A Festivus Airing of Grievances - in what ways has the Reddit community disappointed you in the past year?

MrBulger · 5 months

That we never found out what was in that mother fucking wall safe

Dovienya · 5 months

Lack of reading comprehension, or perhaps just a lack of reading. All it takes is an article and a madeup headline to get Redditors all up in arms. Best example I can think of was over on r/frugal. The headline was something like, "Why you shouldn't buy store brand honey" and the comments were full of "TIL!" and "I don't trust store brands, anyway!" Except that the article didn't say that at all and it was completely made up by the OP.

It happens in comments, too. I've seen several people cite sources that say the direct opposite of what they're claiming, but people go ahead and upvote them because omg they linked a source they must be right!

minus000 · 5 months

Meeting Redditors in real life has been very disappointing.
I was introduced to this website by some of the most intellectual, understanding and adult people I have ever met. For every one of them on this site, there are ten socially incompetent individuals who act like having an account here makes everything they say a blessing to the brain.

Futhermucker · 5 months

"nailed it"

"look what my girlfriend made me"

"meanwhile, in x"

"it's shit like this"

"how I feel when x"

"cakeday"

"that's enough internet for today"

"[fixed]"

"I can't be the only one"

"found this gem"

And many more

GetHandsome · 5 months

"It's my cake day!"

I hate that shit so much.

parjlarsson · 5 months

"My buddy..."

"I rescued this..."

"I took this picture..."

...is bullcrap most of the time.

zoological_marvel · 5 months

So

Much

Incest

padreick · 5 months

The fact that /r/askreddit has basically become a venue for attention whores and joke threads.

EDIT: Also, cake days. Can we just get rid of the cake and be rid of all these karma whoring threads that appear on people's anniversary of being on a website?

GenJonesMom · 5 months

PM's and comments telling me to kill myself when I've obviously been going through a bit of a bad spell during this 54th year of my life.

Also, the young egotistical punks.

ChrisF79 · 5 months

The number of submissions with rage comics and memes has gone through the roof. I don't know if the user base is just really young or I'm getting too old for the site (32 here). The irony though is that whenever the topic of memes and rage comics come up, posts are filled with people hating them yet they just won't disappear.

crickey23 · 5 months

Bombarding me with ice soap and 2am chili, or any other meme really. It's like people enjoy beating a dead horse into a fine powder around here.

Edit: Also I think circlejerk has become its own meta-circlejerk. It used to be posts mocking other dump posts but now it's just "UPVOTE THIS TO" and "UPVOTES TO THE LEFT PEOPLE" and "HELP SUCH AND SUCH DO SUCH AND SUCH BY CLICKING UPVOTE." It's not funny anymore. What happened to mocking real posts?

FEiN · 5 months

Meta reddit posts. That shit up in f7u12 about how I didn't get on the front page are not amusing.

edit: I just want to point out that the f7u12 was an example of meta Reddit post, I dislike meta Reddit posts in ALL subredits.

Lillipout · 5 months

the ignorance, sensationalism, and hypocrisy of /r/politics

Quetz23 · 5 months

The highpoint in disappointment for me comes from that /r/gaming thread where the guy posted a picture of the wedding ring he bought for his girlfriend, but all reddit wanted to do was make fun of her for being overweight. I know reddit has a "thing" against fat people... But wtf? Is everyone here like twelve or something? I thought the demographics were primarily adults, not whiny immature teenagers.

grahamfreeman · 5 months

I am disappointed in the difference between atheists and Reddit atheists.

bugalou · 5 months

Reposts, image links, rage comics, etc do not bother me. There are so many sub reddits, if this really annoys people, there are plenty of ways to get it off your front page and get content you want to see.

I suppose my biggest grievance is the following. I will explain the best that I can, and I hope some of you can relate: Most of us know Reddit as a very open and understanding community, yet we seem to only live up to that notion if the subject at hand is a nice round peg that fits into the hivemind's mentality. So instead of diversity, you get the same old circlejerk which only starts a feedback loop to continually harden the hivemind.

