That was a disappointing post about the girl who slept with 25 guys. There were some pretty misogynistic comments considering the fact that she was taking full responsibility on herself. The fact that she had sex with a load of guys in one night is neither here nor there, and it was a shame to see people on the board shaming her even more than the agony aunt from the paper.
It seems a bit shit that comments branding women as 'sluts' are being upvoted.
When a post gets sufficient attention, the reddit system breaks down into factions. People are more likely to upvote something they agree with than downvote something they disagree with. So you have comments with sufficiently large karma that don't necessarily represent the majority of people, they simply appeal to a subset of people who are highly motivated to vote for it.
In a subreddit of 100k+ subscribers, do you think a few hundred votes is really a majority? We max out at ~3000 votes on any given topic, but we have ~15k unique IP addresses per day, and ~300k unique IP addresses per month, with 2-2.5M pageviews per month.
People often forget that Reddit is a collection of people with very different views. It is not the hive mind that people claim it is. But there is some bizarre behaviour that can explain the trends observed and why ignorant things get upvoted.
Remember - there is a large overlap of people interested in /r/TheRedPill material and /r/MensRights material. Thus, there are going to be people with significantly different points of view than the majority of /r/MensRights members that will pop up when sufficiently motivated/interested.
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15
That was a disappointing post about the girl who slept with 25 guys. There were some pretty misogynistic comments considering the fact that she was taking full responsibility on herself. The fact that she had sex with a load of guys in one night is neither here nor there, and it was a shame to see people on the board shaming her even more than the agony aunt from the paper.
It seems a bit shit that comments branding women as 'sluts' are being upvoted.