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Pondex
Jul 8, 2014

Mac and Cheese posted:

i used to think that /r/outside was just a cycling group of 12-14 year olds that were regurgitating the same joke cause they just heard it for the first time
but after reading those really sad posts by some really sad people, i'm just glad that they found a place to discuss their issues from a distance that they're comfortable with

OTOH someone like TierZoo does nearly the same thing, and he has 2.7m subs on youtube. A lot of people really like Reality: the mmo as a gimmick for some reason

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Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

its because literally every aspect of their personality and interests revolves around video games. Reading about video games online, listening to video game soundtracks, writing fan fiction about cloud and watching youtube videos of other people playing video games between twitch streams of video games.

zgrowler2
Oct 29, 2011

HOW DOES THE IPHONE APP WORK?? I WILL SPAM ENDLESSLY EVERYWHERE AND DISREGARD ANY REPLIES

Caesar Saladin posted:

its because literally every aspect of their personality and interests revolves around video games. Reading about video games online, listening to video game soundtracks, writing fan fiction about cloud and watching youtube videos of other people playing video games between twitch streams of video games.

I hit 30 and outside of it being a compulsive distraction to cope with reality from time to time I just....don't really care about video games anymore. I can't just drop into one and stick with it for more than a day or two. Got too many other things going on in the real world. I know some folks who can somehow balance being big into games and having a normal* life but it ain't me chief

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I just went on Reddit to ask a tech support question, figured it couldn't hurt. Blows my mind that your first post in every subreddit gets you a message from a bot that goes "hey read the rules. if you just broke the rules, uh, don't". And that comes up as a notification in the top right, but it doesn't even show the message there, it just puts a [1] next to the messages button inside the notifications dropdown. It's not like it's a huge deal but everything about this stupid website has some wonky design choice like that.

Yellow Yoshi
Apr 29, 2020

Figure 1: Mario's weird dog

Dabir posted:

I just went on Reddit to ask a tech support question, figured it couldn't hurt. Blows my mind that your first post in every subreddit gets you a message from a bot that goes "hey read the rules. if you just broke the rules, uh, don't". And that comes up as a notification in the top right, but it doesn't even show the message there, it just puts a [1] next to the messages button inside the notifications dropdown. It's not like it's a huge deal but everything about this stupid website has some wonky design choice like that.

i once asked for tech support for a mouse which randomly acted up, someone talking out of their rear end told me to return to manufacturer (without justification) despite it clearly being a software issue. some time after a heated argument and disengagement, the mouse problem was fixed in a software patch and i walked away banned from that board.
and people say reddit is good for tech support :confused:

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
People on Reddit don't know poo poo about tech and they usually downvote the people who actually do know poo poo so they leave.

Though if you have a weird plant or item and you don't know what it is, there are subs that will identify it within minutes.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Dabir posted:

I just went on Reddit to ask a tech support question, figured it couldn't hurt. Blows my mind that your first post in every subreddit gets you a message from a bot that goes "hey read the rules. if you just broke the rules, uh, don't". And that comes up as a notification in the top right, but it doesn't even show the message there, it just puts a [1] next to the messages button inside the notifications dropdown. It's not like it's a huge deal but everything about this stupid website has some wonky design choice like that.

In making one of my first posts on reddit yesterday, I was consistently just totally confused by the lack of basic common sense stuff on the site. To the point where I couldn't figure out if I was just missing something, or it was really that poorly designed. You make a post and it has a section for posting text, then images, then links, great...but really it's making you choose one of the three . This isn't clear at all, so most of my post just wasn't there. And you can't preview what your post is actually going to look like. So I am actually googling how to preview, so I don't make another botched post and I'm finding 20 different answers and an outside site, dedicated to copy/pasting your post to preview it it. Ultimately I landed on a reddit post requesting the feature and a Reddit employee responded "We would love to have that feature but unfortunately it's impossible" lol.

I mean for all I know, all of this is stuff I missed and it's not actually as bad as it seems and I am just a newb. but it's bar none the worst first impression I have had for any sort of forum on the internet in my entire life. I never have trouble figuring this stuff out but tying to post on reddit just makes me feel like a boomer.

I'm sure SA is sort of unwieldy for new users too, but goddamn it's like reddit doesn't even consider basic QOL stuff every other site on earth has solved and it's somehow the biggest forum in history.

Michaelis
Dec 29, 2019
It's not really a forum, it's a content agregator where you can post youtube style comments underneath, only it's worse than youtube since the comments can branch endlessly, making linear group discussion impossible

Peggotty
May 9, 2014

Didn’t reddit start without a comment function? I think it was supposed to be just a list of links and pictures, ranked by voting.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

All questions go into the questions mega thread. Only fan art can get an individual post.

