That’s gotta be bots influencing those votes, right? Like damn
That’s the only outcome I’d accept.
This is how most protests or strikes go in real life too.
When a protest negatively affects someone, it is the fault of the one(s) who directly caused the effect, rather than those that caused people to protest in the first place.
If you think broad enough, you can see the parallels to things like public transport strikes or other forms of protest.
Lol I’m sorry but these people are idiots. Who shills for rich corporations and lives a happy life?
richcorporationsReddit never has made a profit. So… they’re not rich.
I’m not sure that shilling for a poor corporation makes things much better though.
“This thing does not affect me directly, so clearly its everyone else who is overreacting.”
These type of people can stay on Reddit for all I care. Just like how all the racist conspiracy boomers stayed on Facebook and similar things happen with Twitter right now as well.
Let the bootlickers stay behind. Let them delight in the milquetoast conservative snore-fest of mediocrity that waits them. Let them turn Reddit into Quora. Fuck 'em all.
Was Quora cool before?
If by cool you mean hogging all the Google results and hiding the info behind login walls, yeah they were always cool.
This is actually good for the internet as a whole. The only people left on reddit are going to be scum. It will be like Australia when Britain used to send its worst criminals there lol. Everyone besides them is leaving reddit to make the same communities elsewhere without these types of people ruining the mood.
Reddit has become so toxic over the last couple of years, I have yet to see that level of toxicity on these other sites even with the great migration, but maybe I haven’t been around long enough.
Not surprised. It’s like going to Facebook and spreading information about how vaccines save lives. You will be downvoted to hell lol.
Any decent person has already left Reddit or still there observing the shitshow. Those who tries to comment (and defend Reddit) are literally the remaining idiots. They probably also have Facebook and spend another 50% time there arguing about “Biden bad Trump good”.
Bot downvotes. I used to get them all the time whenever I called out T-shirt scammers in my main sub. Those comments had up to ~50 downvotes SECONDS after posting them, absolutely no chance that real people were involved in the process.
They do that to discourage users from talking back. It works on most redditors that actually care for Karma or don’t realize that they just triggered a bot response and think the backslash is real.
PS/EDIT: …also, the scammers usually had a couple of spare alt accounts interacting with their main post, trying to create the illusion that a bunch of people are defending the OP when in reality there is only a single guy behind the scam. I wouldn’t be surprised if something simlar happened here.
Its understandable that (some) people have this view, they just want to enjoy the content they are used to.
But what I think they are missing is that there are a lot of people that put in a lot of effort in making free content to everyone else, and when a large group of the contributors are upset then this user’s “free content” gets worse.
As a user you just have to accept that everyone will not have the same view as you and move on to another place where you can look at funny pictures or whatever.I mean the funny thing to me is that this guy is just an idiot. This is r/piracy we’re talking about, they’re pirates. A decentralized and low-key forum like this is exactly where they should want to be, not on one of the world’s five biggest websites just posting freely on main.
I probably wouldn’t trust any vote counts on Reddit about this subject.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.First they removed the /.compact old mobile view, I did not speak out since I had already moved on to using RiF.
3 months later…
Once the heat dies down, they’ll be coming for RES and the old. desktop view.
Brands and corporations provide consumers with something they want and in return the consumers give the brand total loyalty and devotion. It doesn’t matter if the brand engages in anticompetitive practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand engages in predatory practices, it doesn’t matter if the brand is actively harming the consumer, so long as the consumer is being provided with something they desire. It’s gotten so bad that many brands have a cult like following.
I meant to ask, why do I get the feeling there is some concentrated effort to try to downplay those people trying to protest?
I see some of the threads on the subs doing the ‘alternative protests’, and some comments were downvoted massively just for joining in or showing support.My guess: a contrarian attitude. Though do not underestimate the effect of concentrated, sheer selfishness. They can’t get to see content that they used to, and despite not creating it themselves, or doing ANYTHING other than consuming it, they feel entitled to access it, as if it were “theirs”. So if a user chooses to delete their own, personal content, then you should consider “their” feelings (the whiners I mean, over & above that of the content creator). In short, you are thinking of their responses as containing “logic”, and attempting to rationally process it as such, but it is not! Instead it is emotional, venting language. It’s similar to the “she’s asking for it” thinking - in that NO SHE’S DEFINITELY NOT, but that doesn’t matter to the person saying that…
Also, the person offering it could legit & literally be an actual child, but whether that’s true physically or merely emotionally, it helps if you think of it that way.
I should add that some subs - probably very few but I don’t know the details - have legit complaints lobbied against them: like they did a poll, the VAST majority of their users said no, the mod team also unanimously said NO among respondents, but then a senior mod popped in and YES blacked out the entire sub anyway. So the truth is sometimes complicated by nuances like that. I’ve heard justification types of excuses blowing such real events out of proportion as if that is the only type of scenario that ever occurs. (Though again, for those with a… loose affiliation with facts, such details are only tools to bludgeon your opponents with, rather than food for thoughtful consideration. It is entirely up to you to not be swayed by thus though - they aren’t offering to not make such comments in the first place, so you have to choose how you will deal with them.)
They can’t get to see content that they used to, and despite not creating it themselves, or doing ANYTHING other than consuming it, they feel entitled to access it, as if it were “theirs”.
I completely agree with you.
I was a mod on an advice sub (that I recreated over here), and people would message modmail after posting and say “why is no one commenting on my post”. Like, you aren’t entitled to free advice, you’re asking for it. But people would get legitimately angry whenever they wouldn’t get any advice, or if the advice they got wasn’t what they were looking for.
The thing that made me the most angry were the people who would delete their post after getting advice. Like people wrote comments for everyone to read, not just for you, and then you go and defacto make those comments private?
I fully believe that audience of people does not understand that they aren’t the center of the universe and that there are actual people on the other end of comments…
The thing that made me the most angry were the people who would delete their post after getting advice. Like people wrote comments for everyone to read, not just for you, and then you go and defacto make those comments private?
I mean sometimes you won’t want your main account be be associated with some of the questions but that should be what a burner or alter account is for. I imagine if some people are lazy enough to not create a new account they are probably asking already widely documented and answered questions.
I was shocked at the reaction of r/lotrmemes. They seem to have really gone the extra mile to mock and stop the protests.
I don’t really trust anyone so deep into a fandom that their primary content consumption and creation is a fan specific meme sub. Their primary thing is engaging with that specific content, and anything that gets in the way is going to be attacked.