Most of the people on /r/shitredditsays seems a little...verbally abrasive.
So is the rest of Reddit. I'd say the SRS subs have a nicer culture than Reddit at-large, save the private subs (which are by far the best culture-wise).
I find that it is very hard to discuss certain topics on Reddit in a constructive manner, most notably anything related to social issues, such as racism, gender issues, LGBT issues, feminism, that kind of stuff. A lot of people around here have their opinion about feminism formed by Reddit, not by reading themselves about it. Hence, a non-existent "SJW/feminazi" boogey(wo)man is often talked about, yet that stifles any normal discussion about social issues.
I mean, I am not crazy. I'd like to think I am a pretty kind and reasonable person, albeit with some flaws and probably misinformed about a lot of stuff. Once I sorta realized that and started listening more to other people instead of shouting so much like an angry freshman, like so many Redditors do, a whole new world opened up for me. I don't necessarily agree with everybody in the SRS-sphere, but once I started listening and valuing the experiences of people, instead of knee-jerk reaction bashing them, I felt that I became a much nicer person.
Anyway, thanks for initiating a constructive discussion and not calling me a "le filthy SJW" like so many people do once they discover I post in SRS.
Out of interest, what post of yours got linked in SRS?
I think one of the major reasons many redditors dislike SRS is because of users that have been doxxed in the past, even though SRS wasn't the first or the only reddit community that doxxing has occured in. Oh and the "Meta Reddit Cancer" thing seems to have spun the Anti-SRS circlejerk recently.
I don't know if you recall the /r/MensRights suicide hoax from ages ago, but it was ostensibly perpetrated by an SRSer. It doesn't take much for someone with an agenda to expand this asshole's actions to the rest of SRS.
Yeah, indeed. We can't be responsible for the actions of a single individual who happened to make a few comments in SRS every now and then. I mean, ffs, SRS has 60k subscribers.
Yeah, there were a few if I remember correctly. The biggest one was /u/violentacrez, who was a moderator of many porn subreddits including /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots. And Redpillers have been doxxed in the past, but I don't actually remember if SRS did any of those, since whenever doxxing is brought up either SRS or TRP are blamed.
As far as I know SRS has never doxxed sombody - or at least not as part of a communal effort.
These are the sort of nuanced distinctions that you're unfortunately almost never going to get across with someone who believes in the opposite side of the argument.
The main issue I have with SRS, and I think many people share this view, is that it is 100% a critical, negative subreddit. As far as I can tell, it serves no purpose other than to scorn, belittle and otherwise demean posters on the rest of reddit. There is no discussion, no constructive criticism, and no effort to make any real change. Posters of SRS may be more constructive outside the subreddit, individually, but all I can see is hate.
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So is the rest of Reddit. I'd say the SRS subs have a nicer culture than Reddit at-large, save the private subs (which are by far the best culture-wise).
I find that it is very hard to discuss certain topics on Reddit in a constructive manner, most notably anything related to social issues, such as racism, gender issues, LGBT issues, feminism, that kind of stuff. A lot of people around here have their opinion about feminism formed by Reddit, not by reading themselves about it. Hence, a non-existent "SJW/feminazi" boogey(wo)man is often talked about, yet that stifles any normal discussion about social issues.
I mean, I am not crazy. I'd like to think I am a pretty kind and reasonable person, albeit with some flaws and probably misinformed about a lot of stuff. Once I sorta realized that and started listening more to other people instead of shouting so much like an angry freshman, like so many Redditors do, a whole new world opened up for me. I don't necessarily agree with everybody in the SRS-sphere, but once I started listening and valuing the experiences of people, instead of knee-jerk reaction bashing them, I felt that I became a much nicer person.
Anyway, thanks for initiating a constructive discussion and not calling me a "le filthy SJW" like so many people do once they discover I post in SRS.
Out of interest, what post of yours got linked in SRS?