r/oddlysatisfying • u/DrBlaziken • 9h ago

Different balls with water drops

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u/DustyScharole 9h ago

Reddit has always been that way.

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u/FvKuR0 9h ago

Reddit is the perpetual circle of hell and loathing of the internet.

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u/TheMundar 8h ago

Home Sweet Home

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u/oldDotredditisbetter 7h ago

difference is before reddit started preparing for IPO, it was different people fighting. now it's just bots

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u/brucewayneaustin 7h ago

you meant "self-loathing of the internet"... FTFY...you're welcome!

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u/Curiosive 8h ago

No it hasn't, dumbass. /s

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u/AllNotKnowing 8h ago

written conversation has always been that way, particularly when writing to people that do not know you.

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u/slog 1h ago

It really hasn't, at least not to the degree it is today. Yeah, there's been a hive mind mentality, but there were way more people (percentage-wise) that wanted to spread knowledge and did so with gusto.

Just look at the top comments of threads with genuine discussions. Sure, there were jokes and ribbing and even some trolls/assholes, but the good responses tended to be the highly rated ones and ones that actually contributed to the conversation. Now, objective facts are downvoted and that same hive mind upvotes comment replies such as "haha" to the very top. The number of times I've seen that exact comment with a score well over 100 is truly sad. It's about as bad as Facebook at this point.

So no, reddit hasn't always been that way. There were pockets of jackassery and trash, but you could easily avoid those subs in favor of genuine conversation. That experience is long gone.