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'''Reddit''' is a highly addictive website for sharing and discussing links, photos and videos, but also textual content. It consists of countless of differently themed subforums that the users themselves can create and moderate. People can ''upvote'' or ''downvote'' links and comments to collectively decide what is shown near the top for about one day. Users receive worthless points (''karma'') according to the votes they receive. | '''Reddit''' is a highly addictive website for sharing and discussing links, photos and videos, but also textual content. It consists of countless of differently themed subforums that the users themselves can create and moderate. People can ''upvote'' or ''downvote'' links and comments to collectively decide what is shown near the top for about one day. Users receive worthless points (''karma'') according to the votes they receive. | ||
A downside of the karma system, as noted by many, is that it tends to result in group think by effectively censoring views divergent from the mainstream via downvoting. Redditors are conditioned to crave the upvotes, and can easiest achieve this by posting cats, "doggos" or talking in [[Numale|numale]] speech, parroting the latest mindless memes or by [[Virtue signaling|virtue signaling]]. The quality of larger subreddits is mixed to bad. Some smaller subreddits can, however, be entertaining and useful. | A downside of the karma system, as noted by many, is that it tends to result in group think by effectively censoring views divergent from the mainstream via downvoting. Redditors are conditioned to crave the upvotes, and can easiest achieve this by posting cats, "doggos", or talking in [[Numale|numale]] speech, parroting the latest mindless memes or by [[Virtue signaling|virtue signaling]]. The quality of larger subreddits is mixed to very bad. Some smaller subreddits can, however, be entertaining and useful. | ||
Reddit hosted a popular incel forum, [[/r/incels]], until it got shut down by females and numales on November 7, 2017. | Reddit hosted a popular incel forum, [[/r/incels]], until it got shut down by females and numales on November 7, 2017. | ||