Arguing with people over dumb things, navigating seemingly endless or sporadic moderation.
It's just a coincidence, but I was actually rambling to my girlfriend and her mother about reddit and the stupid engagements that I get involved in. They mentioned that it has seemed to take me away from a lot of my hobbies and things that I've wanted to do... I hadn't really realized that. And although it seems I've simply replaced reddit with voat, the conversations I've had here are more sparse (less users and content) and more stimulating. It's not as much of a sinkhole (for both my time and my brain) as reddit was.
[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Absolutely, i realised if I added a large part of my reddit time, like 80% it was me just reading threads I didn't care or arguing with people. I could have invested that into something useful and have been a lot of a better person than I was. It also gave me an excuse to be lazy and think to myself "eh, everyone on reddit is like this, so I don't need to change". I'm slowly undoing everything
[–] CaffeineDrip 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So true. Stuff like THIS really sets it apart from the low effort crapola on Reddit!
[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I see you on many websites :P. Nice to meet you to
Ya that is one of the reasons I decided to stop. I thought back to when I first started using Reddit a couple years ago. What made it an awesome place was smart content and interesting people. Now I just go there to be entertained in the same manor as watching Jackass. I don't think I can put it any better than junk food for the brain. That's really what it feels like. It's like my brain grew, but with a whole bunch of useless shit.
[–] yah5 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Things I'm starting to hate with a passion from reddit:
[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yeah, i don't use facebook or other social media but i hoped that the 14 year olds would go flock there... I was once 14 and it was cool, but I really want to move on to a website where the majority are well out of high school.
Factually correct information battles were the worst. People just went silent or never replied if you brang in facts, and half the arguments were conjecture vs conjecture. Maybe only once or twice have I seen people back up their statements and proceed. Otherwise like you said, you'd be downvoted to invisibility.
Reddit as a use of an advertising platform was annoying. I tried to stay out of it but it was hard to
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[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hence why I think we shouldn't have karma. Don't display it, even personally. We don't technically need visible points anyways.
It'd be different. I know that forums and such were it's time based have too much crap, but theres definitely space for a forum like website which organises by popularity. Most forums never used points and there pretty fine
[–] OldRedditGuy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hi @poppysquash
I think that if we keep the measures to keep decent voat (Mod's logs, limit upvoats an downvoats)... reddit could have been saved if reddit devs moved their ass and did this stuff like Voat Devs
[–] imrdy_win_ur 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I agree completely. I am curious to see how this site plays out. I also spent almost all of my time on reddit lurking. I didn't seem to care what was said on most sub's. But I didn't like the way certain sub's like news, world news or conspiracy were being controlled, censored and influenced by the moderators. We will see. They can say what they want. Without control of the moderator it may stop the censorship. Hopefully without the corporate control at the top we will have what redddit was a few years ago.
[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah, the worst bit of it is that we could be censored and not really know about it until after the fact. If you look at undelete, conspiracy and friends, people have only figured out censorship and deletions after a bit of investigating. Imagine what we're missing or what's being squashed before we can find it.
We need automatic logs of moderator actions. Heck, i'd say it's not too far for any moderators actions to be visible, as it relates to or occurs on the subverse.
[–] DorkJedi ago
I would say anyone tagged as a mod has to create a mod account. No user mods.
Mod accounts are 100% transparent. Click a mod, you can see every post, action, PM, etc. No ability to vote, either.
If a user is a mod, that mod is linked to the account clearly. (user account contents retain normal user privacy). One Mod account per user account.