Board 8 > Do any of you here also use Reddit?

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You sound negative

Accel_R8 posted...

Random game boards are always just cancerous AF on this site. 90% negativity all the time. Don't get me started on GameFAQs' wrestling boards, DBZ board, its all bickering and childish bullshit. At least on Reddit you can put people on blast and downvote their BS out of sight.

Issue with Reddit is that if you don't agree with the hivemind of whatever subreddit, you're going to be silenced.

You mean many down votes will silence you?

Default sorting is Top, downvoted comments disappear to the very bottom of a thread. If its a thread with a lot of replies, it's going to disappear. It will stay down there unless you sort by controversial, posts are only "controversial" if they're also being upvoted somewhat and even that doesn't seem to make any sense. Dissenting opinions just get banished to the bottom of the page. Oh, god help you if you're using the official app, which is the only way to view Reddit on mobile anymore since their API changes nuked every third party app.

Another big issue is sometimes subreddits are run by moderators with agendas. Entire boards can be taken down in protests over whatever they're angry about this time. Automod bots can nuke your posts based on AI detecting sentences / words in your post and deciding it breaks an obscure subreddit rule without anyone even checking ("No posts asking X question, post them in the megathread to be ignored!"). Reddit is a cesspool outside a select handful of subs.

foolm0r0n posted...

You sound negative

Bruh have you even browsed boards other than B8? We're pretty chill here but almost every game board on this site I've bothered browsing is just tons of trolling / doomposting. Or if they don't start that way, they devolve into pointless arguments that dominate the entire thread. Genuinely, I think THIS board might be one of the last relatively fine ones left. Really, both sites suck. I will say Reddit can be useful if all you're doing is lurking for info about certain things, often better than Googling for some obscure clickbait website with 90% ads.

And yes I am aware of the irony of sounding negative while complaining about people being negative. lol

Accel_R8 posted...

And yes I am aware of the irony of sounding negative while complaining about people being negative. lol

That is exactly why I don't use reddit on a regular basis. It is just a wasteland full of people looking to make fun of you and troll you and even the mods there aren't much better. At least this website has good mods and admins.
I only have a reddit account for a pokemon usum competition

Accel_R8 posted...

Bruh have you even browsed boards other than B8?

I used to years ago and they were pretty memey and fun. I imagine more try hard games like Counterstrike, or console war ones like Spiderman, would be more angry.