Reddit has honestly turned out to be a much better place for discussing things you like than 4chan.
>inb4 gb2/reddit/
I'll go there and I'll go here as I please. You mad?
>>376115
That's a hilarious thought because of how ineffectual it would be.
Just getting a front row seat for the incoming ban.
>>376115
Yea, like that's ever going to happen. You sekrit club fags are cute.
>>376110
Honestly, the only thing still keeping me on 4chan at this point is the fact that I'm anonymous here. I don't want any of that upvote nonsense or usernames that people start to associate unrelated opinions with. This place could be so much better if the userbase didn't decide to act like complete idiots at the drop of a hat.
The only place that is shit for discussion on here is /v/, and going onto the cripple's website is still better then Leddit.
>>376110
>Reddit has honestly turned out to be a much better place for discussing things you like than 4chan.
Nope. I've been to /r/anime and I don't think anyone there has ever actually watched an anime that wasn't dubbed on Toonami. /r/mecha had A/Z on the sidebar so fuck that.
Face it, reddit basically only works for porn and saucefags. There's no discussion to be had there when the whole website functions off of popular opinion. I don't know why people pretend it's anything other than
>DAE EA sucks?
>look at my cute cat/girlfriend/video games
>how do I get into Fate in a way that involves me only watching Zero/UBW
>remember [some shitty thing from the 90s that has no actual value aside from nostalgia]???
And if you disagree with any popular opinions, or if you have something to say that isn't a shitty memepost, you'll get downvoted and ignored, occasionally banned.
>>376123
>>376115
You can't read other sites cookies, for very obvious reasons.
>>376298
I'll spare you the details but 4chan sucks too.
>>376309
Tumblr reddit and 4chan ALL SUCK
The difference is 4chan is the only site you have proper freedom of speech on, without facing the furious shitstorm of mob rule
>>376407
That's not true about 4chan.
>>376409
>don't have an account that gets harassed for months after having said something "controversial"
>no system of hierarchy of post
>posts don't stay forever and are not linked to you anyway
>have the freedom to say anything at all with minimalist consequences
These are some of the bases to freedom of speech
If you like reddit, you can go back there, but 4chan is one of the few places you say what you like with few consequences
>>376417
Why can't you register a second account? People make throwaways all the time.
Your pseudonym mattering to you is your fault.
>>376419
>why can't you just register a second account
Because the principle of the site is to have an identity with your account
By throwing accounts away, you're not following the site mentality, you're not doing what the site was designed for
Sure, it works, but it doesn't change the fact the site WAS MADE to give you an identity and sort opinions by popularity
>>376425
Reddit even endorses the use of throwaway accounts on some of the default subreddits like "AskReddit" where occasionally somebody will ask a question like "What's it like being in the Witness protection program?" to which somebody will register an account that is only 8 seconds old and reply, get upvoted to the top, and the ones without throwaway accounts are assumed to be attention whore liars.
"Having an identity" isn't actually the principal of the site at all. It's just doing something that nearly every website with user generated content does. 4chan is the odd one out by NOT having registration. The principal of reddit is "Sharing links or discussion topics you like and discussing them."
Also shitposting is going against what 4chan was designed for and yet here we our.
>>376425
adding to what >>376435 said, reddit doesn't even require emails to register accounts and only makes you enter in captchas when you make more than one in the same day with no other restrictions.
There's a fairly well known greasemonkey script that puts a captcha under your post (similar to 4chan) and registers you a randomized new account with every post if you feel like treating reddit like 4chan.
>>376435
all loli is banned on reddit
So are "racist" opinions
If you do these on other subreddits you get banned
Youre telling me reddit is closely tied to freedom of speech?
>>376110
>a much better place for discussing things
The only way to avoid the downvotes is by agreeing with the sub's hivemind. In almost every reddit thread, everyone is just saying the very same thing but with different words. There's hardly any 'real' discussion there.
>>376439
Loli is indeed banned. You got me there, child predator. I'm sorry that reddit doesn't endorse the sexualization of 5 year old girls.
On the subject of racist opinions getting banned, that is absolutely not true. You're probably thinking of /r/coontown getting deleted, which definitely did happen, but does not reflect a pattern of deleting boards JUST for being racist. /r/coontown was deleted because the admins did some investigation and found that the members of that board went around and harassed black people from facebook. Same applies to /r/fatpeoplehate which had a ton of brigading and doxxing happening within its walls but /r/fatlogic stays alive and well.
