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It's just that simple. I have never once seen a positive comment on here about reddit, and everyone acts like we're so much better. We're not, and they don't care about us, so why are we all up in arms and ready to shit all over anyone who dares to imply they're not awful?

It's nothing too personal, really. People shit on Reddit just like how they shit on 4chan and Tumblr by exaggerating their negative reputations, and it eventually becomes a bit of an in-joke. Reddit doesn't give a shit about KYM and let's leave it at that.

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You pretty much just summed up this site.

Reddit unfortunately has existed for long enough now that people think it's okay to ignore that it's the biggest fucking circlejerk on the Internet.

That’s another one, all dissenting opinions are banned

I don't hate it but reddit culture is very annoying e.g. cake days, upvotes, constant memes being made and killed

I think JC and smol nozomi summed it up nicely.

It should also be noted that while many sites have a voting system, reddit's layout and function makes it much more conducive to the whole hivemind and upvote farming things.

You could say the same thing about us tbh

ironically, hating reddit is, in of itself, a circlejerk.

I am fine with reddit existing. Every negative thing they do and have would pass on to some other similar site if they did not exist, as we corroborated with Tumblr's downfall passing on to Twitter, so really, containment sites are actually a good thing. Imagine if all the fringe subreddits were scattered all over the internet instead of on their own, weird spaces where we can choose not to see them instead.

Reddit is basically 4chan but for normies.

Reddit is great. Whenever I have a question about anything I simply Google "[question] reddit" and nine times out of ten there's a good answer available.

Say what you want about the site's culture, at least they usually get straight to the point when answering questions. Meanwhile if you ask Quora anything you get some guys with broken English from Maharashtra who have to spend three paragraphs grandstanding about their high IQs before giving you any useful information.

Do you ever make a single post without saying something about how much you hate tits?

I support him on this. Afterall, without a way to banish these pictures, it is annoying to play minesweeper, trying to avoid another anime girl being shown with exaggerated breasts/behaving light headed/ both, hundred-fiftieth image of some kind of furry who possess first from anime, and Ponies ( to a lesser extent Pokémons) bombardiering every gallery. Really doesn't make viewing this site good for its primary purpose

I'll use reddit on occasion to find some obscure things (an Escape Velocity Nova rom most recently) but I loathe discussions there on hobbies I pursue. I get more mileage out of inquires I make on /tg/ for wargame lists, DM advice, and brainstorming than I do from reddit. I think it has something to do with people in general there being both more enthusiastic (read: autistic) about the hobbies. and not being pressured by the username and karma system to post in an appeasing way (be it in a way positive to OP or an amusingly contrary fashion for other commentators).

That being said /tg/ has its own faults for lacking said systems, hunting for (you)s encourages people to post in a way that gets more responses, which leads to a lot of bait threads. But so far I like the results I get out of /tg/ more than what I see come out of reddit.

Side note: Despite karma being a thing here I don't feel like long-term users here are influenced by it. I think the "mission" of KYM being documentation and research makes users here a bit gung-ho about "debunking" each other, for better or for worse.

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That's quite… something. Can you give me an example of these types of annoying respondees?

Reddit is responsible for the holocaust

Imagine if all the fringe subreddits WERE scattered all over the Internet.

The problem I have with reddit it how it gutted very niche communities left and right because it starts with some schmuck deciding to make a subforum. When you have a genuine interest in a piece of media or topic, even if it is negative or political, you'd better enjoy your subreddit where they do nothing but censor, whore for 'ups' and neglect any meaningful discussion. Even if discussion happens, it's effectively killed in a matter of days because of the rating system.

The days of small comfy forums are waning because of giant entry-level Internet forums like this continue to kill them off. I guess you will never know what it's like to witness a dying community you love being resurrected into a husk on Reddit because in the end, Reddit will exist and everyone will be fine with it.

Reddit is exclusively where communities go to stagnate and perpetuate, and it's depressing to watch. If you or anyone else don't understand, then it's not your fault, and you probably joined the Internet at a better time where you don't have to see this degradation.

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For the upvotes (button on the left btw) B)

Reddit is one of those communities that has an unreasonably high sense of self-worth. You look at a lot of other communities and they generally view themselves in a middle gound of being "good" and "bad", but reddit has this air of being so full of itself, it kind of taints the people on it.

Jokes and bashing KYM aside, others have mentioned that reddit is infamous for being a massive Site Wide Circle Jerk where other opinions on a subject matter is downvoted into oblivion. That plus a lot of sub reddits happen to have Karma Whoring out the ass. Really reddit is only good enough for niche hobbies, a subreddit for a game you like and porn. Isn’t really that great for trying to have in-depth discussions when most would rather cover their ears when someone says an opinion that isn’t the status quo.

I like reddit and use it somewhat, but I see two big problems with it that contribute to reddit hate

1. It's mainstream. Not only do the largest subreddits fall in-line with popular consensus in terms of politics, tastes, values, etc., but they often present a brand of "Edginess" that is in effect actually safe and conformist. People who think saying "Fuck" automatically makes them counter-culture. Also, the "le wrong generation" people came from reddit, people convinced that liking some of the most popular music of all time (Beatles, Queen, The Who, etc.) was somehow unique.

