going viral haha
Edit 4: so my gf broke up with me :/
Edit 5: so people keep asking in the comments, she cheated on me
Edit 6: we are back together now, but she also has a new boyfriend it is ok though
Edit 7: people are really hating in the comments, please leave your bigotry out
Edit 8: why am i getting downboats????
By the gods do I hate this.
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u/dug99 Jan 27 '23
Downvoting of unpleasant and/or counterintuitive facts that can be easily verified.
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u/Amazing_Excuse_3860 Jan 27 '23
When you unmute 1 video, it unmutes ALL videos. I unmute to watch a video of a cat, forget to unmute, and then get blasted by a loud advertisement.
It freaking Tumblr doesn't have this problem, Reddit has no excuse.
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u/DaleGribble312 Jan 27 '23
The average redditor is an idiot and loud about it.
The moderator situation is laughable and it's embarrassing that reddit doesn't feel immense shame from it.
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u/Standalone2 Jan 27 '23
Most subreddits are left leaning. The right wing subreddits are too far to the right.
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u/FlurriesofFleuryFury Jan 27 '23
Concur. Like, I didn’t like it when I was bullied for being queer in 2007, and I don’t like being bullied online for being conservative now. People think it’s not the same thing but IT IS THE SAME THING.
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u/he_who_melts_the_rod Jan 28 '23
It's like no one can simply disagree with each other or try to see each other's point of view. Everyone wants to be the "correct" opinion instead of trying to have a real discussion.
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u/MilwaukeeDave Jan 27 '23
Fucking mods.
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u/Educational-Plane-86 Jan 27 '23
How people defend or applaud treating others badly just because their opinion is different than theirs. Best example I can come up with is, comments supporting violence because they don't like what someone else says or does. Yesterday is saw a thread in which there was a video where a white male was burning a Quran, he was assaulted by 3 men passing by for doing so. Tons of ppl saying he deserved to be assaulted. Ah, no he didn't deserve to be beat up. Burning the book is not cool, but shit kicking someone for it is waaaay worse. It's not rare on Reddit to see support of violence as an answer for disagreement.
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u/Onelinersandblues Jan 28 '23
A lot of people here give me that “I have never interacted with another human being in my life”.
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u/Mamanfu Jan 27 '23
I got permabanned on White People Twitter for saying that JK Rowling is entitled to her own opinion 🙀😹
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u/SiegeGoose Jan 28 '23
Reddit atheists are just as bad as door-to-door evangelical Christians.
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u/pompomwewe Jan 27 '23
Worldnews and politics are full of sensitives souls
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u/Agreeable-Yams8972 Jan 28 '23
And r/atheism, it's like they revolt seeing a christian person
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u/SweetCosmicPope Jan 27 '23
There often seems to be no room for nuance. I've unfollowed a few different groups on here because if you try to make a nuanced argument or discussion then all anybody could see is that you don't agree with the hivemind and they'll rip you apart for it.
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u/lovelustblinding Jan 27 '23
Posts that ask for an opinion from a certain group, and you can already tell that if you are apart of said-group, you have a cross with your name on it and a ready batch of nails for you
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u/jonahvsthewhale Jan 27 '23
In any sub that revolves around personal stories or anecdotes, if you post anything that gets more than like 100 upvotes, there's always that one guy that gets jealous and tries to cast doubt on your story for some perceived weak spot like he's trying to pick apart of Sherlock Holmes novel
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u/Ghostleeee Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
How inconsistent the hive minds principles can be. The comment sections on someone committing pretty much any crime read like a fucking death wish movie. But go to the comment section on a video of a Swedish prison and you’ll see a lot of people looking down on prisons even existing
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u/extremelight Jan 27 '23
This is a bit specific but i hate /science cause their posting requirement doesn't make sense and I always see [Deleted] comments with like 12058 upvotes.