What happens instead is that boards like that give you this warning message I screencapped for you. Boards with that screencap don't appear on the front page anymore, yes, but 4chan doesn't have a front page at all so that's not something you should complain about. You're totally free to post on /r/spictown, /r/blackpeoplehate, /r/niggersafari, /r/kiketown, /r/thaddeusmccarroll, /r/freddiegray, /r/williamchapman, and many others, all still alive and well.
But yeah, you're right. If you're a lolicon, reddit ain't the place for you. Sorry, child molester.
>>376441
That's true on literally every website on the internet. HERE if you say something that somebody disagrees hard enough with they flood your thread with child pornography.
>>376447
>Loli is indeed banned. You got me there, child predator. I'm sorry that reddit doesn't endorse the sexualization of 5 year old girls.
You're such a fucking hypocrite, Jesus Christ.
You know we just need to word filter reddit and make it 4chan instead
>>376441
Downvotes actually don't mean anything. You can sort comments by upload date. The "old" option makes the comments listed the same way they are shown on 4chan. The only real difference is that your replies are threaded so you can't reply to two different posts with the same comments.
You can work around this lack of functionality by making two comments.
>>376455
Why are you here?
>>376460
Drawfagging. It's better here for some reason that I couldn't explain.
>>376455
I'm pretty sure that most redditors are happy with the way comments are sorted by default, so I'd say that downvotes do matter. My point is that there's no way to express a dissenting opinion without getting downvoted or banned. Out of fear, they use phrases like "to be fair" to get their message across. It creates an incredibly artificial environment, and outsiders can see through all of that.
>>376447
>your sexual fetish that harms nobody isn't allowed because I don't like it!
>of course reddit is about free speech and not mob rule!
you got me there redditor
>>376110
This is true because 4chan functions like a chatroom, and people try to get replies by being inflammatory. I'm also sure most people go to boards for the culture, and don't even know much about the topic.
You can argue about free speech all you want but that doesn't matter if it encourages nothing but shitposts when you're looking to have meaningful discussion.
>>376471
>I'm pretty sure
>so I'd say
You do that already. That's not something Reddit makes you do.
It's your own fault if you fear imaginary internet numbers going down.
Besides, reddit doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than 4chan to make OP correct.
I believe the two of us have reached an impasse. You should argue with >>376476
next.
>ITT: butthurt pedos getting mad for not being able to post on reddit
Of all the flavors, and you choose to be salty.
>meanwhile, at OPS house
REDDIT > 4CHAN
EAT SHIT LEJUUUUNSSSS
>>376482
(You)
>>376476
>and people try to get replies by being inflammatory. I'm also sure most people go to boards for the culture, and don't even know much about the topic.
Stop using the shitty big boards then
>>376480
I don't fear the downvotes because I never post on reddit in the first place, but a lot of redditors clearly do. 4chan is unfiltered, and people can say whatever they want because there are no real repercussions. It's humanity unfiltered.
Maybe it's a matter of preference, but people who come here and say they prefer reddit over 4chan need to fuck off imo.
Can someone just make a copypasta or informative image about why we don't like reddit, so we can just dump it once every time one of these idiots pops up and move on?
This is getting repetitive. I seriously hope it's not the same few people making these threads over and over.
>>376516
Or you retards could just stop taking the bait
>>376516
You're free to do that.
Try to only list things that aren't also true on 4chan. It'll be really difficult.
>>376549
Well if I were making it I would just mention the sites features itself are garbage, and if the community is as well it's only as a result of that.
It seriously baffles me how people can just look at the concept of reddit and not have a little warning alarm go off in their head that something doesn't seem right.
When social media sites first started appearing I got the exact same bad feeling about them and reddit shares a lot of the same features that make those sites bad, at least using your real identity isn't encouraged there so I at least give them credit for that.
Honestly I would love to use a site like reddit if one ever popped up that had time ordered discussion by _default_, and no fucking artifical circlejerk "gold". But as it stands the site is broken, and it says a lot about anyone who can stand to use it.
>>376549
Oh gee, another denialist. We're looking down on reddit for the same reason you guys like to look down on 9gag. It's funny because reddit is not that much different from 9gag, at least it seems that way when I visit r/all.
