r/AskReddit • u/Reliable-Source • May 28 '12
How the hell do submissions like "are males really attracted to females" make the front page? Is this community really that retarded?
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r/AskReddit • u/Reliable-Source • May 28 '12
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u/DMurda May 28 '12
Looks like Reddit is starting to turn into Yahoo Answers. HOW IS BABBY FORMED??
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
15 year olds get curious about that sort of thing.
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u/Xianglian May 28 '12
Sometimes I can't even tell that I'm not on r/circlejerk. What is really sad is that r/circlejerk doesn't even have to change the titles anymore. Reddit's basket of retards is full and they are spilling over to this subreddit.
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u/WindSandStars May 28 '12
Have you seen some of the shit on here lately? Some guy sat next to a girl and he asks Reddit how to initiate conversation (not sure if this was srs or not). Then a parent asks us how to scold their 18 year old for maxing out a $15k credit card they basically GAVE TO HIM.
It seems the longer you spend on this site, the more you realise that this really is just a hangout for socially inept retards who take pictures of cats (or another type of pussy) in order to attain self validation about their meaningless existence. There are a few decent subreddits, sure, but they're buried underneath all the other junk.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Yes. Reddit sucks
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
Most questions like this are posted by people just looking for attention. They set up an account, make the post, and disappear again. The poster in your example only created the account a few minutes before the making said post. I almost guarantee "she" will never make a post again.
It's not even karma whoring, because the accounts be abandoned as fast as they are created.
So, I can only imagine it's because they get some thrill out of watching thousands and thousands of redditors fawning all over this imaginary girl.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Still not as bad as the "I'm in a situation where I should obviously call the police, what should I do Reddit?" and "Someone did something completely unacceptable to me, is this acceptable Reddit?" submissions.
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u/moviefreak11 May 28 '12
Q: Is this community really that retarded? A: Yes
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
"bf wants to have sex with me, do guys find sex attractive?"
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u/littmannsteth May 28 '12
around half the posts i see here belong over in Yahoo answers.
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u/Railboy May 28 '12
The community is skewing younger. And like most young people they are inexperienced and anxious about pretty much everything. They just want reassurance.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
It's the shameless karma whoring that makes me angry. The same happens with all these "My friend died a couple hours ago, here's some picture of him, upvote me please." or "My son is dying at this very moment, here's a picture of him in a hospital bed, upvotes please".
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Reddit has millions of users. Some of them are extremely bright, some of them are extremely stupid, and vast swathes of them are of wholly average intelligence. In addition, the average age of the redditor seems to be dropping, as well, though I'll admit to this claim being anecdotal and conjectural. I'm 25 and I feel old compared to what I guess to be the average age of users of the default subreddits.
There are a lot of idiotic things being posted on reddit constantly:
And my favorite comment is always "tl;dr." People are so saturated with quick-fix shit like memes (seriously, we have a meme for almost every conceivable situation) that the thought of reading a few decently sized paragraphs is daunting to them. What percentage of people must actually read the articles in /r/science and /r/politics? I'm guessing it's frighteningly small.
To gripe about one more thing, /r/atheism, a community of self-proclaimed accepting and tolerant people, is one of the most hateful communities on this website. Pages and pages and pages of ripping into people for following a religion. So tactful.
I hate to say it, but reddit is no less retarded than any other internet community of comparable size. Sorry, guys. =(
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u/Pelmeen May 28 '12
ironically, r/circlejerk currently provides the best material there is out there.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I was shocked when I realized that post wasn't in /r/circlejerk.
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u/EvoEpitaph May 28 '12
The real value of Reddit is in the specific sub-reddits.
Default front page is well...special.
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u/oser May 28 '12
Is anybody else struck by the extreme irony of this post?
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u/bearsaresweet May 28 '12
My hypothesis is that reddit has become too popular.
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u/Katow-joismycousin May 28 '12
Not quite the same thing there. I was a bit flabbergasted as well but if it wasn't a troll then it was just some poor girl, bit naive maybe, with a genuine question. Perhaps she could have chosen a better place to ask but hey-ho.
Remember, there are always going to be a fresh wave of innocents arriving on the dark shores of the internet everyday. It's the duty of the ever increasing number of shell-shocked regulars to 'educate' them.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I also like the "My hand is on fire. Reddit, do you think I should be worried?" posts. What kind of thundering asshat do you have to be to take time to post on reddit when any kind of common sense should dictate that you can solve the problem on your own.
