I hate that reddit has replaced message boards (vent about reddit thread)

The thing I'm getting annoyed with most recently is the generic copy paste 'what ___ be all like ____' threads in every single sub. It's always the same pictures too. Like that cartoon with all the swords in his face or the cartoon going no you are all wrong.

POTDers may have weird personalities but at least we all have one. I'm starting to think dead internet theory is just brain dead redditors being conflated with bots

I absolutely hate those things too, theyre the lowest effort possible. Im so over peoples unpopular opinions that have taken place over actual discussion about anything

i do love Reddit though, not many places I can find where people are interested enough to talk about the random shit I want to talk about

you're not wrong

Eww, Reddit.

Clench281 posted...

you're not wrong

This needs to be higher up.

Reddit is a system which kills the flow of conversation. Compartmentalizing every discussion into separate pockets hidden behind the "show more" button has just led to two people yelling at each other in an infinite void while nobody else in the thread even sees the conversation happening.

The fixation on "updoot culture" has made it fashionable to provide safe, popular, surface-level opinions--or, worse than that, meme responses copied and pasted a thousand times--just to get upvotes and appear at the top of the discussion.

It gameifies discussions in a way that isn't productive or helpful, while stifling and shutting down any dissenting opinion instantaneously. It only takes about ~10 people downvoting a comment to hide it from the majority of people reading, which leads to a major problem with echo chambers.

Also, the mods on Reddit are absolutely worse than the mods here on GameFAQs. The other day, I got banned from r/comics for saying that Republicans aren't all monsters; most of them are ordinary people with their own lives and thought processes.

ok, this is epic

I'd argue that Reddit didn't kill message boards, Twitter did.

Twitter is what shifted people away from the mentality of longer message board conversations towards more rapid-fire short, pithy, stupid ones. It's also a large part of why people moved from having longer strands of progressive discussion in an established order to having more disjointed statement/reply style interaction, with the site itself funneling posts it thinks you want to see to you based on flawed assumptions of popularity and engagement. Twitter (and Facebook before it) basically ruined people's brains.

If anything, Reddit is more of a step back from that sort of thing. It's sort of a bastard hybrid between the two, where most people are still in the Twitter-flavored mindset of random posting, but where mechanics exist to try and start discussion strands if you want to. How well that works depends almost entirely on which subreddit you're on. Some subreddits are fantastic for discussion, if you know how to find them. A lot of video game subreddits are as good (if not better) than most game boards on GameFAQs.

But let's be honest - how likely you are to have an actual conversation depends entirely on which board you're on even here on GameFAQs. There are boards on this site you couldn't pay me to spend time on. Where any attempt to have an intelligent conversation is likely to result in little more than frustration and annoyance, where groupthink will result in people dogpiling you for wrongthink opinions, and where most people are just shouting in the void rather than actually being interested in anything anyone else has to say.



Gobstoppers12 posted...

Also, the mods on Reddit are absolutely worse than the mods here on GameFAQs.

I'd argue this is something else that depends entirely on which subreddit you're posting on. There are subreddits on the site better than anything I've ever experienced on GameFAQs for the past 20 years. There are also subreddits you could not pay me to visit. And it goes without saying that any sane and decent human being should avoid the main page like the plague.

Basically, the worst Reddit mods are definitely worse than the average GameFAQs mod, but the best Reddit mods are easily far better than most of the mods GameFAQs has ever had (and certainly most of the ones we have now).

Reddit's way better for special interests and niche hobbies. Sure, it's terrible when it comes to discussing stuff like politics, religion, and current events, but ALL social media is terrible at discussing those topics (including GameFAQs).

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I got banned from r/comics for saying that Republicans aren't all monsters; most of them are ordinary people with their own lives and thought processes.

ur so brave.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

ooger posted...

ur so brave.

who asked

Gobstoppers12 posted...

who asked

Fighting the good fight.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd argue this is something else that depends entirely on which subreddit you're posting on

I suppose I should clarify that I'm mostly talking about the "big" sitewide subreddits which frequently appear on the unfiltered front page of r/all.

Pics, mildlyinteresting, comics, news, etc. The mods in all of those places are power-hungry people who can't help but project their extremely limited power onto anybody and everybody who disagrees with them. If you disagree with the political messaging of a comic on r/comics which the mods agree with, you get permabanned.

ooger posted...

Fighting the good fight.

against what?

Gobstoppers12 posted...

against what?

Those who think Jeff Dunham is not a good comedian.

God Bless.

reddit didn't kill message boards, it is one

I just want to say I appreciate you all, potd, from a-r-v to chimpan-Zeus

Go to the sub you post the most on - does anyone recognize you?

ooger posted...

