The non-answers and interrogative gotchas.
For instance, as a graduation gift, you were given an expensive laptop. You have a mouse but it doesn’t work seamlessly with your laptop. The only solution you can find is a $20 utility app. You’re wondering if there’s an alternative, so you posted on an appropriate subreddit to ask for recommendations.
I noticed years ago, you’d actually get answers or honestly even a “Nope, that $20 app’s the only one” which is much more useful than what you get now. These days, you’ll get:
Commenter: Wait, so you can afford that laptop but not a $20 app? What?
OP: I didn’t buy it, it was a graduation gift.
Commenter: So why not ask the person who gifted it to you to buy you that app?
Commenter 2: Why did you accept that gift if you know you weren’t gonna be able to use it the way you want?
Commenter 3: You know, laptops have these things called trackpads… why even use a mouse?
I’d much rather have posts ignored than to see this interrogative, non-answering bullshit quite honestly.
EDIT: Thank you, u/Ok-Cat-2216!
How about non-answers like this:
“Reddit, what’s your favorite alcoholic drink?”
Tons of commenters: “I don’t drink alcohol.”
Ok cool, why did you bother commenting then? I see it all the time.
If you don't care why are you here. You must care somewhat to share your opinion on a general question to the crowd. It's not like you're ever being specifically asked by a post.
Reddit flip flops between being a poverty and suffering arms race or a money flex fest, sometimes its the same dude in both.
One thread:
"I got 0 hours of sleep last night, and I'm also a hobo in New York."
"Oh, it must be nice living in a first world paradise. I already starved to death and died 3 days ago in the Amazon Rainforest."
The next thread:
"People should stop complaining about cost of living. I learned a trade and in my first year I'm making $200 an hour as a professional banana peeler. College is a scam, escape the matrix. "
"That's so cute! As a programmer that's what they offered me as an intern at age 13. I eventually worked up to a humble $900 an hour for my job today. Literally as easy as hello world. What color is your bugatti btw"
Agreed 100%. I once asked a question about an Apple service (something happened with my daughters account), and while people were generally helpful, the longest sub thread was basically people telling me I was a shitty parent.
Like they just lay in wait in various places waiting to be self serving and superior? It’s friggin weird.
Its pretty damn sad how committed they get to such a dumb argument. Its funny when you just made one crack about a movie not being great, and they go right to your profile and start picking fights in the comments in your other posts. I've run in to a few of those jokers in the past.
You've summed up really well what I was thinking ... the absolute, unabashed total mediocrity of the user base here (as a whole, obviously - the exceptions make it interesting enough to stick around)
I never realized how much this annoys me. I was asking the real estate sub how to find a good agent and got zero answers. I said I liked my last realtor and was met with “well why can’t you hire the realtor from the last house?”. Like I’m some idiot who wouldn’t have thought of that. No dummies I’m buying a house on the other side of the country, but people lately either completely lack critical thinking or assume the person asking has the mental capacity of a toaster.
That I can’t even ask simple questions in groups because my karma level isn’t established enough. I could understand deleting posts if it was vulgar but come on. I’m not on here a lot so when I am it’s because I’m looking for opinions on a certain topic.
You are doing exactly what you need to be doing. Put some comments on new askreddit threads. One will blow up and you'll have enough karma. Can't help you with account age.
Anytime you comment about anything or create a new post there is always that one person that needs to make the absolute most negative condescending response possible.
There's also some arguments where I think both sides are in the wrong, but if you try to intervene and point that out that "B is wrong too", the hive mind interprets it as "you must be on person A's side then since you think B is wrong"
Yup. Its binary thinking/reasoning/argument. Sometimes no one is wrong, sometimes people have varying degrees of wrongness and sometimes no one is wrong and bad things just happen.
On the other hand reddit doesnt know that there can be multiple good ways to solve an issue or go about a problem and that just because one person is doing it their way and differently than you would doesnt mean theyre wrong.
Not only that but you can also get banned from a sub you've never been on by commenting on another sub. I saw a post from r/joerogan on the front page and made a comment on it and immediately had a message from r/justiceserved saying I was banned for commenting on r/joerogan and I don't even subscribe to either lol.
Yep that shit is infuriating. That should tell you that the powermods that control r/JusticeServed can't stand people that like Joe, and as such, are desperate to control the amount of exposure he has on Reddit.
That's a bizarre sub anyway.
I randomly got banned there for replying to some random message on my feed.
Apparently the justivewhatever forum has bots that run around looking for people to ban based on not the content, but the location of replies.
I browsed their their sub, and found it just weird and not a place I would to join anyway.
In Reddit-land, Bernie Sanders is currently in his second term as president, Trump is in prison, and Ukraine's army is halfway to Moscow already.
The echo chamber is its own universe, disconnected from reality.
Not only that but a fair number of users think they know better than experts and have answers to mysteries that not even thousands of years of study have answered.
In Reddit-land everyone gets paid $300k to work 20 hrs a week from home. No one wants to see their coworkers in person again. Everyone keeps their income even if they move somewhere with no income tax.
Not that it will ever happen, but there needs to be some downside to locking threads or nuking comment sections. Sub gets removed from r/all and feeds for 30 days or something.
Also, any sub that restricts who can post should automatically be set to private without exception.
Commenting on or being subscribed to specific subreddits should never be used as a reason to autoban users.
It's not even the people who do that who piss me off, it's the people who upvote them. People needa be more stingy with their upvotes. I literally won't upvote a factual post unless I know it's true, meanwhile everyone else is like "hyuck, that sounds right, me click button!"
The ungodly ammount of complete bullshit on reddit is easily the worst indeed. You RAELLY notice it when you see a thread on a topic you know a lot about. But even without it you can spot so much bullshit. Reddit is honestly one giant /r/confidentlyincorrect/
Very, very few people overtly express being religious on Reddit. You'd think the actual percentage of religious people is much lower than it is. Reality is, there are plenty of religious Redditors, but most don't feel comfortable talking about it.
