I just experienced a case where I submitted a news article that had not yet been submitted. I got downvoted, someone else submitted it and now it's flying upwards. Definitely the most rage-inducing experience I've had on here, considering I don't submit things very often.
Posted Nov 29, 2009, 9:40 PM UTC
Girls who make sure that everyone knows that they're a girl so they can get attention from girl deprived guys and acquire more upvotes for lame ass comments.*
People who tell (probably made up) stories about how badass they are (for example: My boss told me to do some shit job so I told him to go fuck himself. Then I punched him in his face even though he's a professional boxer. He was in such awe of me that he gave me a promotion)
*I have a vagina. If you upvote this, maybe I'll let you see it.
My boss told me to do some shit job so I told him to go fuck himself. Then I punched him in his face even though he's a professional boxer. He was in such awe of me that he gave me a promotion)
This happened to me once, except that my boss wasn't a professional boxer. He was a military robot with rocket launchers for arms. Can I see your vagina now?
Maybe! I am a girl, after all. Did I mention that? I'm a girl and I love nerds or whatever. Sign up under another name just so you can upvote me again and then I might consider showing you my vagina.
But how will you know for sure it was me that upvoted you on my second account? Better just show me that vagina in any case.
You make a valid point. But like, just do it anyway. Then tell me that you did it. Then I'll ignore your replies/PMs because I'm just dangling my vagina in front of you for upvotes (I hope you enjoy that mental picture I just painted you)
"My boss told me to do some shit job so I told him to go fuck himself. Then I punched him in his face even though he's a professional boxer. He was in such awe of me that he gave me a promotion"
This happened to me once but my boss wasn't a professional boxer, he was a quadraplegic, and it wasn't my actually my boss it was a 10 years old kid.
I bet he was in awe of you
I just hate how when you do happen to mention you're female, everyone is suddenly like, "SINCE WEN R DERE GIRLZ ON REDDIT OMG."
What the fuck?
ugh, agreed. i hate when people automatically assume i'm male and force presumptions on me because of it.
I have a vagina
Fleshlight doesn't count
*I have a vagina. If you upvote this, maybe I'll let you see it.
Homey don't play that. Goods first, karma later.
upvoted
Two things:
Downvoting perfectly thoughtful and interesting comments simply because people disagree with them. I can see downvoting some idiot whose entire argument amounts to "lol ur wrong," but downvoting tends to have nothing to do with how good a comment actually is an entirely with how many people agree with it.
Shit comments that seem to come straight from digg itself. This includes "this!" "upvoted for [insert obvious upvote reason here]" "lol" and "I LOGGED IN JUST TO UPVOTE THIS!!!".
If I ever see someone making even a halfway decent argument and they have 0 or less points, I upvote them.
I don't think we should pay women for aborted fetuses to be used as fuel but fuck if I can find any logical fallacies in your argument. Upvote.
the production of fetus-fuel is very inefficient, not cost-effective
That's what I tell all fetus-fuel proponents. But most of them don't want to hear it. To them, it's all "Drill the baby, drill!"
apart from those bags of organic sun-dried fetus briquettes that you get for barbeques, but they don't smell as good as the charcoal ones
The only way arguments can be bad is if they have logical fallacies?
I was being facetious. :/
Oh. That makes more sense. My apologies.
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This, and people making multiple accounts to downvote you multiple times across all your posts. sigh
This, I thought we already went over not doing it in this thread, fuck!
People have done this two me several times. I just remember that I'm really sad for noticing anyway.
People who downvote innocent spelling mistakes like 'too' and 'to'.
P.S. Downvoted for spelling.
Two. You're move.
The first only really happens to me when I argue with either the pro Israel crowd or tell the atheism zealots that they're equally annoying as religious ones.
At that point I figure they have so much invested in their worldview that if downvoting my opinion really means that much to them, I might as well let them have their little victory.
Funny, it seems to only happen to me when I argue with the pro-Palestinian crowd.