I suppose in short my point could be that we should remember not to downvote comments or posts just because we do not agree with them. Downvotes should be reserved for hateful, immature, etc individuals.

pungkow · 5 months

Too many witchhunts, most of which were targeted wrongly and only ended up hurting innocent people.

zephyy · 5 months

let's cut out the fucking middleman and rename reddit.com to imgur.org
"ugh i keep upvoting all these awareness posts why are the old people in congress still doing bad things!?"
ron paul ron paul ron paul ron paul
oh oh and if someone has piercings, tattoos, and/or dresses differently/nice, they're automatically a hipster and deserve our scorn.

BeardTheBeerBard · 5 months

I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're going to hear about it!

Why can't you all use imgur?? I read reddit on my phone on the train ride home. I don't have time for your image.image523.com link to load. I need to laugh NOW!

I lost my train of thought.

edit: spelling

j_win · 5 months

The fact that the engineers here think that they are the only people worthy of employment and the only ones with opinions that matter. It's a little comical if not for the fact that I think many of you are misguided enough to actually seriously believe what you are saying.

And, the only art and music that gets noticed is novelty. Rarely is anything of any quality revered here in the way that a girl poorly playing violin with a cat on her head would be. Yet, everyone here seems to believe they are sage art/music critics.

bageloid · 5 months

Moderators for default/very large subreddits that refuse to moderate strictly because they are so large. Yes I know it says its a catch all subreddit on the sidebar, you can fucking change it and make the subreddit not suck.

Reddits signal to noise ratio is horrible nowadays.

And the worst part is I've contributed to it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/n1txi/hey_reddit_what_is_that_one_stupid_question_you/c35n2ko

The person asked a serious question, I made a joke that made me chuckle a little bit and thought it might make the person laugh. Enough people saw it as a karma train and it exploded as a comment, completely taking away from Ops question. If I wasn't at work and not checking reddit I would have deleted the damn comment so OP could get some real answers.

In the end the person got a few serious answers but after checking through half the thread it was somewhere around 5 serious responses/actual conversation to 75 noncontributing or joke comments.

edit: Just want to rephrase, its not that some light humor is bad, but its no longer a quick quip for humors sake, its all about how to get karma. I actually have friends that try to think of funny comments/submissions for karma and may or may not have bragged on facebook about being front paged. I was guilty of this years ago(when first to post xkcd was an insta front page), but I realized doing so was... pointless. There are so many people who haven't got that yet and with reddits growth I fear it won't ever go away. People aren't upvoting posts/comments because they like them, they upvote them because they think it will frontpage or become the top comment and they can ride the coattails of that post there too.

For gods sakes Chuck Testa came in and out of favour in the time it takes me to go to the bathroom at work.

[deleted] · 5 months

well, mostly i just hate the phony kinsmanship that some "redditors" like to pretend exists between them. we aren't members of a special club or brotherhood, we are just members of this site, which is not only free to join, but ridiculously easy.

qu1ckbeam · 5 months

Copious sexism. Get your shit together, Reddit, this is why you guys aren't getting laid.

jaropkls · 5 months

I'm dissapointed that this made it to the front page

marvin · 5 months

Hating. In all its forms. This has really only caught my eye in the last year, after the latest round of new users joined the community. Almost every thread that attacks a topic which is in any way controversial has lots of heavily upvoted comments attacking the man behind the opinion, instead of the issue itself. Or just being mean.

There are hundreds and hundreds of examples of this, ranging from rape victims who get accused of "wanting it", women who have been subjected to sex discrimination accused of just "being whiny" and peopl who get bashed for presenting a minority religious view, to forever alone neckbeards who get yelled at and ridiculed when their bitterness at never getting new friends or partners shines through. All this blatant expression of "I'm so much better than you", "You're wrong" and "My opinion is the only valid option" sickens me.

And yes, even this thread contains lots and lots of comments that are blatantly hating, some of them voted to the very top. I know it's so incredibly tempting to bitch and moan about an opinion you disagree with instead of trying to present a rational counterargument...or just keeping your mouth shut and accepting the fact that we are an incredibly diverse community with varied values and opinions. Some really good discussions have come out the new subreddits and diversification of the community, but there is just so much unadulterated hate.