Mega threads are the loving worst idea for a site set up like Reddit.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


It's kind of amazing that a site that is so "free speech" oriented that the rest of the internet and news outlets had to intervene to get them to get rid of creepshots of kids, has the most insane list of weird rules in every subforum.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Its because the free speech angle combined with making each subreddit its own community means everything is self moderated, and so is its own little fiefdom, so you have everything from illegal porn to puritan absolutism on the same site, and no one every looks to see if a given subreddit is in line with whatever values because free speech.

Kinda reminds me of one book, I wanna say it was one of The Culture books, had a society that was 100% free, which lead to forming smaller societies with their own rules which ranged from utopias to places dedicated to one absolute dictator getting his rocks off torturing people to death, and the only time the latter was dealt with was when someone escaped to ask for help because otherwise it was assumed to be voluntary

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




That'd be Revelation Space's glitter band.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

MikeJF posted:

That'd be Revelation Space's glitter band.

makes sense, I read that immediately after binging the culture.

either way, it feels like s good metaphor for reddit

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"
I heard of /r/PLASTT today. It stands for pussy, legs, rear end, smile, toenails and tits, and is comprised solely of pictures that show all six features. Who thinks of this poo poo? It's right up there with that ridiculous acronym with "the-sun-shining-through-her-dress" etc.

Checking out a list of porn subreddits looking for other examples, I'm mostly just appalled by how badly they need some consolidation and merging. Does reddit need /r/barelylegalteens and /r/legalteens? /r/collegeamateurs and /r/collegesluts? /r/boobs and /r/boobies?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

William Bear posted:

I heard of /r/PLASTT today. It stands for pussy, legs, rear end, smile, toenails and tits, and is comprised solely of pictures that show all six features. Who thinks of this poo poo? It's right up there with that ridiculous acronym with "the-sun-shining-through-her-dress" etc.

Checking out a list of porn subreddits looking for other examples, I'm mostly just appalled by how badly they need some consolidation and merging. Does reddit need /r/barelylegalteens and /r/legalteens? /r/collegeamateurs and /r/collegesluts? /r/boobs and /r/boobies?

You know if you want you could just go in and create /r/totallylegalsluts and consolidate all the others?

Of course people doing that might be why there are so many lovely clone subreddits.

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

William Bear posted:

I heard of /r/PLASTT today. It stands for pussy, legs, rear end, smile, toenails and tits, and is comprised solely of pictures that show all six features. Who thinks of this poo poo? It's right up there with that ridiculous acronym with "the-sun-shining-through-her-dress" etc.

Checking out a list of porn subreddits looking for other examples, I'm mostly just appalled by how badly they need some consolidation and merging. Does reddit need /r/barelylegalteens and /r/legalteens? /r/collegeamateurs and /r/collegesluts? /r/boobs and /r/boobies?

The important detail to remember is that anyone can make a new subreddit, and once they do they become god-king head mod of their own little fiefdom.
If a redditor gets in a spat over the rules with the mods of /r/animefeet, he can just go off and make /r/trueanimefeet or /r/animefeet2 or /r/extrasluttyanimefeet or whatever as a "new, better" porn subreddit without that stupid rule he hates, where he is the top mod and he has the power to make new stupid rules for other redditors to hate.

YerDa Zabam
Aug 13, 2016



Years ago a guy I used to work with first described reddit to me as "like Digg, but better, uh yeah, it's the thinking man's Digg"

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

William Bear posted:

Does reddit need /r/barelylegalteens and /r/legalteens? /r/collegeamateurs and /r/collegesluts? /r/boobs and /r/boobies?

Just LOL if you don’t know the difference between r/collegeamateurs and r/collegesluts.

its certainly some stupid nonsensical distinction that is the definition of E/N.

Tweak
Jul 28, 2003

or dont whatever








There are like 4 or 5 Seattle subreddits because each mod team kept being exposed as fascist despite the reason for the new sub was the last mod team was too fascist (or if memory serves, not interested in warning people about a literal rapist posing as a film director)

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

William Bear posted:

I heard of /r/PLASTT today. It stands for pussy, legs, rear end, smile, toenails and tits, and is comprised solely of pictures that show all six features. Who thinks of this poo poo? It's right up there with that ridiculous acronym with "the-sun-shining-through-her-dress" etc.

I got banned from /r/PLASTT because the image I posted only has one visible toenail. They say the subreddit description quite clearly shows the plural "toenails"! I'm starting my own subreddit Pussy, Legs, rear end, Smile, Any Number of Toenails, and Tits (PLASANTT).

pooch516
Mar 10, 2010

Buttcoin purse posted:

I got banned from /r/PLASTT because the image I posted only has one visible toenail. They say the subreddit description quite clearly shows the plural "toenails"! I'm starting my own subreddit Pussy, Legs, rear end, Smile, Any Number of Toenails, and Tits (PLASANTT).

