everybody on ilx complains about reddit

"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....

....nurses ask who they're from. Pizza guy says they were ordered online with credit card. Nurses get weirded out since the name of the first kid is on the delivery label and he died last week. Smell of pizzas make kids nauseous. Mass vomiting ensues. redditors pat themselves on the back and go back to r/asiankittyflattax

lol

ok, so the actual story is very sweet and basically makes me want to cry, but true to reddit fashion, they totally overwhelmed the hospital who had to emphatically tell the community "DOWN, BOY. DOWN."

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ifzly/flight_attendants_of_reddit_you_must_meet_some/cb45tut
top comment
"And this is why the rest of Canada hates Quebec."
haha.. there are a bit more sane comments now but still.

i don't keep track of Québec bashing threads but i should. maybe i could make a little summary of what i understand is the mentality behind this... or give the material to someone else motivated enough to... bah en tout les cas.

they pop-up every few weeks.

"NC here. I tend to steer clear of any and all cars with Quebecistani license plates when on I-95. Those people don't know how to drive."

that's a rare one, makes me smile.
Québécois, yes, they drive like this: *grabs invisible steering wheel* , *crosses eyes*, *tongue out, side of the mouth*, *sort of look left and steers right*

My barber and I were talking about Quebec yesterday. He says there are a lot of LSU fans up there.

recently on the reddit's québec board there was a young american with quebecois origins, fluent in french (3rd generation) (we were impressed, that's rare) that started a discussion , asking what we think of our cousins in the south. that was fun but bitter sweet; we know french was spoken in the usa a lot more before but at one point your gov closed french schools and assimilation did it's thing but i learned that apparently La Louisiane started to hire french teachers in schools and there are projects like making road signs bilingual in certain places . that's pretty cool.

Funny thing is this is about what they sound like in English too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ilcY7Uc9vE

canada is full of racists

also see: the comments section of any news article about any first nations issue

also see: the comments section of any news article about any first nations issue

also see: the comments section of any news article about any first nations issue

http://gawker.com/man-records-final-fight-with-soon-to-be-ex-wife-upload-868449134

My first thought is that they're wanting a reality show deal

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/11/reddit-science-herd/

saw a car with a "KILL YOUR TELEVISION" sticker and a pedobear sticker and thought of this thread

pedobear makes me wistfully miss those halcyon Fark days I spent on the web with Domokun.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1kfoy5/what_is_a_dirty_little_or_big_secret_about_an/

http://31.media.tumblr.com/d95637035b85f008b172ba60e650398f/tumblr_mrzx0o2cnS1qzjoy8o1_500.jpg

lmao

omg lol

http://i.imgur.com/ZcDP4zo.jpg

Those fucking things

The hell is that book