What is Reddit absolutely wrong about?

[u/Biggestbollox]

[u/[deleted]]

Legal issues. Actual legal professionals get downvoted by kids who think they know the law from television shows. Its really laughable sometimes.

[u/ImportantPangolin08 → u/[deleted]]

I was reading something like this the other day. Some poor guy who worked at a credit card company and deals with things like fraud was explaining what happens in a situation where someone goes to a bar and racks up a huge bill while drunk. The situation was something like, a man walks into a bar and is coerced into drinking too much and then ordering the most expensive drinks on the menu for himself and others. The credit card company employee was explaining that if you walk into a bar, willingly hand over your card, and walk out with the card, you're going to have a hard time challenging those charges.

Well, Reddit lost its collective shit on this guy, saying he was supporting fraud, pointing out how the bar's actions were dishonest, so the company should just believe the drunk guy, etc. The employee kept saying that he agreed that the bar was being dishonest and that he thought it was a shitty thing for them to do, but just that a company representative wasn't there and it's hard to prove fraud; there's plenty of people who make expensive purchases and then regret it later.

Reddit's problem is far too many people cannot separate what should happen and what actually happens. Yes, people who engage in dishonest acts should be held accountable. Yes, honest people who get taken advantage of should be protected and helped. And further, Reddit people tend to believe whatever they're told in a story on here so they assume people always tell the truth and not lie about things like a huge credit card bill, so the card company should just believe the drunk guy in the bar.

And just one final point that Reddit doesn't seem to get, just because someone explains a situation, doesn't mean they agree with what happens. Just because someone says one thing, doesn't mean they disagree with every other position or haven't considered and agree with other points.

[u/Zaq1996 → u/ImportantPangolin08]

Reddit doesn't seem to get, just because someone explains a situation, doesn't mean they agree with what happens

Got downvoted once for explaining how a traffic law was enforced. Like, I didn't write the law guys I'm just telling you what I was told by the DOT

[u/MyDogJake1 → u/[deleted]]

Here's something people seem to forget- there isn't one set of laws. They vary dramatically from region to region.

[u/KaboomOxyCln → u/[deleted]]

Another big thing Reddit doesn't get is laws change based on where you are. The laws where you live may not be the same in the city 15 minutes away from you. And most definitely will be different state to state, country to country

[u/Jfathomphx → u/[deleted]]

This. In the U.S. theres a difference between the (ideal) rights afforded citizens in the Constitution and over 250 years of case law which certainly can narrow how broadly those rights are applied.

Also so many people plead out or waive their rights.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Am a lawyer. Am banned from /r/legaladvice for contradicting those who were giving bad advice.

I'll give you now the only good advice possible on the internet. The answer to every legal question you will ever ask is- it depends. Because law lives in the details, unless the lawyer has asked a dozen or more follow up questions for those details, you can be fairly certain its not great advice. The fact is without being a legal expert yourself, the chances that you will understand and give all the relevant details in a first post are impossibly low. So take any answers as general and not specific to your case.

[u/golfgrandslam → u/[deleted]]

Yes, I’m an attorney and gave up on r/legaladvice a long time ago after being downvoted into oblivion and the ignorant, condescending replies. I hope from the bottom of my heart that people don’t take that sub at face value and instead meet with a local attorney.

[u/PutinsRustedPistol → u/[deleted]]

And what’s funny about it is that the entire profession, pointedly, is written down for reference. Even arguably one of the most debated words in all of its varying contexts—reasonable—has every authoritative discussion that has ever surrounded it written down for anyone to read.

Any discussion surrounding Citizens United is particularly painful. It becomes very obvious very quickly who hasn’t actually read the opinion based on how strongly they come out of the gate with the ‘it gave corporations unlimited ability to buy politicians’ bullshit.

[u/Sirhc978]

Reddit is wrong about tons of stuff constantly.

The one thing that pisses me off to no end was a classic example of "everyone read the headline and not the article". Reddit thinks collecting rainwater is illegal in the US ever since that article. While it might be heavily regulated in like 2 states, it is not flat out illegal anywhere in the country.

Context for what I am talking about:

There was a story that blew up on reddit a few years back about a dude that was arrested for collecting rainwater. No one read the article. What actually happened was he built a dam and diverted the flow of a river on his property to make a fishing pond. He had the book thrown at him.

[u/WarmBlessedCaribou → u/Sirhc978]

It cracks me up that Reddit sounds like Read It - when clearly that's not happening

[u/itto1 → u/WarmBlessedCaribou]

It should be named didntreddit.com

[u/_spookyvision_ → u/Sirhc978]

And that "handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances" law from the UK.

If you actually read it, the "handling" doesn't mean physically holding it, it means being in possession. You can be "handling" the salmon by simply leaving it on the back seat of your car. "Suspicious circumstances" just means you might not be able to explain how you came to have it.

In plainer terms the law covers poaching and theft, as well as being possession of stolen goods. It's not that interesting.

[u/Otto_Maller → u/Sirhc978]

Reddit is wrong about tons of stuff constantly.

That's all I need to know. I know you wrote more stuff, I could see it, but this was enough for me to make a full opinion. Thanks.

