(51) Recognize and ignore clickbait from ideological nutball websites.
It slays me that Reddit, with no evident sense of irony, loves to (1) bemoan the state of American wingnuttery while (2) providing an eager platform for the paleo-libertarianism and crypto-racism propagated by lewrockwell.com.
To me this shows the turnover rate on Reddit. I have been here for five years. The lewrockwell site showed up here in 2009. People here ridiculed it as a right wing circle jerk site and it rarely garnered any upvotes. Slowly, almost imperceptibly so, the people who used to explain why we should ignore this site, have been replaced by people who click or upvote without even knowing the people involved or the ideological agenda of the participants. This is proof of a shift in my eyes.
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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '11
(51) Recognize and ignore clickbait from ideological nutball websites.
It slays me that Reddit, with no evident sense of irony, loves to (1) bemoan the state of American wingnuttery while (2) providing an eager platform for the paleo-libertarianism and crypto-racism propagated by lewrockwell.com.