Honestly it may vastly improve your reddit experience if you just assume everybody starting a debate with you is a passionate piss gargler, and not for some kink reason, but because they were told it's healthy to gargle your own piss and they just immediately bought into the idea and ran with it.
I left reddit back in 2012 when I saw people using the n-word and not even getting banned. No idea why it took other people so long to ditch that place
hi, I fucking love your username. and banner... and profile pic. cool vibes all around. welcome!!
Thank you! I love yours as well
It's nice here too
Edit: Wow this blew up! I got a lot of comments saying that all lives matter and of course
I didn't know he and Brace Belden were the same guy for several years
I will choose to assume what position the pissdrinker had on the taste of italian food based on my own bias
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Every thing on Reddit turns into an argument.
My question is: what social media dynamics and site design is causing this? I'm actually genuinely curious.
There's gotta be other factors, but the right-wing (lack of) moderation, karma & downvote system, anonymity leading to zero stakes for trolls, and horrible site culture certainly don't help. I add site culture because lemmy is a reddit clone yet some instances are more awful than others.
I serously think the site design has psychological effects that we don't know about.
Upvotes and downvotes put you into a competitive mode of interaction, I think.
Downvotes are extra harsh on this, because it's a miniature equivalent of being booed on stage.
Plus there are a lot of subs that lend themselves to people who believe they're mega informed experts in a given topic. Being challenged on that topic triggers them and they're already online where they can quickly start googling random articles and shit that support their arguments
Yes, almost certainly. But other site designs don't prevent awful behavior either so I don't think it's completely down to site design.
Not completely, but it may be a factor ("may" being the operative word here, of course). But yeah, site culture also has something to do with it and maybe the adminship as well.
Besides the upvote system, the site was home turf for the "rationalist" facts-and-logic type movement of the 2010s which created a culture of debating every type of idea no matter how stupid or immoral.
This created a very easy to troll culture, because redditors will type 5 paragraphs to answer someone who told them to suck their nuts like it's their high school debate club or something.
Reddit be like "Come for the cats, stay for the empathy" and then 95% of it's content is venomous diatribes about how it's a moral necessity to hunt the homeless for sport.
This is why you're supposed to browse someone's history before arguing with them. If they had done so, they could've just shit on the piss drinker for being a piss drinker and call it a day.
I think being shat on is what the piss drinker is looking for
Seriously, never underestimate the site design's effects on the mind.
No you're wrong and bad for thinking that!!