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[NightmareFarm]

On reddit people spend more time mass downvoting you, attacking your post, ad hominems, being as dismissive as possible. or general passive aggressive smartass behaviours more than they do trying to civilly engage in discourse. Especially on the bigger subs. Not to mention how overmoderated everything to the point where some subs feel like you're navigating through a minefield when you try to make a post. Then there's the echo chamber hivemind aspect on top of that with the upvote/downvote system.

I'm glad here there is none of these problems and people/mods are more relaxed.

 

[Lunarorbit]

I've never checked my responses on reddit and I've had an account for 8 years. It's way too big to get to know users unless you get to smaller subs.

On here you can get a sense of who people are and the conversations can run deeper.

I don't think the average reddit user has a good idea of media literacy though. It's way better than the bullshit people post on Facebook but lots of users can't discern fake news or paid advertising from legitimate content.

Not to mention all the bots too.

 

[Yoboman]

We don't have votes we just dropped triggered reactions (see your notifications to learn more)

 

[NightmareFarm]

I've never checked my responses on reddit and I've had an account for 8 years. It's way too big to get to know users unless you get to smaller subs.

On here you can get a sense of who people are and the conversations can run deeper.

I don't think the average reddit user has a good idea of media literacy though. It's way better than the bullshit people post on Facebook but lots of users can't discern fake news or paid advertising from legitimate content.

Not to mention all the bots too.

Yeah I think the more tight knit feel of smaller subs as well as forums like this makes the environment more friendly.

 

[NightmareFarm]

We don't have votes we just dropped triggered reactions (see your notifications to learn more)

People don't post them nearly as much as people downvote on reddit. Not just that the problem with downvotes is that it hides posts/comments so it literally turns subreddits into echo chambers through the algorithm where it's only the hivemind opinion that sees the light of day whilst the less popular posts get buried.

 

[DKehoe]

Reddit is nice for the sheer quantity of stuff on there. You can find a discussion about nearly anything. I don't tend to actually post there, so for me it's more just a feed I've curated of things I'm interested in. Overall I do prefer here. There's a much better sense of a community and I prefer the messageboard method of presenting replies over Reddit's nested one, which can get messy.

 

[SJRB]

Find better subreddits, honestly.

 

[badblue]

I visit reddit mostly for the porn.

 

[The Cockatrice]

other than r/shitposting and news stuff why would you ever go on reddit?

 

[NightmareFarm]

Find better subreddits, honestly.

The smaller subs(below like 40k) are mostly fine I was speaking more in general.

 

[drganon]

Everything is better than reddit.

 

[Azelover]

Yeah I totally agree. And it's gotten a lot better in the last five years or so.

 

[LordOfChaos]

We don't have votes we just dropped triggered reactions (see your notifications to learn more)

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Neogaf is like a small gaming subreddit, sorted by Controversial

 

[Bry0]

Reddit is terrible. Half the posts are stupid unoriginal puns fishing for upvotes or incredibly angry people that need to touch grass. Agree about it being insanely passive aggressive for no reason. Even smaller subs are kind of a circle jerk, it’s so boring. It’s handy for anecdotal solutions to things, but for actual discussion totally useless.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

 

[Sleepwalker]

Reddit sucks in comparison, GAF is great.

The only reason I visit reddit is because there's way too much useful information in there for basically most topics.

 

[Spyxos]

I almost don't even want to post on Reddit. And in 70% I can not even understand why this person has massive downvotes.

 

[NightmareFarm]

Reddit sucks in comparison, GAF is great.

The only reason I visit reddit is because there's way too much useful information in there for basically most topics.

That's the only reason I still browse, there's a subreddit for every niche.

 

[Celcius]

Reddit has a lot of good info but it's really gone downhill recently. I got permabanned on r/news... Someone posted a news article saying that freedom of speech was under attack in America and literally all I commented was "it's under attack on Reddit too". BOOM, the mods permabanned me (thus, proving my point ironically). Then when I PM'd the mods to ask about it they blocked me from being able to message the mods for 28 days.

...then 28 days later I asked for an unban and then again they blocked me from being able to message the mods lol. The moderation on reddit is a joke.
Plus they're just about to make some API changes to try to kill 3rd party Reddit apps.

edit: Thanks for the gold Con_Z_ǝdʇ !

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Most sites are much better than reddit.

 

[TGO]

Obviously, this is..

 

[Aesius]

When I post in default reddit subs (or just big ones in general), I usually turn off inbox replies. I'll go back and check the post a day or two later and read them then, but I don't need a notification every time some random asshole wants to post a pedantic "ackshually" rebuttal to what I said.

