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i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

First comment being, from a automateded bot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love megathreads for when I have to sleep through an event and I want a detailed recap

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Using autism as an insult. And the r-word. I'm sure I'll see both, but I wish there were a corner of the internet free of mocking people with disabilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just general karma whoring...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/r/MadeMeSmile portrayed toxic positivity which felt out of touch with reality.

"I made my bed today. First time in 14 years 🙂"

  • 45 thousand likes and 2 thousand comments.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I absolutely hated that sub, either like your example or some awful news with a very slightly hopeful element.

"puppy whose legs were destroyed by a landmine learns to love again"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/r/upliftingnews was even worse at this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Everything could just be reposted to r/ABoringDistopia or r/OrphanCrushingMachine

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rampant onlyfans promo on as many communities as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are so many people hating on the only fans girls? It's free nudes you get for zero effort. These thots filled every niece subreddit with content. Why not let them get some advertisement from it. That's a win win in my book

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes and no to an extent. I support them being able to advertise for their stuff somewhere, but subs need to take a stance on what they allow. So much you see on reddit is the same photo x-posted to 50 subs and often not "fitting" into the sub, it just becomes spammy.

Stuff like gonewild becomes wildly different if it becomes just a promotion-sub. Can't there just be that instead?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Edit:Typo.

If an edit changes the context of the comment, then sure, put up an edit note. But no one cares if you erase typos.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.

This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haaate "equal rights means equal lefts."

These dudes fantasize about a woman picking a fight with them so they can beat the shit out of one and have it be socially acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw one of those just before I left Reddit. A woman slapped a guy with her flat hand (they didn't show you why) and he knocked her unconscious. And Reddit was celebrating the guy 🤮.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Riiight? Like, women shouldn't be hitting people for sure and there should be consequential. But men celebrating that women getting knocked out gives me the creeps. Honestly, if it was anyone substantially larger knocking out someone so much weaker of any gender or age it would be wrong. Imaging a body builder knocking out an old man or a small boy? Very wrong. I think everyine could agree there. But reddit just loves to celebrate this specific brand if violence on women.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cringe horny sexual questions on the main page every day: Reddit, what sound do you like to hear when you do the sex with your female partner? (and the post has 999999 upvotes and 99999 comments)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TIFU by sexing the sex when I sexed my sexy sexer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hatred towards emojis.

Reddit downvotes anything with emojis. Like why? Do you guys not have friends? Everyone uses emojis these days when texting.

I will admit I used them WAY less before I started dating my girlfriend, but if you try to be social in any way, you will need to just accept emojis.

Plus they look cute, and convey emotions. Not sure what there is to hate? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I recall correctly, it wasn't about appending an emoji to the end of your comment like you just did, but rather about the type of comments that would be 50% or more emojis, that for some reason are very prolific on the Internet.

And I would say there were two good reasons for this. First, these comments rarely conveyed much meaning, the emojis were used to exaggerate the emotional message, but little else.

The second (and more serious one) was the decline in English proficiency among native speakers (especially youth) that was ascribed to use of emojis and emoticons.

Google commissioned a study back in 2018 that showed, that most adults are not confident in their own spelling, and blame the emojis for it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pun threads. They're not clever. They're the same, old, recycled jokes, and they just get progressively worse with every reply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shadowbanning.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the "answers" were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.

Also repost bots.

And apple vs samsung feuds.

And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that "protests do nothing" or "voting does nothing," or "what is this gonna do," not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.

Also the r/wooosh when someone didn't understand a joke. .-.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

“This.”

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