If I was going to make one wish for the community for next year, it would be that people (both in comments and in voting patterns) become more tolerant and accepting of conflicting views. But as reddit becomes more and more a mainstream site with a huge following, this problem is probably bound to get worse. Because upvoting an elegant smackdown of an opinion you disagree with is just so much easier than forming a specific idea about why you disagree.

Sorry for hating so much in this comment, but it needed to be said.

Achalemoipas · 5 months

It grew to include children.

I get in arguments and realize I'm arguing with a 14 year old who basically knows nothing.

gravesend · 5 months

I'll be back for the feats of strength.

IrisIllych · 5 months

Women are terrible people who are always the reason the relationship fails. Women are the crazy one in the relationship, and it is in no-way the redditor guy's fault.

Fuck off, and go meet more women, reddit.

FrailAndBedazzled · 5 months

Look man, I've had a really long day, and I HATE FUCKING RON PAUL

businessmantis · 5 months

/r/firstworldproblems went down the shitter.

penguindisco · 5 months

Blatant racism, then people trying to justify it/claim they are merely speaking the truth.

Blatant misogyny, then people trying to justify it/claim they are merely speaking the truth.

hooj · 5 months

The prevalence of self-righteous attitudes: "Why is it my responsibility to tip? Why don't the employers just pay more?!?!" Well, yeah, it would be great if we could change up the system at the drop of the hat, but we can't. However, you not tipping (in the USA) when it's expected is just you being a dick, not you changing the system. I mean, by all means, don't tip if the service was shitty, but if there was nothing to complain about, you're taking out the flaws in a crappy system on the person who deserves it least.

Further, the wide and open support for software piracy. Listen, I get it. I was a poor college student that wanted to play games. However, I never felt like I was entitled to them as some of the jerks out here do or seem to. People love to paint copying software in a light where there's nothing wrong and it's the same mentality as tipping. Paying per copy might not be the most ideal model for monetizing software, but people having grand claims that there's nothing wrong with piracy or that it always helps ("it's like, publicity, man") is such self-serving thinking.

Get over yourselves.

Qinar · 5 months

facebook postings

thehumantowel · 5 months

Mainly a problem with /r/gaming but Arrow to the Fucking Knee.

Fookimoose · 5 months

I'm sick of posts about college, facebook, not being able to pick up women, hipsters, posting to reddit. I'm also sick of the following post titles:

What the actual fuck
If you do this, fuck you
Fuck everything about this
Nailed it?

Skarl · 5 months

Hate the hivemind groupthink.

[deleted] · 5 months

Fake screencaps of textmessages and facebook.
Increasing racism and misogyny.
Nonstop meme circlejerk.

threedice · 5 months

I recently had to deal with some redditors who used my real name as a phoney reddit ID, then went all over Reddit spouting anti-Semitic and racial race-baiting taunts. Then, when someone asked who they were, they posted a link to my personal homepage. The harassment got so bad, I had to have hueypriest shut down their account because of all the abuse.

[deleted] · 5 months

Politics posts ending up in every subreddit that isn't supposed to be political. I chime here to read cool stories and laugh, not read arguments.

Hachi-Machi · 5 months

Forming a community where people masturbate to children? What the hell is wrong with you people, Im glad we put a stop to it. And reposts, reposts all the time! Screw the people who joined last month, I've seen that picture five times this year. Oh, you aren't a cunt because you lack warmth and depth. Did you come up with that one all by yourself? NO! You fucking saw it here, a dozen times before in only half a dozen threads, so stop posting it.

Shut up about Ron Paul. We all know he's a better candidate than any other Republican out there. We also know his ideas wont work in reality and he has disturbing views towards women's rights and science. And as for atheists, stop posting made up facebook conversations. It undermines your claim to be the smartest people in the room. And everyone else, shut the hell up about atheists. They suffer a society where the laws and cultural norms are largely determined by people who believe in an invisible sky wizard, let them vent about it on the internet.

r/Mensrights, you guys have some pretty good counterpoints to male privileged, but the bitter rejected guy vibes are coming through rather strongly. Focus on substantive articles or debate topics. And OneY, post more content! TwoX is out there every day with awesome and supportive new threads.

