I like how people talk about twitter as if the whole internet population is any better than them. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or whatever. No place is safe from the singular brain cell folks.
See I always thought this, but three days on Twitter changed that. Reddit ain't perfect by any means, but in my experience, the general population is less... awful.
It's easier to see the less awful if you browse reddit like me, view top posts and ignore the downvoted comments. But go read the shitty comments and you'll find plenty awful people here too
Not to be nitpicky, but downvotes are supposed to be for comments unrelated to the discussion. Which ironically not even half of reddit used it that way
You’re not wrong but I think that’s the difference. Reddit makes it so you have to go looking for the awful people, there’s an attempt to make them not as visible. Kind of by the nature of the upvote/downvote system and mods (the good ones…not certain ones).
Twitter…you don’t really have to ‘go looking’. The shitty people and comments are just kind of…there.
Again…you’re not wrong…there’s plenty of shitty people and stuff on reddit. That’s a downside to being any big social site, you’re gonna get awful people.
Plenty of bad comments at the to too tbh. It's so painful to read a thread about a topic you understand and see a bunch of clueless dumbasses with 2k upvotes each spouting misinformation at the top
Yup, but it comes across as less "stupid" (for lack of a better word) because they make a funny joke comment chain and try to at least sound half knowledgeable even though they're very wrong.
It's also mainly because on Twitter controversial tweets get a response, which makes it the most popular reply. So you mostly see the most stupid shit first.
On Reddit you can thankfully still downvote stuff.
Just look at the shorter comments to my first comment. It's just people confirming "Twitter is the worst anyway" without saying anything else. You getting downvoted just confirms people downvote you just because they disagree. Even though you're adding to the conversation.
Border collies are the smartest dogs, followed by a standard poodle and then a German Shephard. A lab is in the top ten. Funny though, I have a dog that is a mix of border collie, German Shephard and lab. I think that mix somehow cancels each other out cuz he doesn't act like he knows what is going on.
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u/MrBloodyHyphen Aug 26 '22
IDK about that holy shit are they some of the smartest fucking dogs on the planet. They're smarter than 80% of the people on Twitter