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[[File:Reddit.png|thumb|The karma system does weird things to your brain]]
[[File:Reddit.png|thumb|The karma system does weird things to your brain]]
'''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 an addictive website for sharing and discussing media. It consists of user curated subforums. People can ''upvote'' or ''downvote'' links and comments to 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 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 subreddits can be entertaining and useful though.
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, parroting the latest mindless memes or by virtue signaling. The quality of larger subreddits is mixed to very bad. Some subreddits can be entertaining and useful though.


== Incel-themed subreddits and bannings==
== Incel-themed subreddits and bannings==


Reddit hosted some of the largest incel forums, most of which have been memoryholed for "bullying" and "harassing" of women. Equating ''"misogyny"'' with genital mutilation, stoning and wife-beating is of course ludicrous. Many incels regard misogyny is the natural counterweight to the [[gynocentrism|gynocentric]] bias that is innate to our species, and slut-shaming a natural way of correcting women's natural inclination for [[whoring]].{{citation needed}}
Reddit hosted some of the largest incel forums, most of which have been memoryholed for "bullying" and "harassing" of women. Equating ''"misogyny"'' with genital mutilation, stoning and wife-beating is of course ludicrous.


Anyhow, below is a list of prominent incel Reddit forums.
Below is a list of prominent incel Reddit forums.
In the archives on Archive.org, one can sometimes access <nowiki>/top/?sort=top&t=month</nowiki> or <nowiki>/top/?sort=top&t=all</nowiki> to see some of the top posts.
In the archives on Archive.org, one can sometimes access <nowiki>/top/?sort=top&t=month</nowiki> or <nowiki>/top/?sort=top&t=all</nowiki> to see some of the top posts.


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