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The Best Subreddit You're Not Reading: "Ooooooh, pretty pictures" edition by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 0 points1 point ago

I think I'll do this on a random day, once a week. And I'll definitely take suggestions.

I run r/dailydot, where I post a reddit news summary every morning (and occasionally other meta-reddit content). by kmmokaiin shamelessplug

[–]kmmokai[S] 23 points24 points ago

Hey, thanks for taking the time to write this. I'm disappointed the article came across that way because I certainly didn't intend it to. In fact, I wrote this paragraph specifically to point out that the bot was solely the tool of an "extremist" and had nothing to do with libertarians or Ron Paul fans in general:

And that’s worth emphasizing: The bot doesn’t appear to have broad support in Reddit’s Libertarian sections. It is, to use a perhaps over-the-top metaphor, a weapon employed by Reddit’s ideological extremists.

The longest quote in the story is from Zak, the /r/ronpaul moderator.

What is it with the AsianWhitePictures Spam? by russellvtin TheoryOfReddit

[–]kmmokai 11 points12 points ago

There was a discussion in this subreddit about a month ago about this spam.

Here's one of the top-voted comments from that thread (by /u/gravyfish):

I think MYGODWHATHAVEIDONE is correct:

"Exact same type of spam was on 4chan's /b/ and /r9k/ a couple years ago. Just a racist troll."

But I will elaborate: Since the beginning of /r9k/'s descent into a cesspool of trolls and whining, men with East Asian physical characteristics have often been discussed and viewed as being the "low men on the totem pole," essentially the lowest in the fucked-up hierarchy of male attractiveness that has long-since held as canon there. Trolls capitalized on this by posting pictures of Asian guys with attractive white women, ostensibly dating or in some sort of romantic relationship based on their body language and proximity in the posted photo. This, of course, was intentionally designed to anger /r9k/ readers, as it was intended to show the single/virgin users that they were actually at the bottom of the social ladder, because if even the gentlemen in the pictures could find attractive white women to date, the /r9k/ users must simply be socially inept, unattractive, etc. This fit in nicely with the overwhelmingly popular Alpha/Beta paradigm of male behavior that has dominated /r9k/'s thinking for a while now, as well as the the rampant and abject racism many users there exhibit. As more and more trolls began to use this sort of post to get a rise out of /r9k/ readers, it essentially became a meme, like any popular 4chan copypasta, and though it seems to have spread to reddit, the lack of established in-joke makes it irrelevant and confusing.

What's the best comment/submission you saw on Reddit this week? by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 1 point2 points ago

Thanks. I'm going to keep posting this every week until people start posting links.

Reddit digest: Monday, 5/21/12 (Reddit addiction, animal suicides, farming karma) by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 2 points3 points ago

It's definitely a challenge. I hate typos but they always slip through. Definitely post them when you see them: the public humiliation is good for improving my proofreading skills.

Oh, and fixed

This Week on Reddit is on hiatus by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 1 point2 points ago

I still think someone should make a book out of that AMA ...

Reddit digest: Wednesday, 5/16/12 (on the ground in Chernobyl, vikings and epidemic disease, 13 frugal tips) by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 0 points1 point ago

It looks like my post yesterday gave several people the wrong impression: I'm not putting the digest on hiatus, just my weekly summary posts. (Like this one.)

This Week on Reddit is on hiatus by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 1 point2 points ago

No vacation, unfortunately. I'm still doing the daily posts--this is just about the weekly Reddit recap. I hope I didn't just inspire a mass exodus of readers by convincing them this whole subreddit was on hiatus.

This Week on Reddit is on hiatus by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 2 points3 points ago

Shoot, I think I just convinced everyone I'm quitting /r/dailydot. I'm not. Just the weekly recap. I'm going to keep doing the daily posts!

Reddit digest: Tuesday, 5/15/12 (Louis C.K. returns, the physiological effects of the "will to live," r/IAmA drama) by kmmokaiin dailydot

[–]kmmokai[S] 1 point2 points ago

Do you think I should have included it? It seemed more wonkish this time around, more focused on specific questions related to his book than broader subjects.

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