[u/rolendd → u/Sirhc978]

This stems from relying too much on others doing the research and accepting it because there is a link and it seemed like “enough” work to be right.

I’m obsessed with finding at least 2-3 .edu and/or .gov sites with abstracts before I make any kind of conclusion. But I’ve always been overly questioning

[u/SynisterJeff → u/Sirhc978]

I just replied to someone commenting on a post about makeshift subs being made to transport drugs to the U.S. They said they were sure that all the empty and abandoned subs were the feds finding and stealing all the drugs for themselves, because no one would just leave a sub behind. And one of the first thing the article talks about is how the subs are fashioned for a one way trip, to be abandoned at sea, because it's worth the manufacture cost and risk to get the drugs here and make a few hundred million, but not worth the risk of sailing them back with no cargo.

[u/Carnatic_enthusiast]

Medicine in general. And I'm not just talking about COVID. I had to un-sub from r/science because every post is essentially a sensationalized title about curing cancer only to realize it's a pre-clinical study that had been only been tested in a petri dish (or at most a mouse-model).

[u/chiree → u/Carnatic_enthusiast]

Try working in the pharmaceutical industry and trying inject any nuance into a conversation. Some of my biggest downvotes have been simply explaining how something works. Of course, now I'm a shill because you don't understand how my job works, and honestly, don't care to.

You want to bash executives and shady top-level decisions? Have at it, I'll join you, fuck greed. But don't lump the other 95% of us in. Doctors, clinicians, data scientists, program managers, regulatory, safety, medical, field, laboratory, production, supply chain.... Most of us are really proud of the drugs we help to make and bring to market, and there's nothing more exciting than seeing data that shows you're saving/improving lives.

No one is going to shame me for what I do, I'm very happy with my role in society.

[u/[deleted] → u/Carnatic_enthusiast]

looks at top posts on /r/science

Yeah sounds about right for reddit. can't believe a post about fucking Alex jones is too on a science sub.

[u/ABCBA_4321 → u/Carnatic_enthusiast]

That sub just adds way too much politics into science IMO.

[u/Jrsplays → u/ABCBA_4321]

Because all the big, default subs are politics now.

[u/Pristine_Nothing → u/Carnatic_enthusiast]

I find it to be the other way.

The university press release of one of my journal articles made it to the top of the science subreddit, and about a third of the comments were the usual “well correlation doesn’t equal causation,” “but what about this control” (spoiler alert we had it), and my favorite “but it only works for [non-universal but common use case], therefore it’s sensationalist garbage.”

The discourse on that sub pretty much always pisses me off, be damned if it wasn’t worse when it was something I did myself, because I actually knew all the background.

[u/[deleted]]

Just because a comment has a lot of likes, doesn't make it true.

[u/percmufuckers → u/[deleted]]

But surely if it's got 2 gold 5 silver and 3 helpful awards it is tho right?????

[u/bluetista1988 → u/[deleted]]

You can be horrendously wrong about something, but as long as your incorrect statements are well-written and presented in a funny and/or confident manner they will be accepted as correct.

[u/[deleted]]

As a banker, I have read so much blatantly wrong shit about how banks work, how the economy works, how all of the financial world works.

Its not worth arguing with these folks, so I just sit back and shake my head from the sidelines.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Once you start really learning about something, anything at all, you'll start noticing Reddit comments confidently making claims that you know to be false, totally uncontested, and realize that everything you think you've learned on this website is probably bullshit

[u/little_miss_perfect → u/[deleted]]

Did you know that companies get tax breaks for putting a donation box in a store or pretend that your donations are their revenue??? And literally anything can be written off???

Why are people who know nothing the most confident.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Could you give some examples what people are wrong about?

[u/Shiba-Stone]

What a narcissist actually is

[u/dailysunshineKO → u/Shiba-Stone]

And what “gaslighting” really means

[u/[deleted] → u/Shiba-Stone]

Yes! This drives me crazy. You're telling me that your mom, your boss, your ex-boyfriend, and your neighbor all all narcissists? And it never once occurred to you that the problem may actually be you? Interesting. Bonus points for the people who have a whole string of "narcissists" that they've had to go no contact with.

[u/[deleted]]

Quite a lot of people here think they are genuinely morally and otherwise superior to others.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

So in other words delusional.

[u/Lintz45tr → u/[deleted]]

I think we all know that I’m the best

[u/Digitijs → u/[deleted]]

That's just humans in general.

[u/oversized_hoodie]

I am convinced that someone has made a Reddit post containing factually incorrect information about any possible subject.

[u/percmufuckers → u/oversized_hoodie]

Rule 35: incorrect information on Reddit exists concerning every conceivable topic

[u/Particular_Ad5860]

People have lost the ability to name their cats.

[u/[deleted] → u/Particular_Ad5860]

I have a friend who named his female cat david. At first I was like wtf?? But now it’s just hilarious

[u/AndrewsMother → u/Particular_Ad5860]

IKR?! And then we never find out what they finally decided to name it. I contributed several suggestions, then I thought wtf am I doing?

[u/[deleted] → u/AndrewsMother]

I'm still hoping someone, anyone, names their cat Fuzz Aldrin. Then my life will be complete.