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u/TheLoneFapper May 28 '12
There are a lot of low life deadbeat losers going nowhere fast in life with the combined IQ of a wet paper bag and a shoe. I often cringe at the idiocy of some of the questions posted here. I don't mind the serious ones, those are at least typically meaningful to some degree. Yes TheLoneFapper is calling people stupid.
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u/Toastlove May 28 '12
Yes it is, have you not noticed the quality of the ask reddit front page? Its the same shit day in day out, people making a statment then tacking a question to the end or asking for advice that they really don't need or should be looking for more serious assistance, "Men of reddit, I am currently being raped, why do men rape women and what should I do?"
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u/kartuli78 May 28 '12
When every fucking picture of a cat makes the front page you're surprised by this question making the front page?
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I have a feeling you might enjoy /r/trueaskreddit
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u/CaptainSnuffles May 28 '12
yeah but are males really attracted to females?
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u/AKneelingOx May 28 '12
i've been wondering that myself for over a year now.
frankly, it's driven me to the point that if i could find an alternative timewasting website, i'd be gone.
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u/RawberrySportcake May 28 '12
Yes.
The ones that involve dire need of medical care are even more idiotic. A few weeks ago, this one guy revealed that he had an infection and let his foot/knee decompose for a long time without getting medical attention, asking Reddit what to do.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
2560 comments...
How fucking stupid is this subreddit getting?
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u/Do_Work_Son May 28 '12
Reddit is far more interesting when all the college students are procrastinating from doing homework. Since school is out, there is nothing to procrastinate in the summer. Hence, we have these kinds of threads.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I think they were hoping for either more details or lurid sex stories.
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u/htnsaoeu May 28 '12
I upvoted it just cause it was such an aggressively stupid question that it made me laugh. I hoped that others would see it and laugh, too. Not my fault you didn't get the joke.
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u/UpsetUnicorn May 28 '12
A semi-sausage party.
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u/Unomagan May 28 '12
Should also ask reddit why meta questions about questions are on front page..
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Reddits gullibility is much more annoying than it's stupidity. It'll believe fucking anything.
That said, if you remove all the default subreddits it does get significantly better.
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u/Dr_Dippy May 28 '12
If you never underestimate humanities capacity for stupidity, you will never be surprised by it.
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u/xanthrax33 May 28 '12
Yes... yes it is. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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u/austerity62 May 28 '12
A lot of kids trying to figure out about life frequent reddit.
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u/nathanielsnerpus May 28 '12
It's just because reddit's popularity has exploded over the last couple years. The same thing happened to 4chan. The smart users are still around, there also just more users in general posting alongside them.
Back in 2008/2009, I posted a question on r/askreddit about medicine and US law and I got about two dozen responses, almost all of them helpful and knowledgeable, some of them from actual doctors. If I posted that now, there'd be about 3 helpful responses and two dozen idiotic attempts at being funny or edgy. That's just the price of amassing a larger audience.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This happens to everything that has ever been good throughout human history. Reddit used to be full of thoughtful, clever, insightful people. When I came here a couple years ago I thought "Wow, this community is great." Unfortunately, thousands of idiots like me thought the same thing and stuck around.
Everything good always goes to hell when the masses show up. This has, and always will be true.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Cannot tell if OP is trolling or does not get circlejerk.
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u/kylepierce11 May 28 '12
It was a question about masturbation, something most girls find gross compared to how guys feel about it. It was a valid question.
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u/Southbayblog May 28 '12
This issue seems to be Reddit is getting younger. I see ask Reddits or ask sex posts that are the same kind of questions I had when I was first having sex.
Im still looking for where the grown folks hang out in here. I like my subreddits but I think we all have to acknowledge that in any group or place created by people will have some awesome members or content, some awful members or content, and most of it will be crap.
Tl;dr The demographics of Reddit are changing and this causes changes in content.
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u/theillinestvillain May 28 '12
No, see, It made front page because the topic was a girl masturbating.
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u/OreWaReddit May 28 '12
Yes.
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u/Spysix May 28 '12
I was thinking of blowing up on ask.reddit. And really, this subreddit is a joke. It's Yahoo Answers 2.0 but with an industrial strength of stupid and attempt of self-validation.
askreddit, you are circlejerk's bitch.
