FUCKING HATE REDDIT

Okay, let me start with this: FUCK. REDDIT. I really hate that faggot site and
its users. It's really bad and we need to find a solution for it. There's a
steaming pile of shit coming from that webshite, and it certainly isn't just
trolls. It's retards. Redditards, poluting our lovely /prog/. Through the text
I'll use "reddit" but I mean "programming.reddit.com" and not the whole reddit
community, which while still full of BS not relevant to /prog/'s polution.

THE(IR) PROBLEM
If you have an account at reddit or even browse it, and you're not a redditard
yourself you know what I'm talking about; Fucking idiots overusing internet
memes, exactly like what the xkcd faggot does. Doing so, they believe they
belong in some "elite" community of computer experts that like esoteric jokes.
You should understand their mental state by now: "I can't fucking program but I
might make esoteric jokes that apparently computer experts like and maybe, just
maybe others will think I'm an expert myself!". Fucking morons. If one takes a
moment from his day to browse reddit, might like the topics. Let's see what we
got: "How to * with Python *", "A simple * with *", "* in 10 steps", "*: the
revolutionary blog/software/other", "Using * for fun & profit". One might think,
"ah, a nice community. I'll stay a while with them". The other day wakes up only
to find the same topics with changed blog links and titles. If you don't believe
me try it yourself. (yeah, ofcourse there are the retarded "points too, how
could a faggot community live without them? Look: wikipedia, digg, ..)

WHY /prog/ SUCKS
It wasn't long ago that reddit faggots weren't aware of /prog/. I believe, 4-5
months ago /prog/ was clean of all the faggotry & spam. Back then a thread could
make your day, and everyone was contributing content, which ofcourse lead to
funny memes et al, unlike all these self-proclaimed "memes". (notice any simile
with the redditards? self proclaimed computer experts & funny or some shit) If
you are not a /prog/ regular or oldie you might have not noticed, you might
think that it's been like that from the beginning. But it wasn't. Even worse,
you might think that these posts are from trolls, but they are not. Ok, maybe
some are, but trolls are not retarded (as some may think). I'm a big time troll
and I don't think most of you understand trolling.

THE SOLUTION
Okay, now that I bothered you with my text, I'm all ears to see what you got to
say about this issue. I cannot think of a solution to get rid of faggots, but I
don't want to see /prog/ become a cesspool like reddit. I wish the old expert
programmers would come back..

Excuse the copypasta in my post but I have to haste.

>>40
Downvoted. Wasting time is normal at /prog/.

I started the autism anus meme.

>>42
That might surprise you, but I started the ``I started the x meme''.

>>27
dubz

>>43
This may surprise you, but I started the ``This may surprise you, but I started the <meme> meme''.

>>45
This may surprise you, but I started the ``This may surprise you, but I started the ``This may surprise you, but I started the x meme'' meme''.

>>46
I N C E P T I O N

>>47
BRRRRMMM

>>47
It's spelled stack overflow.

stack moronic overflow

I would like Reddit more if it was FORCED_ANON with tripcode support for when necessary, and optional names for the namefags (but the community would breed a culture of namefaggotry hatred a la *chan.)

There is way too much posturing and face-saving bullshit; people pander to the masses' voting whims leading to the same kind of jokes and predictable "saying what everyone's thinking" basically-useless/non-interesting comments. As PG argues in his long-winded essay[1], and as Shiⁱ argues[2], identity that connects a person to his comments is bad, we here all know this; that's why we're here, but Reddit even gives individuals karma, and you can see all their comments they've ever made. PIG DISGUSTING

I personally don't feel comfortable expressing myself there; especially to criticise someone and to be dealt with downvotes and disapproval, and also to be criticised or to be shown to be in the wrong; it's easy to be in the wrong when no one knows you personally, you just think about it and become a better person (or not if you're a dick), and move along.

The voting system tends to make mundane/crappy comments get more attention than good comments that had the misfortune to be posted later on. So I don't like that either. Like 4chan's /b/, it has a lot of posters, so the quality is generally low with a few diamonds in the dirt. Unlike 4chan's /b/, threads last forever, so if a post is interesting enough, I'll spend time looking through the posts.

The good side of Reddit is, really, the software. I like the link posting and browsing, and the comment collapsing support is good. The community is full of smug memasturbators but that's what you get with that kind of identity crap (just look at IRC, or, really bad, Stack Overflow).

I love this place. I love you all. Even though some of you post the most boring and mundane questions about C++ and Python and are lazy or quite probably drop out retards from /b/, quite a lot of you are actually intelligent and very funny, and I laugh here more than I do any other site.

HMA is not even a meme. A meme is a funny catchphrase that you can actually use somewhere in a funny way. HMA was never funny.

Memes are not limited to mere catchphrases as you well know.

[1]: Keep Your Identity Small, 2006: <http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html>;
[2]: Why is this better than regular forum software?, 2004: <http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/>;

>>51
What would a Reddit-like site that only supports downvotes be like?

>>51
Reddit is just wannabe /b/ and should be treated as such.
>>52
/b/

>>53
Reddit is just wannabe /b/ and should be treated as such.
/b/

They're clearly different, but whatever, I acknowledge your wry observation that Reddit imitates and copies /b/ like a delayed retard.

>>1
<-- that's cool and all, but check 'em