The Reddit hive mind

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I've been frequenting Reddit the past couple of months and its been quite the experience. I think I've figured out why it has such a bad reputation.

There tends to be at least two subreddits for any given topic, on opposite sides of the issue. For example, the Lord of the Rings television show Rings of Power has two subreddits. LOTR_on_Prime and RingsofPower. LOTR_on_Prime seems to consist solely of people who love the show and RingsofPower consists solely of haters. The people on reddit who watch the show segregated into two separate echo chambers, and both places suck to post at if you aren't either a stan or a hater.

I don't particularly like being in an echo chamber, so I've tried to post in the subreddits that have a different opinion than mine. If you do that you get immediately hit with downvotes and negative karma. Had I made the same topics in the alternative subreddit I would have been showered with likes. The way the Reddit karma system operates actively punishes debate and pushes people to find echo chambers and farm positive karma by only interacting with people who agree with them. This seems to be a system specific to Reddit and imo that's why it is inferior to forums. On Sherdog there is one section for each topic. You don't get to create your own safe space where you are free from dissenting opinion.

 

[Osculater]

I only go to Reddit when I'm searching for something in tech, hacks, pirating, and teh pr0n

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

It will be fun when the boardroom /investors say reddit needs more republican leaning users.

 

[Morning Star]

That's nothing compared to the Star Wars subs. The main one r/Starwars is astroturfed with LF employees, then you have r/saltierthancrait a sub for those that hate Disney Star Wars, then there is r/saltierthankrayt a hate sub on r/saltierthancrait that is devoted to anything Disney Star Wars, then there is r/saltierthankrait which is a hate sub on r/saltierthankrayt and hates Disney Star Wars, then there's r/StarwarsCantina which is a sub that unconditionally loves Disney Star Wars and thinks even r/Starwars is too toxic and negative towards Disney Star Wars, then there's r/StarWarsLeaks which is just r/StarwarsCantina but also a rumor sub.

Additionally, you have a bunch of meme subs and subs for each individual project. And the Infamous and multi-timed banned r/Legoyoda 4chan inspired subs.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Reddit has been cancer for a decade. Just go on discord.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I tried going on Reddit a few times, too ugly and displeasing to the eye with a confusing overly complicated layout, ole Pete aint got time for that nonsense

 

[Pittie Petey]

Reddit has been cancer for a decade. Just go on discord.

I tried going on Discord a few months ago, holy moley, talk about confusing, I had no idea where to even start, gave up after like two seconds

 

[My Spot]

I tried going on Reddit a few times, too ugly and displeasing to the eye with a confusing overly complicated layout, ole Pete aint got time for that nonsense

That's where your precious "colonizer" maps come from though.

 

[Pittie Petey]

That's where your precious "colonizer" maps come from though.

Thats why I gotta depend on you to post them, speaking of which...

 

[My Spot]

Thats why I gotta depend on you to post them, speaking of which...

It's not out yet, delicate matters take time!

 

[Zer]

There are some great subreddits I frequent, but for sure you gotta avoid anything political because it's just left wingers jacking each other off and posting the same comments and content over and over again knowing they're guaranteed upvotes

 

[William Huggins]

I only go to Reddit when I'm searching for something in tech, hacks, pirating, and teh pr0n

Did you say pirate porn??

 

[Osculater]

Did you say pirate porn??

Yes, it exists

 

[William Huggins]

Yes, it exists

Space pirate porn?

 

[Osculater]

Space pirate porn?

Probably but I don't know much about the subgenre LOL

 

[davidlemonparty]

Echo chamber is guaranteed due to default filtering being by Popular, and auto collapse of any post with too many negative votes.
Promotes group think

Ladies sure love showing off their bits on it tho

 

[AldoStillGoat]

TS is an idiot. What is this your first time on Reddit? Like what is this, 2014?

Shutup n sit down kid

 

[Hellowhosthat]

It's always going to be that way because people gravitate towards people who agree with them and Reddit is specifically set up like that.

It's like if we had a left wing and right wing war room and let the mods ban people from the other side other than the glorious mess we have instead.

Good for random girls posting pictures of their bits though.

 

[Madmick]

I've heard nothing but bad things about that show, especially from people who have actually read the books.

 

[MDoza]

I tried going on Reddit a few times, too ugly and displeasing to the eye with a confusing overly complicated layout, ole Pete aint got time for that nonsense

Reddit is good for niche topics, but you have to go to old.reddit.com for it to be tolerable.

The new layout, like you say, it terrible.