The appeal of reddit

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ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
37,989
18,334
146
The interface drives me away everytime. The phone app is better, but not a fan of apps as I care about privacy still.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
52,929
5,802
126
I don't get Reddit myself and don't visit it just to read discussions, however I have found quite a bit of useful information when googling stuff that I'm trouble shooting.

I was trying to get a Raspberry Pi3 setup over the weekend with my buddies RetroPie image and ended up going down a rabbit hole but in the end, a lot of the instructions to get me out of this hole were from posts on Reddit, so I can't discount it for it's usefulness.
 

Thebobo

Lifer
Jun 19, 2006
18,592
7,673
136
I found the site just awful to navigate, nothing made sense.
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I still find it awfully awful, still. Everytime I tried to pick it up it feels like two seven inch spikes being driven into my eyes.
 

Staples

Diamond Member
Oct 28, 2001
4,952
119
106
I like it for adult content.
It is basically a giant organized message board.

I think a lot of the decline of forums such as this one are due to reddit and social media where you can discuss with your friends and not random people on the internet.
 

quikah

Diamond Member
Apr 7, 2003
4,085
663
126
I like it for adult content.

Surprised it took this long...

I never had a problem with the interface, but now that I think about it, the topics that are just links to other websites is annoying. I use Readit app on Windows, takes care of that problem as the article and the comments are loaded together in one pane. I need to find a better app for android, the official one kind of sucks.
 

Red Storm

Lifer
Oct 2, 2005
14,233
234
106
I like Reddit for stuff like NBA discussion, both for the hilarious stuff and if anything newsworthy happens, it is posted to the NBA subreddit almost instantaneously. It's also great for information and troubleshooting random things.
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
52,856
1,048
126
Content is good, just don't like the posting interface there.
 

disappoint

Lifer
Dec 7, 2009
10,137
382
126
How to find yourself visiting Reddit a lot: getting banned from ATOT for a few days.

Or just tired of the slow updates, lack of content and lack of people who specialize in, have first hand experience of or extensive, accurate knowledge in what you're interested in including various takes from many people.

This site seems to have been run by folks who were more interested in learning from the mistakes of others rather than the success of others or oppressing people who are flawed all the while not realizing they are flawed themselves.

If they knew what they were doing, and cared to improve the forum traffic they would study what makes sites like Reddit popular rather than subscribe to the Donald Trump school of human behavior analysis of dividing people up among the "assholes vs. good guys" (their words not mine). In Trump's case it was the "genetically superior vs. genetically inferior people" which is a similar black and white view of human behavior instead of realizing the many shades of grey and complexity thereof. This is a natural attempt of their minds to oversimplify things because it's easier and faster. Not entirely their fault as they don't realize they are doing that or why.

We all have this tendency to want to oversimplify complex issues because we evolved from our ancestors who had to make quick decisions in order to survive thousands of years ago when they had to quickly identify friend or foe or be annihilated by a predator.

While the impulse to oversimplify exists in all of us it can be overcome by realizing it has no place in certain situations of modern societal interaction and making an effort to further study the issue at hand until it's more fully understood before making a decision on a course of action.

In other words, stop banning people out of fear and let the forum users decide who they will choose to ignore. Reddit and Imgur's solution is to auto ignore posts with a very high downvote score. While that system can and has been abused at times leaving good posts with a high downvote score for no good reason, it's abuse is rare but when it happens there is a teaching opportunity by shedding light on an inherent problem in the Democratic voting system in a populace that sometimes lacks the reason and judgment to vote fairly, justly, intelligently, correctly and in their own best interest.
 
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