/qa/ is clearly nothing but redditfags, the ones who have a passion for meta-posting, analyzing, and researching stuff. Why else would redditchan be called 8gag on here.
>>376580
>I'm sorry reddit hurt your feels.
If you couldn't tell that I'm one of the few people that actually talks about it based on the hard facts of what the websites features are then you need to work on your reading comprehension.
Can website features hurt your feelings?
>>376437
>There's a fairly well known greasemonkey script that puts a captcha under your post (similar to 4chan) and registers you a randomized new account with every post if you feel like treating reddit like 4chan.
I thought about making something like that, but last I checked they only allow four or so account creations per day from an IP address.
>>376110
>Anime poster defending Reddit
What a surprise.
>>376115
Except the administration here has no problem with Reddit so they wouldn't do that even if they could. Hell, people from Reddit give 4chan the most traffic. It's like refusing free money.
>>376110
As long as you are okay with censorship, sure.
>>376447
Uh, is this sarcasm? There's a loli subreddit too.
>>376640
>implying 4chan isn't censored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4
>>376633
Ahh, I love how you never fail to get triggered by anime images. This is why we will never stop.
>>376121
I'm still here, fag. DEAL. WITH. IT.
>>376642
http://reddit.com/r/loli
http://reddit.com/r/lolicon
http://reddit.com/r/rapingwomen
You'll notice a theme with those three links.
>>376115
>detecting other sites cookies
>>376658
Most recent was
http://reddit.com/r/lolicons
which didn't even post hc loli.
And yet
http://reddit.com/r/cutefemalecorpses
remains alive. I wonder how they decide.
>>376662
Children.
>>376665
It's okay to post literal human corpses and sexualize them, but drawn pictures of imaginary people are too much?
>>376669
I don't make the rules, I just understand them.
>>376115
>mods to ban all people who have reddit cookies
what the hell are you doing
>>376669
Reddit has a reputation for being full of pedophiles which they want to get rid of. They'll ban that subreddit too if it gets on the news or something.
I like 4chan because threads like this get so many replies while anywhere else it would die.
>>376693
How did they get this reputation?
Why are redditors so defensive about their site? You don't see anywhere near the same level of butthurt when people make fun of other shitty normalfag filled websites, such as
>tumblr
>youtube comments
All of which reddit is on the same level of
>>376953
/r/jailbait
>>376954
Because Reddit really annoys 4chan for some reason and it's funny to annoy 4chan.
>>376954
They aren't very secure about it and don't want to admit its outright garbage for anything except leeching the occasional information from
>>376961
>for some reason
Here we have the good old 'pretend not to know why people don't like reddit even though it has been explained too many times to count' meme. One of the most popular reddit defenses.
>>376974
How is that even a "defense"? Good grief, you are so paranoid about Reddit. Le me, ooga booga.
>>376988
>le boogeyman maymay
Yet another popular reddit meme that lets them pretend there is nothing wrong with their precious reddit and that it's "just a boogeyman"
I can literally predict every single response you make before you even begin typing them, just like I can with all redditors like you.
Not even going to read your next predictable, pathetic reply.
>>377021
That's an overly verbose way of conceding the argument.
We need to do what /a/ does and self moderate more. It may not remove all the shitposting, but it helps curb a good amount of it. You can hate /a/ all you want but at least they try.
We need Hiro to bring back visible sage and encourage more anons to self moderate. I would also encourage having more janitors get assigned to boards like /tv/ and /v/.
However the mods on both boards need to either be replaced or just bring in new ones who give a shit.
>>376953
By being full of pedophiles
>>376110
I find it's harder to get replies on Reddit, although the overall quality of the posts tends to be a bit better.
>>376562
>the sites features itself are garbage
Non-anonymity is standard across everyone on the internet that isn't 4chan, subreddit creation is mostly just the ability to create your own /v/ if you think the existing mods are worthless / lazy / cancer, and downvoting is not that different from everyone's beloved "self-moderation" (read: spam things you don't like).
I mean it's still shit but I'm not sure how you can infer it's shit just from the features.
>>376954
The only reason I defend reddit is because 4chan needs to be knocked down a peg with its exceptionalism. If this thread were about tumblr, I'd be defending tumblr. If this thread were about Gaia Online, I'd be defending Gaia Online (and probably having a pretty difficult time about doing so, but I'm fine with losing arguments).
