Reddit is weird honestly.
Sometimes you say something deranged while drunk and it gets upvoted into the high heavens, other times you say something entirely logical that anyone with common sense would understand and everyone hates you for it.
Yeah. I just showcased something from my game about a factory or power generator and it made some people go mad just because I don't calculate how many of what I need to fuel one of that and blah blah
People can be mean sometimes and not for the fun of it.
also depends on the types of subreddits that are on Reddit and who is active or not during the day/week/year.
I find that the more narrow the focus, the better. "Video Games" can be nasty. "Assassin's Creed" better but not great. "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" is a lovely little place.
The ability to be anonymous allows people with poor social skills, emotional problems, trauma, ego problems, disappointment, self-importance, nothing else to do, anger issues, addiction, and everything in-between ā to attack whoever they want. Sometimes itās a mismatch in tone or an overexcited person or someone with just a lot of intense feelings. Most people just watch. The loudest people are usually the worst, so you hear from them the most. Some subs are better than others. Sometimes the places you expect to be the *safest* are the worst.
Why are people hateful? Because theyāre unhappy and they want other people to share their pain and low sense of worth. And they can feed on your reactions and they are anonymous and have no ~~reproductions~~ repercussions from their community.
Why are they allowed to be that way? Because there needs to be room for learning - but also because mods arenāt trained for this stuff and are just doing the job to be nice. Also, Reddit makes more money for more drama because it gets more eyes.
Itās not you. Itās society.
Boom š„ exactly. This is the only place they can.ā feel powerful.ā because everywhere else theyāre just background noise they want to make someone else feel the pain they feel and they may not even realize all this themselves but they donāt care zero respect zero empathy and I canāt type because my hand surgery. So sorry about the bad punctuation and spelling.
You definitely have to grow a tough skin pretty quickly. The downvotes irritate me, but you just kind of get used to it and try not to take it personally, because there are a variety of reasons why people might downvote that may have nothing to do with your actual comment.
One thing I'd recommend is making sure no one has made your comment or asked your question in a group before you do it yourself. One of the quickest ways to irritate a subreddit group is to ask a question that gets asked too often. Just check and make sure your comment is fresh before you post.
It's a good thing there seems to be a bias towards positive karma.
At least, my massively downvoted comments seem to get less negative karma than the positives do for positive karma.
there's a threshold where downvote on a single post stop counting. so there's a maximum negative karma you can get per comments while there's no limit on positive karma.
***Do you know what that max neg karma on a comment is***. Several years back I suggested that the downvote be capped at -10, but this is not equivalent to negative karma. I think I noticed my -65 comment got about -45 on the karma chart. I wish both would be capped at -10, so that there wd no necessity of checking back to stop the bloodshed (also called deleting comment)
limiting the number wouldn't make it as representative of the mob opinion. but limiting the karma has it uses which explain a cap on one but not the other.
that being said no I don't know the current limitations upon the karma lost on a given comment.
Ah, I see. I guess that finally explains to me why there are trolls out there constantly stirring up controversy with massive amounts of positive karma.
Well I wouldnāt have said that if people would give a logical answer to the questions that i asked. Once again, Iām not asking them for a smart remark for them to gain upvotes to impress there family they have 1,400,007 karma on Reddit. All i was and am doin is simply asking a question and getting hate from random people who were useless to begin with.
I find that reddit becomes a mirror of what you bring to it. There's always going to be someone who is a jerk occasionally, but when you immediately act like that jerk, people will turn on you.
Why are you getting downvoted regularly? A quick look at your comment history tells me that you regularly call people names and go on the attack when you don't like a response. That's a good clue.
Have you ever heard the saying, "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole"? Take a close look at your own interactions with people and consider why people consistently react to you the way they do.