2. It's insular. A lot of reddit humor, discussion, conventions, and even subreddits themselves revolve around other stuff from reddit. Some examples: cake day = celebrating the day you first signed up for a reddit account, top upvoted posts are usually some meta-joke about the subreddit itself, and entire subreddits are dedicated to other reddit content (subredditdrama, circlejerk subreddits, subsifellfor). The discussions are also prone to derailing and switching to inside jokes as the reply chain goes on, you'll see a lot of unsolicited movie quotes and "Is this a Jojo refernce?"

That being said, I've found reddit to be pretty good for

1. Fandoms. Subreddits for specific franchises act as a good central hub for fandom, notifying people as soon as the official content comes out, proliferating community-made content, and allowing people to discuss it all.

2. Specific focuses. Stuff like Japanese music, history memes, photos that look like renaissance paintings, etc. Stuff that is specific enough to be unique, but with enough breadth to keep making good content.

3. Porn.

Honestly, Reddit is a great site as long a you subscribe to the right subreddits. If you're just going by front page lowest-common-denominator garbage, then yeah, it sucks. If you weed the circlejerks, karmafarms, and political subs, it becomes a fantastic way to get content that you can tailor to your interests. You get out what you put in.

Aside from that last part, I agree. Reddit can actually be a great site to use for certain things and in a certain way. The issue is finding a subreddit which doesn't have all that trash and is consistent about it's behaviour. It's harder than it should be and sometimes you need to take what you can get if it's the only community focused on your thing of interest.

Thats true for most websites, but reddit is different in that mods are more ban happy there than any other website I know of. You don't even have to break the rules to get banned either. I would get banned from subreddits that I never even visited before.

Literally only use reddit as the new version of Yahoo answers where I type "(Subject) reddit" then just make a question post.

If you ask me Twitter is 500 times worse. You have to go out of your way to find a cringey subreddit post, you could follow someone on Twitter who makes great content but then they retweet horse shit 90% of the time and even then you get the posts no one even liked or retweeted it just says "___ follows this person" and its always some annoying garbage.

At least you get exactly what you want out of Reddit. You're not gonna click on a dog subreddit and get a bunch of retards arguing about gender

Reddit is good for the most part. I spend a lot of time in various fandom or interest/hobby-related subreddits, where there's a lot of good art, topic-related memes, interesting discussions, and helpful info and advice. I am also on many cute animal subreddits because c'mon, cute animals are good. And yeah, I'm on some of "those" subreddits, the ones that are really big, usually post content that's funny in some way, and get YouTube videos made of people reading posts from them(badwomensanatomy, mildlyinfuriating, therewasanattempt, etc.) And while yes, I am on r/dankmemes, I honestly don't use it much. Most memes there are SHIT. Reddit is FULL of those kinds of memes. Screenshots of tweets, images of funny headlines with a random reaction image tacked on the bottom, simplistic 4-panel comic edits, object labeling memes, TIDLs. The cycle of memes is: person finds mildly funny image, everyone else beats it to death; or person finds a funny subject to joke about, everyone beats it to death. It's the kind of shit you see in comment awards, which is honestly what's responsible for meme culture becoming this low-effort, uncreative garbage.r/memes is just dankmemes with some dead memes and advice animals tossed in. Prequelmemes and marvel meme subreddits are decent I guess(although the latter often suffer from nonstop Endgame formats). For good meme subreddits, I like bonehurtingjuice(mostly simplistic but some really good shit pops up occasionally), dogelore(memes on here are pretty high effort and usually have storylines), LodedDiper(not really memes, high effort shitpost fanfics would be the better way to describe it), and okbuddyretard(lowbrow, simplistic but not lazy, good plain stupid humour.)

One thing I can say about Reddit is that it's very easy to see predict what will happen in terms of discussion.

A not heterosexual couple that are also of color? Locked and a huge wave of comments are removed.

Example

A female on camera on a gaming subreddit? Locked.

Example

And especially, if you have a pitbull as a pet, it'll definitely be locked.

Example

Reddit is extremely accessible, promotes hive-minds (content, sentiment and stances) and encourages users to feel as if they're part of something exclusive because they understand the lingo, in-jokes and features of the website.
It is the most normie and open website on the internet but it endears the users to feel otherwise, like their an exclusive club.

This leads users to try so hard to be popular, when popularity is determined by karma, users put in as little effort as possible into posts, hence the inundation by slap-dash memes, 1-liners and content pandering to the community.
They're insufferable.

It's only upside also contributes to all of its negatives; all content is saved so there's an easily accessible repository of content.

I honestly enjoy using reddit for what it is, but I'm not a fan of what you'd call "reddit culture". Same goes for twitter. I use twitter a lot, but "twitter culture" is the worst.

Yeah, he was trying to start a brigade from that subreddit. I'm actually the one who reported him immediately preceding the ban, so…

I mean, assuming a bunch of others didn't also report.