Can it just be toenail clippings? Do they still need to be attached to their toes?

Kevin DuBrow
Apr 21, 2012

The uruk-hai defender has logged on.
The stocks/crypto/investment subreddits are hugely popular, but looking at them they give terrible, terrible advice. They literally shame people who sell high and call them bitches and cowards. They even have terminology like "diamond hands" for people who never sell and "paper hands" for people who do. There's a huge sense of collective responsibility, like if you sell some stock you're plunging the price and screwing over other Redditors who have invested.

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??
It's because if the suckers buy but never sell, it drives the price up so the actual scammers can sell theirs at a high price. Tell the suckers they're doing their part by HODLing (lol!!! Get it!!!!!) And they'll do your work for you

Some rear end in a top hat started a red panda shitcoin and now these stupid shitheads are clogging up the #redpanda hashtag on twitter with their dipshit "TO THE MOON!!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀💎💎💎💎💎💎💎😊😊😊😊😊😊" garbage and drowning out people actually posting pandas. It's also REALLY obviously a ton of bots driving up engagement to try to drive up the price. I sincerely wish ill upon everyone involved

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



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Kevin DuBrow posted:

The stocks/crypto/investment subreddits are hugely popular, but looking at them they give terrible, terrible advice. They literally shame people who sell high and call them bitches and cowards. They even have terminology like "diamond hands" for people who never sell and "paper hands" for people who do. There's a huge sense of collective responsibility, like if you sell some stock you're plunging the price and screwing over other Redditors who have invested.

Yes this is how a pump and dump scheme works. Redditors were ironically smart in decentralising it so the SEC won't bother chasing it down.

get me HQ!
Jul 28, 2010

Aziz... spark that shit nigga

Blue Moonlight posted:

Just LOL if you don’t know the difference between r/collegeamateurs and r/collegesluts.

its certainly some stupid nonsensical distinction that is the definition of E/N.

i looked into this and honestly i cannot tell the difference, even as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene. collegesluts has about 3x as many subscribers and clearer rules (no OF shilling, etc.) as compared to collegeamateurs. i thought maybe one was more OC-focused and one was more about babes who are not necessarily the OP but they both seem to be primarily OC. (i was thinking this might be more of a historical distinction cause reddit in general has shifted a lot more towards OC over the last few years as concerns about revenge porn have grown and OC has become lucrative). It seems to be a mostly different population that posts on each sub (ie it seems like users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts) but the top posts on each sub are both from the type of now-common reddit babe account that posts the same content dozens of times on different subs (for example the top posts of the week on collegeamateurs right now are all from miniloona).

in conclusion a lot of poo poo sucks about reddit and it can be madee fun of endlessly but IT IS STILL THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND PORN (other than of leaks it's not great for that!!!) :thumbsup:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Yellow Yoshi
Apr 29, 2020

Figure 1: Mario's weird dog

get me HQ! posted:

i looked into this and honestly i cannot tell the difference, even as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene. collegesluts has about 3x as many subscribers and clearer rules (no OF shilling, etc.) as compared to collegeamateurs. i thought maybe one was more OC-focused and one was more about babes who are not necessarily the OP but they both seem to be primarily OC. (i was thinking this might be more of a historical distinction cause reddit in general has shifted a lot more towards OC over the last few years as concerns about revenge porn have grown and OC has become lucrative). It seems to be a mostly different population that posts on each sub (ie it seems like users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts) but the top posts on each sub are both from the type of now-common reddit babe account that posts the same content dozens of times on different subs (for example the top posts of the week on collegeamateurs right now are all from miniloona).

in conclusion a lot of poo poo sucks about reddit and it can be madee fun of endlessly but IT IS STILL THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND PORN (other than of leaks it's not great for that!!!) :thumbsup:

:staredog:

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Reddit: users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC

get me HQ! posted:

i looked into this and honestly i cannot tell the difference, even as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene. collegesluts has about 3x as many subscribers and clearer rules (no OF shilling, etc.) as compared to collegeamateurs. i thought maybe one was more OC-focused and one was more about babes who are not necessarily the OP but they both seem to be primarily OC. (i was thinking this might be more of a historical distinction cause reddit in general has shifted a lot more towards OC over the last few years as concerns about revenge porn have grown and OC has become lucrative). It seems to be a mostly different population that posts on each sub (ie it seems like users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts) but the top posts on each sub are both from the type of now-common reddit babe account that posts the same content dozens of times on different subs (for example the top posts of the week on collegeamateurs right now are all from miniloona).

in conclusion a lot of poo poo sucks about reddit and it can be madee fun of endlessly but IT IS STILL THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND PORN (other than of leaks it's not great for that!!!) :thumbsup:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Just a smidge too earnest

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Leaks?

