The way Redditors write has big “civil war general writing a missive to the homestead” energy. I love seeing long reply chains that end like:
(…) this will conclude my 80,000 word response in which I have objectively proven that you are unintelligent, irrational, and facilitate poor literacy in regards to the use of technology. Perhaps you should take an introductory level programming class to better yourself, hmmm?
As to your claims that I am being “condescending”: I am sorry sir, but I just calls it like I sees it. Perhaps you need to learn how to handle criticism.
Edit: I cannot believe that he blocked me! I avoided ad-homonyms and remained civil, but he decided that it would be better to silence rational actors instead of letting them provide education.
I literally read a comment today on lemmy with this (paraphrased) line: “I was simply sharing my knowledge to facilitate a discussion, but if you’d like me to see your point of view… lol no. I am not interested”
I was kind of boggled, honestly, but it’s not just reddit at least
Lol that’s why I feel like I need communities like this where nothing is too serious
That face when I sympathize with the writer and their target less … than anyone else. Just … there are better hobbies. Don’t feed the trolls!!
Who mentioned trolls?
Its implied in the fact that anyone feels the need to write like in the OP. Are they the troll or the trolled? Friend, that conversation left the station several rants ago.
Wait. I mean yes. They are the troll or the trolled. Likely trolled themselves at some point in the same thread, because it all blends together when you’re trying to reply to insincere and garbled bullshit.
They’re not trolls though? Not even implied. People on reddit type like this while being completely sincere. In fact, this post sums up the majority of comments in any given thread, in my experience.
All you’re telling me is that reddit has turned into another 4chan over the last 9 months. Glad I left.
Always has been
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Certain subs, sure. OP representative of all reddit now? Not convinced, as that would be much worse. I hope OP is just constantly deep-diving the role-playing subs, or making shit up. Lie to me, baby.
Well, the default subs that hit the front page have always been like this. My tenure on reddit lasted from 2011 - 2023, and people there have always been status quo warriors / debatebros who are full of themselves, generally speaking. I usually browsed subs by new, and I got into the habit of disabling inbox replies if a post I commented on started to get popular, because I’d receive paragraphs with citations for even the slightest disagreement with a minor insignificant point in my comment.
Now, this doesn’t apply to the awesome LGBTQIA+ subs like 196, or to smaller friendly niche subs like shittygaming, or to progressive subs like AHS.
I realize this is a sweeping generalization, obviously. It’s just lampooning the typical comments you see upvoted on r/all, not ever single user on reddit. I’m sure there are still good people there, too. I honestly haven’t checked much since I left at the end of last June
i think it’s in character for someoneewho talks like this to not be able to spell ad hominem
It’s a little bit embarrassing because I feel like I used to be this person lol
I was on reddit from 2011 - 2023 though, so it was hard not to be
we were all redditors once, at some point in our dark and storied pasts
I thought Reddit was yappy but shit, Lemmy and mastodon got some real ‘orators’ over here.
I swear, if I had a penny for every Hardcore Leftist™ on lemmy who replied to one of my posts with a concern that was addressed in the second sentence of that post