Try to compare how many "F***K ISRAEL" comments are in the double digits versus anything (and I do mean anything) negative about Hamas.
EDIT: as for the Atheists? Ignorant zealots for the most part. Try being critical of Dawkins for teh lulz.
EDIT: as for the Atheists? Ignorant zealots for the most part. Try being critical of Dawkins for teh lulz.
Heh, I got downvoted when I said he hadn't accomplished as much scientifically as Tesla, Darwin, Einstein or Turing, and that Bill Nye and Stephen Hawking were better at taking science to the masses.
I get that noise from libertarians, marijuana activists, and the Ron Paul Flavor-Aid drinkers, as well.
I almost never downvote, but sometimes if I get an argument with someone and can tell they downvoted me because they have a different angle, I downvote them to keep the momentum neutral.
I agree. Fuck all of those things.
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lol ur wrong.
The sexism.
I know! Things would be much easier if we just banned women so no one would be offended.
Have fun raging. All the sexism you will ever need.
reddit.com/r/mensRights/comments/9wqj9/iv_come_to_the_conclusion_that_most_women_are_not/
You know, I always knew reddit was sexist. But that bad? Shit.
However, that SubReddit looks like it's decided that's not their opinion overall, thus being voted at this time at -10. Are there severe outliers? Yes, but there always are in any gathering.
Yeah, but it's still pretty damn depressing. :/ And it might just be getting a lot of traffic from other reddits to specifically vote it down.
I'v also posted it several times in threads regarding sexism. A lot of people have been downvoted that were originally upvoted, etc
You're not going to like r/BashLadies very much.
that was a fun trip down crazy lane, thank you
I was going to say this... and then I was expecting to be down voted.
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Bitch be tellin' lies.
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It's the internet, stop crying and whining.
Intolerance of opposing viewpoints.
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I do not realize your error and shall make the same one quite soon.
DOWNVOTED BECAUSE YOU ARE WRONG
I feel your pain. Reddit, for me at least, has become a lot better, though less useful, since I unsubscribed from r/politics, r/gaming, and r/worldnews.
Reddit used to be a site where all opinions were welcome, but now everything that doesn't agree with the main idea gets downvoted and treated as not valid.
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The following common trends (repost)
If a guy says something horrible about women, he is totally justified. He is either being funny, or obviously right.. If a woman says something horrible about men, she is a stupid cunt feminist, and must be down voted into oblivion.
Speaking of which, women only care about money. They will marry you, have your babies, divorce you, steal all of the money they married you for, and make sure you never see your kids again. Anyone who defends them is a "white knight" that has been brainwashed by the feminist agenda..or a feminist cunt.
Smokers are all horrible people. If someone you know smokes, you have every right to disrespect them and do everything you can to make them quit; even if that means ditching them or threatening them. If you don't TOTALLY HATE smoking, you are a piece of shit.
If there is a popular movie out there that isn't academy award worthy, it's okay to down vote and flame people who like it. If someone mentions that they like a pop punk/catchy band, they have no taste and deserve to be down voted. It can't be that music appreciation is subjective.
And of course, the fact that Mac users are considered smug assholes, and Linux users somehow are not. That is a load of crap.
Mac users are considered smug assholes, and Linux users somehow are not
Actually, everyone on reddit is a smug asshole.
I totally think that most of us are smug in some way or another, but computer fans remind me a lot of sports fans. I don't know if you've ever been in Illinois during a "Bears VS Packers" game, but listening to people on reddit talk about computers sometimes kind of reminds me of that.
I'm not sure I want to be involved in a Bears VS Packers game... not that there's anything wrong with that.
I live in Chicago. I accept your comparison.
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Well, they're both smug.
However, Windows people are obviously the best. Nothing better than Windows 7. I could just talk and talk about how great Windows is. Bill Gates is a genius. Everyone should love him forever.
We're all smug in some way. Don't worry.
If someone mentions that they like a pop punk/catchy band, they have no taste and deserve to be down voted. It can't be that music appreciation is subjective.
Spend less time in /music and more in /listentothis.
