Yeah I know people on Twitter and Facebook and everything are ignorant too but what specifically about Redditors makes them obnoxiously liberal? The average Facebook user is like 65 and they grew up huffing lead and being told they were gonna get nuked by commies so obviously they're gonna be psychotic and the cringiest Twitter users are usually some type of bougie 40 year old.
votes and reacts allow a narrow consensus to form without any discussion actually taking place. anyone who disagrees with the mainstream opinions of a given subreddit can just be downvoted and hidden from view. that's not to say that other kinds of message board systems are more intellectually "real" or "meritocratic" (they still favor the most dedicated posters after all), but at least a position's presence in a thread encouraged people to consider and respond to it, because there wasn't a little negative number next to it that indicated it could be ignored.
a dictatorship of the postertariat