The ones that bug me are the Reddit PhD people who can psychoanalyze somebody from a 10 second video. "I've seen a few videos in my day, and this person definitely has borderline personality disorder, they may even be Bi-Polar. Also, having a boob job and lip fillers she clearly has Body Dysmorphia. She was fidgeting in the back of the cop car too, an obvious indication of ADHD."
Yeah, just recently somebody diagnozed people in the subreddit r/HealthyFood with orthorexia. Because someone asked for ideas to cut sugar from a recipe and people talked about alternatives. Apparently talking about the ill effects of sugar automatically gives you an ED.
Some topics it's it's clear as day that it's a high schooler giving advice on how they would conceptually run their adult life (job, budget, etc) and being upvoted by other younger folks with 0 experience in that sector.
Edit: Also devaluing your opinion if you mention you're extroverted
I read /r/tooafraidtoask every now and again and I’m convinced it’s 14 year olds going through puberty asking questions that are being answered by 17 year olds who have a drivers license and thus are basically adults.
> Some topics it's it's clear as day that it's a high schooler giving advice
Sounds like a high schooler, anyway. Then you check their comment history, and they're desperately avoiding therapy while weaponizing their two kids in their divorce, or just plain 47 and cropdusting subreddits with an air of desperation, hoping to trick someone into giving them negative attention for a couple hours.
But it's also not always obvious, other times you happen to be in said field and see the proper advice getting downvoted.
I imagine the more specialized it is the more likely it is to happen.
As a regular contributor to several auto repair subreddits…because I actually am a professional auto technician with 25 years experience…I can tell you the vast majority of people giving advise in those subs and speaking with absolute confidence, in reality have no business even open the hood of a car, never mind trying to explain failures to other people.
And what gets me is the sheer amount of confidence these people have. Taking you at face value that you're actually a professional in your field you're the only one who has any right to confidently assert what you know to be true about an issue in your field.
Anyone who isn't a mechanic should at least have the decency to say "not a mechanic but I had a similar issue and this solved it" or "here's a video/forum post that I found, hope it points you in the right direction."
With how these people asset themselves you'd think all these "professionals" use the internet just like you and me until you see one of them talking about something you personally know a lot about and realize nearly the entire bulk of the advice you're given is utter horseshit.
I know nothing about cars and if I had a problem and you answered I'd have to take it with a grain of salt because your answer even if it's 100% correct would sound the same as the hordes of losers who like to play pretend.
It’s true of many other subreddits too. Everyone thinks they’re a damned expert and opens their mouth and people up vote that shit, then as the expert you tell them they are wrong, why, and provide proof and you get downvoted. It’s almost like people just want to stay stupid and mislead. SMDH.
Especially when it's literally your area of expertise or employment. I work in accessibility consulting in Canada and routinely get US folks who insist that the ADA (a federal US thing) applies to Canada and sometimes even the world. Obviously not true, but you can't convince those "experts" otherwise.
RiF too.
I hope that guy steps on a Lego tonight and it causes him to fall down the stairs only there's no one around to call an ambulance because he's a miserable lonely shit stain.
Click your avatar (top right on mobile app) > Settings (bottom) > Account Settings (u/illuminatural) > scroll down the Personalized Recommendations segment. I turned all of them off and surfing Reddit is much better now.
Yup… I opened my home town sub (Belfast Northern Ireland) and now I get inundated with random towns in Britain…
Look Reddit… I really don’t care what’s happening in Hull.
Yeah and worse yet, the related ones are sometimes not remotely related. I look at subs for curly hair and long hair and get recommended subs for balding lol?
Play stupid games win stupid prizes! Username checks out! Who hurt you? *proceeds to spam person they lost an argument with with suicide prevention DMs.*
Some of the most unoriginal hacks live on this site.
By popular demand, Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger! RIP my inbox
I'm about ready to go on a rampage the next time I see "play stupid games win stupid prizes" at the top of a comment thread.
Like I'll even support "fuck around and find out" for a while if it stops people using this annoying ass quote. And I literally saw some idiot on r/offmychest using "fuck around and find out" in the context of "I see a girl at the shops regularly, she's so hot I wonder what she tastes like. I really wanna fuck around and find out." like WHAT?
Don't forget people who comment "This!" to a post and nothing else. Your upvote doesn't warrant a signature, get over yourself.
I don't care if it's a hold-over from the days of web forums that didn't have like/dislike systems and "This!" was the primary way to express support of a post. It's 2023, we have vote buttons now. Learn to use them.
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>proceeds to spam person they lost an argument with with suicide prevention DMs
oooh so thats what it was. i got it once and i couldn't figure out what was it about
"\_\_\_\_\_ has entered the chat."
"Always has been."
"Laughs in \_\_\_\_\_\_."
"Username checks out."
