Reddit - it's not great is it

Like the gang-land thread in Current Affairs.

Oh, you can find some pretty heavy stuff. Usually you have to look for it, but sometimes it gets crossposted to the sub you're on. The mods have limits, but on some subs you have to work really hard to offend them.

It's going to become a public company soon, should be fun considering not having been profitable in 20 years.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/reddit-seeking-a-valuation-of-up-to-6point5-billion-in-ipo.html

Like Twitter, Reddit is an absolutely terrible platform for an actual discussion, where ideas are batted back and forth. With Reddit, it seems to be more of a shoutbox where the consensus wins out because of the upvoting and downvoting. Nothing like that is good for a discussion. Even with all the problems Boards has, it's still miles better for discussing a topic.

Where Reddit is good is if a question is posed, like a technical question, and the answers that follow are helpful and are at the top because they've been upvoted. I don't have an account there and never will. But if I need an answer to something about a game, or something PC related, it can be a decent site to hit.

Reddit is amazing to browse and get info

Discussions don't go on forever, that's a good thing

Vanilla, the software that powers Boards does have the ability to implement negative reactions, like a thumbs down or a downvote, but I don't think they fit in with the culture here. Negativity is never a good look.

My "Coddle Full Irish with Milk MiWadi™" is a fusion dish, and I know as such it might not be to the taste of culinary purists and food snobs. But humanity's defining attribute is relentless progress - and fusion dishes like this represent that. Change is scary, and I'm sure the first guy who proposed combining packet with tripe to create "packet and tripe" got banished from the village (the archaic equivalent of Reddit Downvotes), but clearly he was on the side of history. As I feel I am.

It is a safe space for ultra liberals so people like me get banned easily. It is impossible to build up karma if you aren't an ultra liberal as you will get heavily downvoted and shadow banned.

As far as I know all the incel subs were banned, the one I used was Braincels around 5 years ago.

I hate how people always looked up your post history and they will search for something to use against you or humiliate you.

I actually came across someone I used to know in real life on there recently because he used his real name on the GAA sub. I looked up his post history and he was posting on the Testosterone therapy sub. He works in IT so that sounds about right.

So out of that 70 million just subtract all the discussion of hobbies, purely technical and specialist knowledge - objective areas like comp-sci, engineering, mathematics, law, linguistics, automotive tech - gardening, music, film, cooking, sports and then focus on any sub-reddit touching on life, the world (by which I mean knowledge of the ways of the world) and human nature.

I came across a thread in Reddit from r/dating today. A guy just asks if going from being obese and sedentary to becoming physically fit will make him more attractive to women. One on the top posts is from another redditor basically warning him that most of the other posters are deliberately lying to him because they feel they have to pretend that women only care about what's on the inside.

This is my experience reading Reddit and Quora in general - any question about life stuff is met with a wall of double-talk, usually with large dollops of effeminate outrage mixed-in. Worst might be r/ireland and r/Dublin which are a tissue of lies - because many Irish people are practised naifs, feigning outrage at every-thing, coyly reinforcing every kind of deliberately counterintuitive "take" and luxuriating in demonstrating pseudo-virtue in approved ways. But with little in the way of frankness and truth-telling.

There's a self-selection bias because people who lead lives of "virtuality" are comfortable having made the choice to exist for large chunks of time in a textual, abstract, media-curated world - so lots of academics and pseudo-academics (with mandatory babble about "peer review" and hi-larious references to Schrödinger's Cat), lots of IT workers, news-media/politics junkies, and just the general flotsam and jetsam of people who up-front like to call themselves "educated" and/or can type the phrase "Please educate yourself" without irony or cringe.

Also well done for resisting the temptation to type "very, very stupid". It's become a cliche to go for two "very"'s instead of one but you had enough restraint not to. Respect.

Moderation on some reddits is completely insane. Just got a ban from a certain reddit. No warning, just ban from the reddit without recourse. When messaged back muted from messaging mods too, again without reply or reason, just automated msg, bang. Basically saying you're gone and you'll never be back, fvck off.

And that's on one of the football reddits for something completely mild, no trolling, no abuse, not going against any site or reddit rules, just not 100% in line with the mainstream on one of the dogma topics which touched football in this case.