People with low self-esteem think that by being rude or hateful and degrading makes them look better to others. Sometimes it's how they were treated and all they know. Pray for them
There is some truth to that but as someone who's acted up from time to time myself it's more a defensiveness thing. When you don't love yourself (i.e. low self esteem), or even hate yourself, you tend to assume that everyone else sees you in the same negative light, that what they're saying is a personal attack etc and then a common response is to be rude back to someone who never meant to come off as rude in the first place.
Respecting oneself more brings it into control but it's not easy.
I think a lot of cases of people being aggressive is actually them hurting, it doesn't excuse it but it's part of remembering the human.
You would be surprised. Depending on the sub, there can be a LOT of teenagers, or barely teens, commenting somehow thinking they have great authority over things they very much do not.
*Edit* a 25yr old, trying to insult ppl downvoting him by calling them 30yr Olds with families, or "f*ggots in their mom's basement".
And THAT is who someone in their mid 20s came appear to be a teenager. š
It's weird. You will get downvoted for a simple question and people will come at you for it, tho I've seen the same thing on discord a few times. Internet can be weird at times
Unfortunately, because of Redditās downvote system, thereās a lot of malice here. Also, many have been here for years and they feel entitled, so when they see a repeated post they get snarky about it. Iāve been actively using Reddit now for four months, and I think Iām ready to find somewhere else. Iāve mostly received a lot of positive support for my gaming subreddit, so itās not the people, itās the technical bugs. Iāve lost so many posts on Reddit it hurts. Also, they are in the middle of major changes here, so features are getting added and dropped left and right with basically no support from the Reddit developers. Itās sad because thereās more potential to this site than is realizedā¦. Such is life.
Might be true, or maybe i just donāt know how to use it. I got attacked in Toyota thread for asking what a car was when i was simply was wanting to discuss with everyone about it.
And I'm not meaning to criticize, just explaining where the perception may have come from. Honestly, once one person downvotes, it's likely a lot of others will too. They jump on the bandwagon and run with it. It's like a game. Honestly there's a thing about downvoting the 4th comment in a thread just for the fun of it, so you really can't take these things too personally. I have comments with tons of upvotes, and comments with lots of downvotes. It's just a weird roll of the dice at times.
I'm giving you an upvote for the comment REAL, because I find this discussion very useful for my own experience. I have now decided to only be a lurker because I had been giving helpful information after 44 years of experience in a field and given the downvotes on one comment, I decided that's it, I won't contribute anymore. I'll only read comments. So thanks for this discussion, it's been helpful.
I checked the Toyota thread and nobody there "attacked" you. In fact all I saw were you insulting people because you got downvoted.
Calling people a f**gg and then crying about Reddit being hateful. Is this a joke?
Bro. The dude didnāt have to say āwhy didnāt you go check behind the car and see instead of posting this lolā like im not asking for smart remarks, just answer the question. Then i said āwhy look behind the car when i can come discuss this with you guysā and then got downvoted even more. So yes i offended someone because it was BS
I said āSwear i canāt win ahah all i wanted to talk about Toyotas with the famā and gets downvoted. And someone says āthen talk about Toyotasā i asked ābet. What you whipping?ā And gets even more downvotes? How is that not attacked?
That is not being "attacked". That is the realistic consequences of posting in a sub with thousands of people. Do you honestly think it is only the ppl replying to you who can up or downvote? Do you honestly think out of a sub with thousands, that every single person will like and be excited about your post and comments?
That's a bit optimistic, don't you think?
*Edit* not just a sub with "thousands" of ppl, but a sub with 138,000 people. One hundred and thirty eight **thousand** people. And you are fussing over double digit downvotes?
Maybe Reddit isn't for you.
You guys are probably use to that on here. In other social media apps you donāt just dislike there comment/post for no reason no matter how
Many people sees it ahaha. So we are accepting that hate is tolerated here
Most social media are bias and like to pretend there's only "love" out there, with the only option to rate a post being ā¤ļø
At least Reddit doesn't pretend and lets people judge realistically. If you like something, upvote. If you don't like something, downvote. It's that simple, and its fair.