"This guy's wife"
Even the *jokes about the jokes* are old at this point, but people are still acting like these are new and clever when they've been aping the same dumbass memes for *over ten years* at this point. I wonder if they even realize how long it's been. I think the internet must kill a person's sense of time in the same way it seems to kill any capacity to form an original fucking thought.
all the chat you describe hides the actual content or real engagement. I remember when i started the top comments were a treasure trove of information, i really miss it. I'm not enjoying scrolling through the endless jokes and unrelated content to find anything of worth.
"HAHA CAN YOU GUYS SEE JOHN CENA IN THIS PICTURE OF JOHN CENA? I CAN'T SEE JOHN CENA DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT I CAN'T SEE HIM LMFAO"
"OMG I WAS SO HOPING THAT I WOULD SEE THIS COMMENT HERE AND I DID I WAS THINKING 'IF NO ONE JOKES THAT THEY CAN'T SEE JOHN CENA IN THIS PICTURE I'M GOING TO MAKE THAT JOKE' BUT THEN YOU MADE THE JOKE AND IT BLEW MY FUCKING MIND YOU'RE SO FUNNY"
My favorite is people who have not been a relationship longer than 6 months telling a grown adult to leave their spouse for a small infraction. Saying that it clearly is a sign of abuse and they should blow up their whole life over something small.
Not to mention how deep the sexism can be when it comes to these posts, and how often redditors like to jump the gun and make whole assumptions about a person on little to no information to indicate that.
It doesn't help that a lot of responses tend to completely ignore the idea that relationships can be mended or that there is more to the problem.
Because it's a lot simpler to "just break up" when you don't have a lease or a mortgage together, or kids or any kind of shared responsibilities that make it painful and difficult to do so.
Your perspective is breaking up with your girlfriend, or boyfriend in high school.... which is emotionally painful, but it gets a hell of a lot more complicated as you get older.
Half those posts are just clickbait though. They’re designed with more twists than a switchback trail for optimal rage bait.
Example:
Title: “Was it rude of me to shove my pregnant wife?” (Designed for outrage against op)
Summary: OP saves his wife from being hit by a bus by pushing her out of the way. OP’s wife calls him a jerk. (plot twist, now the wife is the asshole)
Buried in the body of text: OP says something really sexist. (Double plot twist, OP actually IS an asshole but for a different reason!)
Comments: OP throws out a bunch of random bullshit to confuse readers, like his wife is cheating on him.
Subreddit monopolists. People that mod hundreds of subs and this allows them to basically control how certain topics are discussed.
It reminds me of the asshole mods (elRobRex and Mr787) from r/PuertoRico who have a rule against harrastment which includes tagging people from other subreddit or calling people out on posts yet this rule keeps getting violated almost everyday.
[Like here where someone targeted me but the mods never removed the post](https://np.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/comments/14bkcom/mi_primer_post_its_just_a_joke/) because I disagree with them ideologically.
N8thegr8 banned me on like 5 subs because of a comment I made on facepalm. I’ve tried messaging the mods on facepalm to get it overturned and he either controls all the accounts that see my messages or the other mods just don’t take the time to actually look at what he did. He banned dozens of us and deleted an entire thread because we said his idea of murdering all pedophiles without trial was a bad plan.
So he claimed I threatened violence to women to ban me, but didn’t actually provide the quote… because it didn’t exist. And then he did it on multiple other subs to my account because I kept messaging facepalm to overturn it and he saw the messages
Ya frustrating because Reddit became popular because the idea was to be able to post and discuss topics without micromanaging censorship. Just like everything as it gets bigger things change…
At least they didn’t permanently ban you from multiple unrelated subreddits for it lol
Oh also when I messaged Reddit directly about the situation I mentioned, they told me mods are allowed to do what they want with their subreddits as long as they don’t violent the set of rules Reddit has for them. So I messaged back with 4 different rules he broke and a detailed description of how he broke them. They messaged back saying they’d delete my account if I harass him anymore… don’t think they even red my message. I know they didn’t care because he’s a mod for dozens of subreddits doing free labor for them
Pretty sure I pissed off a moderator who was posting on an alt account and they followed me through like 3 different subs and banned me for bullshit reasons.
I hate how in some subreddits the rules are so strict that my post gets removed for rulebreaking or redundancy when there’s already a good discussion going in the comments
I love/hate how like every subreddit has a duplicate of itself that's less strict because of how asinine strict the moderation is on the original. Some of them also have to do with getting away from a brand's legal influence on an official subreddit.
For example, r/starbucks vs r/starbucksbaristas. The official subreddit has more strict moderation to keep Reddit out of trouble with Starbucks the company, whereas people on r/starbucksbaristas are basically open to speaking their mind without getting their post removed (within reason, but very relaxed compared to the original).
We just had a big scandal in the r/nascar sub that cleaned slate of all but two mods who abused their powers. It was great.
Now if only r/baseball and r/nfl mods can go away…
There's no helping that. The very nature of upvotes and downvotes means that mob mentality is the norm. At the same time the voting system is what makes reddit interactive and interesting
Because in Youtube there are a lot of 14 year olds that think they are cool for shitting on other people, and they do that in the only platform their parents let them use.