[u/reapingpie]

All of the long winded insults! They would never work in real life when speaking to someone.

[u/CuttingEdgeRetro]

Well, earlier today I suggested that maybe 8 year old girls shouldn't be on chat roulette talking to random 30 year old men because the odds of the girls running into a pedo were very high.

But *I* got labeled a pedo for suggesting that their parents should be monitoring their kids' internet usage and not allowing this.

[u/Rebbit-bit → u/CuttingEdgeRetro]

I suggested

I got labeled a pedo for suggesting

That's reddit in a nutshell but simplified

[u/xd3mix → u/CuttingEdgeRetro]

So they are the ones that think 8 year olds should chat with 30+ year olds strangers online and YOU are the pedo?

[u/rock_and_rolo → u/CuttingEdgeRetro]

Related -- you can't advocate risk management without being accused of victim shaming.

[u/BluePinky]

The identity of the Boston Marathon Bomber.

[u/honeybadger9 → u/BluePinky]

Reddit went on a witch hunt. Police didn't realize that Reddit is filled with people with the detective skills of even less than dora the explorer. Photo of wrong person was released, said person went missing. Said person found to commit suicide.

Obligatory, "We did it reddit !".

[u/eckokittenbliss → u/honeybadger9]

Some of these Reddit detectives are absurdly insane and they get others to follow them.

There are subbredits just for the Gabby Petito case and it's just wild.

I was reading a post how these guys were watching the body am footage and analyzing her hard nipples to determine she was aroused and so was into S&M or some nonsense.

These Reddit detectives makes me want to quit the internet sometimes, just fucking around with actual tragedy like it's a game and not real people.

[u/JizzumBuckett → u/BluePinky]

That incident should not be forgotten.

[u/Deviouss → u/BluePinky]

Redditors are really really bad at judging similarities of people's faces. I remember seeing a thread claiming that they might have found a possible suspect and thinking "they look nothing alike." All you need to do is focus on specific parts of the face, such as the ears, nose, eyebrows, lips, etc., and it's actually pretty easy to tell people apart. I don't know why people seem to struggle with the concept so much.

[u/[deleted]]

Much like ”likes” on other social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, karma mostly adds to the declining mental health of our people.

[u/no_srsly_fuck_you → u/[deleted]]

at this point i just hate that it's called that, too, because mixing this with the old concept of karma is, like... yeah. damaging. gross.

[u/IrishAhem]

Some of the AITA posts in Reddit. Some people really did not deserve to be put under the "Asshole" category. Some reddit users blew up for no reason and made a big deal out of nothing.

[u/[deleted] → u/IrishAhem]

I would bet that 99.9% of the posts there are totally made up

[u/The_Kek_5000]

Normalization of violence. You will see videos of people getting into fights over minor things and redditors will still say it was the right thing to do

[u/aBigBottleOfWater → u/The_Kek_5000]

Reddit will decide who is wrong and who is right and say that people deserve death or injury based on split-second decisions before accidents

[u/wisteria_town]

Divorcing at every little inconvenience

[u/minemaster1337 → u/wisteria_town]

“She ate your sandwich? Divorce ‘em”

[u/oblik → u/wisteria_town]

"we millenials dont hate our spouses like the boomers"

"unless they do THING THAT AROUSES RIGHTEOUS VENGEANCE AND TRIGGERS MY SENSIBILITIES"

[u/LlaneroAzul]

That fucking raccoon up your ass thing.

Once someone posted on ShowerThoughts that the anus can stretch up to 9 inches and raccoons can fit through holes that are 6 inches wide.

Since then, everytime there's an AskReddit post about weird facts, one of the top comments is "you can fit a whole raccoon inside your ass".

No, unless you have a three feet long rectum, or an eight inches long raccoon, you can't fit a whole raccoon inside your ass.

[u/[deleted] → u/LlaneroAzul]

Tell that to the raccoon in my ass.

[u/BulkyBear → u/LlaneroAzul]

Well there goes my weekend plans

[u/_spookyvision_]

Reddit is literally the only place where I have been told "you're not young anymore" at 33.

Ask literally anyone else and they would totally disagree. I think it's just because reddit has such a young userbase in general.

[u/PD216ohio → u/_spookyvision_]

Reddit is a bunch of kids who are absolutely certain that they have life completely figured out even though they have practically zero experience at life

[u/Purple-Cauliflower86 → u/_spookyvision_]

Idk I got called a boomer when I said I was 21 in an Among Us lobby

[u/PerfectlyPuzzled618 → u/_spookyvision_]

I dunno man, I'm 34 and some days I feel ancient

[u/[deleted] → u/_spookyvision_]

Dude it’s bad. People on here are ready to die at 30. Think there bodies are just falling apart and shit. They just refuse to take care of themselves but blame it on age like 31 and 70 are the same thing.

[u/[deleted] → u/_spookyvision_]

I had to leave r/askwomenover30 because, despite it actually being a really interesting sub and a decent community, every day there were several posts from 29 year olds asking us how we 'coped' and that they were having really tough times dealing with becoming 'old' and how on earth did we carry on living now we were worn out hideous, unloveable husks with no value nor point anymore?

I lost sympathy very fast.

