See, that's not actually true. I checked just now to be sure, and sure enough, first article I clicked on had threads out of vote-order.
I don't actually post on Reddit yet, but the way it was described to me is that it seems to factor in upvotes and downvotes. IE, downvotes may help a thread get seen. It's about whether a popular conversation is going on.
There's even a link on the main page for "controversial" threads, where I presume upvotes are weighted even less.
You've got to be joking me; how is this not what I said it was? Ebin upboats m9
Right, quotes. To quote your message as more than an unreadable mass of text, I have copy-pasted a line of BBCode and am manually typing /quote. For each interjection I make.
Why isn't it a problem? It's a very basic use case - read a controversial post, try to find a reply. On this forum that involves glancing over other posts, looking for an avatar or username, sometimes on multiple pages. On Reddit the replies are literally right there. On 4chan they're a mouse-hover and/or click away.
This is such a minimal amount of effort it's astounding you even find anything to complain about
And tbh I don't even look at avatars or read names until I've quoted a post, and that's just because I don't really give a shit who's making an argument I am interested in arguments
And if you're interested in finding someone's username or identity or whatever on 4chan you're doing it wrong
Uh? Toady usually posts a nebulous notification that something was deleted, yeah. But there's no notification that my post was deleted. All the posts vanish, and it's pretty much forbidden to discuss what was deleted.
And it's super easy to get a conversation deleted... It's only rare because people learn to avoid rocking the boat. The serious discussion threads get pruned with regularity, and are living on borrowed time in my opinion.
Of course there's no record of any of that, even for people whose posts were deleted. I know I've seen a Toady post and been unsure whether one of my posts was deleted.
If you don't like getting deleted then why go from bay12 to reddit of all places, that's like moving from Russia to North Korea
And a long list of -post deleted- is not preferable to a nebulous Toady who rarely deletes
I'm still admitting that there are a lot of echo chamber subreddits
That is not a thing I stopped saying...
But who cares about them? They're pointless, gross, maybe even fun.
BECAUSE THEY BREED NARROWMINDED PEOPLE WHO ARE SHELTERED IN SAFE BUBBLE-WRAPPED IDEAS OF STAGNANT REGURGITATION. Pardon the caps locks, but the emphasis is sorely needed. This is the reason why hotbeds of dank meme creation come from places where people can post whatever and ideas thrive, whilst reddit takes those dank memes, cuts their claws off and repeats them ad nausea - one step away from 9gag.
What you seem to be implying is that there aren't useful discussion subreddits, that the voting system makes them impossible. But I think you know that's not true.
Literally the only time in my life I've found reddit to be useful was in social engineering lots of gullible idiots, so I don't know that's not true and I find it to the contrary; I don't go to reddit because to me reddit is synonymous with people who don't actually like different opinions.
It's like saying "/tg/ sucks, just look at /b/"! Doesn't follow.
/tg/ sucks, just look at /b/. Everyone who made either board great are gone, their replacements just propping up dead shadows
And seriously? It does follow - reddit is structured to be a hugbox
A hugbox it will be
Edit: And this is definitely at that length where almost everyone will skim, sigh, and maybe someone will suggest "take it to PMs". Because this is a bad way to have a discussion, and it's clogging up the topic. Threaded systems solve this problem.
So do spoilers
Heck, when I edit this, it'll make the thread reappear for everyone in their "unread replies" queue. A queue which it's impossible to remove entries from, incidentally.
Not being able to pull threads off the notification list is a scourge upon bay12, of that I am in agreement nyahhhh