Reddit politics is a shitshow

I've come to the conclusion Reddit is being heavily manipulated at this point.

Ya don't go near politics much anymore

Alot of really angry people

And I'm not sure how much is it external either.

some cool art related subredits

The Net Neutrality campaign on Reddit was a huge red flag something was up.

or sharing of stories

I don't care how you feel on the issue, Reddit was clearly mucking with something.

I like mildly interesting

Spent most of my teen years crawling backwater boards like 4chan and 8chan, Reddit felt a bit foreign for the longest time

And their "explanation" was embarrasingly bad.

I don't really mess with 4chan either

Evidently, Shareblue documents planning operations got leaked and /r/politics was a top target too.

Fun fact about reddit

Really depends on specific board you visit

Anyone can manipulate it

/b/ is a shitshow, always will be.

That's the idea with Reddit.

I once got a bag of chips to the frontpage of r/donald

By myself

But it collapses much the same way wikipedia does. A sufficiently large organized group can potentially cause signficant damage.

It's so easy

Someone brought up my karma on Reddit, but I am mostly like I don't really need to feel like society approves of what I think

Alot of inertial effects and things can give organized entities disproportionate power.

Common public is dumb af

Yeah, Karma is really a game to try and incentivize people to use the platform.

It's like levels in Discord. A skinner box of worthless rewards.

The chan boards are unique in some ways though, people act differently when they dont have a name, or any sort of reputation to worry about

Sometimes it brings out the worst

But sometimes it brings out the best

I always got the impression 4 chan tries to be the worst part of humanity at all times.

"humor is edgy" as they say.

So they take it to the extreme where it's probably a bit too far.

4chan is a lot of things

There's alot of shit to search through, but /b/ and /pol/ are the face of 4chan

/b/ is classic.

and give it a somewhat undeserved reputation

The origin of modern internet culture.

The smaller boards are really chill

8chan is mostly the exodus that happened after moot decided to be a cunt