Holy **** ... have you guys been on Reddit? (Page 1/1) 82-T/A [At Work] JUL 04, 11:46 AM I go on Reddit now and then to post stuff on the /Fiero and /Engines forums... but I got one of those e-mails from Reddit telling me to check out the r/Politics thread. Oh man... that place is crazy. Every person in there is radically far-left leaning. Almost every comment is wild propaganda or at best hypocritically misleading. Like one post where someone shouted... "ELON HELPED TRUMP WIN!!! HE EVEN ADMITTED IT!!!" ... to which I said, "Elon helped Trump win in the same way that Zuckerberg and Twitter helped Biden win in 2020." Dude flew off the handle, was talking about NAZIs and stuff, and then his original comment got deleted, and then his response to me was deleted. Probably because he was using all caps. It's a cesspool in there... Patrick JUL 04, 01:53 PM Zealots of all stripes are tiresome and best avoided. blackrams JUL 04, 11:55 PM quote Originally posted by Patrick: Zealots of all stripes are tiresome and best avoided. No doubt. Rams Jake_Dragon JUL 05, 03:51 AM quote Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]: It's a cesspool in there... Everything you need to know. Don't believe me check out r/longbeach It use to be ok, but damn what the **** Raydar JUL 05, 09:47 AM I used to go there, but pretty much lost access to my account about six months ago, due to an email address that "went south" (long story). I wasn't even on any of the really political groups, and the large majority of everyone there were liberal posterior orifices, or "professional victims". Or both. The whining was incredible. I could have probably rescued the account, but it really just wasn't worth it. Doug85GT JUL 08, 07:26 PM That is just the surface. There are subreddits that have bots auto-ban people who are members of other subreddits. You get a random post in your thread from one of those subs, post an innocuous reply and bam, you are banned out of the blue from that sub because you joined a sub they don't like. The loonie leftists actively try to take over other subs. They recruit similar minded people that are already members of other subs, tell them to request to become mods of said subs, then in a few months to a couple years they take over. Subs that used to be non-political all of a sudden turn into loco lefty land. If you really want to go down a rabbit hole, look up the history of r/the_donald. A bunch of leftists could not stand that there was a pro-Trump sub so they all ganged up and eventually banned the sub. But the mods of the sub saw it coming from a mile away and had an exit strategy. They set up thedonald.win site which then changed to patriot.win. That is where the sub with its supporters went. Then there are the pedos. Lots and lots of them on reddit including many mods. USFiero JUL 24, 08:51 AM I've long abandoned Reddit - and Quora, Facebook... came back to visit my favorite forum here to bump the epic 'how NOT to behave on the Internet' post by (then) Dude16 which had been moved to the trashcan. Bit it seems to have disappeared. I wouldn't put a dime into Reddit's IPO unless I could turn it for a crazy profit quick. My thinking is it is past peak relevance and all the management of the company can do is manage the decline. Jake_Dragon SEP 16, 10:13 AM Looks like Discord may be also getting special. Doug85GT SEP 16, 12:07 PM quote Originally posted by Jake_Dragon: Looks like Discord may be also getting special. Discord works differently than most social media. People set up "servers" which are essentially channels. You have to join a channel before you can see updates from it or interact with the channel. My friends set up a Discord server just for us to be able to talk in real time while we are playing games. Since I don't join any of the leftist servers, I don't see anything they post. In other social media like Reddit, users can generally see everything that is being posted. There are algorhythms that promote posts or sub forums. Discord does not have a recommendation page nor does it promote any of the servers on Discord. Jake_Dragon SEP 16, 06:37 PM quote Originally posted by Doug85GT: Discord works differently than most social media. People set up "servers" which are essentially channels. You have to join a channel before you can see updates from it or interact with the channel. My friends set up a Discord server just for us to be able to talk in real time while we are playing games. Since I don't join any of the leftist servers, I don't see anything they post. In other social media like Reddit, users can generally see everything that is being posted. There are algorhythms that promote posts or sub forums. Discord does not have a recommendation page nor does it promote any of the servers on Discord. Probably even worse because there is isolation. If the feds get involved its going to change how Reddit and Discord function. Especially if they are held accountable for providing resources to the people planning events and violent "protests" Never mind flat out murder.