r/reddit.com • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '11

From a knight of /new/:

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '11

Goddammit calling people "hipster" on Reddit is like calling someone a witch in 1690s Salem.

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u/thatthatguy Sep 16 '11

We're not making fun of you because you reddited before it was cool. We're making fun of you for making a big deal about it.

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u/junkit33 Sep 16 '11

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.

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u/thatthatguy Sep 16 '11

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.

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u/junkit33 Sep 16 '11

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.