78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis

Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by S_A_P on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:21PM (#11630442)

So I know that reddit has always been a bit more crass than your average community, and this could totally be me. But the last time I pulled up reddit to waste some time, I seemed to notice that more pseudo porn, wtf and generally nsfw stuff was on the front page. I personally don't care that is the case per se, but its utility as something to introduce me to something new/interesting seems to be vastly reduced. Maybe I should just yell get off of my lawn and move on.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by sudojudo on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:57PM (#11633428)

Reddit has suffered from Eternal September for quite some time.

There's a really good article on this subject that I can't seem to locate. But, if you put Reddit into the Wayback Machine, you'll see the frontpage transform over time, from something like Slashdot in 2009, to a meme image board in 2012, to a cleaned-up, marketing-friendly, image board in 2014, to the Facebook-feed-like mess that you see today.

When I first joined, the default frontpage was fine. But after time, I had to edit out default subreddits from the main feed. The final straw, in around 2013, was not being able to escape trolls and punsters, anywhere on the site.

These days, if I browse Reddit, I restrict myself to heavily moderated subs, like /r/askhistorians and /r/askscience, and subs with less than a thousand subscribers. Anywhere else on the site is like visiting the Facebook page of a 14-year-old Nazi womanizer with a Trump infatuation.

AOL and Windows 95 ruined everything!

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by askyourmother on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:24PM (#11630471)

I think a thread being godwin'd on reddit, is like any programming thread on HN getting dragged down into "but, you should use Rust."

Annoying, very annoying, and a hard problem to solve.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by AimHere on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:37PM (#11630579)

It's solved by the OP of every programming thread using Rust of course!

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by vlunkr on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:35PM (#11630558)

This was how it was the first time I visited reddit, they have since changed the default sub-reddits to much less NSFW stuff.

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