If you're a reddit 'refugee,' why did you leave?

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[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I still visit reddit, but I believe it's voting system highly encourages echo chambers and outright stupidity.

It's near impossible to have a rational discussion and people are too entrenched in their beliefs. An example is askreddit, whenever there's a question targeted at a slightly unpopular group, instead of taking the opportunity to listen and getting insight in to other people views and working with it, the top comments are people "representing" (ridiculing/demonizing/strawmaning) other people views of which they know nothing and all the people who actually tell the truth get downvoted to hell and their comments hidden.

...add to that admins with double standards and the only good thing reddit seems to have left is cat pics.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I agree. I think the up/down vote system puts people in a judging approve/disapprove kind of mindset, and that encourages cultural tribalism. People start "thinking" with their emotions rather than logic.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Emotions trump logic for most of the population.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree, and also certain aspects of culture reinforce those bad habits instead of trying to tamp them down. Emotional people are easier to control, because they're less capable of subtlety in strategy

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Psychological warfare targeting the unconscious by the enemy. In the declassified papers I read, and don't think corproate entities liek reddit are not using these sort of tactics.

In spite of censorship a certain amount of material “unconsciously slips by because at face value it seems irrelevant or insignificant.”

The downvoting button is one way in which to do just this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150116133924/http://mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/aims-of-psychological-warfare.pdf

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right. And I don't think it was necessarily planned that way, it just turned out that way. But now we know better because the downfalls of the up/downvote system have become obvious, so we have saidit's voting system as a next evolution.