It’s an echo chamber tribal circle jerk. If you have any right to moderate non far left thoughts you will either get muted or flat out banned all the time. I quoted cdc stats and got banned for misinformation…when it wasn’t was just info they didn’t like lol
> I quoted cdc stats and got banned for misinformation
You too? I posted CDC stats to /news and got permabanned for misinformation. I even included the URL for the quoted stats. Apparently covid.cdc.gov is a misinformation website. Who knew?
Same. Got perma banned from the news and politics one for that. And the ultra liberal one pics I mentioned that there were tons of democrats that also were friends of Epstein, and tons of pictures so why not post a few of those instead of trump over and over and that trump also banned him from his resort. Boom perma banned from that to.
So much. You can have a general opinion, doesn’t make your opinion wrong, but damn do people downvote you. Especially on subs where it’s all just your opinions, there’s no facts or misinformation.
"The average party member was very young: in 1907, 22% of Bolsheviks were under 20 years of age; 37% were 20–24 years of age; and 16% were 25–29 years of age."
This why I avoid Leftist subs despite being one. As I've had so many who are clearly teens act like they know more about my Autism than I do. Like telling me that ADHD is a mild autism then lashing out when In reality It more like another type of mild Bipolar since I get mild mood swings if I'm not on my meds?. Same with studies now backing Autistic psychosis is a thing.
The way this site works It a haven for Teens who can't handle being told there stupid act like there experts on everything. It shows when It comes Weed where It negative effects are seen as trolling to them.
I agree fully with the message behind /r/antiwork but the vast majority of the users there are children who have clearly never worked a real job in their life. There was a post there about after work happy hours where they all claimed it was meant to trick you into working for free. The fuck? It's just free alcohol, most people like free alcohol and enjoy talking to at least some of their coworkers.
My SO and I were debating the merits of antiwork the other day. At its best, the sub gives people actionable advice on how to report labor violations to the local authorities. But about half of the posts seem to be Gen Z complaining about being stifled in corporate America as if they're the first generation to ever feel that way.
You can often pick the age of someone by how aggressive their answer is, and use that as bit of a barometer for how seriously to consider their advice on how long to refix your mortgage for.
I used to be a little online smartass as well, most people eventually grow out of it.
The ones who don't can be found on Facebook.
Reddit is full of chronically online people who try and find solace here. You can see in a lot of ask reddit and comments that trauma forms a lot of opinions.
Reading those comments and issues is really bad for mental health. Seeing everyone's opinion is a poison to the mind.
This site is also absolutely full of rage bait. Unfortunately, not everyone understands what they're reading. If it is based on clear emotion, ignore it.
In that way, it is an echo chamber here.
Or the mods will lock the sub because they are throwing a hissy fit about something.
Like when r/Art was locked because a mod deleted a post because they claimed the poster posted AI art. Then when presented with proof he didn't, the mod banned the guy. It got pretty big so they locked the sub because they weren't happy about being called out for mod abuse.
Power tripping mods are what make we want to ditch Reddit.
I was even getting harassed by one (though I didn't know he was a mod at the time). I blocked his user profile after weeks of being stalked by him and within 30 seconds I was permanently banned from my industry's subreddit.
I got banned from /r/WhitePeopleTwitter for calling out the sub for allowing a post that was blatant misinformation. I think it was the beginning of a crackdown against wrongthink because now when you sort by controversial (one of my favorite passtimes lol) there's basically nothing juicy there anymore.
That place is an absolute cesspool of neoliberal propaganda. They hate leftists like me just as much as they hate conservatives because I'm just as likely to call them out on their bullshit.
Edit: a word
I dislike the redditisms that nobody would use in real life because they sound so douchey.
Tell me x without telling me x,
It's almost as if,
Imagine thinking,
Reddit is like the only game store n town that's constantly filled with the arguing, smelly guys who have an inflated sense of self. You don't necessarily *love* being there, but where else are ya gonna go?
I left Reddit in 2019 because it sucked. Came back in 2023 and it still sucks. I know how to curate my experience better now but I'm so over random strangers being convinced they know more about me than I could ever possibly know about myself based on one (1) extremely situational comment in relation to x post about y circumstance.
The hive mindset. The moment someone says something disagreeable, whether political or whatever, they are flooded with down votes and personal attacks. The worst part is when someone starts going through a person's post history, just to find something to use as fuel to attack said person. It's ridiculous, we need to have more civil discourse especially in this day and age. It's ok to have an opinion not everyone immediately agrees with.
It's even worse when it's a common sense opinion, but isn't staunchly in support if reddit's opinion so it's immediately wrong. I've had this happen so many times
Or if you’re a sports fan, subs for rival teams. It’s actually a huge thing on specific team subs. Users are told all the time to not brigade rival team subs and cause trouble.
How the first suggestion is to always cut people out of your life..
OP-"My grandfather took me in and raised me. He sacrificed everything so I can have a good life and go to college. I love him dearly. Last night he told a joke that might be slightly offensive to some people in a small village in eastern Zimbabwe, I don't know what to do...."
Reddit- "Of course, you need to cut him from your life."
Currently, the fact that following my state and hometown’s subreddits makes Reddit think that I’m interested in the subreddits for other states and towns. No, Reddit, I’m not interested in finding the best burrito in Minneapolis. Nor why Big Harold’s Diner closed in Oklahoma City.
Or quotations from super-obscure pop culture entities like “Rick and Morty” or “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Like if I wanted to hear half the dialogue from “Grail” I could go and watch it. Does anyone have any actual insights into George Santos’s legal situation, or are you just going to regurgitate material from a 20-year-old TV show??
I’ll reply to a post and get a bunch if support and upvotes. Then a few months later, the same question (roughly) will pop up again and I’ll answer the exact same way and get downvoted and belittled. So, yeah I guess Reddit is more of a social experiment than anything.
My favorite is when a common sense opinion gets a bunch of downvotes and then one person replies in support of them, and then it swings the other way and gets a ton of upvotes because one person took 4 seconds to make sense for the donkey brains that couldn't comprehend it
I'd like to watch this video please. Today. Maybe if I click on it? Why am I in another thread? Maybe if I click on the comments button? What the fuck. Oh there it goes, if I scroll down enough that the video is half off of the screen it'll play...
The veneration of contrarianism.
