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J_Dawg983 posted...

Tldr, agree with reddit sucking. I'll go there for mtg discussion but god do I hate that place. The amount of circle jerking and karma whoring is disgusting.

Yep. I find the worst part is that the upvote/downvote system, for both submissions and comments, puts the 'hivemind' into hyperdrive. You literally don't have to be exposed to thoughts and opinions that go against the grain, and usually what is voted to the top is low-humour drivel that a 10 year old wouldn't even find funny.

At least with 4chan/GameFAQs/Other forums, (even Facebook lol), comments are sorted sequentially. You HAVE to at the very least glance over the dissenting opinions. Just by reading them you are exposing yourself to considering other points of view, even if you are vehemently against their ideas. With Reddit, unless you actually look for the dissenting opinions, you're just gonna have a big circlejerk. And after a while, this pushes away dissenting opinions, leaving literally the definition of an echochamber where people suck eachother's dicks.

Just today a frontpage post was "Guy caught with sidechick at baseball game" where there was a video of a guy noticing he was on camera at a game, and then taking his arm away from a girl beside him. The comments were a witchhunt, shaming him and trying to expose him/doxx him even. It was later confirmed by the very guy that that was his wife and the timing of him moving his arm was coincidential. This guy actually had to create a reddit account and clear his name because he had thousands of people out to get him.

And don't even get me started on how Reddit views Trump and politics in general. The_Donald is not a great place but if we ignore them, Reddit is straight up unabashedly avoiding critical thought about Trump. He is literally not a great President in the traditional sense, but he has also done a few things of merit. But if you just looked at the Reddit front page, you would think he was worse than Hitler. That he would be the downfall of Western civilization.

Even funnier is that the average Redditor thinks they are smarter than him. The guy who took down America's 2 biggest political dynasties without any outside funding is dumb, nevermind that he turned a couple million dollars into a self-centered brand worth Billions. He owns one of the most famous brands on Earth, is a real-estate tycoon, created a TV show that skyrocketed in popularity to the point of other countries making spinoffs, has written at least 3 New York Times bestsellers, and even before 2015 was one of the most famous people on Earth. Nevermind becoming the literal President of the United States.

But if you browsed the top Reddit comments you'd find hundreds of people sitting on their computers going on about how much smarter they are then him LMAO. He may be a bigot, he may be brash, and I definitely wouldn't vote for him. But that is just too much for me to handle lmao.
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