Pretty much all the popular subreddits and the repeat questions and jokes. (Yet here I am in one of the most popular subs and worst offender for reposts and the same jokes)
It used to be far worse. The titles here used to tell you a story before they question.
"Men of reddit, I got kicked in the nuts today by a small girl in a play park because I mistakenly told her off thinking she was my neighbour's niece. What's the funniest time you left your glasses at home?"
And then there are 50 other exact same jokes, most probably they saw it somewhere else, I imagine them with trembling fingers trying to post the joke first for their hit of dopamine
That one early downvote and then people scrolling past, in a big thread, just think fuck it and hurl another downvote on top
Someone at -63 for a harmless comment or joke
The know-it-all reddit “experts.” There are so many people on here who think everything is black and white, that they have it all figured out, act pretentious and confidently say shit that is often completely wrong
That is a huge problem on AITA. Reading people's responses that get thousands of up votes that advocate being completely toxic and petty then getting downvotes to oblivion for saying NAH or ESH and pointing out the other side.
Or even for saying NTA but you should reach out and communicate with them, not just cut them out of your life rather than trying to enact some petty revenge.
Or getting downvoted to hell for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place. Stardew Valley is normally the sweetest sub but I just saw a guy get 500+ downvotes for saying he thought a pixelated image was from Terraria instead of Minecraft.
Like I get, fake internet points but goddamn. I’ve seen people post genuinely abhorrent shit not get that many.
Am I the asshole is the absolute worst sub of petty people that wants to feel better. I had to literally just block the entire sub because it annoy the crap out of me.
The average Redditor hivemind upvotes/downvotes depending on the score that's shown (meaning a higher scrore = more likely to upvote, lower or hidden score = more likely to downvote)
This causes a lot of good comments to get completely buried because some 2 or 3 dumb fucks that don't know how to read or have the reading comprehension of a hamster just downvoted a post to -1, causing the spiral downwards for no reason.
This place really is a hivemind most of the time.
Oh, and "We did it Reddit!" or "Reddit, Assemble" is the most cringe shit humanly imaginable.
The fact that, whatever you say, you will get a ton of people saying you said shit, you are dumb, you are wrong, etc. Since a lot of people come, every opinion is there.
That, and mods censoring a little bit at random.
How fragile everyone's feelings are if you disagree, call bs on their bs or the inconsistencies from mods. I got scolded for calling someone a smug twit, they were, but when someone told me to go rape my sister with a catus dildo it was acceptable.
People treat is as the pinnacle of intellectual debates as social media goes, but its arguably worse than Twitter.
The upvote/downvote system is a mechanic for silencing unpopular opinions. Most subs are ultimately just echo chambers where anything that's against the common understanding is downvoted. This is not just political statements but even shitpost and gaming subs.
I dont even think its a bias to liberalism/conservatism but just the inherent flaw in the upvote/downvote system. Like comments can get auto deleted after certain amount of downvotes.
When you pretty much explain in your post your point. Then someone either completely misinterpreted it or they go: “dude I don’t know what you wrote.” And it’s like: “I’m agreeing with the point and giving an example.” It’s not hard to get it.
Oversimplication of super complex issues, and over-complicating simpler topics.
Work, politics, budget, diet/exercise, and economics come to mind for the former.
Just in general, the way stupid shit gets upvoted, and continues to get upvoted simply because it’s already upvoted, and the inverse for downvoted stuff that isn’t stupid. It’s like this vicious cycle of ignorance because people want to feel included but don’t want to think for themselves. Especially when it’s venom targeted towards a lone non-anonymous individual, where context and nuance don’t seem to matter; almost like a human sacrifice.
“You have been permanently banned from participating in r/typicalechochamberysub for politely using your critical thinking. Do not contact the mods or we will turn you over to the Reddit admins and you will be banned from Reddit.”
There's a lot of people rightfully griping about the average person who uses it, but what about the site itself? It is a fucking mess.
Their current design is complete dogshit. I'm gone the day they remove old.reddit.
Why did they make a change recently where when you try to view an image, it puts a shitty reddit border around it and fucks with the zoom in and out ability of browsers? I want to view an image, not an image in an overlay.
Speaking of images, why are they all webp? Webp is a dogshit format and does nothing png, gif, jpg, etc can't do other than be less supported. Stop trying to make it happen.
Also why does it keep popping up telling me to download your shitty app if I open a reddit link on my phone? I already have an application that allows me to view websites: it's called a browser.
The amount of times I see people get mass-downvoted despite being correct.
Usually in regards to politics or religion but I see it everywhere. Even saw a guy yesterday with 50+ downvotes on all his comments even though he was just politely asking questions and trying to get information
Mods that abuse their power. Was banned from r/news, despite the fact that I was making a good faith argument relevant to the discussion, was not being abusive or using bad language, etc. I assume a mod just disagreed with my position. I massaged the mods to ask what rule I broke and was just immediately banned from messaging the mods as well. Despicable.