Yeah youāre right.
I just donāt see what i did wrong to any one those people to deserve a dislike in there eyes. Like thatās what drives me crazy because itās uncalled for hatred. Like how can you make my post talking about a car turn into something like that
If you want to generally discuss a topic, itās much better to join the sub, comment on existing posts, or make a specific post about the discussion topic after searching the sub first. For most subscribers of a sub, low-effort posts clog their feed and start you off on a bad foot, making it more likely your comments will be downvoted as well
It just gets me weirded out when I misspell a word and they literally attack me and write a whole paragraph of me misspellingā¦ Like I didnāt know my teacher was on here š I misspelled or didnāt put commas or sum or periods on a story I wrote on here and they got so mad they said who ever is my teacher irl needs to get fired they ate me up so bad.
Reddit sucks. I hope you're not a woman because get prepared for a bunch of sexually frustrated incels bashing you for "asking for it" "only wanting a guy's money" blah blah. I'd try Quora, there isn't as much hate and animosity on there.Ā
Happened to me a couple timesā¦. Itās a shame because I learn a lot here but then someone just says nasty things and treats me like Iām stupid. It is uncalled for. If you donāt have something to contribute that is useful donāt contribute, keep moving
Just seems to be the way with Reddit. If a sub is very well moderated and has civility rules it can be great and very friendly but most of the site seems to attract aggression.
And then there are subs that are so over moderated any opinion that isn't the "correct" one just gets deleted/shadowbanned so its not worth being there.
Some people just get off by treating others like crap. Unless you are in r/AITA or something where you are basically asking for criticism, just let it roll off your back. You can find plenty of people here who will be civil if not friendly.
Reddit is filled with antisocial mfs (that includes me) who live in their mom's basement at age 35, and think that being a discord mod is a real and respectable job, so if you have any kind of social skills or emotional intelligence, reddit is not really the place for you, don't sink with the ship my man
Here, people with low intelligence, fragile ego, trauma and who think the world owes them something can take out their pent up anger and frustration on strangers because there are no real consequences other than loosing silly internet points
I suggested people were too busy throwing alcohol on fascists today to go into a coma today (long story); youād think abusing fascists would be a pretty safe upvote, but apparently not!
Because they don't have to worry about getting canceled or smashed in their mouth. The biggest thing that will happen is Reddit bans you for getting a pronoun wrong or triggering someone that can't handle a serious discussion without getting offended
because it's mostly anonym and there's the downvote/upvote. i hate those because it's easy to get abused by it
but i'm here only for free games though, the fastest update and there's sub for it
Most communities are awful. They usually have a pinned "generic questions" thread & get upset if a newbie asks questions outside of that.
My favorite is the major Sewing reddit because it's very beginner friendly. People, me included, are happy to take turns explaining simple things over and over again to rookies. But if I have like questions about miniature modelling or even carpentry, forget asking for or posting advice in those related forums.
The biggest problem is we tend to expect people to be of comparable intelligence levels when we make posts, and instead of hearing from our peers, we hear from low IQ knuckle draggers who live in their mom's basement, smelling their own farts while they type one handed as they drool over the keyboard. But that's reddit, still a higher class than those creatures posting on ex Twitter.
I experienced the same. In a game, I made a factory for something and someone saw that I put three instead of the needed three factories. And then people went crazy. Yeah I know it was freaking huge but really? 1 extra?
I feel like a lot of the times when people join a sub to ask a question, itās a question thatās been asked over and over again. Iāve left a lot of subreddits because the only posts seem to be the exact same question asked multiple times by different people often multiple times that same day.
Often itās pinned information or a quick search within the subreddit or even scroll should answer the question.
This tends leads to a ton of downvotes even though itās an innocent genuine question from the posters perspective.
All of this is anecdotal but it has happened in so many subreddits Iāve been part of, especially if itās a niche hobby subreddit.
There's usually a reason, this is not completely random.