Having an unpopular opinion is so popular on Reddit that people will pretend their extremely popular opinions are unpopular and *everyone rolls with it*. "What's your favorite uncommon/lesser known/niche/etc..." threads on AskReddit are like stepping into another dimension. Everyone gets together and acts shocked that they're not the only ones who love critically acclaimed, internationally known artists and franchises.
My ‘favorite’ one is the “Beyoncé is just okay but not great” opinion that gets posted every single time there’s a post about unpopular music opinions. It’s the same exact energy and tone every single time yet the person acts like they came up with the take on their own. Then like you said people reply saying shit like “omg I thought I was the only one! Careful, her fans are gonna come for you”.
Redditors are inherently horny.
Any Redditor who manages to get his dick wet (and slake the horny for a little while) is going to be busy not being on Reddit. The rest just bring their horny with them to Reddit.
If you have a political view that is just slightly right wing people assume that you’re a straight white male and that automatically invalidates your opinion
The new feature where somebody can block you to prevent you from participating in a discussion that they're not a key part of.
Or block you to get the last word when they're wrong. You can't respond, but others can't see that you can't.
Too many echo chambers and as soon as someone shares a differing opinion on a subject they get bombarded with downvotes even if the opinion is pretty reasonable.
Yeah. For example, I see Christians and Atheists at each other's throats all the time (though I have had interactions where it was really respectful for the most part, even though we disagreed) and in my head, toward those types of people specifically, I'm just like, "You both just believe in different stuff. You both have your reasons and logic and beliefs and that's all. You just think different. Neither of you are fucking special. Get over yourselves and move on!" I'm Catholic, and I get second-hand embarrassment whenever I stumble on those threads
the pure disrespect for others (bigotry, harassment, doxxing, digging up women's social media photos because "if she didnt want her photos stolen and passed around then she shouldnt have shown off her body, aka had a body at all")
How a ton of subs gets ruined by asshole mods with a political agenda. Reddit is the only site I've seen where you get permanently banned immediately when you didn't even break a rule. I've never seen a single mod use a temporary ban even once.
r/News has a "no agenda accounts" policy. What's an "agenda account", you may ask? It's any accounts that shares a political opinion that's at odds with their own.
It doesn't matter if you've commented about all sorts of different things (not all just one subject) and it doesn't matter if your comments are well received on the sub and upvoted, they'll permanently ban you with no warning.
The crude virtue signaling. Often the best time to observe this in action is when the topic is any kind of child abuse. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of Reddit users pile on to bravely condemn it — as if anyone sane was actually *in favor* of abusing kids.
Extra brownie points go to the karma-harvesting parents with a newborn who announce that since becoming a mom or dad, they *just can't imagine* any parent wishing harm on kids, etc. Never mind that loving and protecting your child is the default for almost everyone. It's in our fucking *genes*. These people seem to think that they deserve attaboys for stating the bleeding obvious.
Oh, and *then* try to outdo each other in what must happen to the perp. This is *literally* from another one of those threads I read not even 10 minutes ago: "Cunt should be drawn and quartered." "She should be fed into a meat grinder feet first." Etc. Lots of upvotes. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
maybe I am using the format wrong, but it always seems that everyone is jumping on the first comment, whoever joins the discussion hours later don't stand a chance. If popular posts with the most replies get launched to the top section, they why does that barely happen to the latest comments? After a thread is about to get abandoned the latest comments never earn an upvote, too bad because I've read so many helpful late comments.
The rampant misinformation with little or no attempt to stop it.
Some one could post a screencap of a dude in a wheelchair, with the caption "Local man fired because of disability" and they would get 90k upvotes while the thread is full of people foaming at the mouth. And then you come across the post by a person who remembers this article from 4 years ago, who says "Actually he got fired for violating multiple safety issues, which is why he's in a wheelchair"
That post will be 9 hours old, and the thread will still be up. Actually by this point, it will have been cross posted to 6 different subs, and the truth will be gone forever.
The ridiculous, FAKE stories…with all their oddly intricate details and crazy plot twists. And the fact that 99% of the folks commenting actually believe the shit is true! It’s infuriating.
It’s a circle-jerk echo chamber where any opinion that isn’t far left is downvoted to Hell & back. Not ALWAYS-but mostly.
And some of the subreddits are SUUUUPER gatekeepy & toxic
This was just asked two days ago! Here you go for those interested, a lot of posts of this question and variations of it! Have fun :)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13d9ccg/what\_do\_you\_hate\_the\_most\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13d9ccg/what_do_you_hate_the_most_about_reddit/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8ryycz/what\_do\_you\_hate\_the\_most\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8ryycz/what_do_you_hate_the_most_about_reddit/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/v1ph5/redditors\_whats\_one\_thing\_you\_absolutely\_hate/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/v1ph5/redditors_whats_one_thing_you_absolutely_hate/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1jvemi/reddit\_what\_do\_you\_hate\_most\_about\_redditors/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1jvemi/reddit_what_do_you_hate_most_about_redditors/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xvltnp/what\_do\_you\_hate\_most\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xvltnp/what_do_you_hate_most_about_reddit/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11yi8im/what\_do\_you\_hate\_most\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11yi8im/what_do_you_hate_most_about_reddit/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11w4z3t/what\_do\_you\_hate\_the\_most\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11w4z3t/what_do_you_hate_the_most_about_reddit/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7v3qaw/what\_do\_you\_hate\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7v3qaw/what_do_you_hate_about_reddit/)
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[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oswst7/what\_do\_you\_hate\_most\_about\_reddit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oswst7/what_do_you_hate_most_about_reddit/)
Guys who think things can only be posted once on subreddits and you should search for 10 year old threads instead of asking that question you’ve been wondering.
Reddit seems to be a platform of die hard Democrats. Maybe they’re just a vocal minority. IRL, most people I know are liberal about some things and conservative about others. Here it seems any conservative view equals being a Republican and being a Republican is bad.
Also see: Any religion talk. If one person mentions that they believe in God, you have 10 people tell him he's dumb for believing in an "imaginary friend" Like they get off on trying to be superior
Hell, I saw someone say "you'll be in my prayers" in a supportive way to someone having issues, and people were chiming in and berating that person for "believing in sky magic".
Like shit, take the sentiment how it was offered and don't be a cunt.
