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[Cyberpunkd]

Some of you might know there are some subreddits that will automatically ban you should you be a member of other subreddit (it doesn’t matter if you post there or what you post, the bot will detect it and ban you).

Today I have been lurking and noticed a thread where one user praises men’s attitude of “we will figure it out”, namely staying positive in the face of adversity and believing things will work out. The thread was locked and the mod decided to go off the deep end:

How pathetic human being you have to be if that’s your fucking take? How come in the age of Facebook taking the massive L this forum still operates in this manner?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Just stop going to Reddit man. The problem will sort itself out.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

The weeds have overtaken the garden. It would take a total slash-and-burn reset on moderators and active users to change.

 

[tkscz]

It won't, reddit and BlueSky pretty much thrive off those type of people.

Only thing that would save them is if those people decided to find another place to ruin and leave them behind.

 

[od-chan]

the bot will detect it and ban you).

One of these bots is called u/Saferbot. If you block that account you should be able to avoid some bans at least.

I really hope reddit doesn't die eventually. Yes, I hate it too, everything on r/all is a cesspit (always was) and it gets worse every day; but there are simply way too many niche communities hosted on there that would vanish and take years to form somewhere else, especially in that concentration. I can literally browse my own feed for hours on end and still not get bored. There simply is no other place like that, not 4chan, not TikTok, not Tumblr, not Twitter. So I'm genuienly really worried about all these no life mods who moderate like a hundred subreddits and basically make site-wide policy, like with that ridiculous twitter ban. Obviously if they continue with shenanigans like this and come up with more the platform will eventually become less popular and my niche communities will die out.

Fuck these people, honestly.

And yeah, I know, it's the circle of the internet. Just like how Reddit replaced Digg, something else may replace Reddit eventually. I just don't know if it'll be for the better, speaking in broad terms, especially with how the landscape of todays internet is much more conglomerated.

I hope that spineless fuck spez will fall in line with the MAGA retards or something, at least that way we'll purge the purple haired folx. Obviously this will cause other issues down the line, but well.

 

[Soodanim]

Reddit is a for profit company that does whatever it needs to in the name of engagement. If it sees its userbase disappear it will change tactics like any other company.

Personally I'm not too surprised that someone that created a sub called "Guy Cry" sees anything approaching stoicism or traditional masculinity as a problem. That's exactly the sort of person I would expect to see things in a very black and white way. Even without context for the screenshot you can see he's devoted to his little slice of world and no amount of reality will get in his way.

That aside, Reddit still has value. Not anywhere near the value it once had before the mainstream audience, the public buyout and the bots, but the niche places are worth visiting. You will often find useful comments/posts if you have a tech or game issue, for example. They can serve as long term search engine entries for problems not answered anywhere else.

 

[Pagusas]

it sucks that Reddit is spiraling to the extreme left (just as much as it sucked when I saw this place spiral years ago to the far right and Era being formed with all the vile extreme leftist ever) having both sides be able to talk and not censor each other is what we need in this world, not this constant one extreme or the other being the only allowed way of life. Truly sucks as I like Reddit as a system and area to have fun with fans of like topics.

 

[Fbh]

It sucks either way.
Even in the subreddits that aren't full of snowflakes it's just a bunch of annoying people with snobby attitude.

The only good thing about it is that at least you can google almost anything "+ reddit" and at least find replies by real people instead of shitty SEO farming webistes.

 

[Boss Mog]

Many subreddits have actually banned twitter integration cause of musk's "nazi salute". These are the most fragile of people.

 

[Rush2112]

My favorite reddit story:

There is a subreddit called ‘antiwork’. They had one of their top mods go on FOX News to argue their ‘viewpoints.’ The mod turned out to be just some mentally ill lazy person but on national television for millions to see. The subreddit had to shut down temporarily and tried to distance itself from the mod who basically represented all their viewpoints.

 

[kruis]

Toxic misandry has become a much bigger issue than toxic masculinity.

 

[rubik's dude]

it's just a bunch of annoying people with snobby attitude.

It really is, which is a shame because reddit largely replaced forums, but then went from being a mega-forum to being another social media platform. And like all social media platforms, it thrives off engagement, so negativity and politics.

