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[Cyberpunkd]

For those that do not know it's a simple Thumbs Up/Down system that allows you to rate each comment. The ones with negative votes are hidden, those with more positive votes pushed towards the top of the discussion.

Does anyone find this flawed by design? That means the comments that are promoted and visible to others are the ones that the majority agrees with, which kills any discourse not shared by said majority. It's the very definition of a Internet opinion bubble.

 

[Kilau]

Reddit=

 

[EviLore]

Yes, it is as you say. Dissenting opinions are punished, majority opinions amplified, which results in self-reinforcing groupthink bubbles. Online communities are already susceptible to that so Reddit ends up being one of the worst offenders. Their super moderator system where a dozen or so people control thousands of subs also doesn't help.

 

[Signalis]

Reddit is a cesspool and echo chamber. But I personally think Reddit is a monitoring system to get all the crazy and dangerous together in 1 place to monitor them. And I also fail to take anyone that uses Reddit serious

 

[Kvally]

It's annoying to read. I don't post there but Google results for answers to inquiries I have take me there on occasion. I search a bunch of automotive stuff and results show there. Then I have to unhide downvoted responses to understand what is being talked about and differing opinions.

 

[DKehoe]

It's one of the reasons I prefer a message board format like we have here. People can react to a post to show they agree with it but it doesn't make that post more prominent.

 

[Dutchy]

Hey Reddit! I'm dying of cancer and need some advice

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fucking hate that place

 

[Cyberpunkd]

It's annoying to read. I don't post there but Google results for answers to inquiries I have take me there on occasion.

Exactly this, I was thinking of patching Thief: The Dark Projects to run on the Steam Deck, all the answers were directing me to Reddit (which turned out to be awesome, I even managed to get EAX sound working).

 

[Hudo]

Toxic positivity.

 

[Baemono]

I mean that's how most of comment sections work nowadays on the internet, on Youtube, Dsqus, Quora, etc.

And this comment definitly didn't go unoticed despite the downvotes

 

[Spyxos]

For those that do not know it's a simple Thumbs Up/Down system that allows you to rate each comment. The ones with negative votes are hidden, those with more positive votes pushed towards the top of the discussion.

Does anyone find this flawed by design? That means the comments that are promoted and visible to others are the ones that the majority agrees with, which kills any discourse not shared by said majority. It's the very definition of a Internet opinion bubble.

The system doesn't really work. Most of the time, the first 5-10 highly rated comments are just stupid jokes.

 

[Poppinfresh]

Reddit is a cesspool and echo chamber. But I personally think Reddit is a monitoring system to get all the crazy and dangerous together in 1 place to monitor them. And I also fail to take anyone that uses Reddit serious

This.

Reddit is a leftwing cesspool and echo chamber that wouldn't exist without porn and other degeneracy.

Most of the main subreddits are controlled by a handful of power users (Ghislaine Maxwell used to be one), and in general, the site is overrun by bots and astroturfed PR campaigns.

I suspect there are also certain subreddits that are used as honeypots by intelligence agencies (both US and foreign).

 

[Loope]

This.

Reddit is a leftwing cesspool and echo chamber that wouldn't exist without porn and other degeneracy.

Most of the main subreddits are controlled by a handful of power users (Ghislaine Maxwell used to be one), and in general, the site is overrun by bots and astroturfed PR campaigns.

I suspect there are also certain subreddits that are used as honeypots by intelligence agencies (both US and foreign).

Lol there are subs literally for everything. How the fuck is it a leftwing cesspool, when i get notifications all the time from extreme right wing subs in my country, only because i engaged once or twice with them? There is everything to everyone, there are literally subs (And one of the most used ones) about europe for europeans and such and in each sub the answers or posts pertaining to the majority of that sub will be voted positively and rise or negatively and be hidden.

 

[Zathalus]

Sort by controversial can help.

 

[dave_d]

Yes, it is as you say. Dissenting opinions are punished, majority opinions amplified, which results in self-reinforcing groupthink bubbles. Online communities are already susceptible to that so Reddit ends up being one of the worst offenders. Their super moderator system where a dozen or so people control thousands of subs also doesn't help.

Well it could be worse like Slashdot. They use randomly selected moderators who pretty much do the same thing as reddit. (Even though the moderation guidelines literally say not to do that.) But what makes it worse is that if you get moderated down enough you get pre-moderated down. What this means is if you don't say the right things right away then you get silenced right at the beginning. I wonder how many people go on that site, get silenced off the bat and then just leave never to come back.)