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u/FlurriesofFleuryFury Jan 27 '23
Also none of their popular posts are about science. They seem to be mostly psychology studies, which is a SOCIAL SCIENCE. Can you imagine how annoying it would be if r/economics or something had a ton of posts about nuclear physics?
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u/PovoRetare Jan 27 '23
Brigading.
There's a certain group of users who think it's ok to brigade other users apparently based purely on their hatred of certain breeds of dogs.
The waves of downvotes, vitriolic and hateful comments and complete ignorance of sub rules make certain parts of Reddit which should be enjoyable for all users particularly toxic for some, and adds greatly to the workload of those subs mods.
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u/WhobbieLegal0718 Jan 28 '23
The mods the mods the mods because all it takes is one self righteous prick of a mod that doesn't agree with your take and you get a permanent ban and muted. Cowards. Fuck the mods.
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u/Slow-Bookkeeper7486 Jan 28 '23
It's incredibly left leaning. And all other point of views and opinions are shut out.
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u/Acrobatic_Average_16 Jan 27 '23
I wish there was a like/dislike feature to posts in addition to the up and down votes. I want to be able to tell someone I liked their comment even if it doesn't have any substantial contribution to the topic of the thread.
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u/Rusty_is_a_good_boy Jan 28 '23
Certain mods and a system designed to allow them to abuse their power. Responded “LOL” on a certain post last year when a certain mod of a certain anti-work sub decided to go full dipshit and did an interview on television, subsequently making him and everybody else involved look stupid.
!!Lifetime ban!!
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u/RabbitDownInaHole Jan 28 '23
Trying to follow the replies. After so many replies I’m kinda just guessing which comment some ppl are replying to.
I’m old, leave me alone.
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u/joost00719 Jan 28 '23
The policital part of reddit is something I don't like. Most opinions which don't line up exactly with the mainstream get down voted almost instantly.
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u/BeliefBuildsBombs Jan 28 '23
It’s a cesspool of “progressive leftists” and bots that are programmed to act as “progressive leftists”, like most of the Internet these days. Anyone who doesn’t completely agree with them is better off spending less time on social media and going outside.
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u/ExperiencedKamikaze Jan 27 '23
Doom scrooling app. It used to be by pages back in the day.
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u/OccamsPlasticSpork Jan 27 '23
I think it's more of a case of me not liking myself for not unsubbing r/AskReddit yet.
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u/Logical-Wasabi7402 Jan 27 '23
People who sort by controversial only with the intent to start a fight with the comment that pisses them off the most.
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Jan 27 '23
When I had an account about 12 years ago, I was dealing with a lot of abuse. Sometimes I'd post to ask for advice and the amount of times my posts got removed for trolling or someone decided I was trolling was so heartbreaking. Some of us were that isolated we literally don't know what it's like to be treated with respect and love. I know it's considered bad to go to reddit for life advice, but sometimes people are desperate and need support wherever they can get it.
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u/gemini61998 Jan 28 '23
the unnecessary strict rules on posts. I was unable to post something because of a meaningless acronym at the beginning of the post
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u/Sport926 Jan 28 '23
Learning as a new user that you need to earn karma points and wait days before you can post. WTF? I have comments that need to be shared with the world! 😛
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u/OptatusCleary Jan 28 '23
I really dislike how people use downvotes to express disagreement, especially when someone is providing a good-faith answer to a question. If you disagree with someone, either respond with words or leave the person alone. I think downvotes should only be for comments that do something wrong, like make offensive statements or attempt to troll people.
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u/citytiger Jan 28 '23
mods being so quick to use permanent bans. How is one supposed to learn from mistakes if you go straight to a permanent ban after one or two infractions?
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u/coded_artist Jan 28 '23
The sheer amount of bigotry. People are very confident when they are pseudo anonymous
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u/Bertinois Jan 28 '23
Way too left-leaning.
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u/Horse_Masterbator Jan 28 '23
Go to any city sub and you'd think there be even partial representation of a right leaning idea. I once got the axe for saying I didn't think we should be building light rail in the most unwalkable city on earth. Banned.