The best thing to do is to completely ignore the front page, and to only join smaller subreddit communities. That somewhat helps bring back the oldschool forum feeling without any politics or negativity.

 

[AJUMP23]

I think Reddit is awful but I still look at it for movie trailers and gaming info.

 

[Ovek]

It's the defacto safe space.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Reddit always felt like a weird social experience, I think I used it for growing plants tutorials in the past.

 

[Dacvak]

Division sucks no matter how you slice it. (Pun intended.)

I like reddit, and I like GAF. And I like a dozen other places that now thrive on division.

I just wish politics didn’t get in the way of my video game discussions as much as they do. But that’s the world we live in…

 

[Hookshot]

Weirdly when Reddit started purging unsavory communities and it lead to the stepping down of Reddit's CEO one of them was an anti Neogaf sub

The reinvention of Reddit

Reddit has re-hired its co-founder as new chief executive following the resignation of Ellen Pao. Steve Huffman took to the site to discuss its future

www.bbc.co.uk

The 5 subs were

/r/FatPeopleHate

/r/HamPlanetHatred

/r/TransF*gs

/r/NeoF*G

/r/ShitN*****sSay

 

[Garibaldi]

Some subs are fairly useful. I frequently use the Rottweiler one as it's full of people going through the same sort of stuff we've gone through with our 60kg lapdog.

I was on the motouk one tho and yeah it's full on know it alls. I've been riding MTX dirt bikes since I was 3 and road bikes since I was 24 (I'm 43), and had some shitstain argue with me about the spiraling cost of bike ownership till I was blue. His experience was 5 months of riding his 125 on a CBT license. I've been riding 200hp superbikes for over 10 years, but he was right...twat

 

[cormack12]

Wtf is that self fellating rant. Get a grip Joe, you massive asshat

 

[diffusionx]

R/GuyCry? More like R/PussyDry

 

[Badlucktroll]

I have reddit stonk and it GO UP

 

[ManaByte]

Weirdly when Reddit started purging unsavory communities and it lead to the stepping down of Reddit's CEO one of them was an anti Neogaf sub

The reinvention of Reddit

Reddit has re-hired its co-founder as new chief executive following the resignation of Ellen Pao. Steve Huffman took to the site to discuss its future

www.bbc.co.uk

The 5 subs were

/r/FatPeopleHate

/r/HamPlanetHatred

/r/TransF*gs

/r/NeoF*G

/r/ShitN*****sSay

Reddit died when they banned r/The_Donald

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

I post the tamest shit on there and I'm currently on a 3 day ban for 'harassment' ... my comment wasn't even directed at anyone, how can that be harassment?

Fucking retards

 

[Joshmyersbv]

I post the tamest shit on there and I'm currently on a 3 day ban for 'harassment' ... my comment wasn't even directed at anyone, how can that be harassment?

Fucking retards

I worked with a kid at Honda who cried so hard he had trouble breathing. All because a women down the line said her job was "fucking gay". Everytime I see something about Reddit I think of that guy lol.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

I worked with a kid at Honda who cried so hard he had trouble breathing. All because a women down the line said her job was "fucking gay". Everytime I see something about Reddit I think of that guy lol.

Like I live a cushy life so I can hardly talk, but seriously, how the fuck do people like that actually survive if that's all it takes to bring them close to death?

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

"We don't want to bring anything of traditional masculinity for humanity into the new thing that we are building"

Jesus fucking christ. The level of brain rot is off the charts. The thing that makes me smile is how full of hate and complexes these subhuman scums are.

 

[Joshmyersbv]

Like I live a cushy life so I can hardly talk, but seriously, how the fuck do people like that actually survive if that's all it takes to bring them close to death?

Honestly IDK, he got moved to Vehicle Quality shortly after, crashed a car then he stopped coming to work.

 

[Rawbutt Jellybean]

Reddit is only valuable for the 15+ years of random questions that were answered like stack overflow or old yahoo answers.

It's an awful place for actual discussion with the upvotes/downvotes encouraging an echo chamber as well as power tripping mods doing whatever they want.

 

[Lord Panda]

I still use Reddit extensively for Ukraine, Israel war stuff, and the absolute bonkertastic r/UFOs.

