A Sentient Keyboard
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I don't mind browsing reddit, if you keep in mind what the up/downvote system does to the content. reddit is great for entertainment, but awful for discussion. Not the worst tradeoff if I use other sites for discussion.
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Alternatives to reddit?
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entremet
Member
I just can't understand it.
I go on it and it's a mess. I know everyone is anonymous and that's the appeal. Moot's vision and all, but I find it hard to follow.
FutureZombie
Banned
This is the most ironic OP ever considering what forum it's being posted on. You think Reddit is a circle jerk...how long have you been here?
I'd bet around 50 users get banned for opinions every day on GAF. They don't break the terms of service or attack anyone, but a mod doesn't like their opinion, so they get banned. Look at any thread on gender. It's going to be 20 pages long and there will be 5 banned users on each page.
I'd bet around 50 users get banned for opinions every day on GAF. They don't break the terms of service or attack anyone, but a mod doesn't like their opinion, so they get banned. Look at any thread on gender. It's going to be 20 pages long and there will be 5 banned users on each page.
LordAzrael
Banned
Yeah pretty much. If you are not aware of this going on you probably agree with the mods' opinions fullstop.
theSlacker
Member
The style of each really complement each other. Not talking about the culture or anything behind them, but the posting style of a chan kind of board and a traditional one like gaf. You can have faster and more numerous conversations with 4chan, but never any real identity. No way to PM or be sure to you are continuing a conversation later. Each way has it's appeal.
I can understand how just seeing numbers anywhere can be kind of confusing at first but just about everything on that site is function first. Everything is built to have direct self contained conversations about whatever you want. Lurk a little bit and I'm sure you will find features on it that you miss on other places. For instance, right now I have 7 different threads open across several of their boards and even while typing to you here I can see how many new posts have been made in each of those threads, and that in 2 of them someone has directly responded to something I said. When I go to look at any of those threads I would be able to tell exactly where the new posts started and have an easy indication, directly from my post, of the responses to what I have said.
If you need help understanding certain things on how that site works I would be more then willing to help you, through PMs though since that kinda goes outside the scope of this thread.
Pickles Spill
Member
Yeah, if you're website interface needs explaining, you know you've done goofed.
Yeah, Reddit is absolute shit for comments. It makes the worst conversations here seem productive. Even the smaller subreddits have terrible conversations. Unfortunately, there isn't much else that has the same depth of information. So just get the information, but don't pay attention to the comments.
Pickles Spill
Member
Honestly, I would rather have a strictly moderated forum with a few questionable bannings than a loosely moderated forum with a bunch of junk posts.
Kite
Member
lol no, good subreddits like r/askhistorians, r/askscience. explainlikeim5 and many others are better than anything gaf has to offer.
I'll agree that when I use reddit for finding specific things, I have a much better time. The individual communities that are separate from the default subs are generally pretty nice. Sadly though, I end up browsing the website in its entirety when I'm bored or just wanting to kill some time. That's what my problem is, really. I just want a different site I can waste time on, apart from GAF.
A bunch, but I've unsubbed from the majority of the defaults. It still doesn't feel like it's enough.
It's mostly the upvote and downvote system that causes all the same opinions to rise to the top on reddit. I don't doubt that a lot of users here share the same views, but it's not constantly pushed up to the top for all to see.
Most of the time I try to do that, but curiosity gets the better of me and I end up regretting it
Kind of surprised this thread is still going. A lot of people are making GAF and reddit comparisons, but I don't really agree with that. Like I mentioned in my reply to FutureZombie, it's the whole upvote and downvote system that mostly ruins the site for me. It's meant to be a selling feature, but the downside (at least to me) is that you'll see more of the same content being pushed up top, and it's sort of rare to hear differing opinions, because they're either downvoted or just not upvoted high enough.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Well OP, Fark and Digg were the internet's Reddit before Reddit was Reddit.
I'm inclined to believe there might be some subtle satire going on in the OP. It's kind of hard to believe you typed the whole OP without realizing much of your gripes can apply to this forum - especially if your "unpopular" opinions are on things like guns. Regarding alternatives I would suggest trying eBaum's World.
I still have yet to find a good intelligent debate forum where people discuss and debate over news and other topics. Neogaf and SomethingAwful are both two one sided. They're echo chambers. I even agree with the majority here most of the time but I don't like not seeing contrary views. SomethingAwful about 10 years ago is similar to what I would want.
digg, but it's shit now because of their attempts to differentiate themselves from reddit.
digg was always better than reddit when it comes to shitposting and not supporting the ills of society IMO, partially because it wasn't as big and likely more tech-savvy or news-oriented.
digg was always better than reddit when it comes to shitposting and not supporting the ills of society IMO, partially because it wasn't as big and likely more tech-savvy or news-oriented.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
I actually find 4chan less of a mess to read than reddit. Nest comment trees are just hard for me too keep track off, the reference hoverview and nesting of 4chan is a lot more intuitive, and clicking on the title or image on 4chan actually takes me to the discussion not where the image is hosted or the link.
TwEE-N-Toast
Banned
I don't know. There was a page or two in gamergate thread where people were pretty ok with talk about gassing people, "final solutions" and sending GG kids to Treblinka. Those opinions might be seen as reprehensible to some but seemed pretty ok in that thread.