Those who think Jeff Dunham is not a good comedian.

but I like Jeff Dunham

Reddit has a way to sort discussions by Newest First. It's how you actually see conversations. If you don't do that, you can't complain, because you are part of the problem.

AdmittedFelon posted...

Reddit has a way to sort discussions by Newest First. It's how you actually see conversations. If you don't do that, you can't complain, because you are part of the problem.

Whos alt is this

AdmittedFelon posted...

Reddit has a way to sort discussions by Newest First. It's how you actually see conversations. If you don't do that, you can't complain, because you are part of the problem.

That's a very hostile comment, admittedly you are a felon though

Gobstoppers12 posted...

but I like Jeff Dunham

exactly

BADoglick posted...

That's a very hostile comment, admittedly you are a felon though

at least they admit to it.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Whos alt is this

It's always "Who's alt is this?" and never "How are you doing?".

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I suppose I should clarify that I'm mostly talking about the "big" sitewide subreddits which frequently appear on the unfiltered front page of r/all.

There's your first mistake right there.



Lokarin posted...

Go to the sub you post the most on - does anyone recognize you?

Yes, actually.

I'm on a few subreddits where I'm a recognizable poster other people have referred to by name, or where other people have started private conversations to discuss something I've said at some point or just socialize.

Arguably I'm more "known" on PotD, but I've also been here for like 20 years. The longest I've been on any subreddit is only about a year or three.

You can get moderated on Reddit for upvoting comments that break rules now lol

i guess its always been a rule but they havent been enforcing it until now?

you can get suspended by just saying luigi there lmfao

ReturnOfFa posted...

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

Pororin is fear of suffering!

ParanoidObsessive posted...

There's your first mistake right there.

Yeah, it's just a shame.

For the most part I use my "Home" page, which is nothing but One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, Star Wars, and World of Warcraft memes.

But sometimes, when I wanna keep up with current events or recent trends, I flip it to All to see what's being talked about.

It's almost always politics, and people are mad about it.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

For the most part I use my "Home" page, which is nothing but One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, Star Wars, and World of Warcraft memes.

And some gamefaqs related subreddits....

ooger posted...

And some gamefaqs related subreddits....

Very rarely, yeah. Not like anybody posts on those anymore lol

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Not like anybody posts on those anymore lol

LMAO, true.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

You can get moderated on Reddit for upvoting comments that break rules now lol

i guess its always been a rule but they havent been enforcing it until now?

The fuck? Why would they even keep track of that?

Revelation34 posted...

The fuck? Why would they even keep track of that?

Because people have been upvoting too many violent threats and doxxing efforts.

Most people make such posts using throw-away accounts, meant to either be banned or deleted after a couple of days. Those posts still get tons of upvotes, pushing them to the front page. The person who made the post might get banned on one account, but that's not much of a downside on a site with free accounts.

So, instead of punishing the person who made the throwaway account, they will punish the people who allowed the rule-violating post to reach the front page in the first place. That's how you stop things like this.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Because people have been upvoting too many violent threats and doxxing efforts.

Most people make such posts using throw-away accounts, meant to either be banned or deleted after a couple of days. Those posts still get tons of upvotes, pushing them to the front page. The person who made the post might get banned on one account, but that's not much of a downside on a site with free accounts.

So, instead of punishing the person who made the throwaway account, they will punish the people who allowed the rule-violating post to reach the front page in the first place. That's how you stop things like this.

I thought you disliked moderation on reddit?

Which is it?

it's also just not true

i am completely ip and device banned on reddit, there is no making a new free account for me, not even on a vpn can i make a new account and have it not get banned immediately, i have tried.

all i did was nothing. someone else got their account banned for repeated ban evasion while on the same internet my phone was on. i was not a part of it in any way.

and they completely blacklisted every single device on those ips, and any devices the accounts had ever used before along with any new ip those accounts got registered to.

to say they don't ban or that it's easy to just make a new account on reddit has never actually gotten banned from there. it's not gamefaqs, you cannot just make a new account and be fine.

ooger posted...

I thought you disliked moderation on reddit?

Which is it?

Complicated. Sometimes they're too sensitive, but those are usually the subreddit-level mods who ban people permanently for small political disagreements.

The site-wide rules tend to be more reasonable.

Reddit is designed top to bottom to create echochambers and promote groupthink. I use reddit every now and then I have to consciously go out of my way to sanity check myself on anything because it is extremely easy to start thinking that your line of thinking is more popular than it actually is.

