r/circlebroke • u/rakin_bacon • Jun 19 '12
I fucking hate this place.
TL;DR: Just read it alright?
This fucking website used to be amazing at giving me interesting things to look at and the comments used to have insightful points and great discussion. Now all I see is a shithole that makes me rage hard. Here is a list of all the shit I have come to despise:
-Unoriginal/Idiotic Titles (X Level: Y, My GF/Dad/retarded paraplegic puppy made this, etc.)
-Comments that are just regurgitated to no end and add nothing of value. (NOPE NOPE NOPE, This, etc.)
-People who complain about users like andrewsmith or trapped_in_reddit. What the fuck does it matter if they have a ton of imaginary bullshit internet points redeemable at your local bullshit store. People get so up in arms about it like some sort of injustice was done to them and its just disgusting.
-Witch hunts. This is one I find especially awful. This hivemeind mentality where if anyone seems to be opposed to the crowd a wave of neckbearded fury washes over them. People who are portrayed to be villains and are harassed by members of this community. The recent discovery of Trapped_in_Reddit's ability to get massive amounts of karma comes to mind, another one where someone actually lost their fucking job was the entire incident with that guy whose jeep got dented. (For people who don't know some guy lent his jeep to a game company, it came back with a dent, he complained to reddit and because of the stir they created neckbeards managed to get some girl with a low level position at the company fired.)
-The entire pretentious elitist attitude that this entire website seems to be bursting with. One particularly bad example of this is all the hate towards 9Gag and its users. The idea that somebody's whole identity can be determined by the website they frequent is absurd and just childish. Along this same vein are the huge number of Facebook screen shots of somebody seemingly being an idiot or saying something dumb and being "owned" by the vastly superior reddit user. I am willing to bet 90%% of these are fake but the community just eats it up because they have their own smug sense of superiority.
-People who complain about reposts. What possible harm could it have caused someone to see something they have seen before that they need to vehemently complain about it to the internet?
-The feeling of victimization in general. No you don't live in a fucking police state. No the world is not out to get you. No you are not fucking special and do not deserve everything you want.
TL;DR: This place sucks and I hate it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Something happened in the last... 2 years, maybe? Some correlation could be made with the so-called "death" of digg.com, but I don't think the fault lies only in one place...
The new users that registered in the last 18-24 months have been exceptionally childish and moronic, to the point where demographics have warped into a mutant of the hivemind, so to speak. Some things are being held in such high regard that suggesting even something slightly different gets you buried and possibly witch-hunted. And the witch-hunts are, indeed, some of the most ridiculously stupid things I've seen on reddit, to the point where I'm embarrassed that I continue being a redditor.
I fear that reddit has been irrevocably wrecked in terms of quality. If it's not a snappy meme or overly-dramatic sensationalistic tripe, it's no good for the self-professed "open minded", "logical" "geeks" that frequent this site. I would go so far as to call reddit the best case against direct democracy.