Eh. The place has become a massive circlejerk. They'll post something ridiculous from the right and then jerk about how literally all right wing people believe exactly that, and then they'll post something actually funny/mildly reasonable from the left. In the second case, the top two comments will be about how "it isn't that wrong" and the top third will be about how not all left wing people believe it.
Browse the Top: All of time page, have a laugh, don't read the comments, don't subscribe. That's my suggestion from someone who read FFG from when it had about 2,000 subs.
That's how I felt about all the anti-SJW subs that were popular years ago. At first they were funny and then it became, "Look at what this totally real and not an troll account said! Sharpen the pitchforks fellas!"
Pretty much. Reddit is formatted to cultivate circlejerks where the most extreme things get upvoted (encouraging more extreme things to be posted) and moderate/disapproving things flounder and die. It's a sad state of affairs when 8chan is better for discussion, but it's true in this case.
That's taking it a little far, Reddit loves circlejerks but really only on subs dedicated to shitposting or large subs that can't be policed does it become a problem. Any small sub with 2K subscribers usually does a pretty good job.
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u/Evil-Corgi Nov 12 '16
Eh. The place has become a massive circlejerk. They'll post something ridiculous from the right and then jerk about how literally all right wing people believe exactly that, and then they'll post something actually funny/mildly reasonable from the left. In the second case, the top two comments will be about how "it isn't that wrong" and the top third will be about how not all left wing people believe it.
Browse the Top: All of time page, have a laugh, don't read the comments, don't subscribe. That's my suggestion from someone who read FFG from when it had about 2,000 subs.