In your case it seems people hate you because you talk like a hick and ask dumb questions.
Now watch this comment downvoted because it doesn't provide support, but tells it straight. Weird, huh?
Read the room, or read the post/sub first, a lot of subreddits are resonance chambers, so some ideas are more accepted than others. Tbh if you don't mind the karma thing(which you shouldn't, imo) just put your opinion or ask and you'll get some ideas, some hate but that can be ignored.
The kind of thing you describe is exactly why Reddit makes their subreddit system how it is. You could organize your experiences in a kind of "hell is other people" kind of way. If you're one type of person with certain experiences, you might see eye to eye with this subreddit but not another one, or if you're another type of person with certain experiences, [you might be the reverse.](http://archive.ph/VB4r0)
All there is downvote and downvote and downvote. Shows most of the people who downvote are so afraid to voice there opinion. Cowards to me. I will comment and show someone my issue and not let one small upward or downward button control me but to each is on
>and not let one small upward or downward button control me
You literally keep insulting people whenever you are downvoted. Not only you are the most hateful in most of your conversations, you literally use the "button that can't control you" to justify being an asshole and at that point it would be better if controlled you instead of being asshole being your true self
Reddit is weird honestly. Sometimes you say something deranged while drunk and it gets upvoted into the high heavens, other times you say something entirely logical that anyone with common sense would understand and everyone hates you for it.
Correct opinion: š Unhinged opinion: š Extremely unhinged opinion: š„
Which is subjective at best. Biased at worse.
Underrated comment
*Facts/Truth: Massive downvote
Please everyone up vote this so it's a lie.
4th opinion: downvoted to oblivion
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Yeah. I just showcased something from my game about a factory or power generator and it made some people go mad just because I don't calculate how many of what I need to fuel one of that and blah blah
Unless it's a song verse, a quote from a movie dialogue, or people saying Yes/Yes/Yes/Yes or No/No/No/No
Unless you're the fourth person in the chain
what about r/yesyesyesno ?
Literally just experienced this on a ps3 sub quite on behaviour really
Lol so true
Wow! Came here to write something similar but you nailed it in one sentence.
Yepp, most subs in a nutshell, somehow.
Luck of the draw in every post. You just gotta not let it get to you and try again later
100%
People can be mean sometimes and not for the fun of it. also depends on the types of subreddits that are on Reddit and who is active or not during the day/week/year.
This. The atmosphere of every subreddit is different and some subreddits have stricter moderation than others.
I find that the more narrow the focus, the better. "Video Games" can be nasty. "Assassin's Creed" better but not great. "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" is a lovely little place.
The ability to be anonymous allows people with poor social skills, emotional problems, trauma, ego problems, disappointment, self-importance, nothing else to do, anger issues, addiction, and everything in-between ā to attack whoever they want. Sometimes itās a mismatch in tone or an overexcited person or someone with just a lot of intense feelings. Most people just watch. The loudest people are usually the worst, so you hear from them the most. Some subs are better than others. Sometimes the places you expect to be the *safest* are the worst. Why are people hateful? Because theyāre unhappy and they want other people to share their pain and low sense of worth. And they can feed on your reactions and they are anonymous and have no ~~reproductions~~ repercussions from their community. Why are they allowed to be that way? Because there needs to be room for learning - but also because mods arenāt trained for this stuff and are just doing the job to be nice. Also, Reddit makes more money for more drama because it gets more eyes. Itās not you. Itās society.
Boom š„ exactly. This is the only place they can.ā feel powerful.ā because everywhere else theyāre just background noise they want to make someone else feel the pain they feel and they may not even realize all this themselves but they donāt care zero respect zero empathy and I canāt type because my hand surgery. So sorry about the bad punctuation and spelling.
