How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:10PM (#14805885)

I take it you don't browse many comment threads, then. Anything vaguely related to black people or Islam and they are virtually guaranteed to show up, spreading their soundbites and gotcha's.

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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by EStudley on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:29PM (#14806064)

For anyone who doubts this: next time you see a vaguely or directly racist comment on Reddit, go check where that persons posts.. 75% of the time they're directly from /r/the_donald.

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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:31PM (#14806090)

I'd venture that >90% of the time they post in T_D and the various other hate subs.

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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by dionidium on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:32PM (#14806101)

"I take it you don't browse many comment threads, then. Anything vaguely related to black people or Islamd and they are virtually guaranteed to show up"

Of course I read the comments. Two comments, here:

1) We don't have a lot of conversations about race or Islam or intersectional feminism (or whatever) over on the credit card churning sub (for example). Not everything is political.

2) Of course, we do have a lot of these conversations on /r/stlouis, some of which, I'm sure, include comments the Hacker News contingent would find obnoxious. But, you know what? They're fine. We get through it. It doesn't dominate every thread. People are downvoted when they're particularly vitriolic. And it's mostly names I recognize from other threads (not outsiders brigading). It's really not a big deal, like, at all.

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