Current Events > Single worst thing about the Internet?

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Auto-play videos, especially ones loud as fuck
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You.
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cp
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I too find the ads on questionable websites to let out loud promiscuous sounds at the most inopportune times.
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Fact checking unnecessarily during casual conversations

Relatedly, a lot of people just get on information overload and discount the experiential side of things
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Facebook's mid-video ads
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About the Internet as a whole?

chill02 posted...

cp

Probably not even that, tbh. Like, there are probably hitman-for-hire sites out there.
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It's demolishing our attention span.
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Lag.
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CableZL posted...

Facebook

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Social networks.

Entitlement.
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gamefaqs.gamespot.com
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Social media.
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Scorsese2002 posted...

Auto-play videos, especially ones loud as fuck

Firefox: media.autoplay.enabled = false
Chrome: http://osxdaily.com/2017/11/20/stop-autoplay-video-audio-chrome/

Most of the time though, media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground (ff) gets the job done well enough, especially so for (possibly naughty) sites where it's useful to middle-click a bunch of tabs open at a time.

HotMaladorianAI posted...

Fact checking unnecessarily during casual conversations

Relatedly, a lot of people just get on information overload and discount the experiential side of things

I wouldn't say this is the worst, but it's certainly irritating when people act like personal experience doesn't even register on the spectrum of value compared to a wiki article.
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events
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Misinformation

Sites like Wikipedia where information is easily manipulated.
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Shadow-Moses posted...

Misinformation

Sites like Wikipedia where information is easily manipulated.

To be fair, it's easy to tell when a Wikipedia article has been edited, and improper changes are corrected pretty quickly.
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Gives a lot of fools a platform in which to be heard. That's also the best thing about it.
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When theres an outage.
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CableZL posted...

Shadow-Moses posted...

Misinformation

Sites like Wikipedia where information is easily manipulated.

To be fair, it's easy to tell when a Wikipedia article has been edited, and improper changes are corrected pretty quickly.

See also:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16

Like 90% of the deep web, aside from CE of course
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Like 90% of the deep web, aside from CE of course

Huh. I guess CE is deep web, isn't it?

anonymity allows the forfeit of accountable, reliable, and trustworthy information
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throttling

The people.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

The people.

you especially

For me, it's probably a toss up between all the swearing and all the porn.

Yes, I am aware I am an extreme oddity there. You don't need to tell me.

Though there's also all the cyberbullying, come go think of it. C, final answer.
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False sense of community

It's not the worst thing but I despise braggarts. Especially if it stems from something so damn useless.

Like people bragging about having money is still really annoying but at least that isn't useless. But when people start bragging about useless shit like how their game console is better than some other console, or about how their favorite sport team is the best, or how their taste in anime is better than everyone else, or how their Yu-Gi-Oh collection is better than some other guy's collection or how much better they are in a game than the competition then stuff like that just irks me. Like stfu, so much pride over something that's basically useless. _

catboy0_0 posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

The people.

you especially

Lol, okay.
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angry people
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CableZL posted...

Shadow-Moses posted...

Misinformation

Sites like Wikipedia where information is easily manipulated.

To be fair, it's easy to tell when a Wikipedia article has been edited, and improper changes are corrected pretty quickly.

Not necessarily. Smaller edits often go unnoticed and mods are easily fooled when people cite sources. People also use the source material and change the wording to the extent where it is interpreted very differently. No one has every single article on watchlist. Not even the mods and no one's got time to fight over a piece of text. Wikipedia editors are the worst type of people on the internet. They sit on their ass all day editing articles to suit their own agenda. It's not even like spending time on a forum or YouTube or some shit and these guys aren't getting paid for it, yet this is how they choose to spend their free time. It's pathetic.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

DocileOrangeCup posted...

Like 90% of the deep web, aside from CE of course

Huh. I guess CE is deep web, isn't it?

I mean, so is gmail.
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Shadow-Moses posted...

CableZL posted...

Shadow-Moses posted...

Misinformation

Sites like Wikipedia where information is easily manipulated.

To be fair, it's easy to tell when a Wikipedia article has been edited, and improper changes are corrected pretty quickly.

Not necessarily. Smaller edits often go unnoticed and mods are easily fooled when people cite sources. People also use the source material and change the wording to the extent where it is interpreted very differently. No one has every single article on watchlist. Not even the mods and no one's got time to fight over a piece of text. Wikipedia editors are the worst type of people on the internet. They sit on their ass all day editing articles to suit their own agenda. It's not even like spending time on a forum or YouTube or some shit and these guys aren't getting paid for it, yet this is how they choose to spend their free time. It's pathetic.

Second worst would be Quora users. The most narcissistic community of people I have come across. There's also the bodybuilding forums and pretty much any place where people are too obsessed with race, genetics, ethnicity or anthropology. So many elitists and narcissists out there. It's disgusting.

That's true. It would be more accurate to say it's easy to tell if a Wikipedia article has been edited if you're trying to verify whether it has been edited or not.
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