everybody on ilx complains about reddit

"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/

who needs experts on nuclear science when we have experts on steely dan?

lol "the argument i was stuck with" is something i'm v. secure in and yes to your point reddit is capable of some interesting social anthropology and i truly wish those types of discussions could happen on a website i was comfortable spending time on.

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.

every site has its redeeming qualities tho? I mean you are being a strawman fighting a strawman about a strawman here - the fact that reddit is full of useful stuff and people sharing experiences and knowledge is a well known fact, in fact in many circles the primary fact about it. You really think Obama's team would have thought "let's get ourselves involved with a website that is primarily known for internet misogyny?".

for some people on ilx, however, the way in which reddit has developed a vocal subculture of internet misogynists is extremely offputting - when they think of 'reddit' its value as a source of experiences and information is outweighed for them by its association with MRA bullshit let alone /creepshots etc. Maybe they even feel the metafilter-y aspect is completely devalued by the 4chan/b/ aspect (/b/ had its redeeming qualities, too).

what are /b/'s redeeming qualities?

lulz

yeah a secret shame of mine is that I lol a lot at encyclopedia draematica whenever I happen to come across it ... which is every 5 seconds!! *refreshes, clicks random article link*

ps i apologise for terrible punctuation on that first para of mine

one thing about reddit is that by nature a plurality voting system gets things on the front page, so reddit's plurality demographic and its taste in things probably seems disproportionately 'what the site is'
it would be nice if you could adjust things like you could just switch the settings so everything voted up by a nerdy white guy didn't appear on your front page.

what are chimpout.com's redeeming qualities

You could just as easily subscribe to the good subreddits and unsubscribe from the trashy ones and we'd have nothing left to talk about here?

• I'm an average amateur photographer (not very good at hiking either), but I feel like I got some lucky shots on my hike this weekend.
• went to walmart and noted the disgusting beta fish containers. then i cleaned them without anyone noticing. OCD and animal rights.
• I don't consider myself artistic, but I am proud of this painting I made
• I don't have custody of my kids anymore, but I do make them a great breakfast on the weekends.

There are some useful bits to reddit, but only to the extent that it's worth having someone else curate it. Using it as a generic time sink is almost as bad as ilx.

Don't ask me, though, I used to read metafilter and ask.metafilter a lot

metafilter is like the npr to reddit's wacky crazy zoo morning show.

in other words, just as bad, but for different reasons.

tightly-wrapped core community gets a little overzealous, imo

reddit is like the internet's rome, drawing in all the different races and regions of internet culture. angry libertarian/atheist nerds, misogynistic creepos, unashamed racists, aspies, space shuttle lovers, techwads, grown men who dress like characters from kids cartoons and have sex with each other, etc. it's def pretty weak on the lib arts front, but that's why there's ILX.

didn't joyce carol oates do an IAMA?

"Joyce Carol Oates, which sub-reddit do you think the antagonist from 'Where Have You Been?' would edit?"

can i just

One recent post is headlined: "Alternative history idea: Spanish conquistadors vs American Vikings". A commenter responds: "Holy shit, can we get a badass writer like Cormac McCarthy to write it?"

sounds right up ol' Cormac's alley

I just found this rad image on reddit. women, amirite?
http://i.imgur.com/YLikwgk.jpg

i wanna say poe's law on that but it "seems legit" as you say

that's the cool thing about reddit, it's half shit like this and half white knighting.

oh yeah, and that "gonewild" thing

White knighting, why do you taste so good?

I've seen one photonics article on the front page of reddit. Comments alternated between enthusiastic but incorrect statements about the article's content and "make a lightsaber." I don't think these dudes are experts. People coming to reddit from the outside may be experts.

i mean man there are slices of interesting stuff and interesting communities, but it's true that they're largely buried under the garbage. r/depthhub /r/truereddit, and some of the nichier radical political subs genearlly have interesting submissions and good conversation about the submissions. fuck an /r/pics. reddit at large can be a miserable place, but colonies of awesomeness are there.

the front page of reddit is generally worse than youtube comments imo

"Reddit plea leads to funding for cryonic preservation of deceased neuroscience student"

"depthhub" is for deep ideas? good thing they're throwing that in isolation

It links to conversations on Reddit that have, ostensibly, gotten interesting or valuable.

the front page of reddit is generally worse than youtube comments imo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, January 21, 2013 4:48 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hold up

hahaha awww

thought i might get away with that one

reddit was worth visiting if only for this one picture alone:

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/nicetrout.jpg

Pictures of people holding fish

lol. also - thanks for that /onworkcomputer

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hSbE0.gif

reddit is like the internet's rome, drawing in all the different races and regions of internet culture. angry libertarian/atheist nerds, misogynistic creepos, unashamed racists, aspies, space shuttle lovers, techwads, grown men who dress like characters from kids cartoons and have sex with each other, etc. it's def pretty weak on the lib arts front, but that's why there's ILX.

― Spectrum, Monday, January 21, 2013 11:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

outstanding backhanded zing, should not go unnoticed

burt's still got it

overemployed reddit

that's the cool thing about reddit, it's half shit like this and half white knighting.

of course, Marxist explanation might be that there's a dialectical relationship.

And now here's Milan Kundera on Reddit's "Faith in Humanity: Restored" macro images and threads: For Kundera, "Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch."