everybody on ilx complains about reddit

I just posted the link because it is on the front page atm. It definitely is a recurring conversation.

That's for sure. But the communities are also not quite comparable due to a whole lot of factors that start with the difference in size.

I don't think AOL on its worst day ever doxxed and made rape threats on as much of a perennial basis as reddit.

^^^

you've got doxx

I don't think AOL on its worst day ever doxxed and made rape threats on as much of a perennial basis as reddit.

― pplains, Monday, July 8, 2013 11:00 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably a better comparison. Now we can just talk demographics.

phew

Reminds me of SomethingAwful's "How Would YOU Be a Terrorist?" Threads that had all kinds of clever ideas that a non-American wouldnt think of re: vulnerabilities. When people said "you know, pointing out how unguarded xyz water supply is because, idk, your friends dad works there, its r stupid" the site would get really defensive and said it was good that these ideas were aired, so that people knew how to defend from these attacks. The "Ask a rapist" threads on reddit seem similarly horrible. Magnifying the small chance that good can come from rapists letting people know how it works because of mid 00s "information wants to be free!!" Internet logic

wait, "'Ask a rapist' threads"??????????????

[–] flapjackstheZebra 710 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) I feel like the Boston Bombing incident brought about the two extremes of Reddit; the circle-jerk mob-mentality side, and then the enormous brother-in-arms, we're-a-huge-family network side of it. Those live updates and cross-referencing that many users contributed to? That was the only way that many people were getting information about Boston and their friends/family. That group of Koreans that posted on here looking for their backpacks and what to do next? These were amazing examples of some of the great things Reddit can do. edit: The fact that the Korean thing was fake somehow eluded me. I must have missed that part. oops.

Xpost i followed the "what is reddits lowest moment" thread

There's a subreddit called "beatingwomen" that's still up as well

http://www.reddit.com/r/askreddit/comments/xf5c2/

edit: The fact that the Korean thing was fake somehow eluded me. I must have missed that part. oops.

omg big fucking lol

the bad thing abt the site is egomaniacal nerds reach critical mass but the good part is we helped fake Koreans find imaginary backpacks

So glad you guts don't call clusterfucks "circle jerks". Guh-Ross.

Circle jerk was supposed to be an insult to intergroup enabling.

c'mon guys reddit has done a lot -- i mean that time they bought an entire 3rd world village pizza for a week EDIT: it seems I have been misled about the African village pizza story, it never happened

Or the time they helped a lost traveler get back to basecamp using crowdsourcing and wifi hotstops in Europe EDIT: the fact that the lost traveler story was fake somehow eluded me. I missed that, oops

I've only recently looked at reddit. It's hugely overly complicated messy writing everywhere just makes me realise how fucking old man I am.

EDIT: something's on fire

EDIT: somethings been set on fire but we can't see what it is

EDIT: it's a car

EDIT: people are in the car

surely the apologetic/repentant/"there's been change of plans" EDIT device is the first thing to come from reddit to make me laugh.

why tf are redditors so fucking concerned with not appearing as though they've been tricked? just obsessed with exposing liars. you post on a massive site with millions of users occasionally one of them will try to scam or game or advertise to you. it's ok! you're a brony pick-up artist, being embarrassed is your job!

and it's one thing to try to expose someone for lying, it's another to jump on a tiny bit of evidence, assume they're lying and then ruin their whole lives over it. jfc that thread is pissing me off

that "So, what are our worst sins?" reddit thread is a reminder that if the internet had been popular and global before, like, 1985, popular will would've demanded that it be illegal for under 18s to go on it without adult supervision, and you would've needed your drivers license to be put into the system every time you logged on.

http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/1hva4w/child_pornography_a_victimless_crime_reddit_seems/

leaving this here

gintonicisntwater [score hidden] 5 hours ago

You could also turn this around: "pirate more child porn to destroy it as a business." However most child porn is shared in darknets without pay.

