Reddit - it's not great is it

Personally dont use reddit for debate.

For tech problems it's great.

Also great for earning referral credit e.g. VR referral links.

just being a boards poster there is pretty much every avenue for a discussion for whatever topic right here, had a look at Reddit but happy to post here while I can. It didn’t really grab me Reddit.

Never got the UI on Reddit, never tried beyond a glimpse though, to be fair.

I think Boards has definitely changed as was described above. It's not Vanilla or whatever else that's "killed" it (I know, I know, it's been dying since it was born), it's the lack of humour (for the most part). It used to be a bit of craic, lighthearted, you could take the piss out of people in a good-natured way without causing offence, you could have a decent discussion and agree to disagree without getting piled on. People, on AH in particular, were out for a laugh.

Not to say there is no humour here these days, of course there is, but there is also a portion of the user base who seem to sit on here all day, waiting for any chance to be a prick. That usually stops any fun or discussion that would have been had. They should take a leaf from my book and only pop in on occasion to be a prick.

Reddit is kindof discussion twitter/X style - any topic is over and discussed pretty quickly which probably begs the question, what the fook are we all blabbering on about here on boards 20 pages later? 🤪

How the heck did this come up on my page today??

MODS! Can we have a downvoting option on here please? Now??

Thanks

Reddit just doesn't flow I only look at Reddit Ireland, it is full of navel-gazing self-indulgent posts such as actual adults saying stuff like there is nothing to do living in the countryside " me the misses and the kids are moving to Dublin and we're going to have more stuff to do"

I have taken to listening to podcasts.

It is a safe space for ultra liberals so people like me get banned easily. It is impossible to build up karma if you aren't an ultra liberal as you will get heavily downvoted and shadow banned.

As far as I know all the incel subs were banned, the one I used was Braincels around 5 years ago.

I hate how people always looked up your post history and they will search for something to use against you or humiliate you.

I actually came across someone I used to know in real life on there recently because he used his real name on the GAA sub. I looked up his post history and he was posting on the Testosterone therapy sub. He works in IT so that sounds about right.

So out of that 70 million just subtract all the discussion of hobbies, purely technical and specialist knowledge - objective areas like comp-sci, engineering, mathematics, law, linguistics, automotive tech - gardening, music, film, cooking, sports and then focus on any sub-reddit touching on life, the world (by which I mean knowledge of the ways of the world) and human nature.

I came across a thread in Reddit from r/dating today. A guy just asks if going from being obese and sedentary to becoming physically fit will make him more attractive to women. One on the top posts is from another redditor basically warning him that most of the other posters are deliberately lying to him because they feel they have to pretend that women only care about what's on the inside.

This is my experience reading Reddit and Quora in general - any question about life stuff is met with a wall of double-talk, usually with large dollops of effeminate outrage mixed-in. Worst might be r/ireland and r/Dublin which are a tissue of lies - because many Irish people are practised naifs, feigning outrage at every-thing, coyly reinforcing every kind of deliberately counterintuitive "take" and luxuriating in demonstrating pseudo-virtue in approved ways. But with little in the way of frankness and truth-telling.

There's a self-selection bias because people who lead lives of "virtuality" are comfortable having made the choice to exist for large chunks of time in a textual, abstract, media-curated world - so lots of academics and pseudo-academics (with mandatory babble about "peer review" and hi-larious references to Schrödinger's Cat), lots of IT workers, news-media/politics junkies, and just the general flotsam and jetsam of people who up-front like to call themselves "educated" and/or can type the phrase "Please educate yourself" without irony or cringe.

Also well done for resisting the temptation to type "very, very stupid". It's become a cliche to go for two "very"'s instead of one but you had enough restraint not to. Respect.

Moderation on some reddits is completely insane. Just got a ban from a certain reddit. No warning, just ban from the reddit without recourse. When messaged back muted from messaging mods too, again without reply or reason, just automated msg, bang. Basically saying you're gone and you'll never be back, fvck off.

And that's on one of the football reddits for something completely mild, no trolling, no abuse, not going against any site or reddit rules, just not 100% in line with the mainstream on one of the dogma topics which touched football in this case.

Not necessarily. Not all discussions are about current affairs.

Ive had some years long discussions with people here about hobby related subjects. It's not debate, it's just discussing a hobby we all like.

So no loss.

No-one should be generalising about Reddit and its users: there are massive differences in culture between different subs, say /r/Ireland vs. /r/Atheism vs. /r/GuitarPedals vs. /r/AskMen etc. They might as well be on different sites for the little they have in common. Don't like a particular sub? Don't subscribe to it and you won't see it in your feed.

What was the ruckus referred to above? I have no idea.

No, he used twitter instead

No, it's still twitter

Reddit is pointless for Ireland in that the Ireland posts are mainly trivial. The more specialist subs are better but tend to be full of information that relates to other countries mainly the US.

At least with Boards you get Irish replies on all subjects.

The left leaning paradise gave far right Peter Casey 56% of the vote in the 2018 Presidential election

Everyone protects narratives dogmatic to them. When you're inside of those you get away with nearly everything, when not you either keep stumm or you will be made so.

Boards has a bit of that too. Granted not quite as dramatic as r/europe but it still does.

In all fairness nearly everything is woke and left wing to you going by your posts. Your life must be a torture.

MRGA

Yeh I'm sure boards.ie members are just swanning around as Irelands best looking people.