 

[diffusionx]

The point of reddit is not to have a conversation, it is to enforce a top-down social consensus.

When I post in default reddit subs (or just big ones in general), I usually turn off inbox replies. I'll go back and check the post a day or two later and read them then, but I don't need a notification every time some random asshole wants to post a pedantic "ackshually" rebuttal to what I said.

this is the guy responding to you

 

[NightmareFarm]

The point of reddit is not to have a conversation, it is to enforce a top-down social consensus.

this is the guy responding to you

Hahahaha. Accurate.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

I visit reddit mostly for the porn.

PM?

 

[NightmareFarm]

When I post in default reddit subs (or just big ones in general), I usually turn off inbox replies. I'll go back and check the post a day or two later and read them then, but I don't need a notification every time some random asshole wants to post a pedantic "ackshually" rebuttal to what I said.

Ugh. Those passive aggressive "well ackshually" neckbeard responses with paragraphs of waffle(that could be consised into a few sentences) filled with italics formatting to try to make their comment seem intelligent.

Nothing is more soul draining than dealing with redditors. The addition of a functional block button introduced in 2021/2022 was the best change ever made to the site, honestly.

 

[jufonuk]

We don't have votes we just dropped triggered reactions (see your notifications to learn more)

 

[Portman]

Being a fan of the format of a forum like this I've never understood the layout of reddit. Sometimes you can find relevant information but between people trying to get points or whatever it is called for posting random BS and the strange nested comments along with voting you can miss relevant information easily. It baffles me that after a few replies to something it turns into having to load new pages for each reply under that (unless that it due to my lack of an account there).

With a traditional forum like this you can read the whole thread and learn relevant and sometimes "bonus" information since it is all there and not voted on. And the moderators do well to keep things in line but don't randomly sit on their mountaintop passing judgement like reddit moderators apparently do.

I admit there are a few I visit and gain interesting and helpful information from but it sure feels like a needle in a haystack approach even slogging through the posts on specific areas.

 

[V1LÆM]

That's really not saying much. Reddit is a shit hole. They should remove the downvote button so users can't nuke something they don't like (I know some subs do this) and they should maybe hide the numbers so people don't obsess over it.

This place has flaws as well. You might not be able to get downvoted but you'll get dogpiled and if you have the wrong opinion you have a good chance of getting banned. You need to toe the line on here as well. Of course if someone is out of order being an asshole/troll then fair enough but you just need to look at the ban page to get an idea of what people get banned for.

 

[NightmareFarm]

That's really not saying much. Reddit is a shit hole. They should remove the downvote button so users can't nuke something they don't like (I know some subs do this) and they should maybe hide the numbers so people don't obsess over it.

This place has flaws as well. You might not be able to get downvoted but you'll get dogpiled and if you have the wrong opinion you have a good chance of getting banned. You need to toe the line on here as well. Of course if someone is out of order being an asshole/troll then fair enough but you just need to look at the ban page to get an idea of what people get banned for.

I'd say this site is better than a lot of other forums i've been on too. IGN boards was horrible and the moderators were complete tyrants who actively patrolled threads "Enough with the bickering and keep the discussion on track or i'll close this thread down" was a regular thing on there believe it or not. People in the gaming sub forums on that forum are also complete brand fanboys and general toxic assholes who gang up on you.

Here people at least act like civil human beings. There's always going to be some sort of circlejerk bias on online discourse but it is less apparant and people are more civil about it here than on a lot of other websites i've browsed. I can't say i've ever really been attacked maliciously for my opinions like I have on reddit, even when I was shilling for Forspoken. The most you'll get is laugh reacts. I have not really experienced problems with the mods here except for one time I got a warning for making a joke criticising sony fanboys but that's about it, mods seem to take more of a hands off approach here which is great. There's always going to be some degree of corruption or bias with moderation, but trust me it could be so much worse...

 

[Paltheos]

It's an interesting experiment but inferior to traditional forums as a form of social media imo. Theoretically the best posts should be the ones at the top of any reddit discussion but people can't really help themselves and will upvote anything snappy or they agree with and at worst downvote things they just don't like the sound of (I'm not factoring in whether they even think on it). Any large-scale subreddit can easily become a shitty echochamber as the system by its nature gradually excludes opposing and moderate positions (even well-thought out, moderate posts that don't offend a sub's prevailing sensibilities won't be *first* and won't benefit from the most eyeballs).

Traditional forums like GAF have the issue of good posts getting lost in the 'between pages' - anything not the first or current page - but this outcome is still preferable to reddit's as extreme positions have a harder time taking hold in the culture since any one post will have only so much visibility.

