everybody on ilx complains about reddit

give me a joke about a reddit user putting down his grandma and being sentimental and retardy about it.

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Yesterday my grandma choose to end existence on her own terms, instead of letting death arbitrarily and without warning do it for her. She was the first person in The Wrong Part of Texas to be allowed to do this and she told me before she died, if she believed in an afterlife "Trevor, no one knows what happens when you die. The people who say they know are either lying or crazy. The rest of us are prepared to be what we were before we came into this world: nothing."

She died two hours later and left me a note telling me she wished me luck on my upcoming marriage to a man. RIP Grandma Jackie, you were one cool lady.

The outraged redditor comments on this post are hilarious.

A+ work, Jordan.

When I see two websites talking about each other, and I guess gawker is making fun of reddit, and immediately rather than words comes the thought of high windows.

I thought that article was really disappointing. Expected Reddit to be way weirder than that, maybe gawker should move on to PUA forums.

http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-marines-romans-warner-bros-james-irwin-2013-1

This movie sounds great barfs

glad to see message board thread movies are getting picked up again after Scorsese's "Dave Matthews Band: Why So Bad & Hated" couldn't get greenlit.

Jonathan Hickman has some prior art, his series Pax Romana was kind of like that

my manager who is into reddit told us about that basically as it happened.

My take would be boring - the Marines would hold out until they run out of ammo, ultimately both sides are decimated by disease, our modern bugs possibly wipe out Rome.

how do you factor in the marines' firm command of one and a half words of latin

I'm a white,cis,straight,dude etc so take my observation with a grain of salt but after starting to spend time on reddit myself about 2 months ago I find it not at all this crappy misogynistic cave it's characterized as by Gawker & Jezebel. First off the user base is huge and while I'm sure a good 20% of it is North American neckbeards, I wouldn't call them a majority. In any given thread on any given topic I'm still routinely surprised at the variety of people of all different races & nationalities, the countries they're from & cultures they belong too, languages they speak,knowledge & experiences etc. It makes clicking on any thread potentially worthwhile.If it's about a joint Indian Pakistani effort at building a space shuttle in Kashmir (or whatever), I can usually count at some point for some 20 something physicist from Punjab will pop up in the thread to give us a rundown of the history of 20th century collaborative rocket science on the Indian subcontintent. This almost never happens on Gawker, it's the same overly-facetious shut-ins in every thread.

All the front page shit is space shuttles, self-congratulatory begs for upvotes, pictures of animals, or pictures with words on them

you're also comparing a site that is based on user-rated user content with the comments on a site with paid writers and an editorial direction

"not worse than Gawker" is a low bar to set

I can usually count at some point for some 20 something physicist from Punjab will pop up in the thread to give us a rundown of the history of 20th century collaborative rocket science on the Indian subcontintent.

wow, how thrilling

^ironic appropriation of redditesque response

wow, how thrilling

wow, what a dick.

sorry i zinged an impassioned defense of reddit!

"neckbeard" is such a reddit term!

you know what ILX needs is nested comment threads

also upvotes

found a cite for "neckbeard" from 2000 on LexisNexis

just literally referring to a neck beard tho

i mean it's pretty nice to have a discussion about something and have someone turn out to be expert on the subject matter. i don't get what's worth zinging about that unless its some general "oh, knowledge, whatever, idgaf" sort of blow-off.

"how thrilling" isn't really a zing either tbh, it's more just drive-by assholeishness.

does reddit have any good discussions about Tusk?

expert on the subject matter surely you can't be serious, i guess if you want an interactive wikipedia it's nice enough

iunno if you know who writes the super-technical articles on wikipedia, but i guarantee you that a fair number are written by people about as expert as you can get (depending on the field, etc). (at least w/r/t math -- i imagine physics has more issues with crackpots, et.)

point taken--a 20-something posting on reddit and claiming knowledge in a given field is significantly worse than wikipedia.

i mean expert is also a relative term (i'm not talking about reddit here, even.) like typically if something isn't your field, someone halfway through a phd program will know enough to give you a really good answer, and if something is your field, its not a matter of needing to talk to one of the most brilliant or well known minds or whatever, but just lucking into the person who happens to either do work right up the alley of your incredibly specific question, or who happens to have read a/the relevant article in recent memory just by chance.