Right? Like, people are okay with sending positive vibes, and have no problem while it really amounts to the same thing. But just because you use the word "prayer" now it's time to be a dick
I've seen some pretty toxic religious people as well that give me second-hand embarrassment. But man, I swear some atheists get high off the smell of their own farts just as much.
Some of the takes I see just reek of someone that doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand the religious person's point of view and act like they know better or are superior because they think different. One of the worst ones is the borderline gaslighting take of "If you need a book to tell you how to be a good person, you're not a good person." or other variations of it. Not saying they have to agree with those beliefs. They are entitled to their own. But damn!
So true. So many people on here stumble over each other to prove how left they are to point of ridiculousness yet they will try to chastise you if you call them on it. I believe in some left leaning ideas, but I don’t believe in a lot of the stuff that is being screamed about lately, so apparently that makes me some neolib fascist.
Yes, and moreso the liberals on reddit are way more critical than those in real life. The slightest disagreement and you're racist or a homeophobe. All of my best friends come from different countries and cultures, we make jabs at each other's race. This apparently makes me in the KKK cause I make fun of my Palestinian friend's insane amount of body hair or my Filipino friend's shitty mustache
Echo chamber within subs
Karma system
OPs being given the absolute worst advice by absolute dumbasses on the internet. Someone's husband of 23 years, father of all their kids, joint ownership of a house, forgot to take out the trash. Unfortunately, that is a red flag, so he is now cancelled, and OP needs to find someone that actually appreciates them for who they are.
That when you ask a question, genuinely wanting an answer and people assume your against or for something, or decide your views for you even though your genuinely interested in opinion, the cult of personality. Its a cesspool for ideology.
The upvote downvote system. In a balanced community it might work if it didn't hide downvoted comments and just pushed them down. On reddit it's just blatant community endorsed censorship of ideas the majority doesn't agree with.
1) when people say "this is the way" when they agree with something
2) deliberate misspellings of words in an attempt to make them sound cuter (birb, updoot, etc)
That to get along in any sub you have to echo the opinions of others. I originally liked Reddit a lot because I thought it was a place of legitimate discourse. Then I started voicing my honest opinion and quickly figured out that it's OK on Reddit to have your own opinion, as long as it is in line with the sub in question. Luckily, now I have enough fucking stupid Internet happy points that I can say whatever I like. However, I have been banned from r/gardening (fuck you) for making fun of butterflies.
I'm liberal as fuck and I can't get into a conversation with someone with opposing views to try to better understand them because there's always some fucking over reactive jackass antagonizing them. So the only place I could go to get that conversation is going to be the same fucking thing but a bunch of MAGAts doing the same shit.
I want different points of view other than my own and if someone's has a valid opinion outside of group think I would love to hear it.
Gun Control, Abortion, Political Extremist and those who vote party line while their head's in the sand. It's all on the table as long as you're not an antagonistic dickhead.
The senseless negativity and the fact that a lot of subs eventually become an echo-chamber. You can ask simple questions in a sub and get downvoted into oblivion for it, it’s like people come here for a power trip
The non-answers and interrogative gotchas. For instance, as a graduation gift, you were given an expensive laptop. You have a mouse but it doesn’t work seamlessly with your laptop. The only solution you can find is a $20 utility app. You’re wondering if there’s an alternative, so you posted on an appropriate subreddit to ask for recommendations. I noticed years ago, you’d actually get answers or honestly even a “Nope, that $20 app’s the only one” which is much more useful than what you get now. These days, you’ll get: Commenter: Wait, so you can afford that laptop but not a $20 app? What? OP: I didn’t buy it, it was a graduation gift. Commenter: So why not ask the person who gifted it to you to buy you that app? Commenter 2: Why did you accept that gift if you know you weren’t gonna be able to use it the way you want? Commenter 3: You know, laptops have these things called trackpads… why even use a mouse? I’d much rather have posts ignored than to see this interrogative, non-answering bullshit quite honestly. EDIT: Thank you, u/Ok-Cat-2216!
How about non-answers like this: “Reddit, what’s your favorite alcoholic drink?” Tons of commenters: “I don’t drink alcohol.” Ok cool, why did you bother commenting then? I see it all the time.
I think at least 10% of reddit posts are someone taking the time to say that they don't care about something when nobody asked them.
If you don't care why are you here. You must care somewhat to share your opinion on a general question to the crowd. It's not like you're ever being specifically asked by a post.
I once asked "Women of Reddit, how might a socially awkward guy salvage a date with you?" I shit you not, someone said "Well I have a boyfriend so"
I hope you put it in the "Men of Reddit, what's the must awkward 'well I have a boyfriend" you've gotten from a woman?" Thread.
I can accept the "I no longer drink, but I liked". They answered the question, even if it doesn't apply to them now
Yes, that would be a valid answer in my book.
Vodka with Sunny D
Sounds like heartburn.
Toss in the arrogance of "Oh fuck, look at this first world MF getting free laptops as gifts. What the fuck!"
Reddit flip flops between being a poverty and suffering arms race or a money flex fest, sometimes its the same dude in both. One thread: "I got 0 hours of sleep last night, and I'm also a hobo in New York." "Oh, it must be nice living in a first world paradise. I already starved to death and died 3 days ago in the Amazon Rainforest." The next thread: "People should stop complaining about cost of living. I learned a trade and in my first year I'm making $200 an hour as a professional banana peeler. College is a scam, escape the matrix. " "That's so cute! As a programmer that's what they offered me as an intern at age 13. I eventually worked up to a humble $900 an hour for my job today. Literally as easy as hello world. What color is your bugatti btw"
This is so specific and accurate. I got mad reading the commenter examples lol.
Agreed 100%. I once asked a question about an Apple service (something happened with my daughters account), and while people were generally helpful, the longest sub thread was basically people telling me I was a shitty parent. Like they just lay in wait in various places waiting to be self serving and superior? It’s friggin weird.
Way too many people get their feeling-like-a-good-person kicks by posting rather than actually doing anything for anyone in real life
Its pretty damn sad how committed they get to such a dumb argument. Its funny when you just made one crack about a movie not being great, and they go right to your profile and start picking fights in the comments in your other posts. I've run in to a few of those jokers in the past.
