Why do People Hate Reddit?

Honestly it just irritates me most of the times I've checked it out so I don't go back but I wouldn't go so far as to say hate. Except all the fucking memes. Good lord I'm tired of all that shit.

I like reddit and I use it quite often but even I have to say its a huge circle jerk. Its a very atheist, liberal, and nostalgia gaming oriented site, I personally fall into all those categories but its plain to see how someone could hate it. If I was republican and wanted to argue against people about (for this example) the healthcare law, I would more likely get downvoted than someone speaking in favor of it.

Also: Memes on the site are fucking stupid and should burn in a fire along with the people who posted their shit memes.

The whole karma system just broken and shows how retarded people can get in pursuit for magical internet points. And i also hate it for all that "class" bullshit that community adopted. You are just some stunent, there is nothing classy about you, stop this fucking act.

Reddit is fine as a news source on some really obscure things, but i'd never discuss anything in that shithole.

Well, to be fair that openness and freedom to post whatever shy of things that are actually illegal (i.e. Child Porn) is kind of the principals the site was founded on. Like with any freedom of speech or expression there is going to be people who really take things to the extremes.

On the flip side of this there have been some genuinely touching stories come out of reddit of overly generous and nice people helping fellow redditors out. I saw one a few months back where people helped touch up a photo for a couple who's son had died of some form of cancer. There is as much good as bad on there.

Has anyone else noticed a disproportionately large amount of necro-threads since the redesign, especially recently?

And now you know. People are scum.

Everyone knows Sexy Beach Zero > Rapelay anyways. Pfffffft.

Oh come on, Artificial Academy is way better than Sexy Beach. That's what I heard from a friend of mine... yeah...

it started with ron paul, what the fuck? LOL

Whatever. Just let people be crazy. Reddit has a lot of intresting or funny shit, just like 4chan. You just have to accept that stuff like that won't be the majority and that the free nature of the sites will allow some downright offensive things. My solution is to never visit either site and just cherry pick cool stuff that gets spread out to other sites FROM Reddit.

At the very least, 4Chan is self-aware enough to know that they're scum. They embrace it. Reddit on the other hand is infested with all kinds of Unwarranted Self Importance.

I don't really like it because it is only one step away from being 4chan, and in some cases it might be a little worse (if that is even possible).

Also, the design is confusing as fuck, but with a site that huge I can kind of understand why.

Because I'm tired of generic internet humor, and half those dumb memes come out of Reddit. Anything genuinely interesting find it's way into better designed parts of the internet so I have no reason to go there.

I just started viewing reddit recently and I do enjoy all the cool pictures of stuff and stories.

I definately find it grating with all the memes, animal pictures, try hard comments, people trying to get karma, and of course some of the subreddits which are fucking disgusting.

It's fine for just looking at the first few pages while I'm bored, I don't want to get too involved with it though.

Ignoring the fact that this thread is quite old, it disturbs me that Reddit is basically socially acceptable 4chan. Everyone agrees 4chan has some fucked up shit, but not enough people acknowledge that Reddit is more or less the same.

As a redditor, I can confirm that such boards are absolutely deplorable. Unfortunately, there are a lot of smaller subreddits--and most of the defaults--that ruin the fun for everyone else on the site; while the boards listed above, /r/cringe's community (the content itself's not too bad, actually), /r/Atheism, and several other subreddits are pure cancer, others are great and appeal to whichever interests you have. Honestly, I kind of wish boards like the ones kaiserreich listed could be taken down, but since they can't, we might as well try to ignore them and go on our way.

As far as the decreasing age of redditors and the constant circlejerkery, this is all true... On defaults. As is the case with any internet community, the bigger the community, the more prone it is to younger members, immaturity, close-mindedness, circlejerkery, etc. This is MUCH better with smaller boards, though.

Admittedly, the karma system is a bit of a mess that focuses more on the user's popularity with the post than the content within. Fortunately, some subreddits have begun hiding comment karma (the real problem here) for at least an hour, preventing people from bandwagon voting. Boards that don't have this issue typically don't get as much into the popularity of the post (not always true, but still).

TL;DR: Reddit's definitely got problems and I understand why outsiders hate it so much, but most of these problems lie in the bigger groups. As for the others... well, no site's perfect, I guess.

CoD does actually suck.

This man speaks the truth. Memes are almost never funny by the way if I say so myself.

Making points with memes instead of thoughts and sentances is the worst. Plus the site design gives me a headache. I'm way over 4chan, don't really want to spend my time at a watered down version of it.

I've got nothing against Reddit, the memes can be obnoxious but they're avoidable. I think a lot of it is 4chan elitism and the fact that they kind of think they own the concept of the internet meme, which they kind of in a way do, but they're dumb pictures so who really cares.

It sounds like Ambercrombie & Finch ideology applied to nerds/hackers/stalkers.

I have never been on Reddit, and I hope to never be there.

I use Reddit to keep track of subreddits that I subscribe to because they're relevant to my interests. Nearly all of these subreddits have board rules that ban quickmeme images and actually post useful information or entertaining content such as news of a new Smash Bros tournament, some well-painted warhammer miniatures or a programming exploit, etc. If you browse r/all then yeah it's full of crap, but if you like a particular topic that interests you, you can just stick to those boards and they tend to be pretty good.

Basically it's like video game forums; ignore the Console Wars board and you can find cool stuff you like.

I really don't like a majority of the community. A bunch of people trying to push garbage posts for the chance at karma points, and people fall right into it. I witnessed reddit's fall from grace. Used to be the posts that got big karma were things that people put legitimate work into instead of "It's my cakeday here's a picture of a cake". The worst part is they're so damn pretentious about it. Seem like every hour someone says "oh man reddit's so much better than <facebook, 9gag, this, that, the other>, it's just much better content and it's not scary and full of creepy pedophile murder junkies like 4chan." Come ON. At least 4chan openly admits they're a bunch of scumbags instead of sitting around masturbating their egos all day.

Hivemind attitude in the main subreddits lead to poor discussion and circlejerk. The best thing to do with Reddit is unsub the defaults and start joining the smaller ones.

Some of my favourites are:

r/games

r/truegaming

r/DIY

r/Sex

r/askscience

r/writingprompts

r/mma

r/YouShouldKnow

r/LifeProTips

and of course r/ShowerBeer

To me reddit seems a lot like 4chan.

I barely know what reddit is.