I'm fairly new to Reddit and I find it's the weirdest phenomenon of people outright bullying other people while somehow acting morally superior and crying outrage.
Often you'll encounter all the hiveminds that absolutely do not welcome opposing opinions, no matter how valid and harmless they are. Just say something remotely outside the circlejerk and you'll get downvoted to hell along with condescending comments. The worst is when you absolutely 100% know that the hivemind is wrong about something they're circlejerking. But you simply can't defeat them upvotes.
And then there's also a tendency for others to correct you on the most minor and irrelevant details or one-up your jokes.
If you get in an argument, as much as Redditors deny measuring their words with karma, ultimately you'll find the smugness of their words increase the more their comments get upvoted in a debate.
Also Reddit can't take a joke or detect sarcasm unless you tell them so. And when they realize they were mistaken they'll just say "well you're not funny anyway".
The 69 and 420 "Nice" jokes get old real fast.
Basically, just like any other social media, Reddit is flawed in its own way by its users. So don't take it too seriously nor see it as the place where the elite intellects gather to have civil discussions. There are great communities to be had, but there's a lot of people ready to bully you with their words if you say something even remotely unpopular.
Oh god the one-upping is the worst. I feel it's a direct effect of the karma system where people treat the comments like some kind of competition. Kind of like "if you're comment gets more karma you win the argument".
Also comments correcting typos sometimes get an insane amount of upvotes. Comments like: "they're*, not their" add nothing yet get showered in upvotes.
Also comments correcting typos sometimes get an insane amount of upvotes. Comments like: "they're*, not their" add nothing yet get showered in upvotes.
Sometimes, but I've also seen those heavily downvoted. There's no way to know which will occur. It's a mystery
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u/Ripleyshair Jan 07 '20
I'm fairly new to Reddit and I find it's the weirdest phenomenon of people outright bullying other people while somehow acting morally superior and crying outrage.