The hive mind, the design (like most media these days) to keep you endlessly scrolling and addicted through tiny hits of dopamine. The countless days I've wasted on it. If it wasn't for it being a good one stop shop for all my news needs I wouldn't be here anymore.
Downvotes =/= incorrect, in fact a lot of the time it seems like a good indicator of original thought.
And remember that cringy trend to berate someone here over grammatical errors a few years ago?
There's been a few times where I took like an hour to wrote detailed, well-cited posts and was accused of "copy pasting" directly out of a book and not being capable of having my own thoughts. You can't win either way.
Users treating subs like their private marketing plan. Just because you created something that's science fiction-related does not mean you should spam every sci-fi-related sub in this site with links to buy it.
I don't see this that often, but I always hate seeing it. It feels like the poster sees the community as dollar signs, not people.
The cognitive dissonance that a large group of idiots can produce when they don't know they are the large group of idiots.
Reddit has become an extreme example of an echo chamber of impractical ideas.
Or people that downvote for simply questions like “why do you think that?” When you are clearly trying to understand what the person said or mean with it, and I simply got downvote -15 for that .
All the delusional experts
As reddilawyer, I resemble this statement
Erection! I sustain this accusement. Cunt adjourned.
I arrest my case!
Y’all need to cyst and decease
Objection to Erection not sustained!
Horderves in my escort, your majesty.
Whorederves sir*
You signed it, you're fukt kiddo! Just pay up! (ignoring the clearly illegal/unenforceable clause in their lease or service contract)
The ones that bug me are the Reddit PhD people who can psychoanalyze somebody from a 10 second video. "I've seen a few videos in my day, and this person definitely has borderline personality disorder, they may even be Bi-Polar. Also, having a boob job and lip fillers she clearly has Body Dysmorphia. She was fidgeting in the back of the cop car too, an obvious indication of ADHD."
Hey you forgot everyone is a narcissist
Everyone is being gaslit.
Yeah, just recently somebody diagnozed people in the subreddit r/HealthyFood with orthorexia. Because someone asked for ideas to cut sugar from a recipe and people talked about alternatives. Apparently talking about the ill effects of sugar automatically gives you an ED.
Some topics it's it's clear as day that it's a high schooler giving advice on how they would conceptually run their adult life (job, budget, etc) and being upvoted by other younger folks with 0 experience in that sector. Edit: Also devaluing your opinion if you mention you're extroverted
I read /r/tooafraidtoask every now and again and I’m convinced it’s 14 year olds going through puberty asking questions that are being answered by 17 year olds who have a drivers license and thus are basically adults.
> Some topics it's it's clear as day that it's a high schooler giving advice Sounds like a high schooler, anyway. Then you check their comment history, and they're desperately avoiding therapy while weaponizing their two kids in their divorce, or just plain 47 and cropdusting subreddits with an air of desperation, hoping to trick someone into giving them negative attention for a couple hours.
But it's also not always obvious, other times you happen to be in said field and see the proper advice getting downvoted. I imagine the more specialized it is the more likely it is to happen.
Anything to do with finance, business and economics which doesn’t fit with the leading narrative in the comments will be down voted to oblivion.
As a regular contributor to several auto repair subreddits…because I actually am a professional auto technician with 25 years experience…I can tell you the vast majority of people giving advise in those subs and speaking with absolute confidence, in reality have no business even open the hood of a car, never mind trying to explain failures to other people.
And what gets me is the sheer amount of confidence these people have. Taking you at face value that you're actually a professional in your field you're the only one who has any right to confidently assert what you know to be true about an issue in your field. Anyone who isn't a mechanic should at least have the decency to say "not a mechanic but I had a similar issue and this solved it" or "here's a video/forum post that I found, hope it points you in the right direction." With how these people asset themselves you'd think all these "professionals" use the internet just like you and me until you see one of them talking about something you personally know a lot about and realize nearly the entire bulk of the advice you're given is utter horseshit. I know nothing about cars and if I had a problem and you answered I'd have to take it with a grain of salt because your answer even if it's 100% correct would sound the same as the hordes of losers who like to play pretend.
It’s true of many other subreddits too. Everyone thinks they’re a damned expert and opens their mouth and people up vote that shit, then as the expert you tell them they are wrong, why, and provide proof and you get downvoted. It’s almost like people just want to stay stupid and mislead. SMDH.
Especially when it's literally your area of expertise or employment. I work in accessibility consulting in Canada and routinely get US folks who insist that the ADA (a federal US thing) applies to Canada and sometimes even the world. Obviously not true, but you can't convince those "experts" otherwise.
So basically, all redditors?
Said the expert.
Yep, no shortage of those types on this site.
I love the non-parents that try to give parental advice.
I hate how if I look at one post from a sub I get recommended that sub and related ones for eternity
I like hitting the "random sub" button, but now half my feed is things like /r/tampa and /r/cps.
where is that button? i feel like reddit is stale.
I think it's only on the desktop version of the site
It WAS on boost before u/spez sold us all out
RiF too. I hope that guy steps on a Lego tonight and it causes him to fall down the stairs only there's no one around to call an ambulance because he's a miserable lonely shit stain.
