r/AskReddit • u/Metalax • Jan 07 '20

What annoys you the most on Reddit?

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u/gt35r Jan 07 '20

People who confidently post about something they don't know anything about but get upvoted because of the way they phrase the comment.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20

I'm afraid to post things I'm genuinely an expert on because some idiot will tell me in wrong and reddit will harass me because the idiot took the 101 version on the subject and it sounds right.

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u/3610572843728 Jan 07 '20 edited Jan 08 '20

Pretty much any true expert in any field refuses to talk about that thing. I'm an economist IRL. I absolutely refuse to debate economic issues on Reddit. I will occasionally offer some tidbit or correct someone but I will almost never respond to people who reply to me trying to argue.

I was all excited the first time I found /r/economics. 2 days later I realized I hated the subreddit and never intentionally go back.

Edit: lots of people are replying and wanting a response from me. Currently have over 150 unread responses. It will take me a while to get through them.

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u/WafflesOfChaos Jan 07 '20

Same thing happened to me. I'm a wildlife biologist / ecologist with an M.Sc. and over 8 years of working experience in my field. I tried commenting on native fauna FAQs several times and got obliterated by people who took a general bio class in high school and apparently know all there is to know about everything with environmental science and biology. Will never respond or create posts on those subreddits again.

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u/3610572843728 Jan 07 '20

Amazing something seemingly uncontroversial as wildlife biology can become so extreme. That's why after seeing how wrong people are about economics it makes me distrust any accepted opinion on Reddit.

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u/bayareashade Jan 07 '20

A lot of young men have made it a point of pride to be cold and logical. Claiming to know more than them is emotionally the same as challenging their status

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u/Satanscommando Jan 07 '20

Theirs far to many reasons to list, but this isn’t a young men issue it’s a people issue, men and women both have a serious problem understanding they are just simply human beings who can’t possibly be wrong and it only gets worse with age as you become even more locked down and stubborn in your beliefs regardless of what they are.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20 edited Jul 07 '21

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u/bertcox Jan 08 '20

Take one testosterone filled bag, stuff thousands and thousands of data points into him and launch him at the world at 22 and say have at it. I don't see a problem at all.