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u/Ok-Ball2534 Jan 27 '23
How you have to sometimes refresh a comment multiple times for it to finally pop up
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u/CavalloScuro Jan 27 '23
The weird shit people argue about. Things that wouldn’t bother me in the slightest send some people over the edge.
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u/jonahvsthewhale Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
I remember a few years back, I posted some common one-liner jokes about the various car manufacturers. Jokes that have been around literally forever e.g. Ford = found on the road dead, Fiat = fix it again Tony, Jeep = just empty every pocket etc. A lot of people chimed in and added their own, and people seemed to like the post. But there were still like three dudes that somehow took it personally, as if I was crapping on the fact that they owned a jeep or Fiat because of a made up acronym. Just so weird.
Another thing I'll add is the people that demand proof for literally everything. what proof can I offer on most day to day experiences? It's a Reddit post, not an application to join the CIA
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u/banana_buddy Jan 27 '23
Every other ask Reddit thread is literally "sex having studs of Reddit what is the sexiest sex you've ever sexed" ?
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u/olaviu Jan 27 '23
Replies that are only tangentially related to the subject at hand. It doesn't move the conversation forward, it just creates random, ego-based rants.
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u/bounty503 Jan 27 '23
Reddit is like yelp, you have to have the ability to weed out the mouth breathers without ever actually meeting them.
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u/Peckerhead321 Jan 28 '23
Mods
You can see just about anything and everything on Reddit but say something a bit offside and get a ban for life WPT
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u/A_Man_Who_Writes Jan 28 '23
Two things that daily make me think, “maybe I should delete Reddit now…”
Karma farming. Posting the same exact questions over and over and over again, with everyone giving the same exact responses. Stealing posts and photos from elsewhere and claiming them as one’s own. Reposting posts that were posted years ago and claiming them as original. So, the unoriginality of a lot of posts and subs. Makes it get real boring real fast.
Circlejerks and the fact that Reddit is mostly populated by a specific subset of people. Sure, you can find people of every background on Reddit, but the vast majority are left-leaning, young, tech-oriented introverts. In a lot of subs you don’t get a good mix of ideas. This leads to circlejerking, because most everyone in a thread have the same ideas and ideals. So, if anyone comments anything out of the norm or that goes against the grain (the prevailing ideology or experience of the group) they get downvoted to Hell and are berated for their pea-brain thinking. It’s hard to find a sub or a thread where there’s a nice, balanced mix of ideas and everyone is calmly having conversations about them. People on Reddit think they’re opinions are the best and brightest, and if challenged, they will maul you like a tiger and tell you about how insanely wrong you are.
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u/tucakeane Jan 28 '23
If it’s American, it’s wrong. That joke wasn’t even funny the first 100 times.
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u/Notagenyus Jan 28 '23
It’s populated with kids who have no idea what they’re talking about and are unwilling to think critically or acknowledge different perspectives.
There’s no intelligent conversation or debate because anyone who isn’t on the Reddit political bandwagon is insulted and downvoted out of visibility.
So now for me, it’s just a place to look at cute pictures of dogs and reminisce about things I remember from the 80s.
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u/mrsnowplow Jan 28 '23
2 things I struggle with
1 the echo chamber. Subs often have a similar opinion on specific things within their topic. If you disagree you will be dragged through the mud
2 most people don't want to have a discussion they want to give their opinion
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u/Ok-Truth-7589 Jan 28 '23
So far, the biggest disappointment from reddit for me is that they took away free awards.
That was literally my ONLY way to award people, and now it's gone, and for what reason!? How can they honestly justify taking that away.
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u/KiNGofKiNG89 Jan 28 '23
The mob mentality. You have a discussion about a topic, but somebody doesn’t agree with you, so you get downvoted, but your opinion is actually backed up with facts. Since your opinion doesn’t fit Reddits status quo, they treat you like shit. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been downvoted into oblivion, but the facts are out there and they always back up my words.
