I've found some pretty fun and weird subreddits. I posted /r/MyLittleDamon on Thing of Your Day a while back. Also fun: /r/FifthWorldProblems, /r/RedditThroughoutHistory, and /r/whalebait. I find /r/Depression helpful, but obviously it's not for everyone.
Oh, and of course, unsub from /r/politics and /r/atheism. And if someone is crossing the line, confront them, don't just sit wanking in the /r/srs corner and doing nothing.
Then again, that's part of why /r/srs was started, they got sick of people arguing with them when they tried(especially since they rarely won those arguments, pesky facts and logic be damned!), so they started their own little circlejerk corner where nobody disagrees with them, and they never lose an argument.
I've found some pretty fun and weird subreddits. I posted /r/MyLittleDamon on Thing of Your Day a while back. Also fun: /r/FifthWorldProblems, /r/RedditThroughoutHistory, and /r/whalebait. I find /r/Depression helpful, but obviously it's not for everyone.
/r/stormfront, dude, check it out - really nice pictures of incoming bad weather. Personally, I prefer informational subreddits, like /r/science, ELI5, so on, so fourth. Some of the bigger games I play, I might subscribe to the subreddit, and I'm subbed to my local one, though I avoid /r/australia the vast majority of the time, it's a cesspit.
I'm subbed to my local one, though I avoid /r/australia the vast majority of the time, it's a cesspit.
Oh, right. If you're in college, subscribe to your college's subreddit. Some are more active than others, obviously (/r/RIT won a contest for being the largest and most active college subreddit), but it's usually worth subscribing.
To be fair, that was only because you found out that /r/toddlersandtiaras was just a joke subreddit because people wanted to protest the new anti-child-porn policy.
As much as judging an entire community by a single member is bullshit - especially when that community is millions strong - yeah, that guy should be given the old yeller. And this happens every time, too - people freaked when they banned /r/jailbait, too, and a bunch of people vowed not to use reddit again. Though, that's probably a good thing.
Sonic, I can't totally pin down your perspective from those three things. The middle article was offensive. The imgur, the first comic was boring, and most of them were crap, but there were a couple that were pretty funny or sad (in the opposite direction of the way the middle one is sad). The first one is fucking long and I havn't even touched reading it at this hour.
I'm curious, if Reddit knew that these subreddits existed when they took down the original jailbait, how come it took them so long to finally take action now? What about the dead children subreddits? Or how about the beating women subreddits?
I think that Reddit always had a mentality of "we're providing a service, not a community" mentality on anything like this. To them, taking down /r/jailbait would be like the people who developed Vanilla forums attempting to shut down a jailbait forum. They're promoting free speech and giving people the ability to form a community; they aren't actively cultivating, however.
This strategy falls apart when you constantly gloat and praise you're incredible community that buys random people pizza and puts together Secret Santas and shit like that. All of a sudden you're making a No True Scotsman argument where no TRUE redditor goes to those awful places.
On a totally different note (that is what this thread is about... right?), what the fuck happened to Wolfram Alpha? All of a sudden they're charging me for features that used to be free and advertising their premium crap with pictures of cats?
Goddamnit, now I have to go dig up my old TI-83...
Read three links. RAGING SO HARD. The middle article had me seeing red.
Well on the middle one I agree, although I disagree on some parts that are probably not what caused you rage. Fuck the third one. As far as the first no real surprise. If we are talking about racism to some degree I grew up in a town that until 2001 the police in town enforce a store owner's rule that only one black person could be in the story at any given time. Fuck that town. Probably a different kind of racism but racism in general is a problem that will not be going away soon.
Anything and everything in /r/mensrights, /r/seduction...
Point taken. There are some Vile subreddits, and not just in the /r/spacedicks(I advise strongly against checking that out) kinda way. And there is no shortage of vile people, too, I don't dispute that. I'm just saying it's such a multi-layered and often compartmentalized community that you can't take the vile bits as damning the entire thing. After all, /r/randomkindness has as much relation to /r/mensrights any more than the FRCF has a relation to a stormfront forum using Vanilla - though, that's not the greatest analogy, since the Vanilla mob don't brag about their community as a whole.
It's almost inevitable - if you say "Start a community area for ANYTHING!" some people are going to start communities for abominable shit, just as much as people are going to start them for awesome stuff. That's not a defense, however, just an observation.
