everybody on ilx complains about reddit

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."

And then jaded bastards laugh at that whole statement and glory in its ridiculousness, thus producing the anti-kitsch. The dialectic never ends...

i don't complain abt reddit

aaannnnd scene.

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1788uj/google_street_view_goodfellas/

http://gawker.com/5978621/great-movies-as-seen-through-google-street-view ?

Yeah. I got to be queen for the day.

why is that on the reddit thread

http://www.dailydot.com/society/crowdtilt-atlanta-mall-taser-video/

god the tag "noted redditor" is so embarassing

half of me thinks cool, giving $10,000 to a mall cop, that's a really good tip, the other half thinks what is so special about this one occurrence, do redditors just really get off on seeing this video, is their "justiceporn" tag more accurate than it should be

it wouldn't be a thing if reddit didn't always immediately jump to complaining about this "poor fat loud black woman" stereotype as soon as the opportunity arises. feels like the whole thing is being treated as grand justice being served against that entire fantasy like "finally someone stood up to [you know, that type of person]"

and when i say "reddit" i always mean the popular front page stuff, i know subreddits are better and w/e

like r/mensrights

*i know [extremely specific subreddits with less than 12 regular users] are better and w/e

always was a fan of "sub-custos at best"

god the tag "noted redditor" is so embarassing

agree, but in this case i believe "noted" was used as a verb

i don't really know much about reddit personally. i have been on and found it like "too mainstream" or whatever. i think in my head i equate reddit people with those people who are really into bacon - just, like, the most superficially adjusted and banal ppl of all time. yet i can't call it banal per se. there's always this terribly slight edge to everything there, yet an "edge" that's so safe that it becomes the opposite of edgy? i think i'd prefer it if it were just deeply banal, but instead you get these people w/ their little jokes and self importance and ugh

not sure if i saw it on reddit or one of those other aggregator sites but i remember stumbling across some post that was all like "look at this cool fountain!" as if it was some sort of precious hidden gem. it was the fountain next to the nbc building in midtown manhattan - like, the one right next to every single hotel. gah

everything about that story is depressing

http://i.imgur.com/vCaJRJb.jpg