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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by jiggawatts on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:05AM (#21407149)
I do and it saddens me. It reminds me of the end days of Slashdot, right before I stopped commenting there entirely after a decade of positive interactions with like-minded people.

More than half of the top-voted content on Reddit is indistinguishable from bot-generated random memes.

Someone please explain to me what "blursed" means and why it's use means that it gets to go straight to the top of "/all" regularly...

Re:I Miss the Old Internet by jodrellblank on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:14AM (#21409674)
“Blursed” is a mix of blessed and cursed, it’s a sweet-n-sour style tension in a comment or picture that doesn’t resolve cleanly one way or the other, and from that it’s more interesting than a basic setup with a 180-degree twist ending that has a definite answer to whether it’s nice or nasty, wholesome or mean, kind or cruel, etc.

And because most of Reddit is young people with lots of time on their hands, looking for entertainment and pastime, content with no particular niche and with a twist that isn’t an explicit joke or reference, is widely engaging.