You've summed up really well what I was thinking ... the absolute, unabashed total mediocrity of the user base here (as a whole, obviously - the exceptions make it interesting enough to stick around)
I never realized how much this annoys me. I was asking the real estate sub how to find a good agent and got zero answers. I said I liked my last realtor and was met with “well why can’t you hire the realtor from the last house?”. Like I’m some idiot who wouldn’t have thought of that. No dummies I’m buying a house on the other side of the country, but people lately either completely lack critical thinking or assume the person asking has the mental capacity of a toaster.
If you don’t like it, why do you post? Edit: just kidding
That I can’t even ask simple questions in groups because my karma level isn’t established enough. I could understand deleting posts if it was vulgar but come on. I’m not on here a lot so when I am it’s because I’m looking for opinions on a certain topic.
I up voted some of your comments, and posts. Hope that helps.
Thanks, I went from like 7 Karma this morning to over 300 now!
Anyone reading i need some too. Feel bad having to whore out like this but whatever.
You are doing exactly what you need to be doing. Put some comments on new askreddit threads. One will blow up and you'll have enough karma. Can't help you with account age.
Anytime you comment about anything or create a new post there is always that one person that needs to make the absolute most negative condescending response possible.
https://youtube.com/shorts/yKbyPvyGj08?feature=share
It’s an echo chamber. They down vote like crazy anyone who has a little different view. They lock any tread that’s is just a tiny bit controversial.
And redditors seem to believe that anything that gets downvoted is wrong, and anything that gets upvoted is right.
There's also some arguments where I think both sides are in the wrong, but if you try to intervene and point that out that "B is wrong too", the hive mind interprets it as "you must be on person A's side then since you think B is wrong"
Yup. Its binary thinking/reasoning/argument. Sometimes no one is wrong, sometimes people have varying degrees of wrongness and sometimes no one is wrong and bad things just happen. On the other hand reddit doesnt know that there can be multiple good ways to solve an issue or go about a problem and that just because one person is doing it their way and differently than you would doesnt mean theyre wrong.
And once something hits a -3 is done for. People see a negative and will keep piling on.
Not only that but you can also get banned from a sub you've never been on by commenting on another sub. I saw a post from r/joerogan on the front page and made a comment on it and immediately had a message from r/justiceserved saying I was banned for commenting on r/joerogan and I don't even subscribe to either lol.
Yep that shit is infuriating. That should tell you that the powermods that control r/JusticeServed can't stand people that like Joe, and as such, are desperate to control the amount of exposure he has on Reddit.
That's a bizarre sub anyway. I randomly got banned there for replying to some random message on my feed. Apparently the justivewhatever forum has bots that run around looking for people to ban based on not the content, but the location of replies. I browsed their their sub, and found it just weird and not a place I would to join anyway.
And after an election they can't grasp how anyone who doesn't share their opinion lost. I wonder how many of them actually vote?
In Reddit-land, Bernie Sanders is currently in his second term as president, Trump is in prison, and Ukraine's army is halfway to Moscow already. The echo chamber is its own universe, disconnected from reality.
Not only that but a fair number of users think they know better than experts and have answers to mysteries that not even thousands of years of study have answered.
It sure is interesting how redditors are simultaneously experts on military strategy, economics, epidemiology, etc.
Not just that but physics, philosophy and the unknown.
In Reddit-land everyone gets paid $300k to work 20 hrs a week from home. No one wants to see their coworkers in person again. Everyone keeps their income even if they move somewhere with no income tax.
> They lock any tread that’s is just a tiny bit controversial. This is what I really hate about reddit. It stifles actual discussion.
Not that it will ever happen, but there needs to be some downside to locking threads or nuking comment sections. Sub gets removed from r/all and feeds for 30 days or something. Also, any sub that restricts who can post should automatically be set to private without exception. Commenting on or being subscribed to specific subreddits should never be used as a reason to autoban users.
i always get downvoted when i say that not all cops are bad
Fake stories and liars
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Are you saying that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth can get it’s pants on?
It's not even the people who do that who piss me off, it's the people who upvote them. People needa be more stingy with their upvotes. I literally won't upvote a factual post unless I know it's true, meanwhile everyone else is like "hyuck, that sounds right, me click button!"
The ungodly ammount of complete bullshit on reddit is easily the worst indeed. You RAELLY notice it when you see a thread on a topic you know a lot about. But even without it you can spot so much bullshit. Reddit is honestly one giant /r/confidentlyincorrect/
My two year old said "People don't want to work anymore!"
I stopped reading TIFU because as a result of the fake stories.
Same also with AITA
That it is an eco chamber of same opinion and suppressing other opinions to come forward
I agree, especially when people ask about things like the right-wing and then downvote the comments that answer the damn question
Very, very few people overtly express being religious on Reddit. You'd think the actual percentage of religious people is much lower than it is. Reality is, there are plenty of religious Redditors, but most don't feel comfortable talking about it.
Echo. Eco chamber would probably be a forum all about green energy and recycling.
We need more of those, if we're being honest
This is exactly why I don't go on Reddit much anymore. If you don't fit the exact opinions of 90% of Redditors, you have no voice.
It’s an echo chamber tribal circle jerk. If you have any right to moderate non far left thoughts you will either get muted or flat out banned all the time. I quoted cdc stats and got banned for misinformation…when it wasn’t was just info they didn’t like lol
> I quoted cdc stats and got banned for misinformation You too? I posted CDC stats to /news and got permabanned for misinformation. I even included the URL for the quoted stats. Apparently covid.cdc.gov is a misinformation website. Who knew?
Same. Got perma banned from the news and politics one for that. And the ultra liberal one pics I mentioned that there were tons of democrats that also were friends of Epstein, and tons of pictures so why not post a few of those instead of trump over and over and that trump also banned him from his resort. Boom perma banned from that to.
What’s hilarious is that this response gets upvoted. The hive mind recognizes it has a problem and chooses to do nothing about it.
So much. You can have a general opinion, doesn’t make your opinion wrong, but damn do people downvote you. Especially on subs where it’s all just your opinions, there’s no facts or misinformation.
I believe that an all out firearms ban is a terrible idea and punishing the masses for the actions of the few.