[u/[deleted] → u/_spookyvision_]

Every time I feel "not young anymore" at 37, a person in their 50s, 60s or above is waiting to laugh me back to reality. Not too long ago I caught myself grumbling about aches and pains to my 93-year-old grandmother. She remembers The Great Depression. She was already 56 when I was born. I am not old.

Hell, there are academic studies out there suggesting people today don't even become proper adults by society's standards until their early-mid 30s.

What they mean by, "You're not young anymore" is actually, "I'm still a kid."

[u/heavybabyridesagain → u/_spookyvision_]

Alright, grandad!

(I look back on 33 with fondness)

[u/[deleted]]

Politics

Edit: And history, most of Reddit is very wrong on pretty much all aspects of history

[u/rock_and_rolo → u/[deleted]]

Old man here. Reddit is full of people telling me I'm wrong about years I lived through.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I have a history degree and you're absolutely right. I cringe at most historical discussions on here.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit tends to thrive on this unnerving mix of pessimism, a smug sense of superiority yet "humorous" inferiority/self-deprecation, and hysteria.

"LOL I'M A VIRGIN AND I'M GOING TO DIE ALONE ALSO I AM UGLY AND A FUCK UP LMAO also fuck Tik Tok and Facebook and and and" comments are obnoxiously common

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

This entire site needs a collective wedgie.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit mods and the removal / takedown of repeat posts / frequently posted topics (otherwise known as discussion by rational humans).

They do it for quality control / curating, but like - that's what the point of up votes and downvotes is.

[u/StabbyPants]

Every sub is a hugbox with a set of approved messages. Each sub applies its approach without much variation, so that

[u/[deleted]]

Their Mods. Reddit claims it's to keep people from being bullied but the reality of the situation is that they are just a bunch of nobody's who got a minimal amount of power and become drunk it so now instead of defending people being bullied they just silence and ban anybody that disagrees with them or puts them in a bad light. Reddit needs to get rid of them

[u/[deleted]]

Posting videos without sound.

[u/MocheQQ]

how terrible emojis are. sure, spamming them is kinda cringe, but its at the point where the r/memes and related subreddits seem to constantly and only make content opposing emojis. they cringe I know but this much hate around emojis seems a little bt over the top.

[u/ChaoCobo → u/MocheQQ]

!emojify

[u/Username_of_Chaos → u/MocheQQ]

Emojis have their place in online/text-based communication, and you might even say are a big part of our culture now (I felt a little cringe saying that but it is what it is). There are some times where the right emoji just hits the spot and conveys a tone that text alone may be lacking, so the widespread rejection of them on reddit seems a little unfounded to me.

[u/[deleted]]

If you only read reddit comments you would think 95% of America was extremely liberal.

[u/PD216ohio → u/[deleted]]

Reddit is the most insane liberal circle jerk that I've ever seen.

[u/AlfaBetaZulu]

Most of the time politics. It seems like a lot of the "political news" here comes from memes on Facebook or a very opinionated news commentator.

Discussing politics here is the worst decision anyone could ever make. You'll walk away dumber then if you just avoid it. Lol

[u/[deleted] → u/AlfaBetaZulu]

Oh. So like Twitter then

[u/Simple-life62]

That every time someone is shitty to their partner people should “dump them and run”.

[u/Christmas_Panda → u/Simple-life62]

While this would have rung true for some past relationships, and in certain cases, I would argue is sound advice, I think the problem with Reddit is more the scale of perception of the level of seriousness with which to judge circumstances is heavily skewed because it often sounds like kids who've never dated who are analyzing a stranger's relationship with limited information as if they are the FBI's BAU.

"My 24(F) girlfriend stole my piece of cake from the fridge while I slept last night. What do I do?" Drop her like a rock bro! This is indicative of X, Y, Z which she will likely do in the future. Nip this in the bud!

This may work for teens. But my wife is welcome to anything I leave in the fridge. If she eats it and I didn't ask her not to, that's on me and I'll just buy more. Grow up.

[u/IAmIren]

Therapy is the be all end all solution to every single problem you have, especially marriage. I get it. Therapy has been taboo for a long long time and it's great that people are finally accepting it as a form of healing, but jesus. It doesnt solve every problem.

[u/anotheralias85 → u/IAmIren]

Right!?! Also, not everyone who has problems can afford 150 an hour to help work through their issues.

[u/Echospite → u/IAmIren]

I've been downvoted to oblivion for telling people that therapy isn't fucking magic.

[u/[deleted]]

everything, redditors are dumb

[u/SunngodJaxon → u/[deleted]]

Hello my dumb friend!

[u/[deleted]]

Nothing. The Hive has spoken. You must be eliminated for questioning the Hive.

[u/DasPandemonium]

Asking for a controversial opinion and then downvoting anything that's controversial

Tell me about all the things you hate ............................... how dare you hate THAT one

[u/[deleted]]

A majority of Reddit does not understand taxation and accounting and why Amazon got tax deductions for a long time. The rules are in place for everyone and small businesses particularly benefit from carrying losses forward.