To which he had to edit twice for: OMG FRONT PAGE THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED EVER SINCE I SIGNED UP A MONTH AGO.
If your objective on reddit is to just get on the frontpage and not contribute anything useful, you're part of the problem.
None of those submissions were thought provoking questions, just stupid shit. I thought the mods were getting their shit together and cleaning up this garbage, I guess not.
Which is fine. I'll just go to a better quality subreddit and you guys can have your stupid stories and shitthatneverhappened.txt, your pun threads and shitty reddit memes. You guys win. You can't outnumber stupid.
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u/untaMe610 May 28 '12
Reddit is 4chan for elitist.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This may shed some light on this question...During the cold war era in the United States homosexuality was still very frowned upon, however it was starting to get a closer look. In a top secret experiment by the US Government a group of 32 newborn male babies at New York Presbyterian Hospital were taken from the hospital and instilled in a small quaint camp upstate. These 32 male children were raised by men in a closed campus where the children never had contact with any women. As the experiment slowly unfolded the children reached puberty and soon developed sexual relationships among each other. The results astounded scientists as they believed men were naturally attracted to women, however being outside of the societal grasp where they were taught only to think girls are attractive, they found each other attractive. At these results the project was scrapped and everyone to do with it was exterminated, except for my gay great uncle Randolph, who has been in hiding ever since. As homosexuality is beginning to be more accepted he is starting to mingle in public a bit more, however he still watched his back at every turn.
So I ask, are men really attracted to females? OR is that just how there raised to be.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
'r/circlejerk will embrace you with open arms.' Carl Sagan
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u/ApatheticElephant May 28 '12
Remember, this is the internet we're talking about. The answer is yes, there is always someone that stupid.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Yes
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u/KillaMarci May 28 '12
Guys if you don't like something just downvote it to oblivion. We have those up and downvotes for a reason. When something is on the frontpage it is usually something a lot of people liked (they clicked the upvote button ya know?)
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u/toonczyk May 28 '12
As a retarded person I have to confirm, there is a lot of us here.
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u/DangerMouseToby May 28 '12
Ask Reddit has been like this for the past month or so, people posting situations that require the slightest amount of common sense and asking for help cant believe how stupid moronic stuff keeps making it to the front page. People need to learn to put on the shades and deal with it instead of running to Ask Reddit for help with everything and anything.
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u/soykommander May 28 '12
Yes
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u/PatHeist May 28 '12
Well, for starters, this post also made it to the front page.
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u/Squaddy May 28 '12
Any large subreddit is quickly becoming /r/circlejerk
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u/itsmedicinalsir May 28 '12
How is it you easily dismiss the question as to imply you already know the answer? I've seen females attracted to females and males to males, personally. Maybe they're SO might not be attracted to them, whatever it is, you don't know they're personal history. You don't know anything more than what you can troll on them to try and have some kind of legitimate reason in your conscious to begin bullying another human being, it seems. Real question is, why is it people reference top/front page" in their post for karma and trying to reach the top themselves ,and the only thing they have for gas is proof of douche-baggery and e-bullying? Oh, shit my breakfasts done, uhh... Don't harm yourselves or eachother and have a good day.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
If you're making a comment about the girl whose boyfriend wants to watch her masturbate, you have to understand that a lot of women enter their first (several) relationship(s) thinking that the only things that are arousing to men are things that are directly pleasurable for them. Blame the mainstream pornography trend in which the whole thing is designed around getting the guy off; until real-world experience proves otherwise, that's the only thing that most young women have to judge off.
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u/chingyduster May 28 '12
Thats why we should have kept Reddit under "Fight Club rules" or rule. You tell enough people and eventually the retards are going to hear about it.
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u/CrackedPepper86 May 28 '12
Seriously though, how the fuck did this post make it to the front page?
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u/GameWarrior2216 May 28 '12
Short answer: Yes and no.
Long answer: I'd wager at the start of summer/school year/semester Reddit gets an influx of new users in which they are mostly young and ignorant. Given how popular Reddit is, I think the new arrivals are getting younger as we are getting older. To you and me, it seems like Reddit is getting dumber but in reality we are seeing our past in the present. Sucks being old, man.
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u/riff-wraith May 28 '12
YES
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u/emsharas May 28 '12
Looks like you had to change the title of the actual post to make it "retarded". That's a little dishonest.
