Not one of my usual rants, this time. I just…
It still amazes me how toxic Reddit is. Sure, it’s anonymous, but so is this place, and yet we manage to largely keep it civil, most of the time…
Even in small subs (geographical in particular, but also sports), though, Reddit is just… Fucking vile. Utter hostility on all sides.
And yet, it is still one of the most popular sites on the internet, especially amongst the demographic I “belong to” (white, male, under 30)…
How very fucking sad that is.
Yeah, that’s all I wanted to say.
Glad we got “off” that shithole, even if I stupidly still keep going back to that awful, awful site/place.
Maybe I won’t, after the last couple of weeks.
It’s honestly just extra-shit, anonymous Facebook, now, with the demographics and woke virtue signalling of Twitter and all the simping of Tumblr (and Twitter, of course)…
Problem is Win/Scored works the same way as reddit and will be crappy once it gets big enough. Same volunteer moderators that push sane ideas under 50% until groupthink takes over, same scoring system, same hiding deep comments, soon will hide downvoted comments no doubt. Only a matter of time until up/down votes are merged into a single number...
Ideal system would have subscription moderation where you sign on to trust a bunch of moderators, but can revoke each one individually and the comments they removed are visible to you. Like content blocking where you have EasyList for ads, malware url list, cookie popup list, social media list, etc. You'd sign up for moderation to block the Imp, or the flat earthers on Patriots, or the JDF trolls, or whatever annoys you. If you don't agree with Rule 16 then don't subscribe to it.
And custom ranking so you can boost sane people so they're always at the top regardless of score, rank however you like such as no downvotes or downvotes are 1/2 an upvote, hide anything with no upvotes, or whatever.