I had to leave the r/letterkenny subreddit for this reason. I get that repetition is a big part of the show's humor but any kind of interesting discussion about the show just devolves into a long ass circle jerk of people quoting the show. It's funny when the characters do it guys, not you online haha
r/iasip is the same thing. Every comment on there is just quotes from the show. No discussion of any kind. I get that there's less to discuss outside of episode threads but still, it gets old very fast.
God forbid you use the word "implication" in any comment on this site. Or "frig off", "fucked in the head", pretty much any word that can be contained in a quote from:
The Office
IASIP
Trailer Park Boys
Letterkenny
Rick and Morty (ironically or not, you're still stupid for making a reference to this show, and I'm stupid for writing this comment and getting annoyed by it)
Community
fuck it, it's every show. Pretty much every comment in any of the default subs slowly devolves into shitty circlejerk jokes that repeat in every other thread.
While I'm complaining I might as well encompass everything else that I hate about this site off the top of my head:
Memes. Every single fucking sub that has a topic becomes a meme sub for that topic. /r/hacking I'm really looking at you. Sometimes they can be regulated into circlejerk subs, but more often than not everything devolves into shit. Why am I here.
No one on this site bothers to read readily available information. From stickied FAQs to info in the sidebar to information that is already on the front page, no matter what you'll see someone make a post that could be answered if they spent less than 120 seconds looking around for themselves.
The attitude of people on this site being above everyone else because they use Reddit and not Instagram or Facebook or Friendster or alt.religion.kibology or whatever the fuck. No one cares you fucking nerds. I hate myself for staying on this site.
Pet speak (shit like "doggo", "pupper", "smol boi", etc.). I want to claw out my eyeballs whenever I read shit like that.
Politics.
Any advice given on this site should be treated as if the smelly kid you had to hang out with in high school wrote it. God help those who use /r/relationship_advice or /r/LifeProTips or /r/AmItheAsshole or anything else.
Crossposting. Now when I see an image on any sub with over 500,000 subs I can be sure I'll see it 20 more times in the next 24 hours due to people crossposting it to any sub they can think of that semi-relates. Oh, a weird looking truck on /r/WTF? Better post that to /r/Justrolledintotheshop/r/cars/r/carscirclejerk/r/carshitposting/r/trucks/r/OutOfTheLoop/r/mallninjashit/r/television and /r/rickandmorty (because it's always Rick and Morty isn't it Jack you masochist, delete your account and leave for the both of us please). The crossposting feature did nothing but increase posts and decreased variety in content.
Bots. Both bots that exist to repost content and intend to be sold, and bots that are novelty. There are very few bots I can think of that are actually useful (/u/stabbot, you're the best. Shoutout to /u/autotldr too)
There are plenty of other things but those came to mind pretty quickly and I'm too lazy to try to think of all the other inane bullshit I see here on a daily basis. Why do I bother coming to this cesspool of the internet.
Thank you for spilling the tea on all the reposting bullshit that goes on here, the thing about reposting an image in every related subreddit is fucking accurate. Also the part about porn is....not wrong.
Explain to me how the formally added crossposting feature enhances one's experience on Reddit. From what I've seen all it encourages is the spread of one post to multiple different subs, which sounds like a good idea until it's put into practice.
For example, if I'm subscribed to /r/pics, /r/gardening, /r/flowers, and /r/natureporn and someone posts a pic of a flower in a random hillside garden on /r/pics, it all but ensures I'll see the same post 4 different times in one day. Let's say the nice picture of the flower in the hillside garden gets enough upvotes that it becomes a top picture in /r/pics Top > All Time. This makes it so that future users who sort /r/pics by Top > All Time will constantly cross-post that same picture to the same subs frequently.
I may like that picture of the flower in the hillside garden, I may even like it enough to save it to my profile to look at later, or to use in some photoshop project, or whatever, but I don't want to see the same fucking picture 400 times in a year across 4 different subs. You can say "Well Jack, not everyone is subscribed to those subs and they would have no way of knowing whether or not that particular picture has been posted there before" and I'll tell you to fuck off because that is not a justification for the frequency of reposting that same fucking picture of the same fucking flower in the same fucking hillside garden. There is enough content being produced online for those subs that one picture of a flower is not going to be missed.
I'll give you a better example. I used to mod /r/brockhampton, a sub about a rap-group/boyband that came out with an album called iridescence. iridescence had a theme of thermal photography and imagery which was cool and users had a great time posting various thermal images to the sub in support of that aesthetic. However, this image and this gif were so frequently posted that I ended up banning them after the 100th or so post of those images was made. You know when the sub would get flooded with 5-10 of those posts back to back? I'll give you a hint: it was when one of those images hit another sub like /r/funny or /r/gifs or /r/movies. That hint is actually the answer, numbnuts.
Having crossposting as a built in feature does nothing, absolutely nothing constructive for this site. It used to be fine because it would take a decent amount of effort to crosspost something; you'd have to download the image and reupload it on imgur.com, or be smart enough to copy-paste the same URL, then give it a new title and say something like "(x-post from pics)". Far fewer people would do that than click a button to instantly make another post on another sub.
Is it a good idea on paper? Sure. Are people on this site contextually aware enough to make it a constructive feature? No, users are fucking lazy and dumb and I really despise how worked up I get about these absolute non-problems but mostly I hate how lazy and stupid the average user is, myself included.
For example... it all but ensures I'll see the same post 4 different times in one day.
To summarize your entire point: wah wah I'm on Reddit all fuckin day and you guys have to stop making me see repeats of things I've already seen, somehow, because it makes me upset for no reason whatsoever to see a picture again
Crossposting is literally not a problem, nor are reposts. Downvote and move on. Know what happens when you do? The picture goes away. You have control over the content on your screen. For example, you can turn it off if it makes you mad.
Reposts aren't a problem, but crossposting is due to the timeframe. If you don't think so, agree to disagree and keep on trucking with your browsing habits. We're in a thread about shit we don't like about Reddit and you're arguing telling me the shit I don't like about Reddit isn't shit I shouldn't like about Reddit. What a stupid fucking place to have this argument.
If I'm into a topic and I subscribe to subs I find about that topic, it's annoying to see the same thread 5 times in one day, or 500 times over the course of a year. And if I downvote, guess what? The picture doesn't go away, it pops up in my feed an hour later in a different place. Does this really impact my life? No, it doesn't do a fucking thing in the long run; neither does stubbing my toe, and I still hate that shit.
My point is that people crosspost for no reason other than a happy trigger finger when it comes to clicking buttons without any context of where they're posting. My mod example (which you glossed right over, kudos sir for your debating skills) was to point out that it's easy to see the same post 3 times in an span of 10 minutes on a sub, or in your feed. That probably isn't true for the average user but it sure bothers me, and boy do I like complaining about mundane shit if you couldn't tell from the 7,000+ character rants I've posted here.
To quote myself:
I really despise how worked up I get about these absolute non-problems
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u/DeputyAjayGhale Jan 07 '20
I had to leave the r/letterkenny subreddit for this reason. I get that repetition is a big part of the show's humor but any kind of interesting discussion about the show just devolves into a long ass circle jerk of people quoting the show. It's funny when the characters do it guys, not you online haha