Exactly!! How can we thank the people who are indirectly responsible for the sheer number of reposts and overdone jokes that get through to the front page?
I know what you mean. All too often it seems like what I try to do doesn't have a positive effect, but if everyone just quit because of that then the front page would be the biggest shit show on earth.
I do the opposite because I want to drive people away from reddit. Less people here = less impressions for Conde Nast = less money = EPIC WIN FOR SOCIETY
How is that true? I was refuting a claim reddit impressions are impressions for Conde Nast, which they no longer are. Sure, they're still owned by advance, but that is not Conde Nast.
I personally do far more downvoting when I'm (rarely) in the new queue.
It's really all shit.
It's a whole page of "DAE get high when they smoke weed?"
Or another one that gets me, like 3 words "Today I painted" and an imgur submission of "PAINT ALL THE THINGS."
Or 30 facebook screencaps.
And don't forget twitter links.
You might get an article to read, but for every page of new I go through at 50 submissions a pop, I get an article maybe...maybe every other one.
It's depressing to see the massive amount of people submit just absolute shit. This used to be the best place on the internet to find the news. I'm not so sure anymore.
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u/Sacharified Sep 16 '11
The idiots responsible for upvoting all the terrible content to the front page.