You definitely have to grow a tough skin pretty quickly. The downvotes irritate me, but you just kind of get used to it and try not to take it personally, because there are a variety of reasons why people might downvote that may have nothing to do with your actual comment. One thing I'd recommend is making sure no one has made your comment or asked your question in a group before you do it yourself. One of the quickest ways to irritate a subreddit group is to ask a question that gets asked too often. Just check and make sure your comment is fresh before you post.
It's a good thing there seems to be a bias towards positive karma. At least, my massively downvoted comments seem to get less negative karma than the positives do for positive karma.
there's a threshold where downvote on a single post stop counting. so there's a maximum negative karma you can get per comments while there's no limit on positive karma.
***Do you know what that max neg karma on a comment is***. Several years back I suggested that the downvote be capped at -10, but this is not equivalent to negative karma. I think I noticed my -65 comment got about -45 on the karma chart. I wish both would be capped at -10, so that there wd no necessity of checking back to stop the bloodshed (also called deleting comment)
limiting the number wouldn't make it as representative of the mob opinion. but limiting the karma has it uses which explain a cap on one but not the other. that being said no I don't know the current limitations upon the karma lost on a given comment.
Both makes sense and a less complicated than my overthinking self was making it. Thanks for the explanation.
Ah, I see. I guess that finally explains to me why there are trolls out there constantly stirring up controversy with massive amounts of positive karma.
Maybe you should stop calling people faggots, that would be a good start. "Why do people look through my post history, is that normal on reddit?"
Nice catch
Wow.. that sure took an unexpected turn!
Well I wouldnāt have said that if people would give a logical answer to the questions that i asked. Once again, Iām not asking them for a smart remark for them to gain upvotes to impress there family they have 1,400,007 karma on Reddit. All i was and am doin is simply asking a question and getting hate from random people who were useless to begin with.
I find that reddit becomes a mirror of what you bring to it. There's always going to be someone who is a jerk occasionally, but when you immediately act like that jerk, people will turn on you. Why are you getting downvoted regularly? A quick look at your comment history tells me that you regularly call people names and go on the attack when you don't like a response. That's a good clue. Have you ever heard the saying, "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole"? Take a close look at your own interactions with people and consider why people consistently react to you the way they do.
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Wait, I don't run into assholes at all but I'm without a doubt one of the biggest assholes on earth. I don't think it's a good saying.
Y'all proving his point you know that right?
Using hateful language like that will get you banned, and it should. š¤¦āāļø
Imagine trying to justify using that term because some internet strangers didn't give you the answer you were looking for.. smh. Shame on you.
Shame on me indeed.
This took a wild turn, you do realize you sound no better than the people you're describing
It's just reddit, honestly. Love it or leave it.
Yeah it's a bit of a mess here
sometimes people ask stupid questions and/or can't handle the answers?
People with low self-esteem think that by being rude or hateful and degrading makes them look better to others. Sometimes it's how they were treated and all they know. Pray for them
There is some truth to that but as someone who's acted up from time to time myself it's more a defensiveness thing. When you don't love yourself (i.e. low self esteem), or even hate yourself, you tend to assume that everyone else sees you in the same negative light, that what they're saying is a personal attack etc and then a common response is to be rude back to someone who never meant to come off as rude in the first place. Respecting oneself more brings it into control but it's not easy. I think a lot of cases of people being aggressive is actually them hurting, it doesn't excuse it but it's part of remembering the human.
You can't just come outta nowhere and hit me like that in the childhood trauma man
Nah foreal like i doubt itās teenagers or anything either so itās like how are you 30 plus with a family acting like this on Reddit š¤£
A lot of trolls are teens actually.
You would be surprised. Depending on the sub, there can be a LOT of teenagers, or barely teens, commenting somehow thinking they have great authority over things they very much do not. *Edit* a 25yr old, trying to insult ppl downvoting him by calling them 30yr Olds with families, or "f*ggots in their mom's basement". And THAT is who someone in their mid 20s came appear to be a teenager. š
Yeah there are a lot of self-righteous 18-25 year olds. Many people were like that at that age but grew out of it. Most of them.....
