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Post by hi224 on Aug 28, 2021 10:41:45 GMT
I mean not all the boards I'm at are bad, but some boards such as the movie Reddit forum will downvoted you for having an opinion they simply don't agree with, it's like a sort of toxic madness. I posted a mini review for Respect which got downvoted.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 29, 2021 1:58:27 GMT
Reddit is not very good for discussion for several reasons, they make it easy to have multiple accts and upvote your own posts while quickly downvoting other's posts. Once you get a few downvotes your post is hidden. People will mindlessly upvote anything that sounds convincing or already has been upvoted. The most popular answers to questions will be the top google result, regardless of whether it's the correct answer for the question, so it's an awful place for advice. Mods of a forum have the ability to award 1000 upvotes to a post to help promote it, so if you ever wonder why a post got popular very fast, that's probably why. If you reply more than a few hours after something is posted, your reply will probably be ignored. If you reply more than a day, you'll probably be ignored or criticized for responding to an old post. But sometimes I find interesting and insightful perspectives which make it worthwhile. Edit, oh, and it's overrun with bots that will downvote you on certain topic. A few times I've gotten more downvotes than all the upvotes within a post combined, within a short time, no way that happens except with bots.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 29, 2021 4:04:27 GMT
Reddit is not very good for discussion for several reasons, they make it easy to have multiple accts and upvote your own posts while quickly downvoting other's posts. Once you get a few downvotes your post is hidden. People will mindlessly upvote anything that sounds convincing or already has been upvoted. The most popular answers to questions will be the top google result, regardless of whether it's the correct answer for the question, so it's an awful place for advice. Mods of a forum have the ability to award 1000 upvotes to a post to help promote it, so if you ever wonder why a post got popular very fast, that's probably why. If you reply more than a few hours after something is posted, your reply will probably be ignored. If you reply more than a day, you'll probably be ignored or criticized for responding to an old post. But sometimes I find interesting and insightful perspectives which make it worthwhile. Edit, oh, and it's overrun with bots that will downvote you on certain topic. A few times I've gotten more downvotes than all the upvotes within a post combined, within a short time, no way that happens except with bots. so bots are what do the downvoting.... ah.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 29, 2021 4:12:46 GMT
so bots are what do the downvoting.... ah. Some of it. Obviously, there are people downvoting, but social media is lousy with bots. More than most people would even believe.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 29, 2021 10:26:45 GMT
Choose to never use it.
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Post by kls on Aug 29, 2021 12:41:51 GMT
It does get ridiculous on one of the boards I like to post on related to a favorite past tv show. A mod even posted a message about the downvote button not being a disagree button, but it seems to be ignored by several people.
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Post by Mia on Aug 29, 2021 16:11:52 GMT
Too impersonal. Hate it.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 29, 2021 16:38:13 GMT
It does get ridiculous on one of the boards I like to post on related to a favorite past tv show. A mod even posted a message about the downvote button not being a disagree button, but it seems to be ignored by several people. I mean my post about certain people not liking Hanks in Road to Perdition was downvoted to hell. |
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Aug 29, 2021 16:45:15 GMT
Like the Youtube comment section, Reddit is also cancer.
It seems like all the morons in the world converge on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 29, 2021 17:57:11 GMT
I got banned from Saltier Than Crait for mentioning Rian Johnson got nominated for an Oscar. Good times.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Aug 29, 2021 21:41:02 GMT
I usually just post what I need to say without wanting to enter into a back-and-forth with a responder, whether they agree with me or not. I never even check my notifications when someone replies, lest I get too sucked in to some ultimately meaningless conversation.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Aug 30, 2021 2:27:55 GMT
It’s become an absolute cesspool of the left-wing. And I’m fairly liberal.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 30, 2021 5:11:47 GMT
It’s become an absolute cesspool of the left-wing. And I’m fairly liberal.
It's a cesspool of both wings, but mostly of people who don't want to make waves and go along to get along.
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Post by onethreetwo on Aug 30, 2021 5:21:07 GMT
I don't post but I lurk the Nintendo Switch, Animal Crossing, and MTVChallenge boards. I don't think those boards are toxic, just really boring, mostly. Like being in a classroom with all the students on their best behavior. No controversial opinions to be found. In my experience, anyway.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Sept 20, 2021 13:10:14 GMT
Last night I got permanently banned from posting on one of the subreddits because of “racism.” Which is completely fucking stupid, because what I said had hardly anything to do with race, let alone racism. I tried messaging the moderators and it said I couldn’t even do that for 28 days.
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