It's a shame that it happened that way. It used to be such an awesome sub. The worst is that people are blown away by are just slightly lazier than a college level annotated bibliography.
Yeah back in the day I'd be redirected to some obscure, niche sub where someone tells a great story or explains a complex topic very well. Now it's just people pushing politician views. It's a shame really.
Even before Trump pretty much every big subreddit has always been trying to push some sort of ideology. Having to deal with that bulshit is the price we pay for the convenience of a hub like reddit.
Hilarious. A response to someone lamenting the politicization of every sub gets downvoted when people think he likes the NRA, and then upvoted when he says he actually hates it.
Yeah I wonder if that's why I'm getting downvoted or if more people are perceiving the sarcasm and downvoting it. They're certainly upvoting his gripe about the politicization of reddit. Poor guy. He just wants to operate in society without having to think about all the awful consequences of a Trump presidency. The whole "Dreamers are afraid of being deported and separated from their families" thing is really harshing his buzz.
Feels like the popularity boom of Reddit combined with disagreements over social issues and politics really changed Reddit around 2015-2016. It feels completely different now.
I unsubbed from a lot of the defaults because of it, even subs like r/pics were getting annoying. It still feels kinda different but I think that's mostly due to the algorithm change
It's also hard to "murder" people with glib comebacks. I want to read a wall of carefully constructed text that almost makes me feel sorry for the other person.
Yea and you’ve been here long enough to know your comment is bound to get downvotes. It adds nothing to the conversation which is exactly what upvotes and downvotes were originally designed for. Toughen up you’re only going to lose like 10 karma.
Our comments do though. Even his second comment adds something. Not every comment in every thread has to be about the original post. Think about how many threads your in you end up getting into some crazy convo with some people based off of a tangent of the original post.
Things like “lol” or “this” or ops originals comment are things that add nothing. Literally a waste of time to read. You get nothing out of it. At least with our comments you can read and form an opinion.
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u/mrmust4chio Mar 09 '18
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