I've noticed increasingly on reddit, people are talking past each other.

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Why would you bother arguing a point when the vast majority of people agree with it? That simply guarantees you'll be downvoted to hell. One of the many reasons why it's better to eliminate downvoting entirely. That's probably what everyone else is thinking as well. That, and mobile users destroyed the website. Upvoting things easy or simple or what they already agree with, and thereby prohibiting any fruitful discussion.

[–]Noreja 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I never actually thought about just how damaging that design trait is. It's almost as if Reddit was specifically designed to align people's opinions, and punish wrongthink. >>Tinfoil hat intensifies, but also I'm kinda serious<<