"As of right now my 'Pirate child pornography so that it might be destroyed as a business' kickstarter has $0 contributed -- but that's only because it's been flagged for administrative review"

The thing is, that IAMA thread, and the attitude people on that thread had toward someone who'd been downloading child porn, is like not even remarkable for reddit. Think someone on the circlebroke thread points out how reddit reckons it's fairly likely it was just some kids making a sex tape and sharing it, as kids do, 'why assume there's a cp industry'

You're probably right that those attitudes are more widespread than we'd think. What older people think is a small minority of Internet bad boys ruining things for everybody else is usually par for the course for 15 year old dudes hanging out on message boards. At least half the board is down for some pretty nasty opinions and activities if they think they can get away with it

And given the effects that pornography has warping people's sense of normal I think that in twenty years redditors opinion that, say, teenagers uploading sex tapes doesn't harm anyone so there's no crime will be pretty mainstream. The fact that there's even a debate about CP and what constitutes it on a relatively mainstream ("mainstream") website would've been shocking in, like, 2002. Half of their arguments would've been insane then.

There's literally a subreddit called beatingwomen -- as i learned this morning. That's something that is real and doesn't get taken down in 2013

this just sums up so much of what i hate about reddit, from that link cardamon tossed up:

Do not trust the police. They aren't the good guys. It's not a "redditor mentality". It's an "American citizen mentality". I don't care if only 5% of cops are corrupt, raping, beating, shooting, trigger-happy psyopaths (although I'd put the number closer to 50-60%). If 5% of every ginger you ever met shot you in the face after kicking down your door and tazing your mom and killing your dog.... you'd develop a pretty shitty attitude about gingers in general. edit for because I don't words so good

pretty 100% sure the first draft of that did not read "gingers"

Do not trust the police. They aren't the good guys. It's not a "redditor mentality". It's an "American citizen mentality".

lmao these people think theyre sooo smart

That's cause redditors basically are these people

fuck tha police (post ITT if u hate pigs). It's not a "77 mentality". It's an "American citizen mentality".

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1eqngq/was_shays_rebellion_a_false_flag_to_force_the/

lordasshole

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/does-anything-go-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-racist-corner-of-reddit/277585/

It's cool though because somebody once called somebody a cracker so it's all even now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1iefrx/it_appears_chuckspears_rners_mod_was_dunked_by/

"This might be the conclusion of the current dramawave of racist subreddits and subreddit users. As the tide washes out, one user in particular appears to have been dragged away from this site.

http://i.imgur.com/P56jJd6.png (leak)

The message implies that /u/ChuckSpears was... well I have to invent a term for this. See, not only was he shadowbanned, but his alts were banned, his IP was blacklisted, and he couldn't even log into his accounts since the admins changed the passwords AND disabled password resetting.

This is beyond any ban that I witnessed on this site. This is now called getting "Chucked." (thanks /u/billyup for coming up with the term)
"

Wonder if anyone in BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA has ever walked up to this guy and said, "Saaay, you ever think about going by 'Charles'?"

http://i.imgur.com/0RUfcKq.png

*DISCLAIMER: NOT THE SAME GUY FEATURED ON THE REDDIT LINK.

AFAIK

Reddit Gives Cancer Patients a Pizza Party
July 15, 2013

wondering what the best rearrangement of those words is

Party Gives Reddit Patients A Cancer Pizza

ban me

bahn mi

a Reddit Pizza Gives Party Patients Cancer

Nothin' a cancer patient wants more in the world than a hot spicy pepperoni covered in melted cheese.

the patient in this feelgood circular was a child ftr

since nobody itt has posted the original story yet, thread participants are invited to guess how reddit facilitated a childhood cancer pizza party

I'll say that they found a pediatric cancer hospital, ran a flickr/instagram map check of the place, found an account for one of the kids' parents, doxxed the parents, found facebook pages, zoomed in on door of one photo to find what floor the kid was on, called local Papa John's, asked for 10 pizzas to be delivered to hospital floor....