everybody on ilx complains about reddit

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

controversial opinion: reddit should allow these groups to stay open and operate so that ppl can more easily keep tabs on them

repeating myself from the incels talk, but allowing communities based on hate ideologies access to one of the largest userbases on the internet only results in those ideologies converting massive amounts of the shiftless, reactionary-leaning young men that make up that userbase.

cut it off at the head and you no longer have to keep 'tabs' on anyone (what does that even mean). the ideologues who actually care will slink off to stormfront or /pol/ and the zillions of impressionable users they stand to convert will continue to jerk off to rick and morty hentai or whatever they do to fill the void reactionary political activation would fill

people really underestimate the role of convenience in all this

yeah, really, i have little patience for the whole "if we don't let them promote fascism to the world, they'll form SECRET NAZI CLUBS!". first, they can totally form SECRET NAZI CLUBS anyway. second, good. people like that should be skulking around in the shadows. let them cower in shame and live in constant fear of being exposed for who they are. if we can't get rid of the nazis, i'm perfectly willing to settle for the PROUD BOYS.

controversial opinion: reddit should allow these groups to stay open and operate so that ppl can more easily keep tabs on them

Why? "Yeah, we should give these guys more power, more voice, more say, and a greater ability to attract followers, thereby increasing their influence in society."

We're seeing the results of that now, and it's stab city, baby.

Also, who the hell is keeping tabs on them? Nobody. People just get run over, stomped, and stabbed, and forgotten about.

My probably-shouldn't-be-controversial opinion is cut off their social oxygen and ameliorate the conditions that lead people down this path.

I'd close reddit down just for the endless [29,F] [43, M] detailing, as though that's relevant to the fact that the person asking the question/being asked about is obviously a complete psychopath

Xposts challop(?): Hacker News commenters are generally worse than reddit posters. None compare to the wretchedness of ilxors, of course

Thank you for helping me realize 'Hacker News' isn't some allegorical embodiment of reddit's IT community but an actual news site. I feel like a complete dunce right now.

who's got a screencap of the new wife who threw away pictures of her husband's dead wife

It's here

This might be the most monstrous thing I've read on r/relationships and that is saying A LOT pic.twitter.com/V7gUZU0d2I

— bras in the dryer (@ajlobster) October 27, 2017

dead wife is a helluva drug

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Jesus Christ

that makes me incredibly sad. those poor people. that the person who did it then starts a reddit thread about it is just extra depressing.

it's widower ffs

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