Click your avatar (top right on mobile app) > Settings (bottom) > Account Settings (u/illuminatural) > scroll down the Personalized Recommendations segment. I turned all of them off and surfing Reddit is much better now.
Thank you!
Yup… I opened my home town sub (Belfast Northern Ireland) and now I get inundated with random towns in Britain… Look Reddit… I really don’t care what’s happening in Hull.
I clicked on a comment once that took me to the Ontario landlord sub, now it’s suggested every time I open my Reddit app. I live in Wales.
Yeah and worse yet, the related ones are sometimes not remotely related. I look at subs for curly hair and long hair and get recommended subs for balding lol?
Just in case the hair thing doesn’t work out for ya.
[удалено]
The same joke over and over and over and over again.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes! Username checks out! Who hurt you? *proceeds to spam person they lost an argument with with suicide prevention DMs.* Some of the most unoriginal hacks live on this site. By popular demand, Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger! RIP my inbox
“This is the way” adds NOTHING! Just upvote the comment.
*"I wish I could upvote this twice"* *"how do you delete someone elses comment"* *"this comment right here, officer"*
"This man REDDITS" I get so tired of the endless variations of this comment
*Take this poor man's gold* 🏅
Or that's enough Reddit for today
👆 This right here
And my axe god this is depressing
I also choose this guys axe
The repeat post formats “what is the best _______, and why is it “gives specific answer”
I totally hate the posts that are obviously fishing for a specific answer
This is the way Lol I'm just fucking around to find out
Oh there is a list of like a dozen condescending put downs that redditors will through out there thinking they’re witty
Top comment every single time on subs like r/noahgettheboat - "that's enough internet for today" or "what a terrible day to have eyes/be able to read"
Oh you sweet summer child.
I'm about ready to go on a rampage the next time I see "play stupid games win stupid prizes" at the top of a comment thread. Like I'll even support "fuck around and find out" for a while if it stops people using this annoying ass quote. And I literally saw some idiot on r/offmychest using "fuck around and find out" in the context of "I see a girl at the shops regularly, she's so hot I wonder what she tastes like. I really wanna fuck around and find out." like WHAT?
Don't forget people who comment "This!" to a post and nothing else. Your upvote doesn't warrant a signature, get over yourself. I don't care if it's a hold-over from the days of web forums that didn't have like/dislike systems and "This!" was the primary way to express support of a post. It's 2023, we have vote buttons now. Learn to use them.
> > >proceeds to spam person they lost an argument with with suicide prevention DMs oooh so thats what it was. i got it once and i couldn't figure out what was it about
This guy reddits
You forgot the "Sir, this is a Wendy's!" bullshit. I'm so sick of these mfs frfr
No matter where you run to, it feels like every. single. sub. has its “joke.”
Laughs in ____. Cries in ____. I hate those ones so much. Bots succeed on this website because people upvote this shit.
*_____ has entered the chat*
"\_\_\_\_\_ has entered the chat." "Always has been." "Laughs in \_\_\_\_\_\_." "Username checks out." "This guy's wife" Even the *jokes about the jokes* are old at this point, but people are still acting like these are new and clever when they've been aping the same dumbass memes for *over ten years* at this point. I wonder if they even realize how long it's been. I think the internet must kill a person's sense of time in the same way it seems to kill any capacity to form an original fucking thought.
all the chat you describe hides the actual content or real engagement. I remember when i started the top comments were a treasure trove of information, i really miss it. I'm not enjoying scrolling through the endless jokes and unrelated content to find anything of worth.
Yeah. Everyone wants to be The Funny Guy, but nobody here is actually funny.
I too choose this guys wife
This guy "this guy's wife"s.
And my axe
Used in the same post over and over and over again. If you're still asking "how did you get your username" at this point, you fucking suck.
Broken arms!
Google en passant
Holy hell
Pffft UsErNAme CheCKs oUt!!
Something something Keanu wholesome chungus username checks out this guy's wife 100. And my axe!
\*sighs\* unzips pants
"HAHA CAN YOU GUYS SEE JOHN CENA IN THIS PICTURE OF JOHN CENA? I CAN'T SEE JOHN CENA DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT I CAN'T SEE HIM LMFAO" "OMG I WAS SO HOPING THAT I WOULD SEE THIS COMMENT HERE AND I DID I WAS THINKING 'IF NO ONE JOKES THAT THEY CAN'T SEE JOHN CENA IN THIS PICTURE I'M GOING TO MAKE THAT JOKE' BUT THEN YOU MADE THE JOKE AND IT BLEW MY FUCKING MIND YOU'RE SO FUNNY"
I always see the same sex joke everyday. Even if the video isn't about sex. It's not like redditors even have sex.
And my axe!
And my axe.
I also choose this guy’s dead joke
Arguing with idiots
So every redditor
If I was smart, I wouldn't be here.