 

[Tertullian]

I found that reddit thread and I can confirm that the OP was completely normal and unobjectionable.

What a neurotic, repellent little worm that mod is.

 

[-Minsc-]

Reddit is an internet place of interaction where people can hide behind walls of text and not have to meet others face to face. So, never.

 

[Kacho]

Reddit has never been part of my rotation. I only visit it when I google a random question.

 

[MayauMiao]

My favorite reddit story:

There is a subreddit called ‘antiwork’. They had one of their top mods go on FOX News to argue their ‘viewpoints.’ The mod turned out to be just some mentally ill lazy person but on national television for millions to see. The subreddit had to shut down temporarily and tried to distance itself from the mod who basically represented all their viewpoints.

It was a chef's kiss exposing Reddit mods for what they truly are in reality.



From the comment: This interview was so embarrassing it made me want to go to work" - comment from some dude in r/antiwork

 

[GloveSlap]

It would be so much better if they got rid of moderators and just let the upvotes and downvotes do their thing.

 

[Dacvak]

It would be so much better if they got rid of moderators and just let the upvotes and downvotes do their thing.

But then how am I supposed to pick up chicks at the bar if they don’t know how important my fedora is?

 

[MikeM]

 

[Trogdor1123]

I couldn’t imagine going to a place called guycry…

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Everything I’m interested in life has a retarded version of itself on Reddit, if that makes sense

Like I enjoy horror but sub is trash. I like paranormal but sub is trash

Reddit sucks

 

[bitbydeath]

It’s rubbish. I’ve been tempted to start some of my own reddit subs but without all the asinine rules, but eh, I probably wouldn’t have the time.

 

[MayauMiao]

It’s rubbish. I’ve been tempted to start some of my own reddit subs but without all the asinine rules, but eh, I probably wouldn’t have the time.

You have to quit your job and be a dog walker. That will give you the time as a reddit mod.

 

[bad guy]

I really like Reddit, but only visit drug and niche computer game rooms (or whatever they are called.)

 

[Dirk Benedict]

That place has to endure the inevitable ebb and flow.
Sons of bitches..

 

[SJRB]

Reddit is a leftwing bastion but it will implode sooner rather than later. The way the subreddits are managed by volunteer mods who basically have total control over what happens is absurd.

Imagine running a social networking site where you give volunteers the freedom to ban literally everyone that disagrees with them. You create bots to see what subreddits people visit and preemptively ban anyone that visits the "wrong" subreddits. Can you believe that? Echo chamber lunacy.

And the karma farming, good lord.

"Elon bad" +1000 upvotes
"Trans people are people too y'all" + 15380 upvotes
"Deporting illegal aliens is worse than the Holocaust" + 385392 upvotes
"Everyone I don't like is a nazi and deserves to get punched in the face and fired from their job" + 783765393 upvotes

Nuclear levels of cringe. And don't even get me started on the rampant child predators.

I sometimes visit subreddits for a specific game or a piece of hardware or whatever, but I visit Reddit less and less. I was on there daily not too long ago, now I visit maybe two times a week, tops.

 

[GymWolf]

Maybe it's because i only visit the ufc reddit where i can say the fuck i want, but reddit is a much better place than current youtube now, i swear you can't write shit in the comments without getting a warning...

Never got a warning on reddit.

 

[lifa-cobex]

I like reddit being a snowflake magnet. It contains them and keeps them away from the forums that I like

 

[thefool]

Probably never, people who regularly browse it need recurrent validation, which reddit does a great job at. Eventually it just gets smaller.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

They use Reddit as a tool, a sort of 'reality denier' but when things get really bad like natural disasters, war and electric blackouts they will be franticly looking for army, cops, trades people etc.

Begging for them to come save them. Hugging each other for comfort lol.

 

[killatopak]

I browse reddit but I don't think I post anything in it.

It's incredibly helpful when I'm troubleshooting stuff or have questions regarding some obscure game. Most likely someone else asked the same question and I just look at their answers.

 

[Toots]

I couldn’t imagine going to a place called guycry…

Sometimes you just need a good laugh !

 

[No BBC=Anger]

I couldn’t imagine going to a place called guycry…

Strong ''Remaining Men Together'' vibes off this place.

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