Shut up about engineering. People are forced to choose college majors too early in America, and Liberal Arts majors chose to develop a variety of widely applicable skills rather than focusing on one important skill. It's a different approach to getting employed that doenst work well when you have no experience in a bad economy. But that doesnt mean society should just be composed of hard math and science people. I smile every thread where people complain about a lack of women in engineering. Maybe you people will have to marry political scientists, and then where will you be?

And holy hell, stop lording your country over on everybody. All the countries, but especially your country. Im sure it's great in its own way, and sucks in a lot of ways too. I bet your culture and history has some skeletons in its closet, so stop making fun of Americans or Europeans or wherever the hell you arent from.

TL;DR - I love you guys, but seriously, I fucking hate you people.

easilystartled · 5 months

Reddit feels like a little boys club at times with all the misogony, racism and bigotry...and also the fact it's called a community.

deepvbro · 5 months

"DAE". When i first started lurking I thought they were cool and they made me feel like I wasn't the only weirdo. Now I downvote them into oblivion.

KidCaine · 5 months

In am not one to complain much about seeing things repeated on Reddit or really anywhere, usually I just continue apathetically browsing when some meme is being beat to death in the comments. Heck, I don't care much about reposts either, I just see it, acknowledge I have seen it before, and then move on. But this "Arrow to the knee" joke has basically killed me. I can't got to any gaming website or video now without it coming up. Even my sister (who doesn't know about Skyrim btw) has started using it. It's a plague.

thelittleking · 5 months

Could be the rampant sexism. Or maybe the casually accepted racism.

Oh, or the continued defense of pedophiles, and the claims that anybody arrayed against them is on a witch hunt.

I really cannot choose, you choose for me.

CravingSunshine · 5 months

I posted something on /r/relationships. Worst experience I've ever had. I was told to edit my grammar or they would take my post down, then I got hit on by two different guys who spelled you 'u'. I will never post there again.

K931SAR · 5 months

Must admit that the progressive air here is too often tainted by stereotyping and objectifying of women. Hey, you asked...

worldofjay · 5 months

The America is so fucked comments - yea, we have problems, lots of other places do too, but overall, this place is still pretty damn awesome. But one YouTube video or real-life interaction with the wrong idiot equals hundreds of comments on how bad it is here and how the US is about to crumble and how things are so wonderful everywhere else - enjoy the country you have and work to fix the things you don't like about it!

/end soapbox

MenuBar · 5 months

They told me that putting milk in orange soda pop would taste like a Creamsicle Popsicle.

It didn't. The milk curdled immediately.

They also told me "My Little Pony" was a fun show for adults to watch.

It wasn't. And my neighbors caught me watching it.

CSec064 · 5 months

Why bother? Nothing will change. :/

That is my grievance as well.

eddyofyork · 5 months

Read an article before you comment. Or don't comment. Also, learn to fucking read. I've seen people say things that directly contradict the evidence of the article.

Also, and this is a big one, just because your article says "Study shows that dog-owners live longer" DOES NOT MEAN THAT DOGS CAUSE YOU TO LIVE LONGER. Learn how statistics work before you tell me what they mean.

jonny_lube · 5 months

Girlfriend of 4 years is having lunch with a male coworker? BREAK UP, SHE IS CHEATING. Wife of 6 years read through your text messages? TRUST IS THE FOUNDATION OF MARRIAGE, DIVORCE. Dating a girl who texts to ask where you are? DON'T STICK YOUR DICK IN CRAZY, RUN LIKE HELL. Fiance slaps you during a drunken argument? CALL THE COPS AND CALL OFF THE WEDDING.

For fuck's sake askreddit, we are getting a few paragraphs of one side other story without ANY knowledge as to the complexities of a relationship. We aren't seeing all the positive things in the relationship nor the negatives from the OP. Stop fucking trying to end every relationship because of one imperfect trait or momentary lapse. We all have our faults.

[deleted] · 5 months

Reddit can be extremely sexist. But - I did learn something - I can be incredibly sexist - internalized misogyny is the word for the way I felt. I am working on it, and I'd like to thank Reddit for helping me realize that there was something about myself that I didn't like. But honestly, a lot of you can really just go fuck yourselves. I certainly won't be fucking you.

ozdok · 5 months

Askreddit has gone to shit!!!!