 

[Poppinfresh]

Lol there are subs literally for everything. How the fuck is it a leftwing cesspool

It's a leftwing cesspool because the entire site skews left. This is especially evident in larger subreddits where any sort of conservative or right-leaning comments will be downvoted to oblivion, while anything remotely left-leaning (especially related to Trump) will be highly upvoted.

Even subreddits that you'd expect to skew right, like /r/christianity and /r/conservative, have been tainted by leftist thought to a certain degree.

Another great example: /r/kotakuinaction, the "Gamergate" subreddit is so co-opted that you can't even mention anything remotely related to troons without your comment being almost instantly deleted.

 

[DKehoe]

It's a leftwing cesspool because the entire site skews left. This is especially evident in larger subreddits where any sort of conservative or right-leaning comments will be downvoted to oblivion, while anything remotely left-leaning (especially related to Trump) will be highly upvoted.

Even subreddits that you'd expect to skew right, like /r/christianity and /r/conservative, have been tainted by leftist thought to a certain degree.

Another great example: /r/kotakuinaction, the "Gamergate" subreddit is so co-opted that you can't even mention anything remotely related to troons without your comment being almost instantly deleted.

Related to troons?

 

[Poppinfresh]

Related to troons?

Trannies. Transgender.

 

[Baemono]

Reddit is a leftwing cesspool

Nah, it's a bot-wing cesspool.

Bots are writing fake stories to farm karma and fake commenters put comments and upvote them.

I think there is barely any human left on Reddit

 

[DKehoe]

Trannies. Transgender.

Ah ok. So how many comments about transgender people would you say you've made that have been deleted?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I've been banned on some subreddits for simply following others. If not for the tits, I wouldn't be on there.

 

[DaciaJC]

Yeah, it's garbage design. I pretty much only visit it anymore because Google Search on a particular question leads me to a specific thread there.

 

[Toots]

For those that do not know it's a simple Thumbs Up/Down system that allows you to rate each comment. The ones with negative votes are hidden, those with more positive votes pushed towards the top of the discussion.

Does anyone find this flawed by design? That means the comments that are promoted and visible to others are the ones that the majority agrees with, which kills any discourse not shared by said majority. It's the very definition of a Internet opinion bubble.

You are absolutely right except you did not seem to take into account that If the design was "getting the most engagement possible to make the most profit", then it is not flawed.

 

[MayauMiao]

For those that do not know it's a simple Thumbs Up/Down system that allows you to rate each comment. The ones with negative votes are hidden, those with more positive votes pushed towards the top of the discussion.

Does anyone find this flawed by design? That means the comments that are promoted and visible to others are the ones that the majority agrees with, which kills any discourse not shared by said majority. It's the very definition of a Internet opinion bubble.

A flawed system run by these people:

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Lefties standard procedure. It's consistent to their ideology, which opposes freedom of speech, or any other freedom outside their guidelines.

 

[Poppinfresh]

Ah ok. So how many comments about transgender people would you say you've made that have been deleted?

I stopped using Reddit years ago, but pretty much site wide anything negative you say about troons will get downvoted or get you banned, no matter how true your statements may be

 

[bitbydeath]

Not all of Reddit is bad.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Lefties standard procedure. It's consistent to their ideology, which opposes freedom of speech, or any other freedom outside their guidelines.

TBH I don't think opposing freedom of speech is only a domain of left-wing organisations...

 

[nush]

Reddits sarcasm detector is broken, they take everything so seriously forget to add /s at the end of a sarcastic comment and expect to get dogpiled and downvoted.

Reddit like Resetera is a good containment site to stop the crazies infecting most of the other discussion places.

 

[DKehoe]

Not all of Reddit is bad.

To be fair, I don't think the people who post there are watching many films, regardless of who is in them. Probably for the best to gatekeep them inside Reddit.

 

[The Cockatrice]

shitposting sub is the best.

 

[AJUMP23]

Didn't Digg work the same way? Reddit is just Digg with a few more features.

 

[poppabk]

TBH I don't think opposing freedom of speech is only a domain of left-wing organisations...

Downvoted

 

[Trilobit]

Reddit is overall a shithole. But on the topic of up/down votes it went even more downhill when they stopped showing the downvotes. You can have a comment on -1 and you're like "not a special post", but in reality it has 100.000 upvotes and 100.001 downvotes. I often sorted by "Controversial" when I was there to get any interesting takes.