Reddit is only second to post-Musk twitter. At least reddit shows you what it thinks you want to see, as opposed to an algorithm made top to bottom to promote the far right.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Because people have been upvoting too many violent threats and doxxing efforts.

Most people make such posts using throw-away accounts, meant to either be banned or deleted after a couple of days. Those posts still get tons of upvotes, pushing them to the front page. The person who made the post might get banned on one account, but that's not much of a downside on a site with free accounts.

So, instead of punishing the person who made the throwaway account, they will punish the people who allowed the rule-violating post to reach the front page in the first place. That's how you stop things like this.

Then it's really on the people making those posts. Half the time I'm up upvoting people who were only downvoted for having an opinion like "I don't like that flavor."

ConfusedTorchic posted...

it's also just not true

i am completely ip and device banned on reddit, there is no making a new free account for me, not even on a vpn can i make a new account and have it not get banned immediately, i have tried.

all i did was nothing. someone else got their account banned for repeated ban evasion while on the same internet my phone was on. i was not a part of it in any way.

and they completely blacklisted every single device on those ips, and any devices the accounts had ever used before along with any new ip those accounts got registered to.

to say they don't ban or that it's easy to just make a new account on reddit has never actually gotten banned from there. it's not gamefaqs, you cannot just make a new account and be fine.

There's absolutely no way they could track if somebody changes their IP to make a new account.

Revelation34 posted...

Then it's really on the people making those posts.

It wasn't enough to ban the throwaways, though, that's the problem. At this point, the people intentionally upvoting violent or rule-breaking content know what they're doing and they know it's against the rules.

Most of them are "protesting" by intentionally posting rule-breaking stuff like "Luigi's Mansion" and acting like they don't understand why they got their post deleted.

They think they're cute and clever, but it's honestly pretty sad and lame what some of those wannabe-revolutionaries are doing over there.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Complicated. Sometimes they're too sensitive, but those are usually the subreddit-level mods who ban people permanently for small political disagreements.

The site-wide rules tend to be more reasonable.

So you like corporate moderators over people who created the subreddits you post in.

Weren't you a community moderator of a user created space?

I used to hate reddit but now I use it pretty much only as a sports news site and it's fantastic

i've been off the internet for a good 5 years, and I came back to gamefaqs actually to find that messaeboard experience of the old days but to my surprise i showed up and see they closed CE and nowhere else really had that kind of energy. I loved it. I miss it so much.

Roxborough-AI posted...

i've been off the internet for a good 5 years, and I came back to gamefaqs actually to find that messaeboard experience of the old days but to my surprise i showed up and see they closed CE and nowhere else really had that kind of energy. I loved it. I miss it so much.

The new owners closed the politics board, CE became the politics board/the new LUE.

Not a single person is happy with this change.

I dislike how people can downvote the one person that actually tried helpful or said something inoffensive. I dislike how people can just straight up someone just because of low karma, a subreddit they visited, posting history, or because of an opinion they do not like.

ooger posted...

So you like corporate moderators over people who created the subreddits you post in.

Half the time those people didn't even create the subreddits they're moderating, and even if they did, they're still modding them in a way that reveals their severe hunger for power.

Like when street-level Reddit mods got a little too arrogant and attempted that absolutely hilarious blackout a while back, where all the wannabe-revolutionary Reddit mods thought they could shut down the whole site with their mod power. They probably forgot that the 'power' they have is just borrowed from the actual site owners and can be taken away at any time. Most of them fell in line after that. The ones who didn't lost all their power.

But yes, when Reddit makes the decision to ban people for glorifying actual violent threats and destruction of property...I agree with that decision. So, in this case, I agree with the site admins over the tantrum-throwing Reddit mods.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Half the time those people didn't even create the subreddits they're moderating, and even if they did, they're still modding them in a way that reveals their severe hunger for power.

Like when street-level Reddit mods got a little too arrogant and attempted that absolutely hilarious blackout a while back, where all the wannabe-revolutionary Reddit mods thought they could shut down the whole site with their mod power. They probably forgot that the 'power' they have is just borrowed from the actual site owners and can be taken away at any time. Most of them fell in line after that. The ones who didn't lost all their power.

But yes, when Reddit makes the decision to ban people for glorifying actual violent threats and destruction of property...I agree with that decision. So, in this case, I agree with the site admins over the tantrum-throwing Reddit mods.

ooger posted...

Weren't you a community moderator of a user created space?

Yikes, sounds like someone likes getting trampled on by authority figures.

I don't use reddit. Too much evil on that website.

ooger posted...

sounds like someone likes getting trampled on by authority figures.

are you legit trying to defend people who upvote violent threats though?