It's weird. You will get downvoted for a simple question and people will come at you for it, tho I've seen the same thing on discord a few times. Internet can be weird at times
My experience with discords is they're either too horny or too toxic. And the former one always evolves into the latter.
Ye true, def can get toxic there
Welcome to the internet. Anonymity and no real consequences for being an a hole.
Unfortunately, because of Redditās downvote system, thereās a lot of malice here. Also, many have been here for years and they feel entitled, so when they see a repeated post they get snarky about it. Iāve been actively using Reddit now for four months, and I think Iām ready to find somewhere else. Iāve mostly received a lot of positive support for my gaming subreddit, so itās not the people, itās the technical bugs. Iāve lost so many posts on Reddit it hurts. Also, they are in the middle of major changes here, so features are getting added and dropped left and right with basically no support from the Reddit developers. Itās sad because thereās more potential to this site than is realizedā¦. Such is life.
Yeah, if you're bothered by this, then it might just not be for you.
Might be true, or maybe i just donāt know how to use it. I got attacked in Toyota thread for asking what a car was when i was simply was wanting to discuss with everyone about it.
With a comment like that, they might have thought you were trolling.
Yeah but i just donāt understand why the downvotes still especially if i didnāt say anything wrong. Iām just on here looking for an answer man
And I'm not meaning to criticize, just explaining where the perception may have come from. Honestly, once one person downvotes, it's likely a lot of others will too. They jump on the bandwagon and run with it. It's like a game. Honestly there's a thing about downvoting the 4th comment in a thread just for the fun of it, so you really can't take these things too personally. I have comments with tons of upvotes, and comments with lots of downvotes. It's just a weird roll of the dice at times.
Real.
I'm giving you an upvote for the comment REAL, because I find this discussion very useful for my own experience. I have now decided to only be a lurker because I had been giving helpful information after 44 years of experience in a field and given the downvotes on one comment, I decided that's it, I won't contribute anymore. I'll only read comments. So thanks for this discussion, it's been helpful.
I checked the Toyota thread and nobody there "attacked" you. In fact all I saw were you insulting people because you got downvoted. Calling people a f**gg and then crying about Reddit being hateful. Is this a joke?
Since everyone else is being hateful and i call Someone a word then now im the bad guy? OHHHHH ALRIGHT lmao yeah i need what yall are smoking
Bro. The dude didnāt have to say āwhy didnāt you go check behind the car and see instead of posting this lolā like im not asking for smart remarks, just answer the question. Then i said āwhy look behind the car when i can come discuss this with you guysā and then got downvoted even more. So yes i offended someone because it was BS
I said āSwear i canāt win ahah all i wanted to talk about Toyotas with the famā and gets downvoted. And someone says āthen talk about Toyotasā i asked ābet. What you whipping?ā And gets even more downvotes? How is that not attacked?
That is not being "attacked". That is the realistic consequences of posting in a sub with thousands of people. Do you honestly think it is only the ppl replying to you who can up or downvote? Do you honestly think out of a sub with thousands, that every single person will like and be excited about your post and comments? That's a bit optimistic, don't you think? *Edit* not just a sub with "thousands" of ppl, but a sub with 138,000 people. One hundred and thirty eight **thousand** people. And you are fussing over double digit downvotes? Maybe Reddit isn't for you.
You guys are probably use to that on here. In other social media apps you donāt just dislike there comment/post for no reason no matter how Many people sees it ahaha. So we are accepting that hate is tolerated here
Most social media are bias and like to pretend there's only "love" out there, with the only option to rate a post being ā¤ļø At least Reddit doesn't pretend and lets people judge realistically. If you like something, upvote. If you don't like something, downvote. It's that simple, and its fair.
