Reddit - it's not great is it

Necro

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122396083#Comment_122396083

Where does this occur? If you're referring to Boards then you'd be quite wrong…

Potential-Monke

Seems like too much effort to just post. Never liked it anyway! :P

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122519903#Comment_122519903

The problem is despite it garnering a global audience it is still a US based outfit, and the reality is they look on Israel as a mini me. Now if it was felt they needed to tone down the heat in the aftermath then subreddit bans would have been enough. But I got sitebanned for something that's said nearly daily on r/Ireland.

I had my account for over a decade, but my particular post was not invective. It was a response to someone wondering what Israel's response would be. It was a dry projection based on UN figures from previous Israeli backlashes.

I've never felt jipped that I got sitebanned. The Israeli president got something like 28 standing ovations in his address to the senate and congress, at the same time as Israel commits genocide with US supplied weapons.

I still browse reddit for some niche interests, but I lost nothing in being banned and the ban only confirmed what I already felt.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122517498#Comment_122517498

Agree with this tbh.

I am a regular reader of r/Ireland but IMO the subreddit has gone to crap the past while. It has become such a negative misery pit. The threads about current affairs / politics are the worst of all. If you post anything other than abject negativity you will be downvoted into oblivion.

The reddit upvote / downvote system makes it really hard to have proper discussions since it's really easy for an established group of posters to hide content that goes against the consensus. If you ever wanted to see what an echo chamber looks like, r/Ireland fits that bill pretty well.

CasualIreland is much less negative but unfortunately also much less busy.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122519312#Comment_122519312

Now that longterm mods or other account holders are also now shareholders I can see them trying to get cash dividends for all the time they invested in the past.

gossamerfabric

I looked at one Poster there active in the /ireland subreddit and it appears their strategy is to be a Thanks Whore elsewhere in Reddit collecting Karma so that they can act the bollox and bully people on the ireland subreddit.

ekkinak

I'm finding Reddit endlessly fascinating at the moment

So many niche subjects, throw in any phrase with loads of results.

But I will say, I'm cutting down on how much I post, you'd get something off your chest to pure tumbleweed, (nothing wrong with that I suppose).

I like answering people's queries about whatever subject, got some great responses when I've done that from people all over.

Rescue Blues

As far as I can tell, there's less smugness and snideness on reddit. On boards, it's very much about winning an argument against a stranger at all costs.

Iseedeadpixels

Reddit arguments tend to end in insults back and forth, at least the mods here put a stop to that….Eventually.

gossamerfabric

delted post

yagan

Being a mod on reddit if you're not entitled to be a shareholder is the most futile pursuit anyone can volunteer for. Ironically Reddit going public will probably alienate a lot users outside the US who may end up setting up regional alternatives which would draw traffic away from Reddit.

The owners will now push the site towards US boomers who up to now have probably mainly used FB and Twitter.

Hotblack Desiato

So-called boomers (hate that word - and no, I'm not one) are between 60 and 78. Sorry but that's not a commercially appealing demographic to any website.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534464#Comment_122534464

Could be. They tend to be wealthier and there's certainly a market for right wing echo chamers these days. It certainly isn't a long term plan though.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534464#Comment_122534464

They hold the wealth.

Many came to the internet via fb on their first smartphone and then seemed to have fallen for every scam thrown at them.

I can't see reddit retaining digital natives as they mostly aware of how internet manipulation works.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534468#Comment_122534468

Are you insinuating that this age group tends to be right wing? And no I'm not that age group. Just wondering.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534877#Comment_122534877

I'd say their demographic size and wealth dominate the political spectrum, for now.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534877#Comment_122534877

Well, yes. Why wouldn't I?

An odd election given the unpopularity of the Conservatives but it's a fair point.

I don't want to go into Politics on AH but I wanted to provide something better than IME.

yagan

^^^^^

That is grim.

If I recall rightly at the time of the brexit ref half of eligible voters were over 55. Plus older voters vote at a higher rate than younger voters.

Dubmany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122534276#Comment_122534276

There are plenty of mods on Reddit and they are just as active as here, in fact I think they have more tools at their disposal, e.g. there is a lot of "shadow banning" on Reddit which I don't think exists here. Reddit is also self-moderating in that downvotes can push a sh*t comment down and the fact that all posts(threads here) drop down the pages after a certain time no matter how popular, and bumping is not possible.

Iseedeadpixels

There's a post on the motors forum and the comments are hilarious, they are getting so worked up! One commenter said the OP is melting their head! Wouldn't get that on reddit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122544958#Comment_122544958

Not that funny when your the one at the end of it

Agreed with Reddit, a lot of it ends in pointless arguments..saw one on star trek not long ago which descended into madness.

LadyOfAvalon

I got banned from reddit a few days ago. The reason? I asked on there if anyone wanted to buy the 6 valium pills or the 20 codeine pills I have left, as I can't afford food or dental treatment and this is all I have to sell. Reddit has suicide subs where you can give people ideas on suicide methods and make suicide pacts with people and even offer them things they need but are having trouble accessing to kill themselves, but sell some valium? No.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122537622#Comment_122537622

That's actually something I hate about Reddit. Means you're less likely to see counter discussion points and it reads like an echo chamber of agreement.

Give me discourse please.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636485#Comment_122636485

Those things are not, or may not be, illegal though. Selling prescription drugs definitely is and they'd have to be mad to allow it.

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636485#Comment_122636485

PM sent...

Rooks

Reddit has a LOT of bots, mainly in the news/politics subs. Once you see it, it's hard to take it seriously anymore.

BorsukBroCsNake

It's useful enough for crowdsourced info, but often the crowd are a bunch of kernts 🤣

Take a look at this thread, the Op is clearly on a bit of a 🎣trip but still…

https://www.reddit.com/r/wroclaw/comments/1hiwa8d/christmas_evewigilia_pubs_in_wroclaw/

ottolwinner

I find it’s hard to follow threads in Reddit or find anything.

Jim Herring

I’m not a fan of Reddit.