So not "expert" as in they deserved a nova special, but "expert" as in qualified to serve as an "expert witness" so to speak.

ffs i don't know what 20-somethings you know, but lots of 20-somethings i know have tons of knowledge in various fields.

what is the latin term that's like ad hominem but refers to websites instead of people

xp yes i am being a dick abt this but my point is that the particular interaction described is not so remarkable or valuable or unique to reddit that it should serve as a defense of a site that has hosted and legitimized some completely vile and toxic shit

capt save-a-reddit

i'm gonna doxx "all kinds of heinous things"

What kind of doxing does that require? A list of particularly terrible sub-reddits?

max's blog covered that already i thought

So now Gawker is "Max's Blog"? I mean, I agree its just... LOL

Gawker is an arbitary and admittedly bizarre comparison point I will admit. It popped up first in my mind because I read the site a lot and they are known for taking shots at reddit, with a recent dig & subsequent high-fiving being featured in this thread just recently.

how thrilling...yes i am being a dick abt this but my point is that the particular interaction described is not so remarkable or valuable or unique to reddit that it should serve as a defense of a site that has hosted and legitimized some completely vile and toxic shit

You went from a drive-by pot-shot, to arguing about the reality & desirability of 20 something know it alls and walking wikipedias to finally settling on 'reddit isn't unique in this regard and it doesn't excuse it's other shitty aspects.' The goal-post shifting is dizzying and I wish you had started with the argument you were stuck with at the end if you really felt that strongly about it. As for the rest, different strokes. I'm not a master of the internet but I've been around, and these qualities were refreshing to me, even if as you say they aren't unique to reddit.

Other things about reddit I like, the AMA's & Askreddits. With the AMA's, it's not just the various celebrities & politicians who have stopped by and answered vapid questions which is cool but not something I'm interested in. There have been AMA's with people who have been wrongfully convicted & imprisoned, people who were kidnapped overseas and held hostage for a number of years, survivors of wars and natural disasters, victims of torture, and just plain people from all over the globe who don't have albums or television shows but who are from interesting places & walks of life, have all kinds of jobs and fascinating stories to tell.

My long-windedness is self defeating, but on the Askreddit front, this is where the sheer size of the site is it's strength. I spent a good portion of yeserday reading this http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/w5x9w/gay_men_who_were_adults_in_the_early_80s_what_did/

"Gay men who were adults in the early 80s: what did you think was going on when a disease (later identified as HIV) ravaged the community?"

and this,

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/spwhw/muslims_of_reddit_how_much_did_your_life_change/

"Muslims of Reddit, how much did your life change after 9/11?"

I don't think there was anything in those discussions that I couldn't have discovered elsewhere on the internet, but reading the first hand accounts & experiences was legitimately enlightening (and enraging sometimes) and I learned a ton.

Nerds, misogyny, hivemind, evangelical atheism, 'look at my cat LOL' I know there are some ugly aspects of the site but it has it's redeeming qualities.

otoh, i mean i just read a really interesting piece of investigative reporting on huffpo but i don't feel the need to "defend" it when people point out how awful it generally is, and basically i think of it as part of the cancer that is killing journalism, bu that's true of basically every publication these days so..

"Blind people of Reddit, is it true that your hearing becomes better?"

"Women of reddit, what's it like having a geener"

more like show us your geeners amirite

a friend of some friends was deaf for the first 23 years of his life, and a few months ago he had an operation that gave him the gift of hearing.

so he posted an AMA on reddit and they spammed him with links to Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Queen (aka "the greatest music ever made")

that thread kind of epitomizes the way reddit/"the internet" takes a modern days marvel and makes it banal.

"spammed"

"it's time the tale was told, of how reddit took a child and made him old"

did we ever mak an ilx subreddit

yo that was a good post heinous things

reddit is dumb and the dark corners are offensive, but the Internet is dumb and often offensive
ILX's take seems to be as much a snobby "my community is better" take on things, when it's just as nerdy and in-jokey and instead of upvoting we have EXCELSIOR threads but it's small enough that it's still cliquey

xxp:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ilx/