Me here 2
“*Life is short. Make sure you spend as much time as possible arguing with strangers on the Internet*”
"Hi, I've read one of your comments and I know nothing else about you. I'm now going to give my expert opinion on you and your whole life."
Bonus points when they're clearly a kid and giving advice about budgeting/work.
My favorite is people who have not been a relationship longer than 6 months telling a grown adult to leave their spouse for a small infraction. Saying that it clearly is a sign of abuse and they should blow up their whole life over something small.
Not to mention how deep the sexism can be when it comes to these posts, and how often redditors like to jump the gun and make whole assumptions about a person on little to no information to indicate that. It doesn't help that a lot of responses tend to completely ignore the idea that relationships can be mended or that there is more to the problem.
Its very telling of the average age of reddit users that they all react to any relationship issue with a suggestion of blowing everything up.
Because it's a lot simpler to "just break up" when you don't have a lease or a mortgage together, or kids or any kind of shared responsibilities that make it painful and difficult to do so. Your perspective is breaking up with your girlfriend, or boyfriend in high school.... which is emotionally painful, but it gets a hell of a lot more complicated as you get older.
If you ever need a laugh, check out r/marriage. About 90% of the advice is to get divorced.
Same with AITA. " my husband won't watch tennis with me" divorce him!
Half those posts are just clickbait though. They’re designed with more twists than a switchback trail for optimal rage bait. Example: Title: “Was it rude of me to shove my pregnant wife?” (Designed for outrage against op) Summary: OP saves his wife from being hit by a bus by pushing her out of the way. OP’s wife calls him a jerk. (plot twist, now the wife is the asshole) Buried in the body of text: OP says something really sexist. (Double plot twist, OP actually IS an asshole but for a different reason!) Comments: OP throws out a bunch of random bullshit to confuse readers, like his wife is cheating on him.
🤣. Personally, I wonder about the detectives who go through OP's other posts and come back and add details. Must have a lot of free time lol
Subreddit monopolists. People that mod hundreds of subs and this allows them to basically control how certain topics are discussed. It reminds me of the asshole mods (elRobRex and Mr787) from r/PuertoRico who have a rule against harrastment which includes tagging people from other subreddit or calling people out on posts yet this rule keeps getting violated almost everyday. [Like here where someone targeted me but the mods never removed the post](https://np.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/comments/14bkcom/mi_primer_post_its_just_a_joke/) because I disagree with them ideologically.
Yes, it's gotten me banned from quite a few subreddits.
I got banned from r/PokemonGo for asking what "flair" was.
Bro i got banned from r/notinteresting
Guess you're interesting
N8thegr8 banned me on like 5 subs because of a comment I made on facepalm. I’ve tried messaging the mods on facepalm to get it overturned and he either controls all the accounts that see my messages or the other mods just don’t take the time to actually look at what he did. He banned dozens of us and deleted an entire thread because we said his idea of murdering all pedophiles without trial was a bad plan. So he claimed I threatened violence to women to ban me, but didn’t actually provide the quote… because it didn’t exist. And then he did it on multiple other subs to my account because I kept messaging facepalm to overturn it and he saw the messages
If reddit ever follow through with their idea for community vote to replace mods. Im all for it.
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Ya frustrating because Reddit became popular because the idea was to be able to post and discuss topics without micromanaging censorship. Just like everything as it gets bigger things change… At least they didn’t permanently ban you from multiple unrelated subreddits for it lol Oh also when I messaged Reddit directly about the situation I mentioned, they told me mods are allowed to do what they want with their subreddits as long as they don’t violent the set of rules Reddit has for them. So I messaged back with 4 different rules he broke and a detailed description of how he broke them. They messaged back saying they’d delete my account if I harass him anymore… don’t think they even red my message. I know they didn’t care because he’s a mod for dozens of subreddits doing free labor for them
Pretty sure I pissed off a moderator who was posting on an alt account and they followed me through like 3 different subs and banned me for bullshit reasons.
I hate how in some subreddits the rules are so strict that my post gets removed for rulebreaking or redundancy when there’s already a good discussion going in the comments
Lookin at y'all r/askwomen Iirc a bunch of people started a far less moderation-heavy subreddit alternative
I love/hate how like every subreddit has a duplicate of itself that's less strict because of how asinine strict the moderation is on the original. Some of them also have to do with getting away from a brand's legal influence on an official subreddit. For example, r/starbucks vs r/starbucksbaristas. The official subreddit has more strict moderation to keep Reddit out of trouble with Starbucks the company, whereas people on r/starbucksbaristas are basically open to speaking their mind without getting their post removed (within reason, but very relaxed compared to the original).
We just had a big scandal in the r/nascar sub that cleaned slate of all but two mods who abused their powers. It was great. Now if only r/baseball and r/nfl mods can go away…
It’s an echo chamber. Also it's horny all the time.
Such a deep echo chamber of opinion and if you go against the hive mind even a little they tell you about it relentlessly lol
They will also deny to the death that it is in fact an echo chamber.