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

get me HQ! posted:

i looked into this and honestly i cannot tell the difference, even as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene. collegesluts has about 3x as many subscribers and clearer rules (no OF shilling, etc.) as compared to collegeamateurs. i thought maybe one was more OC-focused and one was more about babes who are not necessarily the OP but they both seem to be primarily OC. (i was thinking this might be more of a historical distinction cause reddit in general has shifted a lot more towards OC over the last few years as concerns about revenge porn have grown and OC has become lucrative). It seems to be a mostly different population that posts on each sub (ie it seems like users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts) but the top posts on each sub are both from the type of now-common reddit babe account that posts the same content dozens of times on different subs (for example the top posts of the week on collegeamateurs right now are all from miniloona).

in conclusion a lot of poo poo sucks about reddit and it can be madee fun of endlessly but IT IS STILL THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND PORN (other than of leaks it's not great for that!!!) :thumbsup:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

10 out of 10 lmao full marks

gbs but from 2004
Oct 24, 2004

wow u rude pig

"i STarTed this TOIlEt Of A tHreaD aNd HAve sOmEHOW aVoidEd A red teXt"
as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene,

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol

get me HQ! posted:

i looked into this and honestly i cannot tell the difference, even as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene. collegesluts has about 3x as many subscribers and clearer rules (no OF shilling, etc.) as compared to collegeamateurs. i thought maybe one was more OC-focused and one was more about babes who are not necessarily the OP but they both seem to be primarily OC. (i was thinking this might be more of a historical distinction cause reddit in general has shifted a lot more towards OC over the last few years as concerns about revenge porn have grown and OC has become lucrative). It seems to be a mostly different population that posts on each sub (ie it seems like users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts) but the top posts on each sub are both from the type of now-common reddit babe account that posts the same content dozens of times on different subs (for example the top posts of the week on collegeamateurs right now are all from miniloona).

in conclusion a lot of poo poo sucks about reddit and it can be madee fun of endlessly but IT IS STILL THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND PORN (other than of leaks it's not great for that!!!) :thumbsup:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Absolutely my man

Obfuscation
Jan 1, 2008
Good luck to you, I know you believe in hell

get me HQ! posted:

i looked into this and honestly i cannot tell the difference, even as a dude who is fairly familiar with the reddit nsfw scene. collegesluts has about 3x as many subscribers and clearer rules (no OF shilling, etc.) as compared to collegeamateurs. i thought maybe one was more OC-focused and one was more about babes who are not necessarily the OP but they both seem to be primarily OC. (i was thinking this might be more of a historical distinction cause reddit in general has shifted a lot more towards OC over the last few years as concerns about revenge porn have grown and OC has become lucrative). It seems to be a mostly different population that posts on each sub (ie it seems like users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts) but the top posts on each sub are both from the type of now-common reddit babe account that posts the same content dozens of times on different subs (for example the top posts of the week on collegeamateurs right now are all from miniloona).

in conclusion a lot of poo poo sucks about reddit and it can be madee fun of endlessly but IT IS STILL THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND PORN (other than of leaks it's not great for that!!!) :thumbsup:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

I suspect that some of the sluts are not even in college, none of them are showing any proof of their course work

Jestery
Aug 2, 2016


Not a Dickman, just a shape
I can only get off if I can see their GPA

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
Great Pectoral Area

titties
May 10, 2012

They're like two suicide notes stuffed into a glitter bra

William Bear posted:

Does reddit need ... /r/boobs and /r/boobies?

I think they do, yes

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

why can't they just be collegegirls or whatever? What they gotta be sluts? All the misogynistic language in porn bums me out, its not romantic at all tbh, i shouldn't have to engage with language like that when i just wanna tug

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

sorry to double post but i made fun of bitcoin and got this pm

quote:

Are you always this loving miserable?

Have you ever been in love?

Are you capable of being loved?

I'm going to give you a pass and just assume you're on the spectrum, which would explain your lack of people skills.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

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William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"

Antivehicular posted:

Reddit: users either consider themselves amateurs or sluts

Which is misogynistically limiting. Let's get Meredith Brooks to make a new anthem for the modern woman!

I'm an 'teur, I'm a slut
Showing toenails is enough
I'm barely legal on my page
I will not show my face!

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