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Topic: 194: r/ecuseyourself  (Read 39461 times)

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194: r/ecuseyourself #45
Yeah, something I've noticed is every time you guys do a reddit episode, you act as if the people you're reading are representative of the whole of reddit. It's a very big site, there's a huge diversity of people there. Heck, the people you read in this episode aren't really a good representation of /r/legaladvice.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #46
Can we have "naturally developing intimacy" replace the word "sex" automatically on the forums?
Neal, November 25, 2015, 12:52:42 pm

Only if "orb" replaces "video game"
A Meat, November 25, 2015, 01:40:04 pm

I can see it now - "It's about ethics in orb journalism!"
Ambious, November 25, 2015, 02:23:20 pm

Replace "ethics" with "ethnics" and see how long it takes for someone to notice.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #47
But what if I want to start a discussion about classical ethnics?

EDIT: Oh damn it.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #48
Yeah, something I've noticed is every time you guys do a reddit episode, you act as if the people you're reading are representative of the whole of reddit. It's a very big site, there's a huge diversity of people there. Heck, the people you read in this episode aren't really a good representation of /r/legaladvice.
JamEngulfer, November 25, 2015, 06:11:32 pm

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194: r/ecuseyourself #49
Yeah, something I've noticed is every time you guys do a reddit episode, you act as if the people you're reading are representative of the whole of reddit. It's a very big site, there's a huge diversity of people there. Heck, the people you read in this episode aren't really a good representation of /r/legaladvice.
JamEngulfer, November 25, 2015, 06:11:32 pm

Remember what Portaxx said at the end of the brony episode? About how, yes, they know not everyone who watches the show is like that, no, don't bother telling them that? I'm pretty sure the same applies here.

Though I honestly don't feel too bad about generalizing the userbase of a site where r/CuteFemaleCorpses is allowed to exist

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194: r/ecuseyourself #50
Yeah, something I've noticed is every time you guys do a reddit episode, you act as if the people you're reading are representative of the whole of reddit. It's a very big site, there's a huge diversity of people there. Heck, the people you read in this episode aren't really a good representation of /r/legaladvice.
JamEngulfer, November 25, 2015, 06:11:32 pm

Remember what Portaxx said at the end of the brony episode? About how, yes, they know not everyone who watches the show is like that, no, don't bother telling them that? I'm pretty sure the same applies here.

Though I honestly don't feel too bad about generalizing the userbase of a site where r/CuteFemaleCorpses is allowed to exist
Nikaer Drekin, November 25, 2015, 11:27:25 pm
Reddit's got a similar, yet worse, problem to Tumblr. Sure, the userbase of Tumblr isn't exclusively teenage girl hemiplatonic fractoromantic francosexuals who are also otherkin furries who exclusively watch Steven Universe and Sherlock. But those people are both very talkative and hilarious, so they're the ones we talk about. Similarly, not all Reddit users are neckbeardy shitstains, but the guys most openly proud of being Reddit users are.

The thing that makes Reddit worse is that it seems like the people running it are those kinds of people too, given how much they shirk human decency, and probably actual laws, to let them continue being shitty people and having their shitty subreddits. The actions of Reddit's actual team suggest them to be much the same as the people we characterize their userbase as, whereas the people who run Tumblr don't seem much like their stereotypical members.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #51

The thing that makes Reddit worse is that it seems like the people running it are those kinds of people too, given how much they shirk human decency, and probably actual laws, to let them continue being shitty people and having their shitty subreddits. The actions of Reddit's actual team suggest them to be much the same as the people we characterize their userbase as, whereas the people who run Tumblr don't seem much like their stereotypical members.
Cleretic, November 26, 2015, 01:06:33 am

Huh, that's interesting. What makes you say the last bit? There's recently been controversy on reddit because a lot of subs dedicated to 'hating' a group of people were banned (eg: /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/coontown).

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194: r/ecuseyourself #52

The thing that makes Reddit worse is that it seems like the people running it are those kinds of people too, given how much they shirk human decency, and probably actual laws, to let them continue being shitty people and having their shitty subreddits. The actions of Reddit's actual team suggest them to be much the same as the people we characterize their userbase as, whereas the people who run Tumblr don't seem much like their stereotypical members.
Cleretic, November 26, 2015, 01:06:33 am

Huh, that's interesting. What makes you say the last bit? There's recently been controversy on reddit because a lot of subs dedicated to 'hating' a group of people were banned (eg: /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/coontown).
JamEngulfer, November 26, 2015, 03:33:58 am
It was a very slow process involving quite an amount of major Reddit employees speaking out in defense of blatantly racist and hateful subreddits. The fact they took so long to do something about stuff that flagrant speaks a lot louder than the fact that they, eventually, started shutting them down.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #53
I remember when most of reddit was throwing a shit-fit screaming about FREEDOM OF SPEECH when there was a crackdown on the child porn/underage subreddits.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #54
Reddit kind of has tiers of good and bad I think. There's the very surface which is links to news articles and silly pictures, then there's the less popular commenty bits on those popular sections which are just hives of racism and shittyness. Then there's the niche-but-popular stuff like specific subreddits for hobbies or something which are generally pretty good because it's basically just talking about your video games or sports teams the same way most people do. Then there's more bad stuff when you get down to the weird shit which is too fringe to have much traction outside of crazy broken people.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #55
People don't fire up a Reddit/Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook F+ episode to hear us read even-keeled, well-spelled posts from sane and rational Reddit/Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook users. If you click Play on an F+ episode thinking "I'm sure this will be a balanced and reasonably fair look at the cross-section of the site's userbase as a whole, thereby enriching the listeners' appreciation for what the site can offer," you'll have to suppress the urge to write a they're-not-all-like-that post in nearly every episode thread on here.

Edit to add: Yeah, Portaxx's disclaimer in the brony episode sums it up. The de facto ambassadors for any online community are gonna be the loudest people, the people who put themselves out there the most. Unfortunately for a lot of these sites, their worst people are also usually their loudest. Goes hand in hand.
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194: r/ecuseyourself #56
People don't fire up a Reddit/Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook F+ episode to hear us read even-keeled, well-spelled posts from sane and respectable Reddit/Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook users. If you click Play on an F+ episode thinking "I'm sure this will be a balanced and reasonably fair look at the cross-section of the site's userbase as a whole, thereby enriching the listeners' appreciation for what the site can offer," you'll have to suppress the urge to write a they're-not-all-like-that post in nearly every episode thread on here.
Isfahan, November 26, 2015, 11:50:03 pm
Not every fan of wrapping Roy Orbison in cling film is a German guy writing increasingly improbable fanfics.

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194: r/ecuseyourself #57
#NotAllRedditors

moooo566 (taylor's version)

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194: r/ecuseyourself #58
It's back to the old problem I've had with the F Plus then, which is generalisations. It happened with the pronouns thing (wanting different pronouns is bad, right?) too. All crowdfunding is bad.

Every time the podcast strays from mocking the actual shit you're reading to mocking everyone who happens to share the same website or related hobbies or something, it sours the fun and usually veers away from the terrible things read with enthusiasm thing you've got going. When the readers end up being the ones who don't really know what they're talking about and have the wrong idea about things, something's up.

Nikaer Drekin

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194: r/ecuseyourself #59
(wanting different pronouns is bad, right?) too. All crowdfunding is bad.
moooo566, November 27, 2015, 09:27:37 am

Neither of those things were said at any point. Way to freely generalize things while decrying generalizations.