Remember lads, subscribe to PewDiePie or Christchurch Mosques Shooting

[Buelligan]

Bit of a philosophical question really.  One could argue that's how and why religion came to be - unfortunately it causes just as many problems as it solves

Yeah, like whether or not it's a good thing to suckle an animal.

[wooders1978]

The usually level headed ISIS have called for revenge I see

[wooders1978]

The usually level headed ISIS have called for revenge I see

Edit - this appears to be just twitter bollocks

[alan nagsworth]

If he has any sense, he'll use his platform to absolutely and unequivocally decry every aspect of this thing and pull the plug himself.

I'm not paying my YouTube subscription to see common sense!!! Next you'll be saying as a porn license cardholder I should agree that my fee go towards the fair treatment of women in the adult entertainment industry. Ludicrous.

[Blue Jam]

I still have a Reddit account for cute dog pics, snooker and gaming stuff, but I've been considering deleting it and after today I think I probably will.

Done... and before I did I saw posts from loads of other users saying they were doing the same, and lots of blank posts with [deleted] above them from people who had already done the same. Today was the final straw for a lot of people, it seems.

I feel so clean.

[Kryton]

Done... and before I did I saw posts from loads of other users saying they were doing the same, and lots of blank posts with [deleted] above them from people who had already done the same. Today was the final straw for a lot of people, it seems.

I feel so clean.

Reddit is a huge varying site though. In fact the majority view in the comments section at least on the world news sites seem to be wanting to defy the killer by not publishing his name or manifesto and sending statements of support to the muslim community in NZ.

Okay sure, there's a few subreddits that harbour neo-nazi, incel, Islamic fundamentalism, but the majority of reddit isn't too bad. It's nothing compared to the absolute shit hole of the likes of 4/8chan etc..

[Blue Jam]

Yes, but I was increasingly finding just being on there was getting me down. I'm one of those people who can't resist reading the comments, and being a bit "know your enemy", checking out some of the worse subs and the stuff upvoted to the front page was bound to make me depressed. I was in a few "state of the boards"-type subs but they were just depressing in the end, even when they weren't being brigaded, and I just need more positivity right now. Finally, even though I have never given a penny to Reddit I would rather not have anything to do with them anymore...

I would never dare look at 4/8chan. I just don't want to know.

[RicoMNKN]

At least the Mail and Sun are calling it (in their headlines/front pages) white supremacist (or Australian) terrorism, while at the BBC - next to a small sidebar title about the NZ PM stating "this can only be described as a terrorist attack" - it's still "Mosque shootings" and at the Guardian "Christchurch shooting".

I heard that this is just standard practise with some journalists - they don't call anything terrorism until it has been officially defined as such by the government.

[bgmnts]

Yeah, like whether or not it's a good thing to suckle an animal.

I still haven't decided yet.

[alan nagsworth]

Reddit is a huge varying site though. In fact the majority view in the comments section at least on the world news sites seem to be wanting to defy the killer by not publishing his name or manifesto and sending statements of support to the muslim community in NZ.

Okay sure, there's a few subreddits that harbour neo-nazi, incel, Islamic fundamentalism, but the majority of reddit isn't too bad. It's nothing compared to the absolute shit hole of the likes of 4/8chan etc..

Nah mate Reddit's absolute toss. It has some good stuff like niche art and weird content subs but on the whole it's an absolute circle jerk. Every comment section is the world's biggest dick suck daisy chain imaginable.

Of course I would delete my account but I've got 60,000 karma from the days I used to rake it in posting memes and dog gifs. You don't just give all your old clothes away to charity do you? You stash them away for years and never ever wear them again. Sorted.

[Cloud]

I've found the general subreddits (i.e. not the_donald or whatever, more like worldnews and unitedkingdom) to actually be very reasonable and level headed.  You do get numptys, like people on there who were crying about 8chan's reputation, but they get neg rated to oblivion, which I find partly restores my faith in humanity.  Yes on biased subs it works the other way, but it's nice to see common sense on the general, balanced, non-biased ones.

But yeah probably a good idea to steer clear of the site's armpits, however that's achieved.  To me, it seems a terrible waste to throw the entire site out as some of the subs are incredibly interesting and wholesome, not to mention the special interest ones that have nothing to do with news or politics.   To each their own though

[Kryton]

I've found the general subreddits (i.e. not the_donald or whatever, more like worldnews and unitedkingdom) to actually be very reasonable and level headed.  You do get numptys, like people on there who were crying about 8chan's reputation, but they get neg rated to oblivion, which I find partly restores my faith in humanity.  Yes on biased subs it works the other way, but it's nice to see common sense on the general, balanced, non-biased ones.