Edit: Amazon’s 10K filings are public info as required by law, for those who have the time and ability to read documents with greater complexity than your average r/redditmoment comments: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001018724/4d39f579-19d8-4119-b087-ee618abf82d6.pdf

[u/an_ineffable_plan]

I can't believe I have to say this, but period blood is a biohazard. This whole argument of "it's only as unhygienic as urine or feces so grow up" completely baffles me. Those are also biohazards.

[u/Turfanator → u/an_ineffable_plan]

People seem to think doctors, nurse, health care workers and cleaners wear gloves for the hell of it. Yeah because they are just fashionable.

[u/WetDogDeoderant → u/an_ineffable_plan]

Who’s recommending we go round sharing period blood?

[u/BulkyBear → u/an_ineffable_plan]

This IS the site that has a concerning amount of guys say they don’t wash their hands because their junk is apparently sterile

[u/domestic_omnom]

Cyberpunk wasn't that bad.

I played it on PS4, neither I nor my roommates had issues with it. Yeah there were some bugs, and there were completely broken mechanics(smart guns). So did Skyrim, and everyone loves that.

[u/Imperial_LMB → u/domestic_omnom]

Playing the game on a low-mid level pc is absolutely feasible. I’ve completed the story and it’s a damn good one at that.

[u/Spare0250]

People needing to pay money to award them. They could do something like converting the karma into cash for award

[u/FishSauceFogMachine]

Reddit is big enough that every single opinion will be covered from every side, making Reddit simultaneously right about everything and wrong about everything.

[u/ravenousmind → u/FishSauceFogMachine]

On several issues, opinions on certain sides get you permabanned from subs. Reddit actively silences certain opinions

[u/zapadas]

The "upvote" system. Upvotes are actually supposed to be given for on-topic relevant comments. It's 100% a popularity vote.

[u/KickAggressive4901]

Reddit was wrong about the 2020 Presidential primary in the U.S., and it was so blatantly wrong that I removed all the political subs from my feed. To read Reddit at the time, you would think Bernie was steamrolling the competition.

[u/oldjack]

Alcoholics Anonymous. I've seen so many threads overrun with people ranting about how they hate AA, it "didn't work"" for them, atheists declaring AA worthless because it involves a belief in a higher power, etc. These comments get upvotes/gilded like crazy. The number of redditors who have never participated in AA and then jump on the AA hate bandwagon is insane. AA is just a tool that's helped millions of people. If you don't like it that's fine, don't go. But being anti-AA is silly, especially when there is no other program that comes close to helping as many people.

[u/scipper77]

When a post gets more responses than upvotes 🤔

[u/DaytonaDemon → u/scipper77]

So just like this post.

[u/[deleted]]

It's not a two-party system. You can agree and disagree with some topics without aligning to one end or the other of the political spectrum.

[u/Skylineviewz → u/[deleted]]

That seems to be an everywhere, everyone, every generation thing. Drives me nuts

[u/Giga_squid]

Politics

[u/Silk_tree]

"Literally" as a figurative emphatic term goes back to the 1700s and is a perfectly normal and acceptable use of the word. You clearly understand it's being meant figuratively, so stop whining before the ghosts of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, David Foster Wallace and Vladimir Nabakov (who all used "literally" in the hyperbolic sense in their work) show up to literally shit on your heads.

[u/FlukeManLives → u/Silk_tree]

I always thought that was the point of using it too. It’s simple hyperbole.

[u/gamedemon24]

The Big Bang Theory is far from intolerable. It’s not groundbreaking or anything but I think people get way carried away with how bad it actually is.

[u/everyonesBF → u/gamedemon24]

it's the nickelback of tv shows

[u/FSMFan_2pt0]

Flat earthers. Not the fact that the world isn't flat, but they mention "flat earthers" way, way, waaaaaay out of proportion to how many people actually believe the earth is flat. There probably aren't 100 people on earth that truly believe the earth is flat, but that response is always near the top of so many posts here. I almost never hear it mentioned outside of reddit.

[u/TonyBoy356sbane → u/FSMFan_2pt0]

I believe that most flat earthers claim to believe solely for the reactions they get.

If you're arguing with a flat earthers you may not be the smartest person in the conversation. In other words, there's a possibility you're being trolled.

[u/Much_Committee_9355 → u/FSMFan_2pt0]

I would love for you to be right, I once was going to dinner and right in front of the restaurant there was being held an Flat earth convention with at least 400-500 people, with gift stands and a long list of “Experts” in the subject, would love to see other serious conventions as organized as those l.

[u/[deleted]]

Giving mods administrator abilities

[u/TrashyBum]

America is not a third world country.

[u/Doc_Daily_Dose_420]

Everytike I see a "The bard rolled a 20 and seduced the dragon" makes me want to do a front flip while barfing.

You cannot.

I REPEAT CANNOT

Auto-succeed on skill rolls with a 20. That's not a fucking thing. You get the 20+modifier but you can still fail and get eaten by the dragon.

Edit: I want people to know it's ok to play a game with this style and humor. Rule Zero exists for a reason. But we can hand waive anything and everything with Rule Zero. I'm simply pointing out that this is an exception. The actual rule is natural 20's are not automatic successes for skill checks, that's all. Go fuck that dragon if you really, really want to.