This is kinda off-topic, but why are the Youtube comments of any video that gets on the front page of Reddit all the same kind of garbage? I'm talking about this shit:
Like, I don't get it. Is this some new meme? Do all of these people think that they're actually being clever? I see this shit on literally every video that makes it to the front page, and each comment actually gets a decent amount of likes. I know I shouldn't be reading Youtube comments anyway, but I can't help myself some times.
Like, I don't get it. Is this some new meme? Do all of these people think that they're actually being clever? I see this shit on literally every video that makes it to the front page, and each comment actually gets a decent amount of likes. I know I shouldn't be reading Youtube comments anyway, but I can't help myself some times.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Then I hope you did your civic duty and reported them to a mod
Skullface
Member
It's a 4chan meme. Notice how all these guys are wearing fedoras? Google "4chan fedora".
It's 4chan doing it
Worldnews was a default. So I don't think people are talking about that.
Icyflamez96
Member
Why is it okay to call reddit a hivemind but not Gaf? Anywhere you go, there will be a general opinion. No matter what.
God Dayumm
Banned
You should not be discouraged from participating in a forum just because they disagree in one or two issues with you. As for alternatives, I like gamefaqs, bodybuilding.com, serebii.net, abovetopsecret and 9gag
deltatheta
Member
It's people making fun of reddit because /r/videos has just linked to the video. They're just trying to make the redditors that are viewing the video angry.
I think the Berta Lovejoy posts are funny, but most of them are dumb. Some of them seem to be making fun of reddit for being too feminist, which just boggles my mind how anyone could have that impression. Or how OP thinks that reddit is anti-gun. It's like they're talking about some other site.
freenudemacusers
Member
I don't think any posts in a highly watched thread such at that would require reporting.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
You need to avoid the general subreddits.
After coming to GAF and being blessed by mods that keep racist filth and other horrible opinions in check, going back to a thing on Fergison on r/videos made me want to blow my brains out over the shit that was getting upvoted to the top.
Find small communities that have good moderation and encourage active discussion, only way to survive reddit.
After coming to GAF and being blessed by mods that keep racist filth and other horrible opinions in check, going back to a thing on Fergison on r/videos made me want to blow my brains out over the shit that was getting upvoted to the top.
Find small communities that have good moderation and encourage active discussion, only way to survive reddit.
Kite
Member
.. So click the unsubscribe button, it takes 2 seconds.
/r/asmr is pretty decent. Granted you can just subscribe to all the big names on YouTube but every now and then there'll be someone new or something real different posted. I also browsed the subreddits for Breaking Bad and other shows when they was airing and they were a lot of fun.
I did unsubscribe it. Doesn't change my opinion that worldnews is full of trash comments.
It's a new, somehow stupider, meme and I wish it'd go away.
lifa-cobex
Member
I'm was under the impression that most other forums viewed Gaf as a hive mind.
Not that I really thought much into it. It's just a site.
Gaf is great for news.
Reddit is great for chatting about said news.
I think r/videos is especially bad; I remember gamergate stuff reaching the front page and then the commenters complaining how it was a banned topic in other subreddits.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
X-actly
theSlacker
Member
I really have no idea what you are trying to say here. Trying to follow it but are you agreeing that posts in said thread wouldn't require reporting (because of heightened mod activity in that thread), after suggesting that that person report said posts? Posts that they claimed were not expressed in a semi intelligent manner and were objectively reprehensible, in response to you claiming that people that did that were banned.
I feel like I'm misunderstanding something, or maybe getting things mixed up.
GreenTornadoX
Member
Pretty much.
OP, I'd try The Straight Dope Message Board. It's sorta like this board, but being more into other things that are not gaming (But they do have a gaming section).
It's a one I frequent and it has experts coming in answering fascinating questions. I learn something everyday.
You know the post right below that showed what some of those controversial opinions are. Like "Let's wait for the facts before jumping to a conclusion." That kind of opinion.
GreenTornadoX
Member
I pretty much have no dog in this fight, but isn't "Let's wait for the facts before jumping to a conclusion." just common sense?
What in the fuck? The best thing about reddit is that there's absolute freedom to say whatever you want to say, and it's the users the ones who will make trolls irrelevant, not the mods banning people for stating a "controversial" and/or politically incorrect opinion.
It's a huge site with a lot of things in it, from funny pictures to incredibly interesting stuff about science and technology, aside from historical events and such that might be harder to come upon otherwise, I don't understand why the hate in neogaf. Sure there are trolls, (they're everywhere), but luckily you can ignore and downvote them.
Go to the subreddits of your interests, that's where Reddit truly shines IMO.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
I don't recall the posts he's talking about (links help) but it seems like if there were posts that were objectively reprehensible, they would have been taken care of by one mod or another. It possible to make as many claims as you want without anything to show as evidence of what you're claiming.
This is the main issue I have with the "controversial/unpopular opinion" song; you only get instrumentals and no lyrics
theSlacker
Member
Ah okay I understand now. You weren't saying that those posts are acceptable and didn't/shouldn't get banned, but that they didn't get banned because they didn't exist. That makes a lot more sense. Guess I got too tied up going in circles.
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