It just so happens that 4chan actually IS worse than reddit, so this is a pretty easy argument, is all.
---
On a side note, that "clickbait" thread ended up being the best thread on /a/ at the moment. >>>/a/134673299
>>377453
Gaia is where people go to have fun without being self-conscious about social standards
I used to feel superior every time I saw a awful juvenile post by xX_sasuke_bishie_Xx but now I'm pretty sure that whoever that is is having more fun than me
>>376110
I'm not mad. I do the same exact thing. While Reddit has some features I don't agree with, like shadowbanning and upvoted posts getting priority over downvoted posts, it's still a better place for discussion overall. 4chan is great for getting people's raw, honest opinions on things however.
>>376115
that would be the best thing ever. HIRO DO THIS
/qa/ncer, everyone.
>>377453
It needs the mods to get a reality check. They live in this fantasy land and they don't want to work with the users since mods have s massive tendency to show favoritism towards boards they like
>>377453
>discussions of anime
>implying
/r/anime discusses anime the way facebook discusses relationships
>someone accuses me from being from reddit
>i admit it
>someone tells me to go back to reddit
>don't
who devillish here
>>376110
>Every post is a desperate attempt at getting upboats
>leads to unfunny humor/circlejerk mentality
no thanks
>>378936
>There's no reward-based incentive to make a thread except to get replies
>leads to deliberate bait trolling/flamewars
Much better.
Oh look, it's that attitude that makes people hate on me, my brother and other autistic people even more.
"F*CK U GAIZ U JUS MAD THEY AUTS!!1"
Seriously, I love the backlash I get from this crap.
Must be so much fun to take a side and fire shots at others from it, especially when the side you take mostly wants to be left alone and at most wants to be understood a little better. Must be so much fun to be able to just get up and walk away and never look back at the friction you've caused.
I'm gonna go start aggressively telling people they hate X people and that they're horrible for it. Gonna tell 'em all day every day. Gonna get a group going. Gonna be a hero. Gonna rock the cape.
No, seriously, who asked you, who specifically asked you to champion us?
Who asked you to defend us by sarcastically and aggressively attacking others?
The MLP fandom annoys people because, well... It gets everywhere and it doesn't go away.
People hate on Call of Duty players because they won't shut up about Call of Duty. Why should My Little Pony fans be any different?
And if they do hate on bronies because a lot of them are on the autism spectrum then how is this helping?
>>376115
[spoiler]mods use reddit[/spoiler]
>>379177
How about retard?
>>378936
>he browses the frontpage of reddit and thinks it's an accurate representation of all of reddit
doing this is the the equivalent of browsing /b/ and assuming that it's an accurate representation of 4chan.
>>379402
It's like thinking the entire internet is just the news links on the America Online welcome page.
>>379402
>>379782
Forgot my image
>>379782
>>379784
Finding a good niche on a broken site is still using a broken site.
I'll bite and pretend you actually only browse the good communities like you say, but that still doesn't make reddit the website any more acceptable than it ever was.
You're wasting your time arguing with the slice of 4chans userbase that thinks the only problem with reddit is the community. That was never the origin of the contempt for that site, it was merely something that developed on top of it.
>>376110
Small subreddit communities will beat 4chan every single time. Rather than deal with endless shitposts, inflammatory bait posts and tripfags, I can actually have a civil discussion with well informed people (well most of the time).
There are two types of people who browse reddit:
One browses all the defaults and r/all and takes in the horrible circlejerk culture, regurgitating out of context memes and edgy opinions to stay cool
The other unsubscribes from every default and only subs to small, niche interest subs and perhaps a few meta ones to keep up with the sitewide drama.
The latter would rather not describe themselves as a redditor, but rather as someone who uses reddit. They are there for their hobby or niche interest and could care less about le reddit culture.
Defining yourself by the company you keep and not by the interests you have is a good way to admit you are a cumguzzling retard. In otherwords, no one gives a shit what website you use, but if you define yourself by the board you frequent - /pol/lack, we/a/boo, fa/tg/uy, /mu/tant, redditor - you are essentially admitting you are more interested in the shit "board culture" than the actual interests or board topic. If you define yourself in terms of what content your consume, you are nothing but a consumer, a regurgitator of content incapable of synthesizing original thought or content.
Stick to your interests and hobbies and let the culture come from within; latching on to culture for identity sake is pure cancer.
