What is it about Reddit's userbase that makes them so insufferable? - "Edit: Thanks for the upvotes and the gold!"

[Chin of Campbell]

Reddit can be a good place to find information on praticularly specific subjects that lack a greater community hub. Going there will inevitably expose you to its subhuman userbase, however.

What is it about Reddit humor and nuspeak that is so annoying? Why do they all have the same sense of humor and mannerisms? Why (besides deep-seated anger issues) do I want to deck someone every time I see "Holy shit I just spilled my X" or "You win the internet"? Am I just autistic or am I not the only one who feels this way (or both)?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I don't hang out on Reddit so I wouldn't know.

 

[vertexwindi]

Because upboats create circlejerks and incentive people to only post rehashed content. Why bother coming up with anything original if it might not get attention or even disliked when you can post what everybody already knows they like and get thousands of good boy points?

 

[Arctic Fox]

 

[Jeff Heaney]

Usually it's a case of people projecting their own insecurities onto others.

 

[Marco Fucko]

I think what makes reddit's user base annoying is the creation of echo chambers and the enforcement of not going too against the mold by mods. Left or right, hobby or politics, there are subreddits where stepping out of line gets you shadowbanned or just normally banned. So the consequence of this is that it creates a feedback loop where you post FUCK DRUMPF/SJWS and get up votes and gold (fucking lol) and I guess it's just a natural human reaction to be reinforced by that and think it's genuinely the right way to think.

Come to think of it that's pretty much how most communities work, reddit is just a general intersection of normiedom and e-culture so you get more cases than specialized forums like REE.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

• The voting system hides anything controversial. To avoid being hidden, people fall in line with the circle jerk. If you don't, you're hidden from view and it looks like everyone is falling in line with the circle jerk.
• People like things that are familiar, so the familiar gets posted and up-voted. What gets up-voted becomes familiar, so it continues to get up-votes. This is a well established quirk of human psychology and is the reason why the radio plays the same songs over and over, and why pop songs keep using the same four chords.
• Reddit has Super Mods, mods that moderate many big subreddits.
• Many of the Reddit mods are activists that seek to mold communities in their own vision, rather than, you know, moderate the communities.
• Many of the activist mods are super mods.
• Corporations get involved in moderating communities about their products.
• Reddit is filled with normies that think they aren't normies.
• Smug

 

[drtoboggan]

Reddit is full of fags.

 

[Sped Xing]

Yeah, I agree with drtobaggan. The problem is they're faggots.


Last year I went through some :TMI: and my company sent me to a counselor. She told me I should go on reddit and learn about Jordan Pietersen. I did not go back.

 

[kadoink]

I'd say faggotry like r/politics is why.

 

[Black Waltz]

Because upboats create circlejerks and incentive people to only post rehashed content. Why bother coming up with anything original if it might not get attention or even disliked when you can post what everybody already knows they like and get thousands of good boy points?

I know, right?

 

[vertexwindi]

I know, right?

Truly epic.

 

[UN 474]

Reddit, for the most part is pretty good. However, sometimes you come across absolute morons that think their more intellectually superior to other people. If I could shit on their porch, I fucking would.

 

[Lone MacReady]

No one can really be made fun of there besides the "right" kind of people. Any time certain groups are "protected" or coddled over others you're bound to create a bias environment with people walking on eggshells. Censoring more and more content also does not help things. You get the feeling you are being propagandized to the moment you arrive, and without a truly free voice you can't call faggoty topics out.

 

[Terminus Est]

Isn't reddit like a faggoted echo chamber?

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Most subs are circlejerks to the reddit hive mind, and the ones that go against said hive mind end up being even bigger circle jerks.

In other words, they all got teh big gay

 

[PL 001]

Autism. Pure, undiluted autism.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Pseudo-intellectuals that try to be deep.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

I don't hang out on Reddit so I wouldn't know.

do you have any niche hobbies? because r/(your niche hobby) is going to take over the online community and then idiot mods will ruin it.

 

[Piss Clam]

I don't have an account on reddit (why would you make one?), but I have lurked for years.

I only go there for:

Steam on Reddit • r/Steam

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There is so much stupid shit posted there that people become jaded and the mods suck everywhere. Why can't it just be simple shit like removing spam posts.