Also, locked threads. Nothing annoys me more than seeing a controversial topic, going to add a normal non-controversial comment, then I get the Reddit error, because the thread was locked. There needs to be a different way to handle those. Like all comments need to be mod approved before they are posted or you are limited to one post in the thread.
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u/auximines_minotaur Jan 28 '23
Downvoting is kind of a broken mechanism. Probably should be reserved for when people break the rules or act like jerks. Instead people just downvote things they disagree with. It’s really frustrating to be punished for voicing an inoffensive but unpopular opinion.
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u/Educational_Dust_932 Jan 28 '23
Half the things i open are dominated by 30 people quoting some movie instead of talking about what ever interesting subject I came there for. It's annoying and not a bit clever.
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u/Windyandbreezy Jan 28 '23
The idea to redditors that if you belive in God, then you are a conservative pro trump idiot... like no...
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u/drjenkstah Jan 28 '23
Ads showing as a “post” in the official mobile app in between actual Reddit posts. I hate ads like that (looking at you Meta) which is why I use a third party app that removes the ads so I never have to see them.
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u/CapG_13 Jan 27 '23
That if one person downvotes or attacks you than they all do it, and most of the time they don't even know why they're doing it, they just do it because they see everyone else doing it so they wanna do it too!!!
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u/UsernameCool5 Jan 27 '23
The ridiculously biased left wing mods
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u/KodahIV Jan 27 '23
Worst part is it’s on subs that either have nothing to do with politics or political subs that are supposed to be “neutral”
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u/testthrowawayzz Jan 28 '23
God forbid that anyone call out how some left wing policies are hypocritical even though the person might not even be right wing
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u/imasquidyall Jan 27 '23
The gatekeepers. People in a sub that demean and berate you for asking a question about something they're passionate about that they feel everyone else should automatically know. But this happens in real life, too, so...
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The lack of humor ppl have on here. Seems like many ppl don’t know what a joke is and assuming that you’re being serious. A lot of ppl on Reddit really need to relax and not be so uptight
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u/FoghornMMC Jan 28 '23
Down voting pussies that can't handle a point/counter point discussion. If you're not a hard left fruitcake you get shit on. I just joined and got accused of being a paid troll. America is turning into a serious bunch of pansies.
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u/boatman2222 Jan 27 '23
That I can't call out a certain B**** without getting in trouble, F that.......
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u/SudoPuff Jan 27 '23
Updoots and comment notifications sort of make it hard to stop looking at my phone sometimes. Dumb lizard brain loves that shit, but for me, a person who has things she needs to do, I really need to be better about ignoring Reddit when needed.
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u/PresumptuousCock Jan 27 '23
Of course you'll find these people anywhere, but the people that are unable to separate themselves from their own bias and look at things objectively, and anything that they don't agree with will be met with downvotes, misinformation, insults or anger, rendering them useless to any meaningful conversation. Keeping themselves boxed in without ever realizing the bigger picture.
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u/Pretend_Dog_2253 Jan 27 '23
The very first (and only) post I’ve ever made was asking a question about a vague post made by someone in a reality show. Instead of answering my question or helping me understand I got a bunch of downvotes and people talking down to me saying things like “it’s not that deep, why would you even ask that” or “you’re too young thats why you don’t understand”. It felt like everyone was gatekeeping and basically telling me I was stupid for trying to learn. I k n o w that I don’t understand, that’s why I’m asking! I see that all the time on Reddit- people just degrade others instead of educating.
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u/EvilChefReturns Jan 27 '23
Karma addiction. I deleted my old account to take a step back, but then a comment on this account got like 14k and I could feel it again. Felt sad, might delete later idk
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u/attention21 Jan 27 '23
The redundancy of questions. How many times a day do we need to ask about pizza? Or what will be the downfall of humanity? What’s the big deal with circumcision? Why do these questions need to be asked daily, sometimes more than once per day.
