>>14348567>Reddit, no fucking wayReddit is a travesty, because the format is the most encouraging/enabling for discussion in the internet (longform, tree-style), but the problem is with the userbase (and the upvote system). You could literally show proof and provide sources and show consensus, but if a few dumb fucks downvote you and you get "negative karma" (I fucking hate these community-specific terms) on your comment, then that's it, nobody listens.
Once someone asked about how to do a limits question, and then someone said they have to keep the "lim" in every step. I said it's okay to show the inside expression is equal to something else, then substitute back into the limit and compute, so there's no need to have the "lim" on literally every step but just the ones where you're doing the limit. I got like -50 likes on that comment.
Then in another thread about "downvoting" and how Reddit has a hivemind, I talked about this incident. One guy wanted to tell me I must've done something wrong, so he searched in my comment history for that incident, brought it up and told me I'm wrong. Except he understood the exact opposite of what I said, and when I pointed that out, he fucked off and didn't apologize and kept the dislike he gave.
I had multiple accounts, each for different interests, and there was always some incident like this. So I gave up Reddit entirely for a year, and just a few weeks ago I deleted my 8 year-old account along with a few others.
>There's less and less space for people to discuss cool stuff in the worldI'm into a certain genre of games, and there were 2 major sites for discussing it (not saying which, it's a really small genre and I'm quite active). One site had the best forums, the other had all the news, and they were "rivals". The first one died and closed its forums. The other doesn't even have a tenth of the activity it had 7 years ago. The reason is that everybody migrated to Twitter, which is the absolute worst place for discussion.
