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foolm0r0n posted...

The point of reddit is depersonalization. Message boards like this put the username front and center, and emphasize the linear thread of discussion. Reddit actively fights against that. It instead wants to distill the average sentiment of the public into a single manufactured thread.

It is very common for person A to make a statement, person B to ask a follow up question, and then a completely different person C answer the follow up question in the voice of A. So a convo on gfaqs which would be between 2 people responding in turn, is instead 50 different people all responding out of order, and then getting sorted and filtered by the votes into the final conversation you see in the top comments. Check out AskOuija for the clearest example of this.

Individual people commenting don't matter at all. It's like a wiki more than anything.

So that's why it's really popular. By design it shows you the average sentiment of the internet at that given moment. Without all the individuality getting in the way.

Exactly this. Which is why it's so foreign to us. On board 8, you're part of a community of people where you know the other people, you learn about their backgrounds, and you are responding to individual people. Reddit is just an amalgamation of ideas from essentially anonymous sources.

I just opened up new reddit for the first time in years. Wow, I hate it. I use old reddit with RES and it's perfect.

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