Reddit - it's not great is it

r/Ireland looking for applications for Mods if anyone wants to apply 🤭

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1e45fhk/mod_applications/

The sort of people who apply to become moderators are the sort of people who should never be made a moderator.

I dunno, I think Reddit is fairly amazing.

Strangers from all over the world discussing any subject under the sun.

What the internet was made for really.

Yeh, there are head de balls, but there are head de balls EVERYWHERE

Didn't read the whole thread but someone said in the first couple of pages: It's a total echo chamber, and there are some crazy opinions on it that get up voted.

I think it stems from the posters being in the younger age group on some subs, like you'll see a discussion on down syndrome and the overwhelming advice is to abort. Any relationship issue, the advice is just break up or divorce etc.

I still view it regularly but take any advice with a pinch of salt and I don't bother contributing to a thread if I have a dissenting opinion because it will just be downvoted which is just the echo chamber in action.

Says a middle aged something on boards about fewer middle aged something moaning something. 😉 😁

I think the internet in general has just become a big moanfest. We're all moaning about something or about each other these days, no?

Some people take the internet and the opinions of others far too seriously.

Not too bad. Could be a pic from Sports & Social in my place. (Argh, am I one of 'them'?)

Moany how?!

I agree, however, people sometimes seem to forget what it means to post all their sh1t into the public domain. It means its literally public and this is just something you'll have to accept then.

Also, you're grand, it's not actually very embarrassing, just regular folks.

<snip>

It's not necessarily that you go against consensus, but it's when your points are misplaced and generally attacking other users rather than rebutting their points is when you tend to draw the ire of the community and enter a spiralling downvote funnel.

Funnily enough, if any of your earlier comments in that tree had been reported or flagged much earlier, you probably could've been saved the karma loss by the back-and-forth argument getting shut down earlier 🤷

______________________________

Warned: Do not attempt to bring a poster's username from another site here. You may be incorrectly identifying someone. Attempting to identify anyone on this site is called doxxing and results in a permanent siteban.

There's another one called /casualireland that is much better. Less of the student union politics, terrible Father Ted and Simpsons memes, and that air of neckbeardy righteousness so prevalent in /ireland.

The way I see it

Boards - Oldies

/r/Ireland - Younger folk

r/Ireland also has a lot of yanks and far right wantobes that brigade every national sub that uses English.

At least Broads isn't as plagued, although it does have problems with the same usual suspects that constantly get a pass from the site owners. (I know, I'll get thread banned for this).

Can those "far right" posters be identified as simply anyone whom you disagree with?

In the week after the Hamas attack I got site banned for posting in r/worldnews an estimate based on UN stats from previous flairups of how many Palestinians would be killed in the Israeli counterattack.

According to the latest UN estimate my prediction has been exceeded.

I got banned from the whole site for that.

A lot of subs that are popular, or formerly considered a "default" will have a minimum karma requirement. The intent is to weed out newly registered or unused accounts, which most of the time are just re-regs trying to troll or otherwise disrupt a community.

Often as a newer user, you'll need to find a more niche community to start in to build up the karma required to engage in the more popular communities.

r/worldnews is a festering cesspool, and should be avoided. You are better off using — and this isn't a troll, this is literally what the sub is named — r/anime_titties

That said, getting an admin siteban for merely posting in a community does not usually happen unless your account was flagged for ban evading.

Seems like too much effort to just post. Never liked it anyway! :P

I looked at one Poster there active in the /ireland subreddit and it appears their strategy is to be a Thanks Whore elsewhere in Reddit collecting Karma so that they can act the bollox and bully people on the ireland subreddit.

As far as I can tell, there's less smugness and snideness on reddit. On boards, it's very much about winning an argument against a stranger at all costs.

Reddit arguments tend to end in insults back and forth, at least the mods here put a stop to that….Eventually.

Being a mod on reddit if you're not entitled to be a shareholder is the most futile pursuit anyone can volunteer for. Ironically Reddit going public will probably alienate a lot users outside the US who may end up setting up regional alternatives which would draw traffic away from Reddit.

The owners will now push the site towards US boomers who up to now have probably mainly used FB and Twitter.