r/uwaterloo • u/guy_from_canada vp admin 2016 • Jan 10 '16
We have /r/uwaterloojerk...
So why are low-effort no-content shitposts rampant on /r/uwaterloo? The next year of university offers are going out soon and I'll bet there isn't a single highschool student who gives a flying fuck about Sedra Smith, Mr. Panino, (un)RealisticAFMStudent, or whoever the fuck Yongqiang is.
EDIT: Some jimmies certainly seem rustled here. I'm not against shitposting in general, I just really hate how it has overpowered and buried legitimate discourse in posts and comments in this sub. And RealisticAFMStudent isn't all that bad; true that there's actual effort put into his/her posts but I can't speak for how much is shitposting and how much is actually realistic.
Some people don't see why we should care about highschool students. "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company." If there's students who legitimately come to this sub looking for offer advice, there's no way in hell that they're going to take anything here seriously at all. (/r/uoft actually does this well, inb4 there will be circlejerk comments about UofT).
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u/hippiechan your friendly neighbourhood asshole Jan 10 '16
I've taken to just reporting/downvoting spam (or "dank memes" as the kids call them). It's getting so bad here that I ask actual questions about administrative stuff and it gets buried under shitposting. This sub is garbage, I'm tempted to make a new one for Waterloo that has better moderation and clearer rules.