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u/leroy_hoffenfeffer Jan 28 '23
Most redditors are not nuanced in their opinions or ways of thinking, at all.
There are very few subjects that are black and white in nature.
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u/JoeNScott Jan 28 '23
Getting downvoted for happening to know something most people reading it don't and wouldn't guess.
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u/Jesse7678 Jan 28 '23
i just wanna see something funny in the comments not a heated dissucaion about joe schome becoming the 69th president of the US
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Jan 28 '23
You can’t make a good generalization that applies in 99.4 % of cases, without listing five known but rare exceptions. And then some will come at you hard with a “well, actually” on number six.
If you take the more specific route, and account for every permutation you’ll get snarky tldr.
And always, always, always, they’ll put words in your mouth. The other day I asked a question beginning “does China even…? and got dragged for a statement I didn’t make. The word “does” with a ? at the end wasn’t enough for them.
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u/whos_this_chucker Jan 28 '23
So many people on here are out for blood. Any blood. This place is a modern day witch hunt.
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u/issamemariooooo Jan 28 '23
When you unfollow a sub and it shows up on suggested posts
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u/ripper4444 Jan 28 '23
Definitely the echo chamber. Spend a week going though just about any sub and they get tired really quick.
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u/Intelligent_Dumbass_ Jan 28 '23
Subs like r/entitledparents and r/amitheasshole. Most of the posts are so obviously fake yet people in those subs eat it up every time. All the posts are either designed to make OP look like a hero who could do no wrong, or an absolute monster to stir up rage and attention, mixed with cartoonish friends and relatives who act as the heros and villains who cause the very realistic drama, and everyone talks in a long in drawn out way with witty comebacks every two sentences that literally nobody talks like unless you thought it out before hand.
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u/Oldest_Boomer Jan 28 '23
1,000’s of attempts, some successful according to r/privacy, to monitor everything you do on the device it’s installed on and even using a ‘bulletproof’ browser on a pc still leaves you open to Reddit snooping.
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u/Fanfrenhag Jan 28 '23
I hate the nasty, faceless DAF trolls who go around downvoting everyone who doesn't share their personal opinions
I like to spend my largely useless Reddit karma upvoting people who seem to have been unfairly downvoted. I wish more people did the same. We could squish these arrogant trolls in no time
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u/yourremedy94 Jan 28 '23
How awful and miserable some people can be. Literally about anything. The whole "being anonymous" makes people think they can be complete ass holes to anyone and everyone over everything. I run into a lot of AH on the make me smile subreddit.
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u/martinsonsean1 Jan 28 '23
I dislike that people use the upvotes and downvotes as a judgement of the person's opinion, instead of as an indication of the quality of the comment. I upvote posts I disagree with, if they're well-written, respectful, and present a strong version of their argument.
People should be able to disagree more publicly on here, I think that's a big part of what creates the "hive mind".
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u/hidden_mosaic Jan 28 '23
People quoting really unfunny memes whenever they get the chance. Please stop
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u/nighthawk252 Jan 28 '23
It rewards bluntness, negativity, and lack of nuance.
If there’s a popular topic, only the early comments have good chances of rising to the top. To be one of the earliest comments you have to see it early and type a response quickly. There’s already 450+ comments here, so I’m probably too late.
Nuance takes time to write about coherently, so don’t do that. Plus it gives you more places in your argument where people can disagree with you. They say the downvote button’s not a disagree button, but they’re lying.
Finally, the fastest way to get upvoted is to just say something bad about an opinion you don’t like without saying an alternative vision. If you don’t stand for anything it’s harder for people to disagree with you.
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u/cake_and_cardio Jan 27 '23
I’ve noticed this on certain subreddits. But holy shit, some Redditors are self-righteous af. They act as if they’re the second coming of Jesus and morally perfect. The way they drag people who make mistakes as if they haven’t made the same mistakes before.