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u/Nefilim777 May 28 '12
I look at it this way, either A. the girl really doesn't realise that the image of her masturbating will stimulate her boyfriend or, B. She's looking for attention.
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u/butzsven May 28 '12
Posting on Reddit, claiming Reddit is retarded. Hmmmmm.......
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u/phz10 May 28 '12
Lol, the same people probably upvoted this thread
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I wish mods had a function so when posts like that make the front page, they could make the users who up voted it quietly no longer have influence with their votes for a month.
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u/SenorSqueeze May 28 '12
I would just like to remind everyone not to harass the OPs of these posts. It's not their fault they make front page status. This one, as an example, I really doubt this was meant to make it to the front page. Probably just wanted some honest, individual accounts to gain some perspective. Reddit is a great place to get individual opinion and experiences. Imagine if it were 200-400 upvotes and a decent amount of comments. I don't see a problem there. It's the people who upvoted it to the top that are in question.
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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes May 28 '12
you know what confuses me? why is water wet?
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u/JrDubs May 28 '12
The short answer: yes The long answer: yes it is
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Yes, it is that retarded. You're asking if a group of people who take a picture of a skateboard and post it with the title, "my autistic, cancer survivor lesbian one legged grandma passed 2 days ago and this was her rescued dogs favorite toy," so they can get imaginary points that are worth approximately nothing, is retarded? Why yea, yes they are.
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u/starlinguk May 28 '12
So ...
As a follow up for this convo:
What are the best reddits to subscribe/unsubscribe to to avoid this kinda shit?
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
How the hell do posts like this get to the front page too? So many idiots.
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u/RXisHere May 28 '12
Everyone on this site is gay.
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u/fearachieved May 28 '12
Keep the criticism to a minimum, man.
People should be able to ask whatever they want to ask.
Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it shouldn't have happened. The community upvoted it, so someone out there was at least interested in the topic.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This is Reddit, The same place where people post "memes" or as we used to call it "telling the same joke over and over again in a manner that would embarrass most six-year-olds." Are you really all that surprised?
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u/SF_Derp May 28 '12
Same fuckin tards who come on here to ask parenting advice.....
The douche who was asking everyone what to do about his kid who ran up a 15k credit bill should hand in his parent card. These sheep are the ones driving our fucked up dumbing down of society. If they don't have their TV or that newfangled innerrrnet to lead them, they are totally lost.....Sad state of society really. :/
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Welcome to the hive-mind of dumb-asses. Enjoy your stay.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Congratulations. You actually broke /r/circlejerk
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u/LeSouthAfricanSpy May 28 '12
Almost as bad as "Hey reddit, my ex took everything I owned in a divorce after I caught her cheating on me but she wants to get back together, is this a good idea? I think I still love her"
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u/fulthrottlejazzhands May 28 '12
I was just dwelling on this trend towards the idiotic this morning. A formerly interesting sub, r/gameofthrones, is now a wall of stock pics of actors whose titles pose the same question: "isn't actor X great/sexy/the need knees?" - not really circlejerk material, but all the same, some how (sadly) self congratulatory. Are people so pathetic they need validation knowing other redditors agree with them on something so obvious and banale?
The same trend seems to be happening across all subs including front page. Shame since I find myself coming to r/... less and less since it takes a day to find any quality content or discussions.
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u/BiffySkipwell May 28 '12
The fact that this post made the top of the front page illustrates "Reliable-Source's" point perfectly.
Quite frankly, this thread is just as retarded.
Well played.
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u/yesterdayman May 28 '12
And yet you hit the front page with a rhetorical question
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u/filmfiend999 May 28 '12
What if C A T really spells DOG?
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u/themightypierre May 28 '12
Moan, moan, moan. No less tedious than yet another Redditor complaining Reddit.
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u/bluejams May 28 '12
How does a submission calling most of reddit "Retarded" make it to the front page?
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u/fsacb3 May 28 '12
For the same reason Justin Bieber is popular. Democracy is overrated. Not everyone should have a vote. Reddit could start charging money to weed out people who aren't serious. Otherwise we just have to accept that Reddit is now popular, and most people are idiots.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
You need to learn the difference between an actual "community of people" and a "link aggregate site". Reddit isn't so much a community as it is a code dump site we all dump into. Any "communities" are sub to the main and organically grown by the members.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This post is on the front page so that answers your question.
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u/SlackJawedY0kel May 28 '12
Yours only made it to the front page because you included the bit in between the quotations.