>>379803
That still doesn't make the site not a broken format >>379794
I wouldn't call you cancer or anything, but you shouldn't be defending a site that supports the kind of features reddit does. If you can use it and still sleep at night then that's your business, but you don't need to go telling all the impressionable kiddies here that it's ok to use reddit because they might end up listening to you and doing it all wrong.
You shouldn't have to put up with such a shitty site to begin with either, if all of you stopped using it maybe somebody would make a reddit clone that didn't sort comments by popularity or use "gold".
>>379794
The entire internet is broken. You found a good niche of the internet. It's still a broken internet.
The entire universe doesn't support life. Earth does. It's still a harsh non-life-supporting-universe.
I don't give a shit what you have to say. It doesn't matter.
>>379794
The origin of the contempt for Reddit was that it's anything at all that isn't 4chan.
>>379831
That's actually a really good point. Which is why I still say if you want to use it fine.
But just because the universe is primarily a harsh non-life-supporting-universe doesn't mean it's a good idea to go launching babies into outer space because fuck it all.
Just as you shouldn't be promoting popularity based discussions and circlejerk gold.
If those two things don't seem to create a vast rift in the way that site works that is non-life-supporting to the way internet communities used to work before shit like reddit and social media, then you're either new to the internet or just not giving it enough thought.
>>379831
I will agree that the format sucks. I disagree with the downvote culture and hiding comments. I saw a comment with 39 downvotes because someone had a problem with the foul language used and I just had to shake my head. I was pissed when I saw on a site that "promotes free speech" that the default is to hide comments after 4 downvotes.
but do I have to like everything about the site to use it and realise it fill certain needs that 4chan does not? no.
this >>379803 anon is right.
>Small subreddit communities will beat 4chan every single time. Rather than deal with endless shitposts, inflammatory bait posts and tripfags, I can actually have a civil discussion with well informed people
there are certain questions and interests that won't go anywhere but shitposting if asked on 4chan, but will on reddit.
>>379923
>Downvote culture.
You're not going to get "every post is good" so you gotta pick between "Posts everybody hates are in their face so shitposting goes unchecked except by passive moderation" and "Shitposting is hidden by downvotes."
>>379803
>Small subreddit communities will beat 4chan every single time.
And smaller chans with the exception of those made to 'replace' 4chan, will be better than smaller subreddit communities everytime. What's your point?
Smaller communities will always be better than bigger ones if you are looking for a clean environment. However, they are also almost always incredibly circlejerky. And those smaller subreddits would still suffer the massive problems the site design brings
>>376298
> the whole website functions off of popular opinion
Why do people think 4chan functions differently? The only real difference between a 4chan thread and a thread on a big subreddit is that if you disagree with the board hivemind you get told to kill yourself instead of downvoted, the former of which is actually even worse for discussion than a shitty reddit "hide everything I don't like!" mentality because it threatens to derail or simply destroy the thread in a wave of shitposting if the opinion is disliked enough.
Niche hugbox subreddits destroy even super-slow boards for actual serious discussion, mostly because Reddit being a more mainstream site and the presence of such niche communities will attract more actually knowledgeable people rather than a bunch of bikeshedding newfaggot shitposters and attention whores trying to get cheap (You)s.
disclaimer: I still fucking hate using Reddit for other reasons
>>379934
You say they are essentially the same and then you go on to talk about nothing but community behavior.
They are functionally different. All reddit would have to do is switch the _default_ from "best" to "new" (and also get rid of that abomination called gold) and reddit would become 100x more useable and we'd probably hate it less.
>inb4 why don't you just set it to "new" on your browser?
That's not an acceptable solution. It needs to be the default.
4chan wouldn't change much if they added an option to sort posts by most replies, but it would change a whole hell of a lot if they made that the default.
>>379939
>Everybody has to do things the way I like it or it's bad.
You know you can reply to somebody who isn't upvoted, and if they have something to say back to what you said, they'll reply back, right?
>>379942
Look, I get the feeling a lot of you are just looking at it on a case by case basis and how the voting system effects you immediately when you enter the thread or effects posts immediately after yours.
That's not necessarily where the dislike of that site comes from. When you look purely at the format itself on paper, that the site gives lazy minds an easy out to not have to think for themselves, it's not difficult to imagine that the site is crawling with groupthinkers who don't actually form their own opinions but just perpetuate what they know is popular to get the precious karma.
