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The discussion quality is unbelievably shallow in most of the subreddits. Unless it's a niche and technical subreddit such as mathematical topics, bio science
by ksd482 2mo ago
The discussion quality is unbelievably shallow in most of the subreddits.
Unless it's a niche and technical subreddit such as mathematical topics, bio science subtopic, the discussion is quite shallow and in some cases simply misinformed.
For e.g., a recent question about "is this person racist?", everyone jumped on the bandwagon and said "yes!", "100%", "obviously" without citing any sources. They simply paraphrased a small segment of a video of what that person said.
It turned out the thing they paraphrased it was completely out of context and in fact proved it was opposite of what people were believing.
There were a couple of people who pointed this out but they were downvoted into obvilion: -50 downvotes or something like that.
So these comments were hidden by default.
This is what makes reddit an ecochamber. Now just imagine people coming in and reading this post without any prior knowledge, and taking away the wrong conclusion.
This happens ALL the time.
I used to enjoy reddit back in 2011-2013 when it was all about silly memes and jokes.
EDIT: "They simply paraphrased it" --> "They simply paraphrased a small segment of a video of what that person said."
- markdown 2mo ago> I used to enjoy reddit back in 2011-2013 when it was all about silly memes and jokes. Reddit is as it's always been. You just got older and don't get the current silly memes and jokes.
- ksd482 2mo agoI never said anything about not getting the current memes and jokes. I was alluding to the current mix of the content on reddit. It has gotten more political and less entertaining if you look at the default feed whether you create an account or browse anonymously. And in any political or open ended discussion, unless it is scientific, the discussions are shallow. I will however concede that non-scientific/technical discussions were always shallow.
- jejejrjrj 2mo ago[dead]
- burningChrome 2mo ago>> I used to enjoy reddit back in 2011-2013 when it was all about silly memes and jokes. This was totally me. Advice Animals was my go to when I needed to decompress from being overworked as a developer. Just funny, silly memes, and cool inside jokes you could share with your friends. If you knew some of the inside jokes, you were considered one of the cool kids in your group. Reddit almost always was first run to the big stories as well, then a few weeks later it show up on FB. Still remember the one day I was telling my GF something I saw on Reddit and she was like, "That was on FB last week" and I knew it was over. The final coffin was when the political rubes overran AA and turned into a political echo chamber. Post something that wasn't political? Downvoted into oblivion. That was it, the fun was over, nothing was cool any more so I checked out.
- PearlRiver 2mo agoThe world has gotten more political. Everything is going to shit and we have not even really started the climate change.
- hunterpayne 2mo ago[flagged]
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo agoRight?! Real irony is rare; but here it is. The politically religious have no perspective of what they’re doing to these places. If you really pin them down, they think it’s everyone else that has changed. Wild.
- inigyou 2mo agoWe have. The heat waves were climate change. The super super super super El Nino ocean temperature anomaly predicted for November is climate change.
- inigyou 2mo agoAlso we killed the Great Barrier Reef.
- pavel_lishin 2mo ago> It has gotten more political I think this is also a reflection of the era we live in. In 2011, we weren't facing the same problems we are today.
- inquirerGeneral 2mo ago[dead]
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo agoThis is not accurate. I get the jokes. They range from some retarded live stream drama, to some basic bitch puns or otherwise barely novel wordplay, to some thinly veiled political attack that can be thrown and doesn’t need defense because it’s “omg, just a joke, lighten up bro!”. Think about it this way, everyone should be aware that intelligence has gone down in the last two generations. Reading comprehension has gone down. Terminally online addicts have increased. So… Why would humor even stay the same on some cleverness scale?
- pudgywalsh 2mo ago> everyone jumped on the bandwagon Reddit has become the epitome of Idiocracy, but let's not pretend like spam-level shallow commenters sucking each other off hasn't infected this place too. I honestly think if we took voting away the dynamics of online discussion would reset to normal.
- Loughla 2mo ago/. Actually did do that right. You voted on comments and had to judge other votes as to whether or not they were accurate. And limit the + or - to a maximum of 5. Then you don't have people chasing scores. Granted, the voting system was the only thing slashdot did right, but it was good.
- unethical_ban 2mo agoThe only subs of any value are the niche subs, hobby subs that show off creation, and city-sized geographical subs. Everything else is politics, trolling, ragebait or simple spam. So much spam.
- qwerpy 2mo agoNot even the city-sized ones. My local ones (Seattle when I lived there, and Orange County ones now) are political cesspools full of intolerant people and outrage bait.
- api 2mo ago“Pajama Nazis vs Basement Bolsheviks.” Forget where I saw that one but it’s Reddit now.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2mo agoNot sure why you'd expect anything except a list like to be of "any value". It's like, say, talk.politics.theory back in the Usenet days. For a while it was fun, and then it wasn't. Too big, too wide .. it killed itself as a useful place to discuss/debate politics.
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago>and city-sized geographical subs. lol. No. Every city sub is the EXACT same far left lunatic that needs to make everything about politics. Doesn’t matter if it’s a purple area, red, and reasonable-blue areas far reflected as bizarro versions of themselves if you go off their city reddits. You may not notice depending on your perspective.
- dredmorbius 2mo agoIt's not just leftists. It's polarization generally, with scale. The mid-range views leave. The extremes remain. Often a sub / moderator bias selects for one polar extreme or another. This is where HN's (generally) political-neutral moderator stance, maddening as it often is to both sides (see dang's many, many, many, many comments on perceived bias), seems to have largely succeeded. Neither side dominates, and the middle isn't excluded.
- whycome 2mo agoLooking at the conversations tied to movie fandoms has been fascinating. People treat movie franchises like a religion.
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago[flagged]
- coffeefirst 2mo agoIf you think that’s bad casting, I’ve got some bad news: the guy who plays the cyclops has two eyes.
- bee_rider 2mo agoThis is a great example of the sort of culture-war nonsense that people are here to avoid.
- unethical_ban 2mo agoIt's been saddening seeing people who think they're clever and have it all figured out getting wrapped around the axle about Odyssey for the absolutely most foolish reasons. You act like the casting decision is the downfall of society.
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago[flagged]
- unethical_ban 2mo agoLook how much you need to attack it. All of you. Can't let go because your coping mechanism for reality or your conservative TV host made you feel superior for thinking it. Otherwise I can't imagine what makes a person care so much on their own. Maybe the same kind of context-less logical purity that makes some people libertarian. I don't really care if someone feels "icky" about non-cis or non-hetero people. That's your personal problem to work out. My problem is I've never met someone who both ranted about trans people and gives a damn about the corruption of the current administration. I've never seen someone rant about traditional family values and excluding certain groups from society who also supports the rule of law or talks about reforms to improve democracy. I pity the person who is so enraged about a minor casting decision. It is so unimportant in comparison to the degradation of government, food and healthcare issues, social media addiction, AI instability. The "gotcha" bitterness about trans people here makes me wonder what values a person actually claims to hold.