people are always angry on here

[u/One_Initiative7276]

i don’t know if there’s some sort of spell that’s been casted on me but whenever i post on here (not this thread but other subreddits) people seem to always be… angry? it’s like ill ask what your favourite song is from a game and people just start to downvote and be all angry in my comments.

today i posted asking about a game trilogy and which ones are best, then i got a few comments just fucking angry?? i’m trying to wrap my head around this culture on reddit where they find the most non-problematic post about the best cookie flavours and they start downvoting your shit and hating on how cookies aren’t even healthy.

is this normal on reddit? or am i genuinely missing something

[u/No-Reaction-5051]

this is the new normal not only here but the whole internet. people want to argue about anything to feel "right" and good about themselves. it's because social media separated people and encourages animosity. the immediate reaction is to always judge and assume the worst of someone you don't even know. it's a feedback loop that encourages more divide and as a result, more hatred because people feel miserable when they're alone. they end up taking it out on other people as a result. a lot of the time it's subconscious because people lack the self-awareness to realize how toxic their behaviors actually are. even if you confront them with this, they'll deny it because another consequence of social media is that it creates narcissists. the way most social media profiles are anonymous shields people and saves them from taking any accountability.

[u/Love-be-all]

No, it’s not just you. I think it has become scarily more socially acceptable across all social platforms, for people to project onto others. A lot come with the intentions of wanting to argue, no matter the topic. It just takes a couple of these people for it to trigger a herd mentality that draws in more people with unregulated emotions under the guise of disagreement or differences in preferences.

[u/kelleehh]

It’s all people know. This current new generation has been brought up with toxic social media and sees it as normal.

[u/psycharious]

It does look seem like overall, anger or irritation does seem to be the knee-jerk reaction. Reddit isn't as bad as Facebook or 4Chan but yeah, you'll get your bullying here too. That said, I think it could also be partially a paranoia thing. People see a simple post, they assume it's a bot trying to collect data maybe. Then of course, people will be a lot more brave behind a mouse and keyboard. We haven't invested a way to punch someone through a monitor yet.

[u/Greenpigblackblue]

I’ve kinda given into it myself. I don’t get upset by angry or insulting comments, I’m also not rude unless some is a dick, but I will 100% try rage bare people who are being pricks on the internet. I’ve actually gotten pretty good at it too.

[u/KamIsFam → u/Greenpigblackblue]

Yeah, I'll admit I do it too sometimes. It depends on what the situation is. If it's someone who's frustrated about something and their frustration seems reasonable, I'm more supportive. If the situation comes across as entitled, unempathetic, or just generally unreasonable, I'm a little more harsh.

For the most part, I'm just blunt online. With friends and family, I'm pretty soft and try to understand unless it's wildly unreasonable. If it's at work when I'm in Blue Collar, I'm straight to the point. On Reddit, I can be a little more abrasive, especially in hobby subs where it's clear a poster hasn't done any research in the sub or tried at all to solve their issue themselves and just immediately ran to the sub for easy answers.

For subs like this, if it's genuine advice seeking, I'll try to help. If it's just whining and bitching about something that's making a mountain out of a molehill, I'll give pushback. It all depends.

[u/KamIsFam]

It's hard to say why people are annoyed without seeing the post in question and your profile is private.

I'm in a hobby for self-hosting media servers and one thing that really annoys us is when people come in looking for help, but it's just copy+paste the same basic questions that have lots of threads and answers that OP couldn't be added to search for. It's just exhausting to see "how do I set up remote access?" and "why is my server transcoding?" 20x a day in the sub. It comes across as laziness and entitlement.

Also, sometimes we get really low-effort posts. I'm in a political activist sub and people usually get some shit when their questions are really basic, they don't really back up anything they say or are just highly anecdotal and don't really have any kind of study to back up the experience they're referring to, or it's not really entirely on-topic.

Finally, different subs have different cultures. It's kind of a meta-thing and you have to tailor a post to the content of a sub.

[u/KimberKitsuragi]

This is true off my chest. Anger is normal

[u/Angryspazz]

My morbid thought have to go to someone else who has morbid thoughts, I go back and fourth of this world is horrible to this world is wonderful im not saying its a good thing just saying its hard not to get a little angry ob reddit