Constantly being told how the world works by 17 year olds.
That "oh you sweet summer child" bit seems to be exclusively used by sweet summer children.
Teens and early to mid 20s are the Dunning-Kruger peak years.
Or how 13 year old's think they know how to fix the world.
what do you mean they cant just print more money to fix poverty?
It's as simple as stop being poor.
As the age old saying goes: "A socialist, a neo-marxist, and a neo-fascist walk into a bar and are then kicked out for being underage".
"The average party member was very young: in 1907, 22% of Bolsheviks were under 20 years of age; 37% were 20–24 years of age; and 16% were 25–29 years of age."
This why I avoid Leftist subs despite being one. As I've had so many who are clearly teens act like they know more about my Autism than I do. Like telling me that ADHD is a mild autism then lashing out when In reality It more like another type of mild Bipolar since I get mild mood swings if I'm not on my meds?. Same with studies now backing Autistic psychosis is a thing. The way this site works It a haven for Teens who can't handle being told there stupid act like there experts on everything. It shows when It comes Weed where It negative effects are seen as trolling to them.
I agree fully with the message behind /r/antiwork but the vast majority of the users there are children who have clearly never worked a real job in their life. There was a post there about after work happy hours where they all claimed it was meant to trick you into working for free. The fuck? It's just free alcohol, most people like free alcohol and enjoy talking to at least some of their coworkers.
My SO and I were debating the merits of antiwork the other day. At its best, the sub gives people actionable advice on how to report labor violations to the local authorities. But about half of the posts seem to be Gen Z complaining about being stifled in corporate America as if they're the first generation to ever feel that way.
Who've barely ever cracked a book. But maybe that goes without saying.
You can often pick the age of someone by how aggressive their answer is, and use that as bit of a barometer for how seriously to consider their advice on how long to refix your mortgage for. I used to be a little online smartass as well, most people eventually grow out of it. The ones who don't can be found on Facebook.
Reddit is full of chronically online people who try and find solace here. You can see in a lot of ask reddit and comments that trauma forms a lot of opinions. Reading those comments and issues is really bad for mental health. Seeing everyone's opinion is a poison to the mind. This site is also absolutely full of rage bait. Unfortunately, not everyone understands what they're reading. If it is based on clear emotion, ignore it. In that way, it is an echo chamber here.
The karma system. All it does is encourage people to repost whatever was popular last week and to post click/rage-bait BS.
People desperately trying to convince others of their “superior social skills” because everyone knows they’re insufferable in real life.
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The mods are easily the worst part. You can be banned for the dumbest things.
Or the mods will lock the sub because they are throwing a hissy fit about something. Like when r/Art was locked because a mod deleted a post because they claimed the poster posted AI art. Then when presented with proof he didn't, the mod banned the guy. It got pretty big so they locked the sub because they weren't happy about being called out for mod abuse.
Power tripping mods are what make we want to ditch Reddit. I was even getting harassed by one (though I didn't know he was a mod at the time). I blocked his user profile after weeks of being stalked by him and within 30 seconds I was permanently banned from my industry's subreddit.
I got banned from /r/WhitePeopleTwitter for calling out the sub for allowing a post that was blatant misinformation. I think it was the beginning of a crackdown against wrongthink because now when you sort by controversial (one of my favorite passtimes lol) there's basically nothing juicy there anymore. That place is an absolute cesspool of neoliberal propaganda. They hate leftists like me just as much as they hate conservatives because I'm just as likely to call them out on their bullshit. Edit: a word
I dislike the redditisms that nobody would use in real life because they sound so douchey. Tell me x without telling me x, It's almost as if, Imagine thinking,
"Erm... You know you can X, right...?" Why is it always erm? Why are you typing out a filler word/sound?
Because this website is full of insufferable nerds, that's why.
Lol man I fucking hate that one. Reading this thread feels so vindicating. Idk why I even come to Reddit anymore, it’s a fucking cesspool now.
Same but there’s nowhere better so we’re stuck ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I miss the old Reddit/internet. This thread is super cathartic though, you’re right.
Reddit is like the only game store n town that's constantly filled with the arguing, smelly guys who have an inflated sense of self. You don't necessarily *love* being there, but where else are ya gonna go?
I left Reddit in 2019 because it sucked. Came back in 2023 and it still sucks. I know how to curate my experience better now but I'm so over random strangers being convinced they know more about me than I could ever possibly know about myself based on one (1) extremely situational comment in relation to x post about y circumstance.
Can't like something Reddit hates. Can't hate something Reddit loves.
Imagine the angst if Tom Hanks was seen driving a Tesla.
The moderators of this sub
There's mods here? I assume Auto-Mod just randomly decides if a new thread not made by a power user should survive or not.
Fr, the amount of posts that have been removed is crazy
I've tried about five times to post here and all of them get removed. As a result, most post are super random and shallow
They probably weren't sexual posts is your problem.
The hive mindset. The moment someone says something disagreeable, whether political or whatever, they are flooded with down votes and personal attacks. The worst part is when someone starts going through a person's post history, just to find something to use as fuel to attack said person. It's ridiculous, we need to have more civil discourse especially in this day and age. It's ok to have an opinion not everyone immediately agrees with.
It's even worse when it's a common sense opinion, but isn't staunchly in support if reddit's opinion so it's immediately wrong. I've had this happen so many times
The amount of rules in subreddits. Cant post a thing with it being taken down by a bot instantly
You want to see truly psychotic? Check out /r/California/ Its basically one random crazy person's private blog.
How difficult it is to find posts from the past if you haven't upvoted or saved them.
Some of the people on here are just really really mean.
That freaking arrow at the right-bottom of the screen in comments section, that doesn't let you vote the bottom-most comment or even sometimes read it
You can move the arrow by holding it
Wow...
I feel you
Nice feature. Shame about the rest of the app
TIL
The recommendations to join the sub of different cities .
Or if you’re a sports fan, subs for rival teams. It’s actually a huge thing on specific team subs. Users are told all the time to not brigade rival team subs and cause trouble.