Also, anyone else get bothered when you open up a reddit topic on the front page with 1k+ responses and think, "What are these people doing? A thousand people posted in this topic. Your post is never going to be seen by anyone." I had a thought as I was typing up this post: What these people really want is a traditional forum; they just don't know it or don't see an alternative.

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

I think of gaf as a mix between reddit and v. Reddit is an overmoderated dumpster fire of people agreeing for upcummies and v is an unmoderated coomerbait dumpster fire.

NeoGAF hits that nice middle ground of keeping discussion grounded without going too crazy. It is pretty cozy, you still have to behave here but you can let loose a little without fear of a tactical nuclear banhammer falling on you for seemingly no reason.

edot: I love how everyone in this thread is universally shitting on Reddit lmao

 

[NightmareFarm]

I think of gaf as a mix between reddit and v. Reddit is an overmoderated dumpster fire of people agreeing for upcummies and v is an unmoderated coomerbait dumpster fire.

NeoGAF hits that nice middle ground of keeping discussion grounded without going too crazy. It is pretty cozy, you still have to behave here but you can let loose a little without fear of a tactical nuclear banhammer falling on you for seemingly no reason.

edot: I love how everyone in this thread is universally shitting on Reddit lmao

Accurate.

 

[sono]

Reddit is just some random posting thing. You may as well ask 100 people in the street.

Nothing like Gaf. Where we are all educated professionals



Oh wait

 

[KrazyKrelian]

Reddit is ok if you ignore crap like whitepeopletwitter, antiwork, and twoXchromosomes. More than half the posts in those subreddits probably originate from Russia/China.

 

[Walter Matthau]

r/popular went to shit years ago when the top posts started becoming weird rants about circumcision or how the pledge of allegiance will lead the children of America to become Nazi Germany.

We’ve learned that Russia, and likely others, use sites like reddit and social media platforms to plant discontent and/or misinformation. Basically, it’s an attempt to get all of us in the West angry at one another and it’s working very well.

If you want to use Reddit, stick to subreddits you like and trust and ignore the main page altogether.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I think of gaf as a mix between reddit and v. Reddit is an overmoderated dumpster fire of people agreeing for upcummies and v is an unmoderated coomerbait dumpster fire.

NeoGAF hits that nice middle ground of keeping discussion grounded without going too crazy. It is pretty cozy, you still have to behave here but you can let loose a little without fear of a tactical nuclear banhammer falling on you for seemingly no reason.

edot: I love how everyone in this thread is universally shitting on Reddit lmao

Well said, and explains exactly why I wound up here. Reddit is too authoritarian and /v/ is too close to /b/ for me.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[PSYGN]

All the frontpage subreddit comment sections devolve into politics, but the smaller/niche subreddits usually stays on topic.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

The best way to use reddit is just google shit and if reddit has any relevant links then you click and visit…

 

[Esca]

I find it to be a great resource of information for specific things

 

[BadBurger]

Reddit is great if you need to find specific info or connect with a community for some kind of interest, but yea it's really impersonal and the moderation is resetera tier cock levels.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Other than reddit having a higher userbase and more activity, it's more limited in terms of being jokeful and leans a little on the politically correct side.

This place has the right balance for me. It's one of the main reasons I came back. Freedom of speech is super important in this day and age.

 

[diffusionx]

r/popular went to shit years ago when the top posts started becoming weird rants about circumcision or how the pledge of allegiance will lead the children of America to become Nazi Germany.

We’ve learned that Russia, and likely others, use sites like reddit and social media platforms to plant discontent and/or misinformation. Basically, it’s an attempt to get all of us in the West angry at one another and it’s working very well.

If you want to use Reddit, stick to subreddits you like and trust and ignore the main page altogether.

the idea that all this division is because of Russia "and likely others" is just nuts. We've been sorting ourselves for decades along ideological grounds.

 

[ReBurn]

Having your eye put out with a sharp stick is better than reddit

 

[Mistake]

Reddit is great for trolling and farming downvotes. There’s also no email verification, so you can use anything you want once you get shadowbanned

 

[NightmareFarm]

All the frontpage subreddit comment sections devolve into politics, but the smaller/niche subreddits usually stays on topic.

The small subreddits(below like 40k) are the only tolerable ones where people don't act like smart aleck douchebags and isn't overmoderated.

 

[KrakenIPA]

I'm a mobile user and I would pick GAF over reddit, mostly based on the functionality of engagement. Also, I started lurking this site way before reddit was an idea.

 

[WhamBamThankYouMaam]

I have been on Reddit since it popped up, and I have many accounts there for various interests.

I don’t think I have ever noticed a username. Everyone there is just information.

Then again, I have been visiting Neogaf forever and the only names I remember are evilore and some previous mods.