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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by smtddr on Thursday December 19, 2013 @04:57PM (#6938202)
>> I hate Reddit so much, it's such an absolute shit hole. Pretend like it doesn't even exist, because it shouldn't. I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person. I realized after a few years after taking an objective look at my life how much I had changed. If you dwell in a medium, you tend to absorb it, and that's the only medium I dwelled in.

I very strongly agree with this. When Digg did that "update-of-doom", I ended up on Reddit but I couldn't stay for longer than a year. There is way too much hate[1] on that site. And for those who say "Well, just stick with a subreddit you like" that doesn't work. Because of bitcoin, for the first time in like 3 years I went to /r/bitcoin & /r/litecoin. Didn't take me 10 minutes to run into a racist comment. For all the good deeds that happen on Reddit, I still consider it a negative net-value.

1. http://pando.com/2013/02/10/william-shatner-calls-out-reddit...

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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by tlrobinson on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:18PM (#6938324)
/r/bitcoin has gone to shit. Try /r/bitcoinserious
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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by skeletonjelly on Thursday December 19, 2013 @11:22PM (#6939918)
or /r/buttcoin
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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by rfnslyr on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:26PM (#6938390)
And then it's going to be /r/truebitcoinserious, then /r/seriouslyguysthisistherealbitcoinsubreddit, then /r/thefinalbitcoinsubredditsolution and so on and so on. It doesn't change anything. It just fragments an already shit community into a smaller shit community.
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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by yk on Thursday December 19, 2013 @06:16PM (#6938699)
Sadly this is the way of online forums. You always need to run from the trolls.
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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by rfnslyr on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:09PM (#6938272)
It's actually hilarious reading some of the top posts in r/bitcoin. 18 year old basement arm chair analysts giving their fantastic insight into the future of bitcoin based on: reading a few articles, reading bitcoins whitepaper, and reading other similarly misinformed comments.
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Re:How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Re... by ceol on Thursday December 19, 2013 @09:57PM (#6939650)
If you have an extra liver lying around, take a drink every time someone posts, in complete sincerity, "It has no where to go but up!"
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