Reddit's tech section in chaos over censorship

[clamum]

People at reddit take themselves way to seriously. Almost like our video card forum.

Pretty much.

Reddit said that it had acted because the technology community's moderators*had become distracted*by "petty squabbles".

LOL, no shit "petty squabbles." It's a bunch of fucking smug nerds arguing who's smartest and right, what did you expect? What a shitty site.

 

[Rinaun]

I'm going to bet a large portion of reddit's original users were people from sites like 4chan (not just /b/) who simply grew up or didn't like the wild-west feel of it, along with media failures like Digg and etc. For example, 4chan as a whole is a shell of what it used to be since reddit came out. I think reddit serves exactly as what it says it does: it's a giant start page for people looking to entertain themselves on the internet. I'm amazed sometimes that some internet users have never been to reddit before.

That being said, would I feel bad if reddit died or would I support reddit? Nope. I hate the culture and the only reason I visit it is because it narrows down my wasted time between content. When I get off track I can go to the science section and mindlessly watch videos all on the same topic. That to me is the sole purpose of reddit, along with other forum-ish aspects. I do find certain subreddits to be much more helpful for life advice than ATOT in terms of discussing real-life matters. Some of the topics on here get derailed on ATOT so fast by retards.

 

[waggy]

another recent Moderator fuckup was in the /r/WoW one. it seemes one mod who works for curse got a bunch of other mods removed. then brought in more curse employees. They then would delete/remove links to other sites yet upvote the hell out of anything curse related.

 

[Murloc]

another recent Moderator fuckup was in the /r/WoW one. it seemes one mod who works for curse got a bunch of other mods removed. then brought in more curse employees. They then would delete/remove links to other sites yet upvote the hell out of anything curse related.

well reddit is an unregulated source of REAL revenue.
It can send thousands of pageviews to your website.

I'm going to bet a large portion of reddit's original users were people from sites like 4chan (not just /b/) who simply grew up or didn't like the wild-west feel of it, along with media failures like Digg and etc. For example, 4chan as a whole is a shell of what it used to be since reddit came out. I think reddit serves exactly as what it says it does: it's a giant start page for people looking to entertain themselves on the internet. I'm amazed sometimes that some internet users have never been to reddit before.

That being said, would I feel bad if reddit died or would I support reddit? Nope. I hate the culture and the only reason I visit it is because it narrows down my wasted time between content. When I get off track I can go to the science section and mindlessly watch videos all on the same topic. That to me is the sole purpose of reddit, along with other forum-ish aspects. I do find certain subreddits to be much more helpful for life advice than ATOT in terms of discussing real-life matters. Some of the topics on here get derailed on ATOT so fast by retards.

reddit is for cancerous kids 😛
on a more serious note, reddit can gather so many people that you can find really interesting real-life topics. Also a lot of random and played out junk though.

 

[_Rick_]

I do find certain subreddits to be much more helpful for life advice than ATOT in terms of discussing real-life matters. Some of the topics on here get derailed on ATOT so fast by retards.

Ah, but in a way, that is the charm of ATOT.
And at least most of the retards have had their coming-outs months to years ago, so you know what's coming, even before you read their post.

Also, I think there is little cross-topic camaraderie on reddit, which makes it mostly pointless to me. I think I've never really come across worthwhile content over there.

Stuff like this only makes it mor ridiculous, but then the notion of general discussion on reddit in general seems retarded. Why would you go to a "tech" subreddit. Might as well just read slashdot headlines.

 

[DesiPower]

So Reddit is its moderator's b1tch? why cant it just hang its mods by the balls and continue?

 

[Broheim]

I see nothing wrong with what the mods at /r/technology did, it's a tech sub (the biggest one at that), when they allow political bullshit they attract shitposters similar to anarchist420 by the thousands and it just completely derails what the sub is about. wanna talk about snowden? there's a subreddit for that! wanna talk about SOPA? there's a subreddit for that! wanna talk about the NSA? there's a subreddit for that!

if every subreddit was a free-for-all it wouldn't be long before /r/polandball was full of shibe and /r/TumblrInAction would be home to big red. tl;dr shitposts... shitposts everywhere.

 

[DownTheSky]

I laughed entirely too hard at this, and I don't know why.

Because it's full of pussies.

 

[blankslate]

Well it's a good thing that kind of fuckery never happens here.




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