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Why is there such bad blood between Reddit and Channers? is it because chans are edgy and reddit is for normies who just think they're edgy? Is it because /r/socialism bans people for political incorrectness? Do people just want to shitpost with no theory? Is it because most here are ancom, while reddit is a stronghold of Stalinism?

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is it because of catgirls?

It's because they're pathetic.

Because they are mostly liberals talking about liberal bullshit, who ban people like us who want to talk about class (because that's """class reductionism""". All that while they occupy the first google result for 'socialism' after the wikipedia page.

Yes, one really wonders why.

No. That was just one symptom of a problem that was brewing for a long time.

*Chan has always hated other websites. Gaia, MySpace, Facebook, Reddit, etc. It's nothing new.

chans give anonymity, so whatever you say and what people think of it does not connect to you, everything is ideology based, personality plays no role (see: shitting on e-celebs)

fucking kek

leddit mods are fucking stupid

Applies here too.

Average reddit thread:
3 comments
Average leftypol thread:
350 replies (but they're about traps)

Reddit's format is garbage. Upvotes ruin everything. There's no throughline of conversation like a thread here. Instead you have infinitely branching fucking trees, each node of which has its own upvotes to sort it in a fucking hierarchy. It works this way because it's a tool to track a crowd's response to content. Companies mine it for data constantly.

And it brings out really obnoxious behavior in people. Usually if you open the comments the first couple threads and half the rest are
They do this because it's an easy and predictable method to get points on your account, so whoever makes these formulaic comment first gets the points.

Chans outside of Holla Forums, Holla Forums and /r9k/ are usually both friendly and more cultivated than reddit on average, though.

Reddit could share a userbase with us 1:1 and it'd still be shit because of threaded posts and karma. With Phpbb forums long dead, chans are the only place to have linear discussion that isn't fucked with by some algorithm.

Because reddit designed to be run by neurotic mini-stalins who want to create their perfect little community and ban and censor anyone who infringes on their views.

Its basically benevolent dictator. Chans are much the same, but offer far less tools for censorship and its entire structure discourages personal profiles and witchhunts.

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It was a raid post

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This is one if the things that's always bothered me the most, you can get four hundred points and just five replies, it's ridiculous.
There's also the fact that if you're late to a thread nobody's gonna see you, on a large sub there can be posts with hundreds of comments at one or zero points.

the second one, facebook left groups do the same bannings. I can't even count how many reddit groups have banned me for being a huge asshole

reddit is literally cancer, because of how it's designed. the fact other users can shun you because of what you write promotes conformism instead of the opposite

Was this made by Jack Chick?

Reddit is inherently Stalinist because up/downvotes end up enforcing a consensus within each subreddit, creating a conformist circlejerk to stay on the "party line." Plus mods are far too involved, have too much power, and are constantly going on power trips and gulag-ing users because of this.

Chans are inherently anarchist, as everyone is by default anonymous and every thread/post is treated equally. Threads survive based on popularity alone, which unfortunately means the dumbest/most liberal stuff rises to the top, so it's up to a discerning user to browse effectively and not end up trolling themselves. Plus it gives people of every tendency a chance to mingle and argue with each other without getting called out or banned.

It depends on the subject.

When it comes technology/programming for example, reddit is populated with people who are actually involved in important or relevant open-source projects (Rust compiler, S7 Scheme, on the top of my head). In contrast, /g/ is populated by teenagers with rich parents who can only talk about consumer shit or spout bottom-of-the-barrel programming memes ("muh pajeet", "dude le zygomorphic polymonoid in le idris lmao", etc). Lainchan used to have a good community, but it's dying hard.
4/news/ is all Holla Forumsyps masturbating over the latest trivial news story involving a black burger, while /r/worldnews, despite the heavy liberal bias, is a good aggregation of what is currently happening in the world, the actual important shit.

On the other hand, the tastes of the average /r/music poster are immensely boring compared to /mu/.

As it's been stated multiple times in this thread it's mostly because of the voting system and expected heavy mod involvement with just as heavy retarded mods. Eg. I got banned from r/anarchism for posting in completely unrelated subs which they deemed "reactionary". This was just done automatically when I first posted.
Another thing to note though is that it does have it's uses. Smaller communities work quite well.

There are still some forums, but even they have always had problems with moderation and attention whoring. Was always weird watching thirsty nerds suck up to the girls on my old anime forums.

Kinda off mark, but here's an interesting discussion on the importance of 4chan anonymity from an artist Kazerad, who sometimes comes on /tg/. Contrast the points made to reddits system and you'll get the gist inb4 tumblr link, its one of the artists blogs Its a bit dated as well. kazerad.tumblr.com/post/96020280368/faceless-together

That's one of the best explanations of 4chan I've read.

It's a old meme turned into a debating strategy by Holla Forumstards. It got out of control in the last months, if you have noticed.

It works this way: if you use spacing once (like I just did) while saying something that I disagree, I'll call you a redditor. People won't necessarily agree with me, the point is that the debate now go from the original subject to wether the guy I quoted post on reddit or not. It distracts, it puts more divides in communities and as a rethorical tool it can always be used, due to the anonymous system of chan boards.

That's exactly what I think too. You can't even compare some of the more obscure chans with their equivalent subreddits e.g. 420chan is infinitely superior to /r/drugs and trees, /a/ is far better than r/anime etc.

This! You thought attention whoring was bad in chans lol.

What are good programming subreddits, their Linux subreddits did not impress me.

I've never been called a Redditor for spacing paragraphs. It's just the series of one/two line paragraphs that get "back to Reddit"-ed. I wonder why that style's considered typical of Reddit, though. I almost never go there, so I can't even say if it actually is or not.

What world do you live in that you think this?? Go back to reddit. This thread cancer. OP is cancer.


The fucking irony.

Not so sure about that tbh. 420chan is kinda dying too, and Bluelight is the superior community in these regards anyway just know that when they are recommending a starting dose for something, you should take 1/4 or 1/8 of that at most
At least, the big subreddits promote risk reduction to normies, which is good, and some of the more specific ones talk about serious, if not unexplored stuff from times to times IIRC.
420chan is cool if you already know this shit and just want to shitpost hard under an altered state of consciousness, but that's about it. And /del/. Everyone who is interested in psychology and psychiatry should visit /del/ actually

Not knowledgeable about animu, but I believe you since redditors have überplebian tastes when it comes to arts.
Holla Forums is also more interesting in my experience, and /r/books probably doesn't give a single fuck about DFW, Joyce or Pynchon and circlejerk over the same old Tolkien jokes or whatever.


To be fair, I've stopped caring about programming for a few months and I'm an eternal beginner, but IMO, there is at least one interesting thread on /r/programming almost everday with experienced people talking about the subject at hand (a language, a framework, the JS, Java, .NET or Haskell ecosystem, etc)
Yesterday, I visited /dpt/ and it wasn't as bad as I remembered, but I still have unpleasant flashbacks of people comparing apples and oranges and screwdrivers with chainsaws and hammers as I'm typing this, if you see what I mean.