I like the overall lack of in-jokes I’ve encountered here so far, and I want things to stay that way. This might be an unrealistic thing to hope for, but I like good, pure, discussion, as boring as that may be for some people.
I like the overall lack of in-jokes I’ve encountered here so far, and I want things to stay that way. This might be an unrealistic thing to hope for, but I like good, pure, discussion, as boring as that may be for some people.
They were funny like 13 years ago. Within the past 5 years the user base has becoming to overwhelmingly stupid that all the in jokes are terrible, or the funny ones are done wrong.
See, this is how you looked 13 years ago. It’s you that’s changed, buddy. Charlie Sheen was not fucking funny, rage comics weren’t funny; ‘catch me outside’, ‘fuck her in the pussy’, planking etc were all so, so moronic.
My first time blocking a user.
I guess there’s a first time for everything
Look at how self righteous we are.
I never thought Charlie sheen was funny 13 years ago. I never thought rage comics were funny 13 years ago.
Go ahead and make some more assumptions
Not assumptions, examples. It was all trash.
Agree to disagree. ¯\(ツ)/¯
That’s the trend I saw. I think there are two factors to this though. Earlier Reddit was more open to some level of playful banter and immaturity, which wasn’t necessarily toxic, but long term it invited toxicity. Clamping down on that element more made the push back uglier. I enjoyed waterguy and bepis leaking through on occasion because it was those moments which made Reddit as a whole a community. Allowing such “humor” contributed to making Reddit feel comfortable, but it allowed those elements which also made it unsafe. The other factor is that we’ve matured and we want a community which provides information directly without that flair of absurdity.
I think the truth is that any community is going to naturally acquire those sort of quirks. The key is figuring out how to allow them without eroding the value which is sought.