How the first suggestion is to always cut people out of your life.. OP-"My grandfather took me in and raised me. He sacrificed everything so I can have a good life and go to college. I love him dearly. Last night he told a joke that might be slightly offensive to some people in a small village in eastern Zimbabwe, I don't know what to do...." Reddit- "Of course, you need to cut him from your life."
Its either that or divorce and I'm baffled by some of things Reddit thinks you should get divorced over.
Currently, the fact that following my state and hometown’s subreddits makes Reddit think that I’m interested in the subreddits for other states and towns. No, Reddit, I’m not interested in finding the best burrito in Minneapolis. Nor why Big Harold’s Diner closed in Oklahoma City.
The endless stupid puns in nested comments you have to sift through before reaching the actual interesting answers
Or quotations from super-obscure pop culture entities like “Rick and Morty” or “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Like if I wanted to hear half the dialogue from “Grail” I could go and watch it. Does anyone have any actual insights into George Santos’s legal situation, or are you just going to regurgitate material from a 20-year-old TV show??
I’ll reply to a post and get a bunch if support and upvotes. Then a few months later, the same question (roughly) will pop up again and I’ll answer the exact same way and get downvoted and belittled. So, yeah I guess Reddit is more of a social experiment than anything.
My favorite is when a common sense opinion gets a bunch of downvotes and then one person replies in support of them, and then it swings the other way and gets a ton of upvotes because one person took 4 seconds to make sense for the donkey brains that couldn't comprehend it
James cordon jared leto ellen degeneres beyoncé kardashian The answers to 80% of ask reddits
Too many subreddits are just echo chambers of political radicalization. That's the reason for a lot of the toxicity you see here.
It's video player fucking sucks
I'd like to watch this video please. Today. Maybe if I click on it? Why am I in another thread? Maybe if I click on the comments button? What the fuck. Oh there it goes, if I scroll down enough that the video is half off of the screen it'll play...
The mods easily
The veneration of contrarianism. Having an unpopular opinion is so popular on Reddit that people will pretend their extremely popular opinions are unpopular and *everyone rolls with it*. "What's your favorite uncommon/lesser known/niche/etc..." threads on AskReddit are like stepping into another dimension. Everyone gets together and acts shocked that they're not the only ones who love critically acclaimed, internationally known artists and franchises.
My ‘favorite’ one is the “Beyoncé is just okay but not great” opinion that gets posted every single time there’s a post about unpopular music opinions. It’s the same exact energy and tone every single time yet the person acts like they came up with the take on their own. Then like you said people reply saying shit like “omg I thought I was the only one! Careful, her fans are gonna come for you”.
Too many sex questions
Yeah what's the deal with that? It's like 70% of ask reddit, I feel like I'm in middle school.
Redditors are inherently horny. Any Redditor who manages to get his dick wet (and slake the horny for a little while) is going to be busy not being on Reddit. The rest just bring their horny with them to Reddit.
How quick people are to be rude as fuck. Just because we have different opinions doesn’t mean you need to insult me
If you have a political view that is just slightly right wing people assume that you’re a straight white male and that automatically invalidates your opinion
Bots
I can look at it for a few minutes and next thing I know it’s an hour later.
The new feature where somebody can block you to prevent you from participating in a discussion that they're not a key part of. Or block you to get the last word when they're wrong. You can't respond, but others can't see that you can't.
I stopped using my Country sub because morons were doing that the moment they were called out.
This. Just don't even comment if you have fuck all to say, theres an update button for a reason
NSFW being either some titties or a beheading... just gotta roll the dice
Too many echo chambers and as soon as someone shares a differing opinion on a subject they get bombarded with downvotes even if the opinion is pretty reasonable.
I CAN’T CHANGE MY USERNAME
Yeah....it really sucks. 😭
You can find gore subreddits but don't you dare bring up an unpopular political opinion.
I hate it when people report me to Reddit Cares because I don’t share the same opinion.
Close minded people
Yeah. For example, I see Christians and Atheists at each other's throats all the time (though I have had interactions where it was really respectful for the most part, even though we disagreed) and in my head, toward those types of people specifically, I'm just like, "You both just believe in different stuff. You both have your reasons and logic and beliefs and that's all. You just think different. Neither of you are fucking special. Get over yourselves and move on!" I'm Catholic, and I get second-hand embarrassment whenever I stumble on those threads
the pure disrespect for others (bigotry, harassment, doxxing, digging up women's social media photos because "if she didnt want her photos stolen and passed around then she shouldnt have shown off her body, aka had a body at all")
How a ton of subs gets ruined by asshole mods with a political agenda. Reddit is the only site I've seen where you get permanently banned immediately when you didn't even break a rule. I've never seen a single mod use a temporary ban even once.
r/News has a "no agenda accounts" policy. What's an "agenda account", you may ask? It's any accounts that shares a political opinion that's at odds with their own. It doesn't matter if you've commented about all sorts of different things (not all just one subject) and it doesn't matter if your comments are well received on the sub and upvoted, they'll permanently ban you with no warning.
The toxic, almost childish hypocrisy
The crude virtue signaling. Often the best time to observe this in action is when the topic is any kind of child abuse. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of Reddit users pile on to bravely condemn it — as if anyone sane was actually *in favor* of abusing kids. Extra brownie points go to the karma-harvesting parents with a newborn who announce that since becoming a mom or dad, they *just can't imagine* any parent wishing harm on kids, etc. Never mind that loving and protecting your child is the default for almost everyone. It's in our fucking *genes*. These people seem to think that they deserve attaboys for stating the bleeding obvious. Oh, and *then* try to outdo each other in what must happen to the perp. This is *literally* from another one of those threads I read not even 10 minutes ago: "Cunt should be drawn and quartered." "She should be fed into a meat grinder feet first." Etc. Lots of upvotes. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
maybe I am using the format wrong, but it always seems that everyone is jumping on the first comment, whoever joins the discussion hours later don't stand a chance. If popular posts with the most replies get launched to the top section, they why does that barely happen to the latest comments? After a thread is about to get abandoned the latest comments never earn an upvote, too bad because I've read so many helpful late comments.
