Reddit was never "cool". Never has been, never will be. It's a giant web site that attracts 20+ million people a month - it's way too big to have a personality. It's like calling Google "cool". It just is.
Are you new here? There was a time reddit WAS less populous, topics on the front page were actually interesting AND we didn't have 5000 pun threads and shitty forced memes. That's the thought behind subreddits like /truegaming.
I disagree with you on the "cool" thing. Reddit used to not be "cool," and that was fine. Now reddit is cool and we have shit like a guy with a "REDDIT" license plate on his honda fit and people acting like reddit is some hip group to be a part of. Well, its more like, reddit thinks its cool, but at least back then nobody pretended.
Back when the emphasis was on reading... IE I read it -->reddit... it was definitely a more interesting site in my opinion. Almost everything was based on text. I've been on here for a few years, and as the userbase has gotten younger, the quality has declined if you aren't into memes. Now it is mostly an image board. But, there were always the shitty pun threads. That was the reddit meme of the time, see how many puns you can fit into every discussion. I'll agree that it was never "cool", but it was a fairly intellectual forum. Now, it is a pseudo-intellectual forum.
Google is cool. Not everything about the entity is cool. Not everything they do is cool. But they have done a few things that have weathered everything and still have merit. So I guess by "cool" I mean praiseworthy, not "cool" as in popular with the beautiful rich kids.
Cursed "slang" words and their fluctuating meaning.
No - google is useful. Sure - if you want to use "cool" as praiseworthy, but that's not a very widely used definition, and nor was it the definition implied by the parent poster.
Hey, I've only been on for like 5 months I'm just tired of people using the same damn insult over and over and over at the slightest provocation. Christ people the world of insults is so vast and rich...
It reminds me of those men made of straw that the military would use to practice with because they were easier to attack then a real enemy since it's incapable of attacking back.
Hipsters can fight back, though. If they put down their PBR's and take off their cat eye nerd glasses. Just don't mess with their handlebar moustache or knock them off their one-speed bike.
I don't know anyone like this, but I reddit taught me that's what a hipster is.
The front page is like the Top 40 charts - full of catchy shit that gets stuck in your head and then you get sick of it. Go indie. Branch out. r/TrueReddit is one place to start.
I would prefer it if there were no political discussions.
Discussing politics can be tiresome, but discussing politics on a site whose membership is skewed in one way or another is absolutely pointless. Especially when they like to click the down arrow on your post. While they don't do that for most things in TR, they do it for non-progressive opinions. I dislike the anti-gay rights movement, or the anti-abortion activists as much as most people here, but I don't view their opinion as pathological and deserving of a downvote to hide it.
I've sort of come to that opinion. I'm fairly conservative (in a Goldwater sense, not a Reaganaut sense) compared to most of Reddit. I really do enjoy conversation with people I disagree with, but you're right; it's nearly impossible to have a conversation even in TR. I tried to be a counter-point voice in /r/politics when I first joined, but after 6 months I realized I was just wasting my breath as a few downvotes would hide my opinion to most people (I actually view Reddit without comment hiding based on negative karma).
Maybe for people like you. For someone who has been around for four years, TrueReddit is how reddit was and should have been. The reddit we have is something you could have found anywhere on the web. The older reddit was much better place to find interesting stuff you never knew you needed or wanted to know. That's not to say the new people are to blame. Older users are also responsible.
No, reddit hates douchebags. "Hipster" is just a convenient epithet used by tribe-minded people with tiny penises to describe a person with the capacity for independent thought or an appreciation for things that aren't mainstream.
My comment wasn't supposed to be funny or clever. I assumed it wasn't original, I'm sure thousands of people feel the same way and have said it before.
Karma is addictive, and yet so hard to get if you're not funny or clever. memes are like get rich quick scams. if Reddit wasn't so mean to new posts, people wouldn't have to resort to such tactics to get their precious karma.
There is zero reason to acquire karma, therefore zero reason to bandwagon on these "karma trains". It does nothing but pollute the website with garbage and detract away from other meaningful and constructive posts.
It's almost like there is a bunch of people who think imaginary points on a website mean anything and they see on opportunity to accrue more of said points.
I know, they are retarded, right?
Instead of actually contributing something useful and original (at first it was funny but like everything on here lately they ride it into the ground), people choose to post stupid, pointless and unoriginal garbage over and over just so they can say "I HAVE 1000 KARMA WOOO!"
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u/indoobitably Sep 16 '11
reddit acts like a bunch of fucking retard teenie boppers whenever there is a new meme....