Pun threads and memes. They need to fall from #1 faster.
Sew, you don't like pun threads??
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But they seam fun.
Puns are nice and all, but I prefer to hear a good yarn
even from knitwits?
I don't not like them, but they take up about a screen of space that could have insightful comments. Then the insightful comments don't get as many upmods because everyone is busy expanding or upmodding the pun thread.
Use the 'best' sort for comments instead of 'top' and you'll never see them at #1 again.
The arrow part or the whole concept? In case you are wondering, the reason it is there is for both performance and layout reasons. If a thread could go infinitely wide, your screen would explode, and if a thread could go infinitely deep, our servers would explode.
If you are talking about the arrow on top of the words, we'll fix that tomorrow. It was an artifact of making our most used images part of a single image (ie. spriting).
I was talking about the arrow over the words, should have clarified. reddit at large may be upvoting me because of the whole concept.
If you are talking about the arrow on top of the words, we'll fix that tomorrow.
You guys are awesome.
So, is that why the voting arrows are cut off halfway at strange times?
Probably related to the same sprite change. Can you send a screenshot?
I'll try to remember to take one the next time I see it happen.
I would like if, maybe, you would just have to click the expand comments button once to get all comments, or at least have the option. I think it'd be a good middle ground too for server management, as probably only a few people actually would want to see comments at the bottom of any particular thread.
Oh good. It just so happens that I recently change the DPI on my screen and assumed that was the reason it was doing that. Also, why don't all your comments have the scarlet "A"?
We turn on the A when it we are speaking officially (or it makes for a good joke).
Will this fix it? I'm procrastinating and have been tinkering with CSS lately.
.deepthread {
background-position:135px -285px;
}
Or will this not work as the text would render differently on different screens?
In all honesty though the actual most infuriating thing is that, for some reason I give a crap about dust in my trophy case, and my karma, and orangered envelopes, and the opinions of random people on the internet.
We are all a group of sad lonely individuals.
Or, in my case, someone with too much free time.
I'm convinced the whole trophy thing was designed to make Saydrah happy. You can only get one by being her.
How to get awards like Saydrah:
Dump ALL of your opinions on a particular subject in EVERY SINGLE COMMENT YOU LEAVE.
Do this often.
i loved my New User trophy, and they took it away from me ... i wasn't ready to give it up, and my grief was exacerbated by the cruel addition of dust to my trophy case
those reddit admins are using Tough Love on us reddit babies :o
A large amount of intolerance to non-reddit supported views. To portray any kind of opposing argument on reddit and not get downvoted into oblivion is to veil it behind pounds and pounds of sympathy towards the other side of the argument.
Fuck narwhals.
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I'm probably going to get downvoted for this but ....
And then they get upvoted. But if they hadn't said that, would they have been?
Probably not.
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i think maybe it says that so that you know it's not an error in loading the page
It is an error. You press next on the front page and poof, "there doesn't seem to be anything here." I understand that paging through a rapidly changing list is hard, but it's infuriating.
oh sorry, i thought you meant getting that message when there really is nothing to load, as if it was like taunting you :o)
yeah it really highlights the emptiness of life.
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that is a very good point, it wouldn't get on the front page unless a whole load of people had missed it the first time round ... what we need here is more tolerance for people who are enjoying something for the first time ... like, if you've seen it before, just scroll on by ...
First, the "load more comments" function. Once a post has more than 200 comments, you know that there's a pretty good chance anything you say will be lost in the load more comments abyss.
Second, fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu. There are typically about 10 of these on the front page.
Third, the obsession with Sarah Palin. I realize this will pass, and then Reddit will get obsessed with someone else that they love to hate.
Fourth, the "fap" or "I'd hit it" comments to any post that includes a reference to anything female.
Fifth, the same tired old posts and comments in atheism subreddit.
You can fix a few of those issues by unsubscribing.
You're right. I just removed fffffffuuuuu from my frontpage reddits. I guess it's put there by default, but now hopefully it's out of my life forever.