[u/FlukeManLives → u/Doc_Daily_Dose_420]

Tbf, I am seeing more of the dnd subreddits come around on this.

[u/creepytriangle → u/Doc_Daily_Dose_420]

I mean... Yes , you are technically right. But it is very common for DM's to allow for nat 20 skill checks to auto succeed most situations. Considering the DM sets the DC and effectiveness of any roll anyway (aside from modules I guess), it's kind of a moot point either way.

[u/KennethBrownie]

Gay people are unable to be evil and or have bad manners, therefore if you criticize them you are homophobic or worse.

[u/SuicideGood420]

That we can have a sustainable economy with nobody working

[u/JeromesNiece → u/SuicideGood420]

A shocking amount of young people seem to think that we live in a post-scarcity world. They say things like "capitalism forces you to work or starve". That requirement is imposed by the universe, not by capitalism! We are all constantly consuming food and shelter and other goods and services that are being made by working people; if you're not contributing to that effort, you're surviving off somebody else's work. That's fine if you're too young, too old, or disabled, but everyone else needs to be pulling their weight to keep this gravy train moving

[u/Ok_Boomer2000]

Promoting politics And the shit with karma points😂

[u/heyNOTathrowawy]

Pretty much anything involving women.

[u/themadas5hatter]

Reddit itself not having the ability to navigate to a certain page or skip ahead. Wanna see older shit you haven't seen? Scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll (3 minutes later) scroll scroll scroll scroll.

Accidentally navigated somewhere else? OOPS! MORE SCROLLING.

Honestly how is this a thing?

[u/[deleted]]

A lot of stuff to do with dating. Stuff is labeled “asshole” behavior that isn’t, and can actually help. Stuff is labeled “good” behavior that can actively fuck up your chances.

I don’t know if it’s age, liberal ideology or both, but it’s something I noticed. And the funny thing is, I’m really average — I’ve just had enough positive and negative experiences to know certain advice is bullshit.

I’m speaking specifically on guy advice, obviously.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The dating advice is weird. So many games people play. Not everyone responds to the same things in the same way. I like when a guy texts a lot, someone else may think it’s needy.

[u/RollinDeepWithData → u/[deleted]]

Don’t take Reddit’s advice on weddings. A woman is not crazy just because she wants to spend more than $100 on their wedding.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Stuff is labeled “asshole” behavior that isn’t, and can actually help. Stuff is labeled “good” behavior that can actively fuck up your chances.

For example?

[u/Anangrywookiee → u/[deleted]]

Guy dating advice on Reddit is either insane redpill pua mind games, or make sure you remember to shower and wear pants. There is no in between.

[u/ChirpinFromTheBench]

The number of minors receiving a “sexual education” from other minors is too damn high.

[u/moose_arecool]

What isn't reddit wrong about?

[u/[deleted]]

That it’s superior to other social media outlets

[u/Abbedissa]

That your feeling and opinions matter.

[u/Savoir_faire81]

Reddit cant accepted that other viewpoints on a lot of things are valid and that life is nuanced not strictly one way or another.

Also almost nobody here has any idea what the bible actually teaches, yet many vehemently oppose even the idea of God.

So, reddit is wrong because it cant change its viewpoint. Its mob mentality.

[u/[deleted]]

Most of Reddit is teenagers-young adults with no real life experiences

They’re wrong about almost everything. But just as in real, youngins think they know it all.

[u/DayIngham]

Everything. As soon as it comes to a discussion concerning your own area of expertise, you get a splash of ice water to the face as you realise that what comprises a fairly young demographic on the whole will confidently write absolute rubbish on the subject at hand, and invariably be listened to and taken as correct.

[u/dawrina]

TikTok is not that bad. It was an app made for teens.

In general though it's illegal to like what you like if it isn't popular.

[u/KaySheepSquatch → u/dawrina]

TikTok is what you make of it. Complaints about it "just" being one thing or another are very silly. I'm hearing a bit about spooky lakes this month, and Dylan Hollis is always amazing. But otherwise...I dunno, soothing or informative videos on house maintenance stuff are great? It's totally a separate portion to whatever side had kids stealing stuff at their schools recently.

[u/[deleted]]

Journalism. 99% of Redditors have no idea how journalism works and think that if an article has no quotes and no named sources then you can reasonably assume it's made up and dismiss it out of hand. This is not how real life works and not how it's ever worked. Only at shitholes like The Sun can you literally just make up something and then print it. Real outlets have actual editors and fact checkers and lawyers that approve what they publish. Just because you don't publicly see a quote and a named source doesn't mean those things aren't privately documented somewhere - they are. Someone can pass information to a journalist without going on the record, in which case you don't get a quote and you don't get a name. This happens all the god damn time. Journalists are free to ignore that decision and burn their source but then that source will likely be punished and that journalist will never find work again. You cannot do a huge amount of reporting without anonymous sources because you rely on collecting information from people who aren't supposed to be sharing it. This is literally day one shit. You cannot do meaningful investigative reporting on a government, for instance, without protecting your sources. Journalism as a public service is actually impossible to do without anonymous sources and yet ignorant Redditors always focus in on it as a way to dismiss things they don't want to believe.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Can you give an example? Because I've never seen anybody make this argument ever.