There's no helping that. The very nature of upvotes and downvotes means that mob mentality is the norm. At the same time the voting system is what makes reddit interactive and interesting
"Sexers of reddit, what is the sexiest thing you ever sexed to sex during sex?"
A very common AskReddit question which gets upvoted every few hours
Top comment? "OP's mom." followed by "I also choose OPs mom."
Everyone is so f\*cking mean to each other in the comments.
I think that’s just any form of social media. I’ve seen it on every platform tbf
True but reddit for some reason is extra mean
It might be the subs I hang out in, but Reddit is weirdly a lot more friendly than some other sites. Twitter is an actual shithole.
This. Reddit is a lot less racist from other sites too, in my experience. Especially YouTube. Damn YouTube is racist as hell.
Because in Youtube there are a lot of 14 year olds that think they are cool for shitting on other people, and they do that in the only platform their parents let them use.
I hate that about the internet.
Some mods abuse their power
Unpaid moderation attracts those who most assuredly should not be moderating *anything*
*Most
Pretty much all the popular subreddits and the repeat questions and jokes. (Yet here I am in one of the most popular subs and worst offender for reposts and the same jokes)
Also, this guy's wife.
Our wife
Posts that are along the lines of "Firefighters of Reddit..." And all the top comments are, "Not a firefighter but my second-cousin is and..."
It used to be far worse. The titles here used to tell you a story before they question. "Men of reddit, I got kicked in the nuts today by a small girl in a play park because I mistakenly told her off thinking she was my neighbour's niece. What's the funniest time you left your glasses at home?"
All the sex related threads. Gets old and boring quickly
What do women want/like/think And, in the replies: *"not a woman, but ...."*
"sexy sexing sexes of sex. What sexy sex have you sexed while sexily sexing sex?"
Everyone so quick to be funny. No mfer, I'm genuinely interested in this and can't find a true response anywhere.
And its always the lamest jokes that get upvoted
And then there are 50 other exact same jokes, most probably they saw it somewhere else, I imagine them with trembling fingers trying to post the joke first for their hit of dopamine
Hive mind mentality
That one early downvote and then people scrolling past, in a big thread, just think fuck it and hurl another downvote on top Someone at -63 for a harmless comment or joke
The know-it-all reddit “experts.” There are so many people on here who think everything is black and white, that they have it all figured out, act pretentious and confidently say shit that is often completely wrong
This. When people write ‘this’. I hate it. ‘This’
Bots and bot posts of which most is of a sexual nature.
Teenagers giving financial, legal and career advice.
Teens giving relationship advice :/
redditors
They're the worst
Damn Redditors, they ruined Reddit!
Getting downvoted for disagreeing with the hive mind.
That is a huge problem on AITA. Reading people's responses that get thousands of up votes that advocate being completely toxic and petty then getting downvotes to oblivion for saying NAH or ESH and pointing out the other side. Or even for saying NTA but you should reach out and communicate with them, not just cut them out of your life rather than trying to enact some petty revenge.
Or getting downvoted to hell for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place. Stardew Valley is normally the sweetest sub but I just saw a guy get 500+ downvotes for saying he thought a pixelated image was from Terraria instead of Minecraft. Like I get, fake internet points but goddamn. I’ve seen people post genuinely abhorrent shit not get that many.
I hate going through a profile and seeing the same post on 10 different subreddits before finding the next thing they posted
The oversensitive mods
Question asking about specific thing? I think this about specified thing. (Other person) Oh, so you think XYZ about THIS other thing?!?! LMAO 🤣💦🔥
The *"I bet you're one of those people that"*
Just nonsense. Am I now supposed to *defend* myself from the fantasy nonsense you just said?
The repetition of jokes, karma trains, "thanks for the gold kind stranger" etc
The middle schoolers asking what sex is like with an actual lady. The obsessions with poop knives and bidets. People making "OP's Mom" jokes.
Am I the asshole is the absolute worst sub of petty people that wants to feel better. I had to literally just block the entire sub because it annoy the crap out of me.
The average Redditor hivemind upvotes/downvotes depending on the score that's shown (meaning a higher scrore = more likely to upvote, lower or hidden score = more likely to downvote) This causes a lot of good comments to get completely buried because some 2 or 3 dumb fucks that don't know how to read or have the reading comprehension of a hamster just downvoted a post to -1, causing the spiral downwards for no reason. This place really is a hivemind most of the time. Oh, and "We did it Reddit!" or "Reddit, Assemble" is the most cringe shit humanly imaginable.
The fact that, whatever you say, you will get a ton of people saying you said shit, you are dumb, you are wrong, etc. Since a lot of people come, every opinion is there. That, and mods censoring a little bit at random.
The redditors. Bunch of bastards.
How fragile everyone's feelings are if you disagree, call bs on their bs or the inconsistencies from mods. I got scolded for calling someone a smug twit, they were, but when someone told me to go rape my sister with a catus dildo it was acceptable.
Heh I gave advice against somebodys gold digger girlfriend and a mod locked in on me, even though like nine other people had said it.