90% of the posts on this subreddit are simply DAE (Does Anybody Else) posts. Anything that ends with " I will start..." should be promptly removed. I mean how come there can't be any actual discussion on social, economics, human, political questions and discussions?

Fuck you and your " what is your most/worst/nastiest/best.." posts. All of these are basically just the same question recycled over and over and asked again 10 times a day. Seriously fuck you. Why are you trying to know so much about people's personal lives anyway?

AskReddit needs to do better.

one_afternoon · 5 months

SO. FUCKING. BRAVE.

Pookah · 5 months

"This"

Boofyostaff · 5 months

Seems to be an overabundance of people who complain, "I am such a catch, but chicks and/or dudes never go for me!" There's probably a reason that people don't go for you, which means you're not as much of a catch as you think. What is up with this over-inflated sense of self worth?

poktanju · 5 months

I'm sure a significant portion of the reddit userbase would consider me less than human.

jollipirate · 5 months

One of the first threads I remember reading (and that made me decide reddit was for me) was an Askreddit thread about wedding rings, and if you would get an engagement/wedding ring from a pawn shop. That spawned quite a few discussions including a huge discussion about diamonds and the gem industry, which taught me a lot and changed the way I perceive the value of jewelry. There were also redditors who shared the stories of their wedding days and whether cheap weddings were OK. I still remember one redditor's story about getting married in a local park for about $500, and it sounded like an amazing wedding.

I've since seen both topics come up on askreddit a few times, but now the thread is always just people declaring something along the lines of "rings are dumb and fuck everyone who wants a wedding that's just stupid". There's no discussion, no information brought to light outside of half-formed personal opinions, and the occasional story from a married redditor about their wedding day. I can't recall a recent thread where I went in with only a foggy idea what I thought, and came out of it having learned something that stuck with me longer than it took to click the next link.

I miss learning things from you reddit. Teach me things.

staticwaves · 5 months

Something about a cat [fixed]

[deleted] · 5 months

(Control + F) Nope, guess I'm first to say it.

USE Control + F to see if you agree with what someone else already posted. Seeing a version of the same comment over and over in the same thread can get a bit depressing.

spyduhgirl · 5 months

Got trolled cause I look different :(

dcmcderm · 5 months

Chuck mother fucking Testa.

ochoa88 · 5 months

The constant hating of Justin Bieber. The kid makes a ton of money, and really doesn't hurt anyone.

dmun · 5 months

Well, I just learned that someone had 450 upvotes in the positive for very eloquently saying that watching kiddie porn did not contribute to the further creation of kiddie porn. Decriminalization.. of the consumption.. of child pornography.

Some of the people who upvoted him must have, statistically, been Ron Paul supporters-- who somehow don't understand supply and demand.

450 in defense of kiddie porn. And then someone quit over it.

I honestly have started to wonder whether all those invasions, the Klan and Stormfront and 4Chan trolling, has overwhelmed normalcy... or if this is just the way far, far too many Redditors are when no one's watching.

iwasapolygon · 5 months

Upvotes aren't "likes" and downvotes aren't "dislikes." You downvote something if it's irrelevant, you upvote if you enjoyed it and think others should see it.
/r/adviceanimals used to be one of my favorite subreddits. But now it's mostly just human memes. What the fuck, /r/adviceanimals. At least change your god damn name already, maybe /r/quickmene or something.
Speaking of memes, memes shouldn't be allowed to be posted unless it's a meme-oriented subreddit, or if it's a community that doesn't really care like r/trees. Seriously, this needs to stop.
I feel like reddit would have better amateur porn besides semi-illegal teenagers. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, if anyone has suggestions besides /r/thick /r/randomsexiness /r/ass etc etc., please.
Askreddit needs a filtering system, or the posters need to fucking use the search feature before posting. Seriously, the last meal question must be asked four times a week. Also, askreddit posts that don't even have a question in them should be removed. That's not even trying.
I still think users who dip below a certain negative comment karma threshold should be banned from the site.

clade_nade · 5 months

The gypsy thing. C'mon, Reddit. Just... c'mon.

[deleted] · 5 months

Fucking Chuck Testa. Dear god, that was the most annoying meme ever.

BALTIM0R0N · 5 months

Being upset about r/jailbait being shut down.

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