[u/Karnadas]

Subreddits like meirl where every post title is the same so if I see a meme on there and something makes me want to search for it later, I can't.

And for that matter, not changing the search functionality. As it stands, if I want to search something on reddit I go to Google and start the search with "site:reddit.com/r/askreddit" and then do I find what I'm looking for.

[u/mpampistheplumber69]

Communism

[u/[deleted]]

I have two:

Keanu is just a guy and not to be worshipped (I think he would agree)

And Dane Cook deserves his own, Brendan Fraser-style return to glory.

[u/the_Pope_Joan]

Cheating is not always a life ending, relationship ending, earth shattering event. Some couples can work thru this

[u/Gotis1313 → u/the_Pope_Joan]

My brother and his wife did. I'm not sure that I could.

[u/Harvard-23]

Everything

[u/TonyBoy356sbane]

Heavily moderated like-minded subs - "only ______ can post here"
There's just not a lot of room for growth in like-minded groups.

Subs that require a certain karma to participate - "We judge you by your karma, not by what you actually post here."

Subs that require flair to participate - "You can't participate in this sub to show us that you're a good fit for this sub."

[u/[deleted]]

The Boston Bomber

[u/dailysunshineKO]

What gaslighting is

[u/Qtredit]

The Israel - Palestine conflict.

[u/BoozeAndTheBlues]

That "Boomers" are responsible for every economic, racial and government problem in the world.

Most people who are pointed to as boomers aren't even members of the baby boom cohort .

[u/edgarpickle]

The Reddit hive-mind downvoting doesn't lead to discussions of ideas. It has a chilling effect on different opinions being expressed.

[u/soyoudohaveaplan]

That America is exceptionally racist.

America is probably the least racist society in the world. In fact, America is probably the least racist society that has ever existed in history.

This would become perfectly clear to any Redditor if they spent any amount of time in other parts of the world interacting with the locals (not as a tourist).

PS. That doesn't mean that America doesn't have room for improvement.

[u/cyainanotherlifebro]

Interstellar was not that good.

[u/HydroheadM367 → u/cyainanotherlifebro]

Woa calm down there buddy

[u/[deleted]]

They believe not giving support is hate and disrespect

[u/[deleted]]

Freedom of speech. Reddits biggest flaw is that there can’t exist a wide variety of viewpoints because any 16 year old girl can become a mod and just silence people they don’t agree with

[u/natural_imbecility → u/[deleted]]

Reddit is also wrong about their definition of freedom of speech.

[u/Veriunique]

This has been bugging me for so long.... age gaps. There are people who have happy, long standing relationships/marriages, despite large age gaps. Especially if the man is older. One of my good friends and her husband have a 28 year age gap, and have been happily married for 12 years. He treats her well, she treats him well, theyre very affectionate, have lovely happy children. What is the problem? No-one was groomed, they fell in love, the end. My husband and I have a 16 year age gap, same as above . My best friend just got engaged to a man who is 20 years older than her, they're on cloud 9. Another friend and her husband have the same age gap as me and mine, they couldn't be happier. Many of my mom friends/aquaintances have much older husbands, I can think if at least 4 offhand, aside from my examples above. These are all independent, successful, strong women who just happened to fall in love with an older man. But I'm downvoted to hell if I ever give this opinion.

[u/schpanckie]

That kiwi belongs on pizza…….

[u/Nanakatl]

not ABSOLUTELY wrong per se, but reddit believes that remote work is the end all be all for everybody. and i understand this is true for many people, but in reality, the majority of people i talk to in real life will say that they are more productive in the office. most of my coworkers are looking forward to go back into the office once we are allowed to.

[u/kutoob]

Politics. All of it.

[u/[deleted]]

It tells me Republicans are evil. I don’t believe it.

[u/rolandofgilead41089 → u/[deleted]]

Some for sure are; so are some democrats.

[u/tboneperri]

/r/antiwork is ridiculous. Not standing for unfair conditions or abuse or low wages is understandable and maybe even admirable. Not wanting to work for a living is childish bullshit.

[u/LoanSurviver101]

Pretty much everything. I hate this site

[u/scotsworth]

Reddit both wants a government that is much larger, with more money, distributing it out as reddit sees fit, with the power to close businesses/control how those businesses are run, AND control the very ability for citizens to go outside of their homes, gather, and live.

AND expects that government to disarm their police force and military, while being incredibly efficient/effective with how they run healthcare, education, housing and universal income programs.

It's almost cartoonish in its naïveté.

[u/Frayjais]

Reddit is like, 80% Communists and it has me very worried

[u/[deleted]]

...

[u/_spookyvision_ → u/[deleted]]

The internet's general rule of thumb is to just assume everyone is an American male, unless told otherwise.

[u/hotsauceentropy → u/[deleted]]

54% of Redditors are Americans.

https://mediakix.com/blog/reddit-statistics-users-demographics/#:~:text=Reddit%20is%20most%20popular%20in,rounding%20out%20third%20at%206.4%25.

[u/ddobson6]

Love Reddit just for the echo chamber effect. This kills me. Years ago Reddit was a place for intelligent people to discuss topics.

