You are using English words but this sentence makes no sense. What are you trying to say?
One of my favorites.
Yes, thank you for asking.
I’m on reddit, primarily in a lot of single-game subs for PC games, and TV show subs. I’ve found the main advantage of reddit is also its biggest drawback: it’s a big, big room of anonymous people, which means you see the same questions come up over and over and over again.
And since each sub is its own separate forum with its own self-appointed mods, some subs can become tiny fiefdoms for tiny gatekeeping tyrants. r/guitar, I’m looking directly at you.
Asking if Reddit is on the level is like asking if the internet is on the level. In either case it depends on where you are.
If I’m on Reddit, either I’m looking at a subreddit for a particular topic (which 99% of the time for me is a video game) or I found a thread from a Google search. I get very helpful info there quite often but again, it depends on where I am and who’s posting it.
I will say that at least for video game topics, if someone posts total BS they will get called out on it. They self-regulate pretty well.
Agenda posting (or “agenda-pushing”): I’d not heard this term before, but based on this Reddit thread, it appears that it means a poster who exclusively (or nearly so) posts on only one single topic and one single opinion. And, it appears that certain, more serious, subreddits discourage or ban the practice.
When I’m reading those posts while drinking my Mountain Dew Code Red and eating my Flaming Hot Cheetos I recognize those posts for what they are and click away from them with my Logitech mouse.
I’m fairly active on Reddit with over 50,000 karma points. It’s a huge time suck but as a useful example I found CrowdStrike remediation steps there before they were published by CS.
If you browse reddit without an account with personalized subreddit subscriptions, you’re going to get the worst version of it. Especially in political subreddits, it’s filled with dedicated and loud right-wing asshats along with Russian bots and agents.
The very biggest ones have decent enough moderation, but they will brigade smaller ones that come to their attention. r/NPR is one that’s noticeably been getting very obvious posts trying to sow discord and distrust. I am on some explicitly left-leaning subs that keep the jerks out. In general, you can adjust your feed to get reliable news, but I don’t really engage in political discussions in the comments.
(My account is extremely old and I basically act like I’ve already been doxxed, but I don’t want to give anyone an excuse to actually do that.)
Yeah, that is the kind of stuff you’ll come across in Reddit that is invaluable.
I use solutions there at times professionally; I’d say that place and Stack Overflow tend to be places where Google will lead me pretty often.
Reddit is heavily bot driven. Most of the treads are computer bot generated. And many of the posters are basement dwelling young men who eat that shit up.
“My wife did something I didn’t like, should I divorce her?” Answer is always yes, divorce her.
“Women who have had sex, what is the most sexy sex thing you have ever done?”
And on and on. The real world is right at the top of the stairs and outside, but they never go there.
SDMB users, what is the sexiest sex that you have ever sexed? Because I am divorcing my wife soon and the doesn’t like my gaming.
88,620 here.
I’m the proud owner of 179,535 useless intertube points. I don’t post much at all, but I did make the front page of r/All once - 28,600 of that karma is from that one post; my next highest post is barely 1500.
Just because some people aren’t really understanding what Reddit is, I don’t see threads like that because I don’t read those subs. There are subs on literally almost any subject you can think of, and each one has it’s own rules and community. Some of the subs I am a part of include r/Broadway, r/AMCsAList, r/aww, r/imax, etc, none of which have any of the things you are saying.
Yup, this. I never see any of this on the parts of Reddit I visit.
This is what i see when going to their basic URL (oldredditcom), and that’s why i say not on the level. I don’t go deep into subreddits-- I tried but didn’t find anything of value.
That’s going to be driven by your own interests.
If you don’t have any specific interests, no particular subreddit will work for you and you’ll be left with the shitty /new page.
Well, you’ve got like a dozen of us who’ve essentially told you the same thing: “if you are primarily looking at the main page, you don’t have an account, and you don’t limit your attempts to read Reddit based on your interests, then yeah, it’s going to be weird and chaotic and dumb.”
A whole bunch of us have said that Reddit can be useful and interesting and not strange, if you don’t approach it in the way that you are doing it.
Excellent point. Otherwise that site has so much sewage, and I feel like the sewage is not on the level and misguiding.
The sewage is sewage. How much could you possibly expect from it?
Well said.
I’d ask the OP, who seems to have great trouble communicating complete ideas in writing, what he wants to get out of Reddit?
If he can’t articulate what he wants, it’s pretty clear he’s not going to find it. And especially not on the home page which, just like every social media site except SDMB, ought to be relabeled “Trending bot-drivel and the stupid fucks who upvote it.”