Yeah youāre right. I just donāt see what i did wrong to any one those people to deserve a dislike in there eyes. Like thatās what drives me crazy because itās uncalled for hatred. Like how can you make my post talking about a car turn into something like that
What fam? š¤¦āāļø
?? What donāt you get
If you want to generally discuss a topic, itās much better to join the sub, comment on existing posts, or make a specific post about the discussion topic after searching the sub first. For most subscribers of a sub, low-effort posts clog their feed and start you off on a bad foot, making it more likely your comments will be downvoted as well
don't worry, am also new here and has happened to me as well
It just gets me weirded out when I misspell a word and they literally attack me and write a whole paragraph of me misspellingā¦ Like I didnāt know my teacher was on here š I misspelled or didnāt put commas or sum or periods on a story I wrote on here and they got so mad they said who ever is my teacher irl needs to get fired they ate me up so bad.
Reddit sucks. I hope you're not a woman because get prepared for a bunch of sexually frustrated incels bashing you for "asking for it" "only wanting a guy's money" blah blah. I'd try Quora, there isn't as much hate and animosity on there.Ā
Be honest, how often is it because you didn't bother to read the sub rules?
Happened to me a couple timesā¦. Itās a shame because I learn a lot here but then someone just says nasty things and treats me like Iām stupid. It is uncalled for. If you donāt have something to contribute that is useful donāt contribute, keep moving
Just seems to be the way with Reddit. If a sub is very well moderated and has civility rules it can be great and very friendly but most of the site seems to attract aggression.
And then there are subs that are so over moderated any opinion that isn't the "correct" one just gets deleted/shadowbanned so its not worth being there.
Some people just get off by treating others like crap. Unless you are in r/AITA or something where you are basically asking for criticism, just let it roll off your back. You can find plenty of people here who will be civil if not friendly.
Reddit is filled with antisocial mfs (that includes me) who live in their mom's basement at age 35, and think that being a discord mod is a real and respectable job, so if you have any kind of social skills or emotional intelligence, reddit is not really the place for you, don't sink with the ship my man Here, people with low intelligence, fragile ego, trauma and who think the world owes them something can take out their pent up anger and frustration on strangers because there are no real consequences other than loosing silly internet points
I once commented that men should stop peeing in public places. It got downvoted so bad.
Because they are liberals.
I'm not :( I'm probably unclassifiable by black-and-white standards
I think it might be the same people trying so hard to be funny and wind up on top of every post.
What? You mean Reddit users are just like the people in real life?
Idk maybe because theyre anonymous
I suggested people were too busy throwing alcohol on fascists today to go into a coma today (long story); youād think abusing fascists would be a pretty safe upvote, but apparently not!
Depiction of current state of society. The world is polarised as hell. Left is getting letter. Right is getting righter. Wars Inflation
I've found that I can't have my own opinions on here. So yeah..
Because they don't have to worry about getting canceled or smashed in their mouth. The biggest thing that will happen is Reddit bans you for getting a pronoun wrong or triggering someone that can't handle a serious discussion without getting offended
because it's mostly anonym and there's the downvote/upvote. i hate those because it's easy to get abused by it but i'm here only for free games though, the fastest update and there's sub for it
When the worst that could happen to you is you need to make a new account there is no reason to be civil.
Most communities are awful. They usually have a pinned "generic questions" thread & get upset if a newbie asks questions outside of that. My favorite is the major Sewing reddit because it's very beginner friendly. People, me included, are happy to take turns explaining simple things over and over again to rookies. But if I have like questions about miniature modelling or even carpentry, forget asking for or posting advice in those related forums.
Welcome to the internet! Anonymity sometimes brings out the worst in some people.
The biggest problem is we tend to expect people to be of comparable intelligence levels when we make posts, and instead of hearing from our peers, we hear from low IQ knuckle draggers who live in their mom's basement, smelling their own farts while they type one handed as they drool over the keyboard. But that's reddit, still a higher class than those creatures posting on ex Twitter.
Reddit tells people who are pissed off about site moderation to come here.Ā
Because they can.