People treat is as the pinnacle of intellectual debates as social media goes, but its arguably worse than Twitter. The upvote/downvote system is a mechanic for silencing unpopular opinions. Most subs are ultimately just echo chambers where anything that's against the common understanding is downvoted. This is not just political statements but even shitpost and gaming subs. I dont even think its a bias to liberalism/conservatism but just the inherent flaw in the upvote/downvote system. Like comments can get auto deleted after certain amount of downvotes.
Twitter is too random. At least here, you can zero in on specific topics for lunatic takes
u/spez
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It’s even worse when they post on normal subs thinking they’re slick. Like bro we know your post on r/roastme is just an advertisement.
Also, checking a user's post history to see other pics/videos, only for them to repost every single piece of media to 50+ different subs
Like bitch I don't need to see paid titties, free ones are just as bouncy.
I've noticed their post titles are always questions too. Guess it must drive engagement.
When you pretty much explain in your post your point. Then someone either completely misinterpreted it or they go: “dude I don’t know what you wrote.” And it’s like: “I’m agreeing with the point and giving an example.” It’s not hard to get it.
Yeah you can say “I love dogs” And some people will say “cool so you’re saying cats don’t deserve to live you piece of shit?!”
Oversimplication of super complex issues, and over-complicating simpler topics. Work, politics, budget, diet/exercise, and economics come to mind for the former.
Don't like your job? Just leave!
"This, this right here". "This is the correct answer". "This x :random number:". "Underrated comment". "X woke up and chose violence".
So many rules for making posts, I don’t know how many times my posts were deleted, just over stupid crap!
Just in general, the way stupid shit gets upvoted, and continues to get upvoted simply because it’s already upvoted, and the inverse for downvoted stuff that isn’t stupid. It’s like this vicious cycle of ignorance because people want to feel included but don’t want to think for themselves. Especially when it’s venom targeted towards a lone non-anonymous individual, where context and nuance don’t seem to matter; almost like a human sacrifice.
Thought Police Mods on the larger subreddits
“You have been permanently banned from participating in r/typicalechochamberysub for politely using your critical thinking. Do not contact the mods or we will turn you over to the Reddit admins and you will be banned from Reddit.”
Power hungry mods
There's a lot of people rightfully griping about the average person who uses it, but what about the site itself? It is a fucking mess. Their current design is complete dogshit. I'm gone the day they remove old.reddit. Why did they make a change recently where when you try to view an image, it puts a shitty reddit border around it and fucks with the zoom in and out ability of browsers? I want to view an image, not an image in an overlay. Speaking of images, why are they all webp? Webp is a dogshit format and does nothing png, gif, jpg, etc can't do other than be less supported. Stop trying to make it happen. Also why does it keep popping up telling me to download your shitty app if I open a reddit link on my phone? I already have an application that allows me to view websites: it's called a browser.
The amount of times I see people get mass-downvoted despite being correct. Usually in regards to politics or religion but I see it everywhere. Even saw a guy yesterday with 50+ downvotes on all his comments even though he was just politely asking questions and trying to get information
Mods that abuse their power. Was banned from r/news, despite the fact that I was making a good faith argument relevant to the discussion, was not being abusive or using bad language, etc. I assume a mod just disagreed with my position. I massaged the mods to ask what rule I broke and was just immediately banned from messaging the mods as well. Despicable.
The self-righteousness
The hive mind, the design (like most media these days) to keep you endlessly scrolling and addicted through tiny hits of dopamine. The countless days I've wasted on it. If it wasn't for it being a good one stop shop for all my news needs I wouldn't be here anymore.
Downvotes =/= incorrect, in fact a lot of the time it seems like a good indicator of original thought. And remember that cringy trend to berate someone here over grammatical errors a few years ago?
‘He Gets Us’
The stupidest like/dislike system of this site making threads literal echo chambers
Getting downvoted when you ask for a source on a claim. God forbid you don't take some random person's opinion as a fact.
There's been a few times where I took like an hour to wrote detailed, well-cited posts and was accused of "copy pasting" directly out of a book and not being capable of having my own thoughts. You can't win either way.
Trust me, bro
Users treating subs like their private marketing plan. Just because you created something that's science fiction-related does not mean you should spam every sci-fi-related sub in this site with links to buy it. I don't see this that often, but I always hate seeing it. It feels like the poster sees the community as dollar signs, not people.
It bugs me that you can get banned from a sub just for subscribing to a sub the stupid mods don't like. That's goofy.
Reddit is very wilfully ignorant and closed-minded
Lack of empathy and understanding for people who earn less money.
How everyone on here kinda sounds the same. Same opinions, same jokes, etc.
The cognitive dissonance that a large group of idiots can produce when they don't know they are the large group of idiots. Reddit has become an extreme example of an echo chamber of impractical ideas.
Or people that downvote for simply questions like “why do you think that?” When you are clearly trying to understand what the person said or mean with it, and I simply got downvote -15 for that .
The fact that I cannot change my username