This strategy falls apart when you constantly gloat and praise you're incredible community that buys random people pizza and puts together Secret Santas and shit like that. All of a sudden you're making a No True Scotsman argument where no TRUE redditor goes to those awful places.
It also falls apart when you're a corporation providing this service - Yeah, the majority of the reddit community ranges from pretty awesome down to "okay, I guess, regular people", and there are even the massive douchebags, but the majority of people being alright doesn't change the fact that your service is being used for some abominable things, and you're not making any move to prevent it. Providing a service is one thing, doing nothing to stop people who are openly lusting over pictures of children is another.
Anything and everything in /r/mensrights, /r/seduction...
Point taken. There are some Vile subreddits, and not just in the /r/spacedicks(I advise strongly against checking that out) kinda way. And there is no shortage of vile people, too, I don't dispute that. I'm just saying it's such a multi-layered and often compartmentalized community that you can't take the vile bits as damning the entire thing. After all, /r/randomkindness has as much relation to /r/mensrights any more than the FRCF has a relation to a stormfront forum using Vanilla - though, that's not the greatest analogy, since the Vanilla mob don't brag about their community as a whole.
It's almost inevitable - if you say "Start a community area for ANYTHING!" some people are going to start communities for abominable shit, just as much as people are going to start them for awesome stuff. That's not a defense, however, just an observation.
I do believe the boundary between Reddit-like pan-community and Vanilla-like segregated service is a lot greyer than many people would believe. It seems to me there are only three things that make Reddit an all-encompassing community that needs to take responsibility for negative content: subreddits are hosted on their domain, users share accounts for all subreddits, and the alien logo comes by default on subreddits.
These three minor design features really shape the creator's responsibilities. The domain issue means that they are hosting whatever content gets hosted, and have the power to act on whatever gets included. The user accounts factor (even though virtually everyone has made at least one throwaway) gives the user a personal identity: someone who visits one of the more suggestive sections isn't just that type of deviant; they are a person whose identity is built by multiple communities, that one included. 4chan can get away with suggestive content because their users are anonymous blobs who have no easy means of communicating outside of a single thread, as opposed to agents that are able to message, collaborate, and talk outside of the public eye. The logo is just a side effect. Even if Reddit were some sort of Vanilla service set up on different forums, if every forum came with the Vanilla mascot, and most forums made their own unique version of vanilla man, they may share an identity that makes Vanilla as a whole a community.
Sorry for the freshman college essay response, I'm just getting increasingly interested in this story and its ramifications. Although I loathe using child porn as a witch hunt, Reddit needs to realize it can't, and shouldn't, attempt 4chan style anarchy. They can do so much better than that.
/r/Spacedicks isn't really that bad. It's bad, but I've seen The Internet before.
I consider myself active on Reddit, but I don't think I'd consider myself a Redditor, meaning I don't use my activity on Reddit as an identifying trait. It's simply a vague cloud of people who happen to have a lot of free time and a knowledge of how to find things on the Internet. I like how it self-organizes so I can subscribe to and browse things like AskScience and Airsoft. I can get some daily funnies from Fifthworldproblems and (sometimes) Funny.
I unsubscribe from things like Atheism, Politics, and Pics so I don't have to be subjected to stuff like that.
I could easily go without it, as I've got separate forums I could go to and get the same thing, but it's easier to use Reddit than have to open separate tabs. Also secret santa was pretty fun. I enjoyed it and got some cool stuff I definitely wouldn't have gotten for myself.
It will be interesting to watch over the next few months (which equate to decades in Internet Evolutionary Time) and see what this means to the actual Reddit.com enterprise. The entire self-managing thing is a great concept but we're seeing what it can turn into here.
With that said, I don't care about /r/srs. They can continue to blow themselves, as I've never seen anything they do actually have an effect. /r/mensrights can continue as well, I'll just stay well away from it. If that shit weren't on Reddit, they'd just be congregating on some other forum or in the mens room at the local Chuck E Cheez to grope each other and reassert their masculinity.
I guess my point is that vile things will always be around. I think what I get from Reddit (Some daily lawls and a lot of interesting articles and the ability to easily get further information on numerous ideas) are enough to keep me browsing there.
Every time I've clicked on a a link to reddit, I've never worked out what to do next, or even where to start reading on the page that I land. In my life I've spent maybe 10 minutes on there, max. What's the big appeal? Do you just have a lot of time to fill?