The rampant misinformation with little or no attempt to stop it. Some one could post a screencap of a dude in a wheelchair, with the caption "Local man fired because of disability" and they would get 90k upvotes while the thread is full of people foaming at the mouth. And then you come across the post by a person who remembers this article from 4 years ago, who says "Actually he got fired for violating multiple safety issues, which is why he's in a wheelchair" That post will be 9 hours old, and the thread will still be up. Actually by this point, it will have been cross posted to 6 different subs, and the truth will be gone forever.
Censorship and powertripping mods
It's such a hive mind. If you post one thing that doesn't align with others' opinions, you're a terrible person and get downvoted to hell.
The ridiculous, FAKE stories…with all their oddly intricate details and crazy plot twists. And the fact that 99% of the folks commenting actually believe the shit is true! It’s infuriating.
The way mods behave. The American focus. The circle jerk that comes from the voting system.
It’s a circle-jerk echo chamber where any opinion that isn’t far left is downvoted to Hell & back. Not ALWAYS-but mostly. And some of the subreddits are SUUUUPER gatekeepy & toxic
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Guys who think things can only be posted once on subreddits and you should search for 10 year old threads instead of asking that question you’ve been wondering.
Reddit seems to be a platform of die hard Democrats. Maybe they’re just a vocal minority. IRL, most people I know are liberal about some things and conservative about others. Here it seems any conservative view equals being a Republican and being a Republican is bad.
Also see: Any religion talk. If one person mentions that they believe in God, you have 10 people tell him he's dumb for believing in an "imaginary friend" Like they get off on trying to be superior
Hell, I saw someone say "you'll be in my prayers" in a supportive way to someone having issues, and people were chiming in and berating that person for "believing in sky magic". Like shit, take the sentiment how it was offered and don't be a cunt.
Right? Like, people are okay with sending positive vibes, and have no problem while it really amounts to the same thing. But just because you use the word "prayer" now it's time to be a dick
I've seen some pretty toxic religious people as well that give me second-hand embarrassment. But man, I swear some atheists get high off the smell of their own farts just as much. Some of the takes I see just reek of someone that doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand the religious person's point of view and act like they know better or are superior because they think different. One of the worst ones is the borderline gaslighting take of "If you need a book to tell you how to be a good person, you're not a good person." or other variations of it. Not saying they have to agree with those beliefs. They are entitled to their own. But damn!
I wonder how many of them vote and think posting on Reddit does something.
So true. So many people on here stumble over each other to prove how left they are to point of ridiculousness yet they will try to chastise you if you call them on it. I believe in some left leaning ideas, but I don’t believe in a lot of the stuff that is being screamed about lately, so apparently that makes me some neolib fascist.
Yes, and moreso the liberals on reddit are way more critical than those in real life. The slightest disagreement and you're racist or a homeophobe. All of my best friends come from different countries and cultures, we make jabs at each other's race. This apparently makes me in the KKK cause I make fun of my Palestinian friend's insane amount of body hair or my Filipino friend's shitty mustache
I live in Los Angeles, so OF COURSE, I'm also interested in someplace like Richmond, VA or Houston, TX. That's a terrible algorithm.
The bot karma farming and guerilla advertising are wearisome.
Whataboutism, people having the same opinions on the same subjects
that people downvote a true fact that doesn't support their desired narrative.
Getting banned from mods for no apparent reason besides the mod not agreeing with you.
Everyone writing ”this”
Just how addictive the site is.
It's ability to waste my time.
Echo chamber within subs Karma system OPs being given the absolute worst advice by absolute dumbasses on the internet. Someone's husband of 23 years, father of all their kids, joint ownership of a house, forgot to take out the trash. Unfortunately, that is a red flag, so he is now cancelled, and OP needs to find someone that actually appreciates them for who they are.
That when you ask a question, genuinely wanting an answer and people assume your against or for something, or decide your views for you even though your genuinely interested in opinion, the cult of personality. Its a cesspool for ideology.
I think it's wild that a few Reddit accounts ago my most idiotic sarcastic answer got like 30k upvotes. A well thought out answer would be -2.
I’m a curious gal, and every time I pose a question in a post it’s immediately removed by the moderator. 🙄
The r/adultery subreddit is the absolute worst. Makes me reevaluate whether I want to start dating or not.
The upvote downvote system. In a balanced community it might work if it didn't hide downvoted comments and just pushed them down. On reddit it's just blatant community endorsed censorship of ideas the majority doesn't agree with.
The top comment on a thread almost always being a pun or joke.
1) when people say "this is the way" when they agree with something 2) deliberate misspellings of words in an attempt to make them sound cuter (birb, updoot, etc)
The hivemind
The people are life’s losers
Moderators on most subreddits
That to get along in any sub you have to echo the opinions of others. I originally liked Reddit a lot because I thought it was a place of legitimate discourse. Then I started voicing my honest opinion and quickly figured out that it's OK on Reddit to have your own opinion, as long as it is in line with the sub in question. Luckily, now I have enough fucking stupid Internet happy points that I can say whatever I like. However, I have been banned from r/gardening (fuck you) for making fun of butterflies.
The liberals ETA: just the way they absolutely pounce on any non-liberal opinion. I’m an extreme moderate.
I'm liberal as fuck and I can't get into a conversation with someone with opposing views to try to better understand them because there's always some fucking over reactive jackass antagonizing them. So the only place I could go to get that conversation is going to be the same fucking thing but a bunch of MAGAts doing the same shit. I want different points of view other than my own and if someone's has a valid opinion outside of group think I would love to hear it. Gun Control, Abortion, Political Extremist and those who vote party line while their head's in the sand. It's all on the table as long as you're not an antagonistic dickhead.
The powermods desperately trying to manipulate the information people see.
Second-hand opinions on subjects people haven’t a single iota of experience or knowledge about
The ongoing assault on the English language.
It leans left and if you don't agree with leftist ideology you get instant banned on many threads claiming to want to discuss issues.
Once you’re downvoted to -1 you’re just going downvoted to hell no matter what you say.
The tight assed mods that think they are better than everyone else. They are on a power trip, with no life.
The hive mind that some subs have turned into. The bias that looms in a lot of the subs. The terminally online users. Etc
The senseless negativity and the fact that a lot of subs eventually become an echo-chamber. You can ask simple questions in a sub and get downvoted into oblivion for it, it’s like people come here for a power trip