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Reddit - How's it work?
Ive stumble into it a few times when Google-sama has thought it'd be funny to dump me there and I don't really understand it. Looks like a thread orgy. Some queer perversion of electronic communications. I haven't quite figured out how it supposed to work. Any master Redditers out there able to explain this to me?
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I hate it, 90% of the posts are people fishing for comment karma by trying to say something witty loosely related to the content posted or the comments related to the content posted.
Apparently people spend hours of their lives a day trying to find their front page fame. Try the P99 one, see what you think. www.reddit.com/r/project1999 | ||
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the UI has gotten way worse since i graduated from using overwatched troughslopnet. Man it's ugly. The most important structural thing about reddit is the upvote-downvote system. it's deliberately designed to reward shilling, vote brigading, and other shady online marketing techniques. There was a time you could see the total ups and downs , now you can see only the balance so manipulation and shadiness go undetected. this was implemented around the time of the CIA torture reports. Allows wrongthink to be drowned out by automated systems which are nominally separated from reddit/conde nast and contracted out by marketing departments, as well as state actors and any moderately sophisticated online shilling shops. I could write a book on reddit and what makes it so reprehensible but I'm phoneposting. Don't use it. It's not just garbage -- it's a rudimentary version of something unimaginably evil and destructive. This simulated social interaction shit is deadly in a very literal sense, and it's impossible to use it even to troll without feeding the algorithms responsible for generating a convincing virtual reality of "human" posts. Just say no. | |||
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Hmmm, was worried I may be missing out on something. Sounds like I wasn't! I shall remain steadfast in my abstinence. Thank you ^^
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I caved and made a post about Brexit relating to one article once. Basically said the reasons people had for voting to leave and why those reasons were over 50% of popular opinion.
I was downvoted to hell. People don't like opinions that aren't 100% politcally correct, no matter what the reality of it is otherwise. So it's not freedom of expression on there as it should be in an enlightened 21st century. | ||
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns79FFEqxp0 | |||
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reddit is awful. not just horribly designed from a navigational and user friendly perspective, but as was said, it promote echo chamber and shallow attaboy posting. Basically it's shit and I refuse to ever use it.
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Pro-Rustler since 1974.
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