I have a lot of 1-2 minute gaps of time to fill during the day while I wait for things to load, processes to finish, etc. So it works to fill those little gaps. As well, it's a community, so if one of the dudes on /r/airsoft posts a link to a decent article or something I'll read through it over lunch or something. Same as here.
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Then again, that's part of why /r/srs was started, they got sick of people arguing with them when they tried(especially since they rarely won those arguments, pesky facts and logic be damned!), so they started their own little circlejerk corner where nobody disagrees with them, and they never lose an argument. /r/stormfront, dude, check it out - really nice pictures of incoming bad weather. Personally, I prefer informational subreddits, like /r/science, ELI5, so on, so fourth. Some of the bigger games I play, I might subscribe to the subreddit, and I'm subbed to my local one, though I avoid /r/australia the vast majority of the time, it's a cesspit.
Fuck reddit.
Anything and everything in /r/mensrights, /r/seduction...
Read three links. RAGING SO HARD. The middle article had me seeing red.
http://imgur.com/r/MensRights/TfSDQ
This strategy falls apart when you constantly gloat and praise you're incredible community that buys random people pizza and puts together Secret Santas and shit like that. All of a sudden you're making a No True Scotsman argument where no TRUE redditor goes to those awful places.
Goddamnit, now I have to go dig up my old TI-83...
It's almost inevitable - if you say "Start a community area for ANYTHING!" some people are going to start communities for abominable shit, just as much as people are going to start them for awesome stuff. That's not a defense, however, just an observation. It also falls apart when you're a corporation providing this service - Yeah, the majority of the reddit community ranges from pretty awesome down to "okay, I guess, regular people", and there are even the massive douchebags, but the majority of people being alright doesn't change the fact that your service is being used for some abominable things, and you're not making any move to prevent it. Providing a service is one thing, doing nothing to stop people who are openly lusting over pictures of children is another.
These three minor design features really shape the creator's responsibilities. The domain issue means that they are hosting whatever content gets hosted, and have the power to act on whatever gets included. The user accounts factor (even though virtually everyone has made at least one throwaway) gives the user a personal identity: someone who visits one of the more suggestive sections isn't just that type of deviant; they are a person whose identity is built by multiple communities, that one included. 4chan can get away with suggestive content because their users are anonymous blobs who have no easy means of communicating outside of a single thread, as opposed to agents that are able to message, collaborate, and talk outside of the public eye. The logo is just a side effect. Even if Reddit were some sort of Vanilla service set up on different forums, if every forum came with the Vanilla mascot, and most forums made their own unique version of vanilla man, they may share an identity that makes Vanilla as a whole a community.
Sorry for the freshman college essay response, I'm just getting increasingly interested in this story and its ramifications. Although I loathe using child porn as a witch hunt, Reddit needs to realize it can't, and shouldn't, attempt 4chan style anarchy. They can do so much better than that.
I consider myself active on Reddit, but I don't think I'd consider myself a Redditor, meaning I don't use my activity on Reddit as an identifying trait. It's simply a vague cloud of people who happen to have a lot of free time and a knowledge of how to find things on the Internet. I like how it self-organizes so I can subscribe to and browse things like AskScience and Airsoft. I can get some daily funnies from Fifthworldproblems and (sometimes) Funny.
I unsubscribe from things like Atheism, Politics, and Pics so I don't have to be subjected to stuff like that.
I could easily go without it, as I've got separate forums I could go to and get the same thing, but it's easier to use Reddit than have to open separate tabs. Also secret santa was pretty fun. I enjoyed it and got some cool stuff I definitely wouldn't have gotten for myself.
It will be interesting to watch over the next few months (which equate to decades in Internet Evolutionary Time) and see what this means to the actual Reddit.com enterprise. The entire self-managing thing is a great concept but we're seeing what it can turn into here.
With that said, I don't care about /r/srs. They can continue to blow themselves, as I've never seen anything they do actually have an effect. /r/mensrights can continue as well, I'll just stay well away from it. If that shit weren't on Reddit, they'd just be congregating on some other forum or in the mens room at the local Chuck E Cheez to grope each other and reassert their masculinity.
I guess my point is that vile things will always be around. I think what I get from Reddit (Some daily lawls and a lot of interesting articles and the ability to easily get further information on numerous ideas) are enough to keep me browsing there.