I don't even have to visit to know it's shit. In fact I've probably only gone there twice. It's broken in theory. I'm sure you can show me a good community, but that's not going to fix the concepts the site is based on.
>>379942
>the website isnt so bad if you use it like a incredibly small minority
Don't be a fucking retard, did you actually read what that anon said? Having the option to do order things differently means jackshit. What matters is by default the entire sort runs by whats the most popular upboated opinion
Including that, there are tons of other features on the site that are just outright bad. The entire site is by its nature, made for the express purpose of popular opinions, echo chambers and circlejerking. Its a very small minority that uses it differently
>>379955
Go back to /b/.
/qa/ is a really small part of 4chan.
/b/ is the true spirit of 4chan.
Go there and see what unfiltered content is like.
I'll wait.
>>379955
>Popular opinions
Good thing. You WANT the majority of users to be happy.
>echo chambers
People liking stuff you don't and not wanting to hear your shitposting is also a good thing. Also 4chan forms its own echo chambers just fucking fine.
>circlejerking
Another word for "getting along".
Downvoting a post is not as bad as telling people to kill themself. Kill yourself.
>>379958
>/b/ is the true spirit of 4chan.
holy shit you could not be more of a newfag
>>379961
>Popular opinions
>Good thing. You WANT the majority of users to be happy.
That's easy for you to say because I bet you're one of those faggots who changes your opinion to fit the majority.
>People liking stuff you don't and not wanting to hear your shitposting is also a good thing. Also 4chan forms its own echo chambers just fucking fine.
So why not just downvotes then. What purpose do upvotes serve in this?
>circlejerking
>Another word for "getting along".
I suppose that is how circlejerkers would have to look at it.
Meanwhile the rest of us just see it as an artificial attempt to create authority by all the cirlejerk members reinforcing whatever each other member says.
>>379961
>You WANT the majority of users to be happy.
>the most popular opinion is the only opinion that should be allowed
Only if the site is made for profit is this a good idea. As a community, its fucking retarded
>People liking stuff you don't and not wanting to hear your shitposting is also a good thing.
>people having a different opinions to the majority should be punished is a good thing
The difference between reddit and here, is that 4chans design doesn't fucking encourage echo chambers. The website, if anything, punishes you for trying to do echo chamber like shit
>Another word for "getting along".
That might be what it looks like if you are a circlejerker. But, to everyone else, it really does look artificial as hell to try and reinforce each others opinions and suck each others dick. Conflict is actually, amusing enough, good for any functioning community.
>>379962
What are rules if not filters for content?
>>376298
>trying to have serious discussions about anime
well there's your problem
>>379974
But what does that have to do with anything? You're the only one who mentioned unfiltered content. Are you trying to compare board rules to allowing voting on every post?
>>378299
>/r/anime discusses anime the way facebook discusses relationships
...So, they discuss anime?
I hate reddit's aforementioned down/upvote and reply hiding problems, but also imotbqhwyatmfam the layout is absolute dogshit.
The replies would often make more sense chronologically, and you can only reply to one post at a time so you end up with a hierarchically indented tree of comments, each branch descending into a circlejerk of its own.
I think as far as layout and the thread structure, 4chan's anachronistic style is far superior, especially with inline reply expansion etc. Also, 4chan is ostensibly for images.
>>380325
No, they shitpost oldbmemes for likes.
>>380939
Agreed, the main reason I don't visit reddit is the terrible layout
>>381064
?
Evidence?
I SMELL REDDIT IN HERE
>>376549
Reddit's voting system is not applicable to 4chan, and it's the biggest reason why Reddit sucks. Usernames are also a point of failure, and obviously don't exist on 4chan.
>>379934
>The only real difference between a 4chan thread and a thread on a big subreddit is that if you disagree with the board hivemind you get told to kill yourself instead of downvoted, the former of which is actually even worse for discussion than a shitty reddit "hide everything I don't like!" mentality because it threatens to derail or simply destroy the thread in a wave of shitposting if the opinion is disliked enough.
On 4chan you at least have to post something and open yourself up for counter-attack, while on Reddit you can anonymously downvote someone and he'll never know who did it and why. Downvoting is also contagious, and soon you'll find your post buried and hidden. If that happens enough times your account gets restricted to 1 post per 10 minutes which kills your ability to respond effectively. 4chan's a free-for-all for better or worse, while Reddit is engineered for censorship, groupthink and cowardice.