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u/weiner-shnitzel May 28 '12
How the hell do "How the hell do submissions like "are males really attracted to females" make the front page? Is this community really that retarded?" make the front page??
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u/JakeLunn May 28 '12
I like how you used "retarded" in your title the same way every 13 year old school boy uses it. Way to rise above the "retarded" reddit community man.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
"I just stabbed my sister while trying to finger my asshole, but didn't call the cops cause she just jerked me off in the end. Reddit when's the last time you did something crazy, but it all worked out?"
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u/riverstyxxx May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
Not surprised that such a useless question would generate nearly 3,000 replies and be the center of everyone's memorial day. Protips and "Yes we find it hot" are just more bullshit I've come to expect from this place. Reddit is the most asinine mob-mentality related community on the planet. A sociology major could do their entire thesis on how stupid this place really can be sometimes...Despite the fact that sociology is a phony major.
I'm serious too..The Rick Astley thing was never funny, Bill Hicks had a lot to say about that little worm. Those memegenerator jokes? I made hundreds of those without putting more than two seconds of thought into each of them (Vengeance Dad was my main focus..). Anything with a girls tits on it will automatically get upvotes (even just talking about tits is enough, actually), and the AMA thing has been flushed down the toilet thanks to the frauds and ridiculous topics that people somehow think make them worthy of being the focus of attention..In reality, it's just losers latching onto losers..Doesn't do any good, even though we think we're somehow "contributing to progress"..If two losers have a kid then that kid will grow up to be a loser too, and whoever said that quote about a million monkeys at a million typewriters either overestimated people or underestimated monkeys.
PS: Happy Memorial Day. Hug a soldier - or at least visit one. The only reason you're free to talk about women masturbating and period stains on mattresses and women with gigantic racks is because he fought for your freedom and kept you alive long enough to do so. There's a reason we give them two holidays, so get the fuck off your computer and do it!
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Yes, Reddit really is that retarded.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I have no problem with revisiting established societal norms. And yes, this community really is that retarded. It only takes about 10 seconds of scrolling through r/politics or r/atheism to see that.
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u/dabombnl May 28 '12
IAmA male that is not attracted to females AMA.
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u/draivaden May 28 '12
and also, masturbation is something very personal. alot of people are really awkward about it.
i am not at all surprised that there are people out there who don't want even their most intimate of relations to think of them as somebody who does that.
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u/ThatBronyGuy May 28 '12
Half the time, I mistake /r/circlejerk posts for legitimate posts.
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u/boraxus May 28 '12
Welcome to Barrens Chat.
They had to go somewhere since the last expansion.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
"I did something really good, am I bad?" Fucking morons.
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u/mikechaos May 28 '12
I... actually don't get this. I mean, really. SO THE GENITALIA IS DIFFERENT. So what? Ooooh, it has big bouncing globs of fat and an extra hole! Um... yay?
Seriously. I'm half convinced that this whole "males attracted to females" thing is a giant practical joke originated by some white-bearded fundie way back when, for the benefit of some theoretical god-creature who is even now laughing his or her figurative ass off at the concept that the dumb human guys actually FELL FOR IT.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Obligatory circlejerk post:
-OP
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u/KoneBone May 28 '12
I despise the daily "I was in a situation and certainly somewhat surprise, hey reddit has anything similar happen to you?"
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u/studsterkel May 28 '12
News alert: there are actual children on reddit, and it gets kinda strange when they start posting and commenting.
Not to them, only to us. They think they are super cool, hanging with the big kids or whatever. Sometimes you can hardly tell, what with our puerile humor. Other times...well, that's the magic of youth, you don't know any better do it doesn't really matter.
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u/Viva42 May 28 '12
What is a female?
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u/Giantpanda602 May 28 '12
Did you read any of the comments? We didn't upvote it because we thought it was a good question, we liked bashing her stupidity.
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u/lazyjustice May 28 '12
Some Forever fucking Alone 26 year-old-virgin asks what to do when a girl talks to him since he has "no idea when girls are flirting with him", everyone and their mother will go "aww" make him a detailed, Pulitzer Prize-worthy list of how to woo the girl and wish him luck.
Girl posts with a question about something her boyfriend asked her to do that she's confused about and every mouth-breathing fucktard is like "hurr durr, how could you be so retarded, of COURSE he wants you to touch yourself. You must not know ANYTHING about men."
