• What is reddit?
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[QUOTE=.Isak.;42138536]If a community has a rule that completely prohibits discussion, it's a shit community. Seriously, SRS is pretty much on-par with MRA, and I support feminism waaaay more often than MRA. It's just a subreddit made to point out when people say something bad about women, and then harass those people. That's a shitty way to make a point or gain support. I was alienated from feminism for a hell of a long time because my introduction was from aggravating groups who think that harassment, abuse, and "secret club!" syndrome is the way to spread their cause. also lets stop before we muck up another thread with people arguing feminism, nobody here is against it, SRS is just the home of dickheads with too much time on their hands.[/QUOTE] nah they're a really welcoming community, but SRS prime isn't for discussion, that's what SRSQuestions or SRSDiscussion is for
[QUOTE=zeldar;42138552]The voting system is pretty horrendous and you usually won't get much good discussion on the major subreddits, but it's not all bad. If you go to the right subreddits then you can find some good conversations which could never happen on Facepunch because on this site you get a simultaneous taste of the sublime and the idiotic in every thread. On reddit I've seen some actually seen some civilized discussions on religion and stuff which would normally descend into chaos if replicated via FP.[/QUOTE] It's like having a debate in Sensationalist Headlines or Fast Threads compared to having a discussion on lua programming in the related subreddit, or discussing dota 2 strategies in that subforum. Reddit's really good for discussion, since it can easily branch off into a bunch of comment trees asking different questions. The link-voting system is easily gamed, which is why the major subreddits are terrible and should be completely unsubscribed from immediately upon making an account. [editline]9th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Shadaez;42138568]nah they're a really welcoming community, but SRS prime isn't for discussion, that's what SRSQuestions or SRSDiscussion is for[/QUOTE] This was a while back, before the "SRS Network" really started growing. I'll look into the smaller SRS-network ones, but the main SRS subreddit seriously aggravates me most of the time. Some comments that they highlight are genuinely abusive towards women, but some are just out-of-context jokes or taken way out of proportion. I'll give it a second chance.
srs is the best community on the internet, it's always guaranteed to give you a good laugh
The thing I hate about reddit is that every post is trying its best to get upvotes, so all you get is a sea of try-hard joke posts. Kind of like facepunch.
I literally can't get how anyone could like the comment string thing, its a giant jumbled mess. You can hardly tell at a glance where one of the chain of replies begins and ends, or who's replying to who. It's neat I guess if you just want to make your EPIC SICK witty replies about the hottest new skyrim meme, but otherwise it's literal garbage. Basically reddit is a giant wonky mess and the only thing it arguably has going for it is the whole custom subreddits deal.
[QUOTE=Scot;42138711]The thing I hate about reddit is that every post is trying its best to get upvotes, so all you get is a sea of try-hard joke posts. Kind of like facepunch.[/QUOTE] this was far more the case when ratings were tracked on user profiles - remember rating whores?
You can find enjoyment if you look in the right places.
I also wanted to add that Reddit popularizes a lot of content which really isn't that groundbreaking or good (i.e. hivemind). For example the video that is linked in OPs post; arguably most people in the English-speaking side of the internet would've heard of reddit, yet this video, explaining reddit in 2013, has 500,000 views from 1 day. I don't know exactly who these 500,000 people are who found the video to contain groundbreaking information (it didn't tell me anything I didn't know already). More than likely its just a bunch of reddit users circlejerking the guy who made the video. It also has two other alarming habits: 1: Popularizing false information, like was the case with the Boston bombing suspect that reddit "found". 2: Making news journalists into lazy fucks who just write articles about the latest gangnam style video that has been linked on reddit; and also news journalists who use things like reddit or twitter as some sort of litmus test for popular opinion and/or political coverage. Just because it makes it easier to gather the opinion of a large number of people, it does not make it into fact. Just because a number of twitter users or whatever are saying something similar, it does not make it into something that is quantifiable. Just because someone dared to pen something on a website it does not mean they had a price of admission and are a reputable source (as we've learned from a number of wikipedia editors over the years).