I typically enjoy reading the atheist reddit, or i used to, and don't really want to unsubscribe. I just wish the discussions there would rise to the level of which atheists are capable.
I think you just got hit by the downvote phenomenon.
Probably because you said you enjoyed the atheist subreddit which is our official black sheep and pool of sub-human slime.
First, the "load more comments" function. Once a post has more than 200 comments, you know that there's a pretty good chance anything you say will be lost in the load more comments abyss.
You can increase your default to 500. And also, the default sort for most users is the "best" sort, which gives even comments made after #200 a pretty good chance of being seen.
I prefer sorting by "hot" because it means comments made recently will have an even better chance of being seen. Err, I think.
You would be incorrect. You have a better chance of seeing new stuff using the "best" sort.
My life is ruined.
oh how ironic, there is a ''load more comments'' option under this post ... i find that if i get to the bottom of the page and try to load more comments, my computer gets mega-distressed and usually gives up trying to load, so i never get to see them
The United States self-hate.
The constant bemoaning about how bad fox news is.
The ridiculously over the top hatred for religion.
its like reddit wants to suck Europe's dick
Sorry, we don't date fat people.
Oh snap!
Well... you could do worse.
All the articulate, well thought-out responses make me feel like an idiot. I'm cool with it though, the feelings of insecurity and inferiority are a small price to pay for everything I've learnt here.
I'm not cool with it at all. I wish I was smarter, so that I could dish out pwnage like the best of em.
Shit. You are on the internet; how hard is it to do a google/wikipedia search? At least you could make a shitty straw man argument like most people do.
No, do not encourage him! I will stab you with a rusty fork!
The shoehorning of anti-religious sentiment into threads where it has no or little place.
I unsubscribed from r/atheism for a reason.
Yeah, I tend to agree. I thought it was so awesome to find a place to discuss atheism without being harassed, but here it's the same handful of stuff stuck on repeat with a sprinkle of new events from time to time.
Shoehorning religion into random conversations is never cool, unless somebody is making a damn good point (Hint: If you think it's close to being relevant, it's not)
It's getting so that I'm thinking of unsubscribing from r/science.
The DAE's that many people obviously do.
DAE breathe oxygen?
The popular redditors everybody seems love (except for CuntSmellersINC).
Alright, I've got nothing against these people personally, but it makes me wonder if these people would receive as many upvotes for their comments if they used another username.
They most certainly would not.
I find it sad that people spend enough time on this site to recognize individual commenters to that level.
I only really recognize a few names. Usually they are the novelty names or names that have other reason for having attention brought to them. I normally don't see names often enough to remember them. I wonder if anybody knows my name...
I like seeing people I "know." Makes me feel a little closer to reddit.
I know you! You're that dentist!
I know you too!
I hate when I go to upvote some sweet comment, and it turns out to be Karmanaut.
I actually have alternate usernames that I switch to occasionally, and my alternates have a higher average comment rating than mine.
(you can find your average rating here)
Mine is 3, yours is 12.
I will now downvote all your comments to make my average closer to yours.
It'll probably take a while, and I'll need a few more accounts.
Atheist crying and moaning topics.
Stuff about Digg.
When horridly written liberal comments get upvoted (I'm talking to you Mr. "REPUBLITARDS SUX!!!!") and their conservative counterparts, no matter how well documented, are put into the corner.
I hate when people get upvotes for comments such as:
Dumb comments drive me crazy.
Upvoted for making me lol after seeing what you did there
11/29/2009
Dear Diary,
Today it happened. Every day I would see him pass by. Everyone loved him. Everyone, diary. I was never cool enough for him, never popular enough. Sure, I created the r/DAE subreddit, but what's that to someone with 110,000+ comment karma? He was completely out of my league. Do you know how many novelty accounts have been made to resemble his name? Too many to count on one hand. Guess how many 'KeyboardHero' novelty accounts have been created, diary. That's right, zero.
