everybody on ilx complains about reddit

phew, good thing they cracked down before neo-nazis and white supremacists felt emboldened to hold public marches and demonstrations or, god forbid, were swept into the white house on a wave of racist populism

It's hard to hold a reductive opinion about reddit nowadays given its sheer size but if you're looking for a 'Worst of', this is as good a place to start as any:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/

It's hard to hold a reductive opinion about reddit nowadays

lol no it's not

Please explain.

I think reddit is 99% garbage

didn't take any effort at all to come up with that one, case closed

reddit sucks

The one thing I read on reddit that would keep me from deleting the entire site is the potato story.

anything you say on a whim, no matter how glib or momentary, is frozen forever in time as a definitive statement. as a result we are drowning in reductive opinions. the internet basically runs on reductive opinions.

the internet basically runs on reductive opinions.

ILX included?

that's a pretty reductive take imo xp

reddit is just a microcosm of the internet at large. most of it sucks, it's structured poorly and is generally unreadable, but there are some gems in there, especially if you've got a lot of niche interests

The one thing I read on reddit that would keep me from deleting the entire site is the potato story.

you're gonna make me ask about this aren't u

xp

frogbs otm

it's the "niche interests" that are the problem with reddit tho

I say we ban all niche interests on the internet just in case.

pomenitul keep in mind that challenging the ilx hivemind is futile.

The worst thing about the internet is that it allows people with niche interests to form communities.

By niche interests I think you mean reductive hate

Let's look at a specific example: /r/politics, which routinely hits the front page. Are the links objectionable? The most upvoted comments? I'm curious.

not just reductive hate, also creepshots, child porn, leaked celebrity nudes &c &c xp

reddit truly contains multitudes

by niche interests I was referring to stuff like r/ween lol

That doesn't count because only euphemisms are allowed.

potato story: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/tifu_by_enraging_the_parents_of_my_girlfriend_by/

ILX included?

ILX especially

I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said "Taste's very strange!"
That is when the father started yelling at me, and the mother kept saying "What are you doing?" and my girlfriend went to some other room.
Finally the father said I should "Get the fuck out of his house" and I said it was irrational to treat me like this just because I never heard of a potato before. Well let me tell you he didn't take that kindly.

I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said "Taste's very strange!"

ok, now I'm convinced: reddit is worth saving

oops

that rogue apostrophe there cracks me up

r/relationships actually tends to give good advice, even though the people posting topics are generally in the midst of some kind of train wreck

anything you say on a whim, no matter how glib or momentary, is frozen forever in time as a definitive statement.

Probably one for the controversial opinions thread but the internet as a whole makes a good case for the Platonic/Socratic argument against the written word.

legal advice is the best one because it needs to just be a single page with the phrase "contact a lawyer" on it but people ask insanely bad questions

xp

Or, conversely, for the written word. Technology is what you make of it, mostly.

/r/AskHistorians is pretty good, though the questions themselves are often insufferable.

that rogue apostrophe there cracks me up

I think about this apostrophe at least once a month

same here

reddit is bad

potatoes are good

(or so I've heard)

garbage in, garbage out. and human beings are garbage.

and that's why my human sausages taste like garbage

/r/AskHistorians is pretty good, though the questions themselves are often insufferable.

― pomenitul, Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just interpret all the questions as /r/domycollegehistoryhomeworkforme

i used to lurk on that subreddit but man that is a textbook case of the people being held back by the format. on the one hand reddit has given professional historians a bigger platform than they've ever had before, on the other hand that platform is more or less exclusively defined by people asking questions about the nazis.

w/e about the rest of reddit, but it can't be seriously disputed that the high pitched noise followed by taste's very strange! Is the peak of literature written in the english language

Most smaller platforms for historians also dominated by nazi questions too tbf

I stopped by a Hacker News discussion of reddit banning Nazis and basically people were like "but how will we come up with an objective test of good vs evil" and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

makes u think

I stopped by a Hacker News discussion of reddit banning Nazis and basically people were like "but how will we come up with an objective test of good vs evil" and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:36 PM

This one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/78v94n/nazi_forums_closed_as_reddit_purges_violent/?st=j9928grz&sh=54618731

The most upvoted comments either agree or argue other hate subreddits should be banned as well, including /r/The_Donald. There's no shortage of vile scum on the site but I'm getting tired of the whole 'everyone on reddit is a nazi' shtick.

This guy in r/writing trying to find a good final line for his sci-fi novel is the best thing happening on the internet right now pic.twitter.com/TIyVsKz68W

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 25, 2017

I don't know what to put for the last line -- maybe I shouldn't have one?

kid you're already done!

oh you have to click through to see what he’s got btw, forgot to mention that part