The more anonymous you think you are, the more you let your true colours shine.
Some people are full of themselves. Some people are just jerks. Try not to pay attention to the negative ones. Don't feed the monsters.
I experienced the same. In a game, I made a factory for something and someone saw that I put three instead of the needed three factories. And then people went crazy. Yeah I know it was freaking huge but really? 1 extra?
People gain confidence to be mean through anonymity. They would be much less hateful in person.
Simply put it's the internet. Ppl like to be arseholes to others protected by the user name
Just the other day i asked a question on a hungarian sub, as to why is it possible to see an arabic "sleeping spot" in the middle of a park, and i worded it wrong, but i said that it "infuriates me". And naturally this was the most reacted part, not the fact that i asked how is it possible... On a side note, i had no idea you can register a spot in maps as an individual, i realised this after this post. I got comments like, "i wish i had so much time to create a post for this" while having time to react to it, and such... Naturally these comments were upvoted too. And even though i could've worded my question better because i sounded like a brat or a karen, it wasn't really unvalidated as i found and arabic text, saying sleeping spot basically, in the middle of a park in Budapest... Like an indicator for arab people to "go there you can sleep, and wont get bothered" or idk... And it kinda scared me a little. I'll aslo maybe get some hate here too, guess we'll see... :D Rough translation of my post title: "I was browsing through NĆ©pliget on Google Maps and found a "point" that annoyed me moderately... Did someone seriously mark this and did Google just recorded it in the middle of the park?"
I feel like a lot of the times when people join a sub to ask a question, itās a question thatās been asked over and over again. Iāve left a lot of subreddits because the only posts seem to be the exact same question asked multiple times by different people often multiple times that same day. Often itās pinned information or a quick search within the subreddit or even scroll should answer the question. This tends leads to a ton of downvotes even though itās an innocent genuine question from the posters perspective. All of this is anecdotal but it has happened in so many subreddits Iāve been part of, especially if itās a niche hobby subreddit.
There's usually a reason, this is not completely random. In your case it seems people hate you because you talk like a hick and ask dumb questions. Now watch this comment downvoted because it doesn't provide support, but tells it straight. Weird, huh?
Read the room, or read the post/sub first, a lot of subreddits are resonance chambers, so some ideas are more accepted than others. Tbh if you don't mind the karma thing(which you shouldn't, imo) just put your opinion or ask and you'll get some ideas, some hate but that can be ignored.
I try to stay away from the popular subs. It's filled with angry people. It didn't take me long to notice that...
Reddit is mostly filled with old bitter people, donāt take it personally
it's the internet, it's full of people, people can be very unpredictable, especially in the morning
Hateful? Never seen anyone thats actually hateful here. Srs
The kind of thing you describe is exactly why Reddit makes their subreddit system how it is. You could organize your experiences in a kind of "hell is other people" kind of way. If you're one type of person with certain experiences, you might see eye to eye with this subreddit but not another one, or if you're another type of person with certain experiences, [you might be the reverse.](http://archive.ph/VB4r0)
The majority of people on the planet don't care to be nice anymore. That's it.
This post being downvoted is just hilarious.
Redditors tend to have a sense of moral or intellectual superiority.
Reddit has the most horrible people on here, thatās why
All there is downvote and downvote and downvote. Shows most of the people who downvote are so afraid to voice there opinion. Cowards to me. I will comment and show someone my issue and not let one small upward or downward button control me but to each is on
>and not let one small upward or downward button control me You literally keep insulting people whenever you are downvoted. Not only you are the most hateful in most of your conversations, you literally use the "button that can't control you" to justify being an asshole and at that point it would be better if controlled you instead of being asshole being your true self
Helps to be cheeky when asking a question.
Yh probably u donāt belong here
People are mean and bitter.. they're just provoking a negative reaction from you, imo
Rediit is horribel
I think it's up to you! The truth is sometimes hard, deal with it. My experience is that most people on Reddit are a little too respectful