But yeah probably a good idea to steer clear of the site's armpits, however that's achieved.  To me, it seems a terrible waste to throw the entire site out as some of the subs are incredibly interesting and wholesome, not to mention the special interest ones that have nothing to do with news or politics.   To each their own though

Yeah that's the experience I've found. Unless you go looking for specific subreddits the majority of opinions tend to be mixed and varied as I mentioned.

I guess everyone is subbed to different subreddits. I prefer history, science and many of the funnier ones. But I imagine if I spent time in the gory ones or the Trump ones or the extremist ones or Incel ones - I'd soon despair.

[up_the_hampipe]

I wouldn't want to make a blanket statement about what people on Reddit are like. It's a website for any and every interest. Perhaps some of the broader main subreddits have prevailing attitudes, but I don't often see anything really troubling in those top threads.

[Cloud]

I can recommend /r/casualuk for what it's worth, especially when you want a break from politics

[Blue Jam]

Whatever, it was the right thing to do for me personally and I feel better now.

[RicoMNKN]

My personal experience of Reddit is that it's the least bad of all the terrible social media sites.  Following subjects rather than people, and the lack of sharing to your followers, seems to mean you get actual discussion rather than pile-ons.

I do only subscribe to quite niche stuff, however, and am aware it has horrible places - it just doesn't try and push me towards them (unlike all the others).

[Cuellar]

It suffers from the same mod-cowardice that twitter and facebook have, though. Outright hateful/incitements to violence etc. are allowed to flourish. Loads of horrible subreddits that exist solely to get angry at women (I think they managed to eventually ban the out and out racist subreddits, or at least some of them, but the ones about women they don't seem to mind).

On average it's a shower of bastards.

[alan nagsworth]

In fairness I'm probably just being an arsehole because the overarching "sense of humour" on Reddit is interminably geeky and dull and you have massive threads of dorky quotes from films and stuff. The whole thing seems stuck about five years in the past. Geek culture does absolutely nothing for me. Plus it's also really fucking misogynistic for the most part.

The only comments sections I bother reading now are on the RuPaul's Drag Race sub, that's gold. But I agree there's some very good niche weirdo subs on there. DeepIntoYoutube is probably my all time favourite.

Wait this isn't on topic at all

Sod it

[up_the_hampipe]

In fairness I'm probably just being an arsehole because the overarching "sense of humour" on Reddit is interminably geeky and dull and you have massive threads of dorky quotes from films and stuff. The whole thing seems stuck about five years in the past. Geek culture does absolutely nothing for me. Plus it's also really fucking misogynistic for the most part.

That's internet humour generally. Just a bunch of parrots.

[Crabwalk]

I bet he was tempted to acknowledge the shout-out. We know what a sucker for flattery he is.

[Cuellar]

Donald "I think Islam hates us" Trump there

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Posted without making reference to who the perpetrator was or who the victims were.

[Squink]

Looks like NZ has surprisingly lax gun laws.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/new-zealand-gun-laws-face-scrutiny-after-christchurch-attack

[jobotic]

Last year The Times posted an article by Melanie Phillips called "Islamophobia is a fiction used to shut down debate".

I guess 49 people aren't really dead then.

[BlodwynPig]

I mean I don't know enough about pewdiepie beyond how to pronounce his name to argue anything about his content but hopefully he'll shape up a bit after thinking about this. either that or he'll just get worse

He was parodied in the second series of PlsLike where the character caused controversy by comparing muslims to rats.

[idunnosomename]

I love the way Trump goes "anything we can do". Like what. Extra bandages? Or stop talking about Muslim Travel Bans and Building Walls To Keep Dangerous Immigrants Out?

Of course it's a euphemism that people use when they want to express sympathy but have no intention of doing anything to help

[Icehaven]

I've just had an email saying a local landmark (of sorts anyway) is going to be lit up in the colours of the NZ flag to show solidarity etc. But seeing as that's red white and blue, which is also the colour of the flags of the UK, Australia, France and probably many others I'm not sure it's a particularly effective gesture (if it was anyway.)
But I guess in the face of otherwise complete powerlessness it's something.

[alan nagsworth]

That's internet humour generally. Just a bunch of parrots.

Grave lol

[Kryton]

Grave lol

Mate... etc..

[BlodwynPig]

I've just had an email saying a local landmark (of sorts anyway) is going to be lit up in the colours of the NZ flag to show solidarity etc. But seeing as that's red white and blue, which is also the colour of the flags of the UK, Australia, France and probably many others I'm not sure it's a particularly effective gesture (if it was anyway.)
But I guess in the face of otherwise complete powerlessness it's something.

A better gesture would be to tackle the hard and sensitive issues that are converging to the destruction of the human race at a pace far greater than is natural.

1. Ban guns, even for hunting - use your hands you fucking twits
2. Tolerance through education
3. Local not global