reddit by a wide margin if we're considering average. Gamefaqs by a wide margin if we're considering worse collection of offendersReally, so the worst of the worst you think are on this site mostly, why would that be though?
The things I've seen man.
B8 is good times though. And I still prefer the simpler layout of this place and I'm not a fan of the upvote system
Reddit wins by sheer scale, especially considering it has subs dedicated to hatred or complaining about just about anything you can think of - children, spouses, in-laws, fat people, pets, you name it. It'd be a more interesting question if it was trying to compare it with GameFAQs at its peak.At it's peak, this site was much much worse?
i can't believe i'm saying this since i think reddit is insanely toxic, but gamefaqs is more toxic.You think this board is one of the better ones on here? Yeah sad many are like 40 and not 14 and still......maybe both sites users act much better out in irl with actual people
reddit's toxicity mostly comes from the groupthinking and comformity and how you will be treated if you post any opinion that is even slightly out of line or if you mess up a social taboo that you didn't know existed. but if that's not happening, a decent amount of threads will still be, like, normal and mature.
meanwhile on gamefaqs, literally any board other than board 8, every thread is just a bunch of 13-year olds squabbling with each other and accusing each other of being trolls. which made sense 20 years ago but its still the same today even though the site doesn't get new users, and if you check the account dates of the people involved, there's no way they're in their teens at all anymore, so i really don't get how they're somehow all still so immature.
reddit's toxicity is kinda more insidious though because at least on gamefaqs its a bunch of socially stunted adults who can't help themselves and are mostly harmless, on reddit it comes from people who are otherwise proper adults but still can't resist a bit of bullying when they see that someone has stepped out of line.
So you are a mod and even you think this site is worse, a lot worse?
I browse very specific reddits in fairness which are very much good vibes only type places. The Taskmaster reddit for exampleWhat subject is taskmaster?
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Even the niche reddit subs are ruined by the upvote system. It's such a bad system for actually running a community. It actively destroys conversation and incentivizes hivemind and interruption, even if there's only a handful of posts.
There's this phenomenon that I don't know what to call, where you'll have a "conversation" of 5-6 posts, where each post is from a different person. But each user speaks as if they were the previous poster, so it reads like a 1-on-1 conversation. It's a preview of our future AI-generated social structure, where individuality is completely forgotten. This is why it's ideal for bigotry-driven communities.
I don't know if that's "toxic" in the way most people use the term. But it definitely rots your brain. The positive is that it sorts information pretty well. But also like AI, there's a ton of hallucination which is optimized for sounding good rather than actually being true, so you can't trust anything there.
Even the niche reddit subs are ruined by the upvote system. It's such a bad system for actually running a community. It actively destroys conversation and incentivizes hivemind and interruption, even if there's only a handful of posts.
There's this phenomenon that I don't know what to call, where you'll have a "conversation" of 5-6 posts, where each post is from a different person. But each user speaks as if they were the previous poster, so it reads like a 1-on-1 conversation. It's a preview of our future AI-generated social structure, where individuality is completely forgotten. This is why it's ideal for bigotry-driven communities.
I don't know if that's "toxic" in the way most people use the term. But it definitely rots your brain. The positive is that it sorts information pretty well. But also like AI, there's a ton of hallucination which is optimized for sounding good rather than actually being true, so you can't trust anything there.
man I wish I could upvote this postr/beatmetoit
man I wish I could upvote this postif your post gets massive downvotes is it almost like being modded? have never used reddit
if your post gets massive downvotes is it almost like being modded? have never used redditNo, it just gets pushed to the bottom of the page. But you can also sort comments by controversial/downvotes, so in a way they probably end up receiving more attention than if they had just been left alone and ignored, which results in slapfights in which one user gets dogpiled by the rest of the community. Some redditors tend to report things they disagree with as well, so mods and admins often do take action on those heavily downvoted posts.
No the worst of the worst are on reddit, but they also have the best of the best.
Gamefaqs is like the equivalent of an american based irish pub. Most people here are old stubborn goats with fairly toxic ways and there's no one to really bring up the average.
they all try to one-up each other by trying to make the funniest comment, creating endless chains of frequently terrible jokes and puns.
B8 > Reddit Average > GameFAQs Average > Worst of GameFAQs >>>> Worst of Reddit
I only visit like 2 reddits for hearthstone and they have typically been fine. I have gone to other reddits though like ranime when I was a panel member or epic seven and kings raid when I played them.What is hearthstone though?
Obviously hearthstone and battlegrounds reddits are large. But on the bg one at least the vibe is that people are pretty helpful and positive towards things. Except beasts. The reddit hates them and one of the first things a new user should know is not to post how you won with one unless it's a weird build.
For something like epic seven which I played in it's prime the reddit has basically always been new players asking for help and fan art.
A lot of it does come down to the mods and rules on a reddit etc. Social boards like b8 are a pretty special card for gamefaqs and the wide breadth of insane and meme posts we have would not fly on a lot of reddits.
Reddit has a lot of toxic mobs and is generally worse but the unfiltered toxicity on some parts of GameFAQs are somethin else.like which parts of this site?