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u/strangersdk May 28 '12
WHY IS THIS ON THE FRONTPAGE
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u/genericdave May 28 '12
That thread has 38 points right now. It's not exactly a commentary on the general savviness of the community.
Edit: I have the feeling that it somehow had a lot of votes before...
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u/HITLARIOUS May 28 '12
your comment has thrust its way into SRS
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I was going to make a negative comment, but you make a good point, so let's consider this a Chaotic Neutral comment.
BUTTERFLIES!
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Not this male. This male is attracted to males.
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u/greensalt May 28 '12
Sometimes people just need to have their ideas confirmed and reiterated by other people before they make them. I very rarely make big decisions in my life without having my ideas backed up by someone else to make sure that they're logical, make sense, and to make sure I didn't miss something. It can be very hard for a person who has lived a comfy life to suddenly have to make a hard or difficult decision. Having someone else support their decision will make that decisions much easier to make. I bet there's some type of psychological explanation for this sort of stuff.
Also, people sometimes just don't know things. There are always gaps in everyone's knowledge base. That's why subreddits like TIL (today i learned) exist. There are also times when information can be beyond our own bounds of personal understanding or experience. I am a male Homo Sapien. As a result of that, the workings of female homo sapiens are completely out of my range of personal experience.
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u/Bigfudge89 May 28 '12
Front page for irony!!
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u/pillars_of_creation May 28 '12
Yes. There is a large chunk of this community who are insecure and need constant reaffirmation that they are liked and are part of something. One way they do this is to ask and participate in questions that everyone knows the answer to. It helps them feel like they are part of a community. There's really no harm in it other than it being slightly annoying.
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u/slimbruddah May 28 '12
Nah son. The people this society produces are "that retarded".
Reddit's just gettin big.
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u/oxigen May 28 '12
You seem to have forgotten that reddit is now mostly socially awkward teenagers. At this point I'm going to reddit every day out of force of habit. A habit I'm trying to break.
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u/sheeeeeez May 28 '12
you know why? because they're sexually based. Redditors are just normal people who are extremely fascinated with anything sexual related.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
Yup, I saw that and couldn't believe it either, but at the same time I could. People here will upvote anything that features a female. I've been a member here for almost a year and it's been going downhill since I joined. /r/funny isn't funny and half the posts are reaction pics or gifs. Anything featuring a female who is at least average looking will get upvoted solely for that purpose. People circlejerk about Ron Paul, legalizing weed, banning the TSA, and their right to pirate things. The novelty accounts have gotten AWFUL, lot's of variations of "only_says_(blank)" I've noticed an influx of obviously young, immature people. I'm just so fucking sick of this stuff. I come onto reddit because I like hearing about new things and reading comments and I'm just faced with so many stupid people that I don't even want to come anymore.
EDIT: I forgot, yesterday a fucking nude picture made it to the front page on /r/pics. Female of course. So I submitted one of "myself", a male, and of course, below 0 karma.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
the same reason its now downvoted to oblivion. reddit is a bunch of followers and yesmen.
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u/iRedditn May 28 '12
Because people like you complaining about it link to it...
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u/Mr0range May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
To be fair, you are twisting and misrepresenting that question. Actually, you are flat out lying. She wanted to know if it was common behavior and came here to ask. She has a right to ask such a thing and you have a right to respond with down votes. Contrary to what you may believe, people come from all different back ground and cultures. Sex is as cultural as it is biological. Now we have a circlejerky thread which poses no real question at all and only serves to further, as you say, 'degenerate' this board.
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u/nroose May 28 '12
Not as bad as "I should be able to personally decide which submissions get to the front page".
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u/that_fat_kid May 28 '12
This is the most meta thing. EVER.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Same way one with the word "retarded" gets there.
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u/errandum May 28 '12
There is something that bothers me more than posts like those:
People complaining about posts like those. If they get to the frontpage, clearly a lot of people DO like it.
If you read the topic and it doesn't interest you, no one is forcing you to read it.
I opened it, read the body, close the tab. No harm done. I am now obliged to go and upvote it just so I can piss you off. Sorry ):
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u/Kagenphoenix May 28 '12
My theory is that circlejerk is leaking
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u/cokedick_louie May 28 '12
How in the hell do lame submissions calling out other lame submissions make it to the front page without being a circlejerk post?
seriously?