Poll of the Day > Can someone explain to me in simple terms what Reddit is?

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Lobomoon
07/08/19 7:34:14 PM
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Is it a bunch of message boards like this one?
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Nade Duck
07/08/19 7:35:38 PM
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stupid mostly
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Kimbos_Egg
07/08/19 7:37:00 PM
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a website
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Broken_Zeus
07/08/19 7:39:24 PM
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It's basically CE but with shitty boards formatting.
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Lobomoon
07/08/19 7:40:37 PM
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Broken_Zeus posted...
It's basically CE but with shitty boards formatting.


Common Era?
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Nade Duck
07/08/19 7:42:37 PM
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Lobomoon posted...
Broken_Zeus posted...
It's basically CE but with shitty boards formatting.


Common Era?

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ParanoidObsessive
07/08/19 7:45:39 PM
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It's better than us. Except in the cases where it's worse than us.


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Lokarin
07/08/19 7:47:35 PM
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It's a forum where popular responses are bumped to the top... that is all.
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Broken_Zeus
07/08/19 7:48:56 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's better than us. Except in the cases where it's worse than us.



Au contraire! It's worse than us, except in the cases where it's better than us!
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WastelandCowboy
07/08/19 7:49:25 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's better than us. Except in the cases where it's worse than us.

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Mead
07/08/19 7:50:38 PM
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a media aggregate based on user votes
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Lobomoon
07/08/19 7:56:01 PM
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Broken_Zeus posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's better than us. Except in the cases where it's worse than us.



Au contraire! It's worse than us, except in the cases where it's better than us!


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Lokarin
07/08/19 8:00:06 PM
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Lobomoon posted...
Broken_Zeus posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's better than us. Except in the cases where it's worse than us.



Au contraire! It's worse than us, except in the cases where it's better than us!


5wWf7H89PisM6An8UAU


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Numba1linesmen
07/08/19 8:04:19 PM
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Its .... reddit... its its own thing
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Lokarin
07/08/19 8:05:46 PM
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Numba1linesmen posted...
Its .... reddit... its its own thing


idk, they're pretty normie to me... kinda like literally every forum ever, only sorted by votes instead of time.
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Zeus
07/08/19 8:07:16 PM
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Lobomoon posted...
Broken_Zeus posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
It's better than us. Except in the cases where it's worse than us.



Au contraire! It's worse than us, except in the cases where it's better than us!


5wWf7H89PisM6An8UAU


Imagine if you somehow managed to gather the very worst people on the internet onto a single website, formatted that website as badly as you could, gave users the ability to vote on what content gets seen, and you pretty much have Reddit. And sometimes something of value comes from it.
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Lokarin
07/08/19 8:10:14 PM
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Zeus posted...
Imagine if you somehow managed to gather the very worst people on the internet onto a single website, formatted that website as badly as you could, gave users the ability to vote on what content gets seen, and you pretty much have Reddit. And sometimes something of value comes from it.


Again, how is that different from every site ever?
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Blighboy
07/08/19 8:13:22 PM
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Just go to reddit and spendnl five seconds figuring it out
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LinkPizza
07/08/19 8:21:38 PM
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Its a message board that has many different (and sometimes specific) boards. Its not dying like Gamefaqs. Its pretty constant. You can join certain boards to see more topics from those boards on your home page. One thing different from this site is you can up- or down-vote comments. And pay real money to give them gold & silver medals and stuff. Comments with more votes go to the top for all to see. Also, they are much more helpful than people on this board. And will tear through the internet to find you your answer if you have a question...
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TheWorstPoster
07/08/19 8:23:09 PM
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SJW echo chamber
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Zeus
07/08/19 8:34:43 PM
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Lokarin posted...
Zeus posted...
Imagine if you somehow managed to gather the very worst people on the internet onto a single website, formatted that website as badly as you could, gave users the ability to vote on what content gets seen, and you pretty much have Reddit. And sometimes something of value comes from it.


Again, how is that different from every site ever?


Users, layout/formatting, and voting. I swear, it's like you didn't even read my post.
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TimeForAction
07/08/19 8:36:54 PM
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Gamefaqs: bumble, tinder

Reddit: craigslist backpage
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LinkPizza
07/08/19 8:37:55 PM
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Zeus posted...
Lokarin posted...
Zeus posted...
Imagine if you somehow managed to gather the very worst people on the internet onto a single website, formatted that website as badly as you could, gave users the ability to vote on what content gets seen, and you pretty much have Reddit. And sometimes something of value comes from it.


Again, how is that different from every site ever?


Users, layout/formatting, and voting. I swear, it's like you didn't even read my post.

They are the worst. I hear 4chan is worse. And honestly, there are people from here that are there. So, users arent really that different. They do have more, however. But they also have more topic boards. The voting and formatting is different. Though, the formatting isnt crazy different. And probably a little better in some cases...
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ClarkDuke
07/09/19 3:26:19 AM
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Nade Duck posted...
Lobomoon posted...
Broken_Zeus posted...
It's basically CE but with shitty boards formatting.


Common Era?

