everybody on ilx complains about reddit

this is a great punchline:

https://twitter.com/chaeronaea/status/657200971576053760

even the dippest of shits should know better than to ever answer such a loaded question.

tho part of me thinks that people who ask such questions seriously deserve those who are foolish enough to answer them honestly.

i really like that fan

like wtf color is it when it's spinning
what if you use colored lightbulbs
i have questions

I hate it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbhgg8nnEVo

Why would you have a fan in the hallway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l89l3_rspo

There's all sort of gothic houses around here with attic fans in the hallway, but that one is just plain stupid.

i take it back, that hurts my eyes

we've probably discussed how half of the "Life Pro Tips" subreddit contains creepy and manipulative shit like this

also lol @ I've done this for the past three jobs and I'm never disappointed with the results.

haha

http://i.imgur.com/Br5locE.png

*Looks around* *Cows walk past*

Goddammit! NOT AGAIN.

LPT: Stop starting sentences with words like Honestly, Genuinely, Literally, Seriously. People will catch on to how over dramatic you are and it will discredit your statements and thoughts. self.LifeProTips

tbh this is the dumbest shit i've read in my entire life

you mean honestly, genuinely, literally, seriously the dumbest shit you've EVER read in your ENTIRE LIFE

I like that they appear either unaware or unconcerned with the meme meaning of
http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/user/2/25509-217160-imagesjpeg-620x.jpg

dude:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CToD1jTWIAApKW_.png:large

whoa not masturbating makes you hella kewl

he misspelled "dammed"

"Day 94 of hard mode"
Uhh

I mean

that cannot be real

lol dlh

as amazing as this is, I don't know if anything will ever top the pure hilarity of "Taste's very strange!"

not jerking it turns you into a combo of bill pullman from independence day and alec baldwin from malice

also a savage

nobody jerked it before agriculture. just another wrong turn.

tbh there are lots of things that cause fits of megalomania interspersed with suicidal ideation and crying and giving up masturbation usually isn't one of them

fartman21, respected by all

omg that is actually his name.

haha dnk that was what hardmode referred to. can't wait for the pulp tribute.

I'm pretty sure that guy is trolling although most of his audience is probably unaware of it and very receptive to his plight.

I thought this revive would be more entertaining. I'll admit I'm a regular lurker on reddit, I've been using for about 7 years off and on and all I can say in its defense is that it's gotten much worse in recent years. Especially this summer the migrant crises etc seems to have really riled up the creepy liberal types. I recently met one of these guys and damn it was yucky, like the TV show V. Went straight from "I'm an atheist vegetarian" to "Maybe Hitler was right about multiculturalism" and discussions of how soon it will be ok to nuke all Muslims.

i think the problem's just scale. you have a community with more than a couple hundred regular posters and the whole thing devolves into an shitshow unless you start heavy-handed moderation tactics, and even those will only work up to a certain point. the saddest community on reddit for me is AskHistorians, which is a giant ultra-moderated community of genuine professionals that puts the hammer down fast and hard on unsourced statements. a couple years ago it was totally fascinating, but now it's just a graveyard of people asking the same fucking questions about hitler over and over again. the flaired people are giving out really good responses, but since the hitler questions keep getting upvoted to the moon the sub is unreadable through the standard reddit ui- you have to jump in the back end and browse through the archives of the pinned topics, which by their nature never get upvoted despite containing all the good stuff.

wtf is with people and hitler

hitler is good imo

whoa man

i think the problem's just scale. you have a community with more than a couple hundred regular posters and the whole thing devolves into an shitshow unless you start heavy-handed moderation tactics, and even those will only work up to a certain point

bingo - I dislike reddit as a whole but there are definitely some cool subs for niche things and a lotta funny absurdist stuff like r/FellowKids or r/WhereDidTheSodaGo.

the problem with reddit is the design imho, voting sorting etc turns a conversation into a lame ass contest that wld necessarily only attract the saddest of players

^^^ excelsiored

like the reddit house style of writing even when pushing the most inflammatory opinions is this extremely beggin ass obsequiousness that often starts w an apology lmao

omg lol xp!!!!

I sub to /askhistorians and most threads seem like its college kids asking for help with their homework.. or for people on the internet to do their homework for them.

But I dont really read it because it does seem kinda nuts. I dont need a bibliography for my fucking internet post.

and of course the whole point of reddits design is to serve up content to ppl who dont participate in the conversation, the ultimate in exploiting online trenchboi unpaid labour

bring back the statscock, imo.

xxp - totally. askhistorians is brought up as the good reddit, and it is free of MRAs and Nofappers and upskirts and shit, but there's also no give and take. It's rarely a discussion, it's one guy responding, excited to use his PhD on 16th century French agriculture outside of a strictly academic setting.

r/HistoricalUpskirts

r/aww, r/animalsbeingbros are still solid tho

here we see on this shard of greek pottery possibly a vessel for storing wine and illustration depicting

the problem with reddit is the design imho, voting sorting etc turns a conversation into a lame ass contest that wld necessarily only attract the saddest of players

yeah a lot of music genre subreddits are really lame because of this, they're almost all just series of youtube links with varying degrees of upvotes, almost no discussion whatsoever

but you do need a bibliography for your fucking internet post! source: i once decided to respond to a question on askhistorians, because somebody asked a question and i was all oh i know this, let me just dig up some sources for this in case somebody calls me on it (you know, like you do whenever you're writing a school paper), and during the process of digging up those sources i found out that the answer was something completely and totally different from what i thought it was. citing sources is boring and lame gruntwork but it's actually necessary if you're even remotely worried about facts.

kind of wish i remember what the question was or what i said, but it was really interesting and informative, trust me.

historical upskirts is a thing but as far as i know it starts and ends with fragonard.

the reason for the hitler thing is because he's lazy shorthand for "evil". on victorian reddit you'd just have a bunch of questions about judas. and when you got bored of that the rest of reddit would just be shitty scans of fragonard.

the "voting" system is a lame watered-down version of slashdot. the theory, i gather, is that you're crowdsourcing moderation, but the reality that is you're actually just mobsourcing, and also that if you have a community that's small enough to work you see everything on the community frontpage anyway so it doesn't make a damn bit of difference. as an object lesson in just how fucking irrelevant your opinion is it's useful, though.

i find the lack of discussion on most music genre subreddits to be a blessed relief, given the typical quality of said discussion.