>>381446
>On 4chan you at least have to post something and open yourself up for counter-attack
This usually consists of mindlessly spamming canned memes at someone. Counterattacking spam is a total waste of time and means you have been trolled.
>>376110
Letting those lurker having power to manipulate the exposure of posts is really stupid.
There are 50 people trying to discuss this with you, all thanks to 4chan's format.
If I go to reddit and post "4chan is a better place than reddit"
I probably would just end up with some downvote.
I use both site though.
>>376110
>4chan
>Retarded memechildren with occasional discussion
>Retarded smug memechildren cliques circlejerking each other about how smart and funny they are while downvoting anything that doesn't match their faggotry, with ocasional discussion
Yep, gonna have to go with 4chains on this.
>>382102
Your sentence about 4chan could have included flamewars, and your reddit description could have included that said flamewars get downvoted.
>>381446
Make a new account.
You can make as many accounts as you want. They don't even require emails.
>>376115
>I have no idea how computers work.
Thank you, come again.
>>376298
Yeah, /r/anime is complete shit.
I find Reddit better for history and politics though since there is far less shitposting. (/r/Askhistorians is imo one of the best things on the internet)
I like the conversational style of posting on 4chan better though and I can't stand people downvoting opinions they don't like instead of downvoting shitposting.
Also /r/games is pleb as fuck.
>>382804
I don't really give a shit about anime, but other than that I agree with all of this.
>>376110
Maybe if you are very fixated on only thing but I would not browse 4chan if I did not like the EVERYTHING GOES chance when hitting F5. Of course I want shit to be ontopic of my interest and not just /b/, except if I go to /b/.
>>382804
>history is determined by the most popular ideas
seems about right.
I'll still stick to 4chan though, where even minority ideas are thrown in your face from time to time and the only way to make heads or tails of anything is to use your own brain.
I use Reddit every day but I don't post.
I just like to see whats going on over there for the topics I'm interested in.
Its much better for reading coherent discussions of things.
When I'm curious of the arguments going on, I just filter the comments by most controversial.
I mostly just come to 4chan for shitposting and reading funny shitposts.
>>381064
How is that any different to how /a/ has operated since 2008?
>>382801
All that would need to happen is IPs would be marked if they came from a reddit page. From that point when they try to post, it would flag an auto ban. This would stop people coming directly from reddit to 4chan. It wouldn't be all that hard to implement.
>>384111
>I mostly just come to 4chan for shitposting and reading funny shitposts.
Please stop coming here then, you are apart of the problem
>>382102
>implying 4chan isn't smug as shit
>>384145
I don't come here for you. I come here for me.
>>384151
>I mostly just come to 4chan for shitposting and reading funny shitposts.
>I don't come here for you. I come here for me.
Yet here you are on /qa/ of all places.
Just because you come here for you doesn't mean you have to try and change it into your personal summer home (which I'm guessing is why you're on /qa/ in the first place), not everyone has another site to call home like you do. Why don't you people just stay away from meta discussions here?
That goes for OP as well, what are you trying to achieve? Are you just concerned for our well being and want to show us the light or something? I'm flattered but we don't need your help.
>>384154
Sounds like a personal problem.
>>384155
Don't go acting all tsundere on me now. I know you care about me or you wouldn't be here in a thread that was created to save us poor 4chan users by preaching the gospel of reddit.
>>376447
>hates pedophilia but endorses violent racism
typical redditor contradictory morals
>>384165
Those morals aren't contradictory at all.
You can care about white children while hating black adults, Anon. Don't be stupid.
>>384111
Then you're part of the issue.
>>384326
So are you.
>>384554
"So are you." implies that the first poster is indeed an issue. He's not. "No, you are." would have been a better response.
>>384556
I disagree that he's not an issue.
Everybody is an issue. (And therefore nobody is.)
>>376407
4chan is also a hugbox/echo chamber but with different opinions
>>384111
Congrats, you're part of the problem
>>384562
Not my problem.
>>384562
No, you are.
Kinda why I left this place when 2010 rolled around. But after a year of playing in the popularity contest forum I decided Anonymous based posting was a better experience over all.
Gotta take the good with the bad.