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so, the total data transfer speeds around 1587 GB a second, thats impressive, ok?
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The_tall_midget
07/09/19 5:15:17 AM
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It's a board where idiots rate you down for disagreeing with them.
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EvilMegas
07/09/19 9:14:52 AM
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Black_Crusher
07/09/19 9:35:04 AM
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It's where we go when we get really bored at work.
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Black_Crusher
07/09/19 9:35:51 AM
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The_tall_midget posted...
It's a board where idiots rate you down for disagreeing with them.

They even tell you that's not what downvotes are for, but nobody ever listens.
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Zeus
07/09/19 9:18:59 PM
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TimeForAction posted...
Gamefaqs: bumble, tinder

Reddit: craigslist backpage


O shit, that's a perfect analogy.

LinkPizza posted...
They are the worst. I hear 4chan is worse. And honestly, there are people from here that are there. So, users arent really that different. They do have more, however. But they also have more topic boards. The voting and formatting is different. Though, the formatting isnt crazy different. And probably a little better in some cases...


Reddit's formatting is very different and very terrible. Plus the navigation sucks because of the way topics get to and stay at the top.
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LinkPizza
07/09/19 10:30:10 PM
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Zeus posted...
Reddit's formatting is very different and very terrible. Plus the navigation sucks because of the way topics get to and stay at the top.

I guess it depends on the subreddit. On the ones I go to, the ones at the top are changing consistently. Ill read a couple of the top ones, then go back and refresh, and there are already new ones. I actually sometimes have to scroll down far to find the old ones. But like I said, it could be based on which subreddit you go to.
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MisterPengy
07/09/19 11:30:43 PM
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Reddit is a place where if you ask "Do you like pizza?" the first response will be a humorous comment about pineapple, which will explode into 3,000 posts continuing the chain of pineapple-related humor, and no one will answer your actual question.

More people will upvote that one comment than will vote in the next four Presidential elections.
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Lokarin
07/09/19 11:36:08 PM
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MisterPengy posted...
More people will upvote that one comment than will vote in the next four Presidential elections.


More people have adamant opinions on pineapple than care about who the president is
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LinkPizza
07/09/19 11:42:22 PM
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MisterPengy posted...
Reddit is a place where if you ask "Do you like pizza?" the first response will be a humorous comment about pineapple, which will explode into 3,000 posts continuing the chain of pineapple-related humor, and no one will answer your actual question.

More people will upvote that one comment than will vote in the next four Presidential elections.

All you gotta do is close the top few threads to get to the answers, though...
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KeijiMaedaTiger
07/09/19 11:44:11 PM
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I have yet to figure out how to respond to certain posts. The layout is horrible. I pretty much just use it to get information, rather than to interact with people like on gamefaqs.
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LinkPizza
07/09/19 11:45:12 PM
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KeijiMaedaTiger posted...
I have yet to figure out how to respond to certain posts. The layout is horrible. I pretty much just use it to get information, rather than to interact with people like on gamefaqs.

If you use the app, you use the reply button. Looks like the reply button for emails...
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Lokarin
07/09/19 11:45:24 PM
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KeijiMaedaTiger posted...
I have yet to figure out how to respond to certain posts. The layout is horrible. I pretty much just use it to get information, rather than to interact with people like on gamefaqs.


Oh, that's yer problem. Reddit isn't for personal interactions, it's for dumping stuff on
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TheWitchMorgana
07/09/19 11:45:40 PM
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it's just a post and comment-based social platform. it doesn't have any particular "theme" as every subject/interest/etc is divided into "subreddits" which are largely self-moderated
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argonautweakend
07/09/19 11:48:02 PM
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making reading reddit comments easier is there should be a checkmark or some way to close parent comments, so you can zoom right through the article by collapsing them. by default it shows the child comments for each parent, which can make following stuff difficult.
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LinkPizza
07/10/19 1:45:36 AM
#41:


argonautweakend posted...
making reading reddit comments easier is there should be a checkmark or some way to close parent comments, so you can zoom right through the article by collapsing them. by default it shows the child comments for each parent, which can make following stuff difficult.

Im not sure about the actual site. But in the app, I just hold the comment for a second and it collapses it...
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Mead
07/10/19 1:54:57 AM
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reddit is like tipping

it just irrationally upsets potders for some mysterious reason
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TallTamryu
07/10/19 2:23:08 AM
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It's just forums with a reply function (so it goes directly under the message) and an upvote/downvote button on every post.

So basically if you ever say anything people don't agree with they'll usually downvote it into oblivion...often with nobody ever relying to it!
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fishy071
07/10/19 2:27:46 AM
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I've stumbled upon it many times, and I usually find it confusing.
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ParanoidObsessive
07/10/19 11:06:43 AM
#45:


Mead posted...
reddit is like tipping

it just irrationally upsets potders for some mysterious reason

It upsets a lot of people on GameFAQs mainly because it's more popular than GameFAQs is these days. So it's a touch of hipsterism crossed with old people shouting at the kids to get off our lawn.

Though to be fair, some subreddits are absolutely terrible. Just like, conversely, some subreddits produce way better topics and discussion than PotD has in more than a decade.


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BUMPED2002
07/10/19 11:37:35 AM
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Lobomoon posted...
Is it a bunch of message boards like this one?

It's supposed to be social news which is why I assume they call it "Reddit" as opposed to "read it".
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Black_Crusher
07/11/19 6:50:23 AM
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One thing that should be mentioned though is anybody can look at anybody else's entire posting history on their profile page. You can't really hide anything as far as I'm aware.
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