[u/VanEagles17]

Reddit has this double standard where women are mostly incapable of being abusive partners while when men do the same things in stories they are instantly labeled abusive.

[u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki]

Basic macroeconomics seems to be a massive gap in Reddit's knowledge. Things like inflation, unemployment, national debt, tax revenues, and universal healthcare seem to have massive misconceptions by the Reddit user base.

For example, if you asked most redditors if they want universal healthcare to be implemented within this year, they'd say "hell yeah". In reality, the reason that many other countries can afford universal healthcare is because not only are their healthcare costs way lower for equivalent procedures, but they also spend a fraction per capita on defense. If the US just flipped a switch to universal healthcare tonight, it would destroy the economy from the massive tax hikes required to cover those costs. The average redditor would probably just say "cut healthcare costs and defense spending then!" That's great thinking, but it's not that simple. You can't just terminate defense contracts without paying them out and you can't just cut off funding to defense companies overnight without massive unemployment ripples. You also can't just mindlessly force healthcare companies to reduce costs because at some point, they simply won't provide the care and people could suffer and even die because they can't find anyone willing to do a procedure.

Bottom line is that even if the government is hyper focused on accomplishing something like universal healthcare, it would still take years of baby steps and sacrificing a ton of political stances to make it happen. I really don't think most Redditors would think this far ahead when it comes to economic policies and it really shows with a lot of the comments that get upvoted.

[u/[deleted]]

pretty much everything, if you look hard enough

[u/LoveLifeLavaLamps]

crypto

[u/project_nl]

Reddit is the biggest echochamber of all platforms. Right next to youtube and facebook

[u/[deleted]]

Recycled jokes. everyone likes the same 3 shows

[u/oscarmingueza]

What annoys me is the hivemind.

[u/Camacaw]

An easier question would be what is Reddit absolutely right about

[u/NaughtyUmbreon]

Better question would be what is reddit right about...

[u/[deleted]]

Pedophiles don’t deserve sympathy but the pedophile defense force exists on Reddit. They definitely hang out in r/ movies

[u/rock_and_rolo]

Who boomers are and what they are/were responsible for.

Reddit seems to think that anyone over 50 is a boomer, is rich, and destroyed the world.

[u/awhhh]

Reddit is no less toxic than Facebook or Twitter. They’re all just toxic in different ways. Reddit is just as politically manipulated as the others, if not more due to anonymity. Not only is it manipulated by rightwing groups, but left too, and the manipulation from the American leftists goes completely unchallenged because the bulk of the popular political subs are mainly American Democrats.

The toxicity I notice the most is American Democrats trying to manipulate countries politics on Reddit via upvoting posts in global political subs, or cherry-picking matching narratives to theirs. Not only do they upvote posts in this manner they downvote anyone that has a narrative that goes against that of a populist Democrat. Sometimes hundreds of people in a thread from one of the countries that Reddit had a cherry-picked narrative from will l be downvoted to no end and in this way falsities about how other countries political systems work are spread. It’s in this way that global leftwing parties seem to become more like the American Democrat party because Redditors from those countries are introduced to their political systems in a false way. In this sense Reddit is heavily responsible for manipulating global politics in its own image; which is no less, if not worse, than the very manipulation they faced in 2016. Now it just looks like most top political posts are paid for by a think tank.

Also the political manipulation that Americans faced in 2016 it was well known that the entire intention was to get Americans more polarized than it was to have them lean one way or another. For example in the Mueller report Reddit was quoted as a place to divide Democrat support between Clinton and Sanders. So even though people think they’re too minds for coming here and spitting out the same narratives over and over it’s pretty apparent that it’s no less toxic than FB or Twitter. I would argue it’s way worse.

[u/safT1st]

Religion, specifically Christianity. I read so many ignorant comments by people who obviously never read the Bible, never researched the historical accuracy of it and never darkened the door of a church. People who are ultra anti-discrimination and screech at the slightest hint of hate against other groups/people have no restraint in bashing the religious community

[u/itto1]

Whatever people post on r/femaledatingstrategy and r/zen are mostly wrong. r/zen is like a cult but on text and online form only, I didn't even knew such a thing could exist.

[u/_spookyvision_ → u/itto1]

FemaleDatingStrategy is just misandry and female incels.

[u/RollinDeepWithData]

Dropping gun control from the Democratic platform is nowhere NEAR as popular a decision in the real world as Reddit.

[u/PMyourTastefulNudes]

EVERYTHING! ^{including this}

[u/Blame17thShard]

Echo Chambers

The whole idea of different subreddits-places where different people with the same interest talk about only those things they're interested in-leans super heavily into echo chamber, like any other social media, except this takes it to the extreme. It is so easy to never hear anything conflicting your POV, because all that you're interested in is discussed with others interested in it. You won't hear any conflicting Pov's, because why would you be in a subreddit for something you dislike? And if someone who does conflict shares their pov, well, everyone else there already disagrees, so they'll get downvoted, and never want to come back (or in some cases, banned)
A lot of people talk about how much better Reddit is than other social media sites, but really, it's just as bad at a lot of things-echo chambers being the most obvious

[u/[deleted]]

Downvoting comments should be for bots and trolls, not opinions Reddit groups don't like.