SnydenBitchy

“Witty” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind to describe reddit. I do look forward to hearing Siri telling me to get raped every time I summon it.

What? Why is a person struggling to grasp the difference between The New York Times and The New Yorker trying to make some point about… something?

Given the hair-raising misogyny, racism, and general terribleness for which reddit’s core users are known, you’d think the company might worry less about alienating them.

I seem to recall reading that the city of SF (or another municipality?) had conducted a study that found, perhaps counterintuitively, that improving taxi service would actually end up increasing transit ridership and decreasing overall vehicle miles traveled. Improved cab service, it was claimed, would let people get rid of their own cars and begin using more convenient, more sustainable modes of transit for most things, resorting to a now more reliable taxi service as a crutch when necessary.

Taxi industry bullshit? I don’t know, because unfortunately I can’t find reference to this study at the moment—does this ring a bell with anyone?

You could also just pay, if you find yourself on nytimes often enough to hit the paywall. Crazy, I know.

Just out of curiosity (not interested in joining the debate)—do you mind if I ask whereabouts do you live? Bay area, east coast, somewhere else?

Wow, the “discussion” here validates every negative stereotype about the tech community, you troglodytes who I’m embarrassed to call my peers. I wonder if it’s it too late, at 31, for me to change careers?

I suspect it’s more that image macros and memes appeal to a wider audience than does the kind of carefully curated news, analysis, and longform content that the NYT produces. I guess I’m not really sure where to begin comparing audience metrics between reddit and NYT as if their offerings were similar at all? Is this a real comparison that real people are making?

“Distinct” would do, I suppose, as surrender to the language prescriptivists.

I don’t want to derail this topic any further, but I’m quite familiar with reddit, and I would disagree that “reddit as a whole” is very heterogeneous or representative of the vast diversity of younger Americans. At a minimum, reddit’s mainstream is dominated by people belonging to a certain archetype—under 30, perhaps, but certainly also white and male and textbook brogressive[0]—resulting in thoroughly predictable patterns of discussion and voting.

The problem with smaller subreddits is that even with heavy moderation, they tend to be dominated by the mainstream of the site. For example (at least as of a couple years ago, when I largely quit participating) every new feminist- or woman-friendly subreddit would immediately be invaded by “men’s rights” activists to the point of rendering it useless for discussion. The only subreddit I’m aware of today where this hasn’t happened is /r/shitredditsays, but I suspect you’d agree that SRS’s utility for meaningful discussion is… limited.

Apologies for going offtopic.

[0] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogressive

Well, this is a bit tangential, but I wonder if it’s true that reddit’s intolerant culture (extending far beyond “insensitive humor”) really doesn’t matter. A community like reddit, I think, would be so much more useful as a resource for activism and knowledge-sharing if only the culture of its mainstream were inclusive rather than hostile towards marginalized voices, including women and minorities.

For example, the issues you mention of open internet, NSA spying, etc. affect everyone, not just the redditor in-crowd, and presumably would be of interest to a wider audience. And there are plenty more cases of injustice that don’t stand a chance of exciting passion among the redditor demographic—I’m thinking feminism or issues of racial justice (to name another example from recent memory, the voting majority of redditors are convinced George Zimmerman is a hero).

I don’t know how different reddit’s culture would be without the anonymity, but I agree it’s an interesting question.

It’s interesting that you would hold up reddit as an example of the “positive sociological impact” of anonymity on the internet, when OP specifically describes her desire to avoid “sexist, racist, homophobic, sophomoric, monosyllabic jerks”—precisely the sort of creature that reddit breeds. Though to be fair, the anonymity may not be to blame for reddit’s culture, seeing as other internet forums with similar traditions of anonymity have managed to avoid attracting such unpleasant crowds.

Yes, I’ve met some relatively decent neo-Nazis too.

This comment is pretty hilarious (though not for the reason you apparently intend).

So your parent comment is derogatory and wrong, but your comments about unwed parents, government employees, and “the racial makeup of prison… after you started giving smarter people lesser sentences” aren’t? Did I miss something?

Considering all the upvotes OP has earned for his nice little pile of racist poop, actually, it’s starting to smell awfully reddity in here.

/r/all is the internet’s largest right-wing community, on any manner of subjects from race relations in America, to multiculturalism in Europe, to feminism and women’s rights anywhere. Last time I visited was around the Zimmerman verdict, and I couldn’t decide whether the conversation on reddit more closely resembled Free Republic or Stormfront—the major difference being that neither of those other right-wing communities can match redditors in their hatred and fear of women.

Well, the way I look at it, I don't see a problem with building on other people's attempts. I'm dying to know how anyone's managed to implement (e.g.) 11-byte email validation, and if I can find an even shorter solution, so much the better to help everyone else learn some regex tricks too!

On the other hand, if you're planning on adding something like a public leaderboard of names, then I guess that would change the nature of the game. Glory, instead of learning or personal challenge. And cheating becomes a problem.

This is awesome. What I'd want most is in the quiz, I'd love to see how others are coming up with shorter regexes than mine. Satisfy my curiosity and competitive spirit.

The voting majority of reddit users.

Good for you, I guess?

Who on earth would want to advertise on reddit, given the site’s thoroughly unpleasant audience, the notoriety of which has been growing by the month?

Reddit might be able to court the same sponsors (porn sites and such) that sustain the likes of 4chan, as long as said sponsors are willing to associate themselves with a far more misogynist, racist, child porn-defending audience. But this would likely inspire a revolt among redditors, who hold themselves in laughably high self-regard.

Redditors are a shit audience that commands shit rates from advertisers, because the only businesses willing to buy space on reddit are those with nothing to lose by association with that virulently misogynist, racist filth (well documented by Gawker, CNN, ShitRedditSays, among others).

There’s a good reason Advance has done everything it can to distance reddit from the premium brands of Condé Nast, short of dumping reddit altogether.

OS X 10.0.

Look again! Your HN is now reddit.

Here’s how he deflects blame from redditors onto the victims of their creepy Facebook stalking, Photobucket fuskering, and real-life harassment: “Your kids need to know that any time they take an image and put it in a digital format… they should assume that it is now public content… That’s the useful thing I think CNN could have reported on, instead of making up a bunch of jibber-jabber about reddit.” —Alexis Ohanian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYvrue1BE&feature=youtu...

When was the last time your typical redditor read anything from The Atlantic or Businessweek? On reddit, high-quality content bans itself.

You left out:

    * “Equal rights, equal lefts”
    * DAE think Black History Month is racist against whites?
    * Rage comic about “females” spurning nice-guy redditors
    * Image of fat black woman in a motorized scooter - LOLOLOLOL
    * “La-dash-a” LOLOLOLOL
    * DAE hate females for not letting us rape them?
    * etc.
    * etc.
    * etc.

Apropos reddit, here’s how Alexis Ohanian deflects the blame from redditors onto the victims of their creepy facebook-stalking and harassment: “Your kids need to know that any time they take an image and put it in a digital format… they should assume that it is now public content… That’s the useful thing I think CNN could have reported on, instead of making up a bunch of jibber-jabber about reddit.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYvrue1BE&feature=youtu...

Not only that, but if reddit started carrying those ads appropriate to its demographic, it would face a massive revolt from its own users. Redditors get irrationally angry at reddit whenever an ad targeted at them so much as plays sound, let alone insults their self-image as high-brow intellectuals who “deserve” premium ads on par with the sponsors of Condé Nast’s other properties. (Pretty funny stuff, for a site that had to petition Google to hide “jailbait” and “nsfw” from its top eight sitelinks.) But yes, that’s the dilemma.