[QUOTE=evilweazel;42138788]I literally can't get how anyone could like the comment string thing, its a giant jumbled mess. You can hardly tell at a glance where one of the chain of replies begins and ends, or who's replying to who. It's neat I guess if you just want to make your EPIC SICK witty replies about the hottest new skyrim meme, but otherwise it's literal garbage. Basically reddit is a giant wonky mess and the only thing it arguably has going for it is the whole custom subreddits deal.[/QUOTE] reddit enhancement suite with dark reddit style. it alternates between gray and darker gray for comments.
Reddit is great when you are only subbed and only visit your special interest subreddits I.E. I'm subbed to the planetside 2 reddit and by and large I get the most interesting stuff relating to PS2 posted there, as well as the quickest news as well. Its not like a normal forum where controvery/balance complaints/etc are all you see because spergs keep making new threads, you see a healthy variety of everything from actually damn good videos/images to patch note breakdowns to "Hey, this needs looked into". That's what reddit is really nice for - it makes it equally possible for all content to get the spotlight, not just the content that incites the most comments (videos for example you usually don't say much to because its a video not a discussion, but its still good to see). I can also generally rely on reddit having any major news relating to the subreddits I'm apart of pretty much the instant the news breaks. Normal reddit sucks dick, the comment system really falls apart when you start getting into the parts of reddit where every page gets hundreds of comments without fail, meme/shit/puns constantly gets upvoted to the top, etc. It really shines in the smaller communities that are well moderated, mature, and don't have the entire userbase of reddit flooding into the comments. [editline]10th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=nigerianprince;42138459]Its actually one of the worst comment systems IMHO, I find slashdot (although you can find most articles anywhere else beforehand) much better designed and it loads and works faster; "load more comments" shouldn't be something that is on every second line.[/QUOTE] This is what I mean though The problem with reddit's design is that its pretty great for smaller groups/communities where you'll never even see "load more comments" but it really sucks once you start getting into higher views/user numbers in single threads.
The one thing I'll give credit to Reddit for is that it allows people to communicate with developers and businesses easily in a "forum-like fashion" without it being like Twitter/Facebook
I mostly go to reddit for /r/linux and /r/IAma.
[QUOTE=Macneil_bmx;42130630]I've always heard about Reddit and the bashing it gets along with the type of people who go on there. I'm glad I've heard a more neutral view on it. The ratings it gets doesn't surprise me though. What the person in the video mentioned about posts which have been about for a while having a weight on them to give new posts more of a chance is really clever idea. Even with all this, I'm still not up for going on that website, every time I think of Reddit, I think of this person on my Facebook who goes on there religiously, and posts all the shit from there (mainly Pokemon) so that's keeping me from going there.[/QUOTE] So long as you unsubscribe from the default subreddits, there is some really high quality content on there, here's a few of my favorite: [b][url]http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/[/url] <-- Post scientific questions, get answers from real scientists. Extremely well moderated. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/[/url] <-- A hub for people to post high quailty comments they find on Reddit. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/askhistorians[/url] <-- Like r/askscience but for history. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep[/url] <-- Creepy OC horror stories. [url=http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/]The Nosleep Podcast is also extremely good.[/url] It also won an award a while ago. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/HistoricalWhatIf/[/url] <-- Imagining what the world would be like if certain events in the past were different. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/games[/url] <-- News and disscussion about Video Games, pretty well moderated. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming[/url] <-- Indepth discussion about games. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/ludology[/url] <-- Academic discussion about games, sometimes including board games and field games (football etc) [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/truefilm[/url] <-- Indepth disscussion about films. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/europe[/url] <-- A place for people who live in europe to disscus things, mostly news but there's also been a lot of "series" posts like "What do you know about x country in europe?". Seeing how Reddit tends to be a pretty US-centric website it's nice to be able to discuss european news without it ending up being buried in other larger subreddits.[/b]
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