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They seem to think that acquiring some bits of knowledge has actually made them smarter than they were before. And they think that the confident reproduction of some knowledge, or the appearance of knowledge, will get them the status of an intellectual or professional. They fricking love confident-sounding posts. And it seems like the upvote/downvote system (with instantly visible vote counts in most subs) funnels a lot of activity into circle-jerks.
Maybe I've been lucky in that one of my main interests is hard to fake experience in, so the subs for it are kinda good most of the time.
But as a whole reddit has gone down the drain.
I don’t mind it much as a place to jack around. But all this concern about reclaiming Reddit seems to be based on the idea that there’s something inherently important about Reddit to save or reclaim. It just hasn’t been my experience with the site that it’s anything much more interesting than Tumblr except for left leaning college aged males. All of these places are essentially created as circle jerky places and really are easily taken by entryists.
I’m thinking it’s probably better to simply create a separate set of fora that speak to your interests than trying to save a site that doesn’t offer much value.
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