But today something magical happened. Today he commented on one of my comments. It wasn't even that spectacular of a comment that I made, just some thoughts I quickly typed out. But he saw something special in it, he saw something worth replying to. I will never forget this day, never. I think....I think I need to take a break and go sit down diary, I'm growing faint.
Yours truly,
KH
Upvoted for not knowing about me.
Upvoted for not knowing about me.
scans down list
Screw you guys.
Do I get a diary entry too? :)
11/30/2009
Dear Diary,
Do you remember my entries from 5/23/09, 8/2/09 and 9/14/09? They have all come true. Today a reddit admin replied to one of my comments! Did you hear me, diary? A reddit admin. Can you believe it? But that's not the best part of the story. Are you ready for it? It was jedberg that made the comment. jedberg. There are very few names on this earth that make my heart flutter when I see them printed before me. This is one of them, diary. Raldi is great and a fantastic admin I'm sure, but to see the one and only jedberg single out my comment for response...it was as if a rainbow had sprouted from my laptop screen and hit me straight in the eyes.
If only you could read his reply, my leather-bounded friend. His words were graceful and tact, direct yet gentle. I may have even sensed some jealousy that I dedicated my first reddit diary entry to karmanaut. I don't think that could be the case however, because jedberg has one thing that karmanaut lacks: the scarlet A. A proclamation that he is jedberg, ruler of all things reddit. A declaration that his comment has weight and significance in the grand scheme of things. A sign that....oh my, I must stop myself diary, I'm becoming quite flustered. Guess what else, diary? He even gave me an ASCII smiley! You know what that means, don't you diary? Oh of course you do, you know me so well.
And to think, now I can give him an orangered envelope, sent from my inbox to his! Oh to be a fly on the wall of his room, to see his reaction when he reads this entry. Do you think he will smile in delight and laugh at my childish reddit romance? Or do you think he will look upon me as 'just another user', thrown into the throngs of other jedberg fanatics. Only time will tell diary. Only time will tell.
Until we meet again,
KH
:(
Pff. You're not spez.
Someday, you might.
that'll be a real red letter day
Fuck Rome.
wink
swoon
I'll never be as good as you...
:-(
Trademark infringement. Consider yourself served.
I lol'd
I see what you did there
Not to ruin your magic moment, but statistically speaking, someone with 110,000+ karma has likely replied to most people.
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I actually don't like karmanaut that much. He is the Jay Leno of reddit humor and rarely says much that is insightful.
I disagree to an extent. His insightful to not-insightful comment ratio is terrible, but I've read a few very good comments from him. The silly one-liners and obvious jokes that get upvoted simply because he made them first are the comments that you see most often, though.
And really, you have to admire his determination.
he is a legend, he can get over 200 points just for laughing ... in my religion, we believe that when he has gained 1 million points, he will become the messiah and save the world
... join us ... join us ...
Awww :(
Well hello there :)
You fucking rule for this
"This"
I thought it was one of the other karmanaut knock-offs just because how douchebaggy that was, bro. I've just seen your real metal today.
Damn you for succeeding where others have failed! Take your upvote and move along now. GOOD DAY SIR!
I see what you did there and I lol'd so I upvoted you.
You forgot the infamous "I can't upvote this enough"
Seriously, that doesn't even fucking make sense
Actually, that does. What doesn't make sense is the notion of upvoting harder (ie "CAN"T UPVOTE HARD ENOUGH!!!!)
Well, to be fair, it could break the mouse.
Oh, but it does, for those who wish more than a single upvote upon the post, yet cannot, forever cursed to the anguish of one among the masses
I can't upvote this enough
I see what you did there.
Upvoted for popular meme usage.
I hate:
This.
Good to know I'm not the only one.
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I hate when people get upvotes for comments such as:
I hate when people get upvotes for comments such as:
Replying in order to save.
Reported in order to save, didn't work. Now, replying in order to save. Also, saving (as a backup) in order to save. (just kidding, I wouldn't report anyone)
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Upvoted for "Upvoted for (something I found funny that is obviously funny to everyone reading the previous comment)"
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