A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

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    Needlessly censoring words like sex. It wasn’t necessary on Reddit and it certainly isn’t necessary now.

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      Censorship like that was introduced to make the platform appealing to advertisers. I’d say just don’t give power over how to run the platform to advertisers.

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      I agree. It’s absolutely absurd that would say something along the lines of “Fuck, I got r*ped, what do I do?”

      I’m of the opinion that you shouldn’t censor any words. If you feel the need to censor it, then just don’t say it. If you want to discuss it, then be able to say it. You should be able to say something like “X called Y a nigger”.

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      I find it absolutely mind blowing that people are generally accepting that as okay on most social media platforms.

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        I can only assume that people don’t understand why it was brought in on YouTube and TikTok in the first place because so many people do it when it isn’t remotely necessary. If you make your living posting on social media, then fair enough, I understand you need to fall inline with the rules of the platform. But why the hell would you self censor posts you don’t make money from? Utterly ridiculous.

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          All they know is that The Algorithm won’t show their posts if they use those words. How anyone can understand that and not see how incredibly fucked up that is, though, I don’t know.

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    Not just frequent jokes, but those annoying ever-repeating jokes. Like as if 80% of users were the same person. Before opening any post on Reddit, there is a good chance to be able to correctly predict the exact content of a significant portion of the comments. I get that it can be funny to an individual to come across stuff like “I also choose this guys wife” or “And my axe” more than once. But for people like me, who did not just start using the website, it is really annoying to come across the same jokes literally hundreds of times.

    This goes hand in hand with the general idea of a “Reddit hivemind”. Depending on the subs you visit, you can see that Reddits userbase is actually really diverse. There are people from every demographic with all kinds of different life experiences. But in a lot of subs, anytime a woman is mentioned there is a flood of people acting like as if there are no women on the internet and as if no person using Reddit could have a girlfriend. Again, I get that it can be funny once or twice. But when the idea that every user must be a typical “Redditor” gets repeated all the time it’s just annoying. Needless to say that I don’t look forward to being called a “Lemming” on this site.

    Also, repeating comments on the same post. Obviously you don’t have to read all the comments if there are already hundreds of them. But if there are too many comments saying the exact same thing it just gets harder to read them all. So it would be nice if people would look whether the point they want to make maybe has been made already. They can increase that comment’s visibility by upvoting. No need to make other people read the same content multiple times and by that make it harder to read different comments.

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    I hope to see less song lyric comment chains on completely unrelated posts. Also I don’t know why, but I always hated the whole, ‘my partner, let’s call them blank (not real name)’ thing.

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      The thing about comment chains is you can collapse them so don’t see anything wrong. Let people have their fun and sense of connection with strangers on the internet.

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    Ending community names with “porn”, so earthporn, designporn always kinda bugged me for some reason. I like porn. I like beautiful non-porn pictures of nature and awesome design too. I just don’t know why we need to conflate them or use the term ‘porn’ as shorthand.

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      Because it’s cheeky shorthand that conveys a certain aesthetic fixation with whatever the subject matter is. It’s certainly more interesting than just appending “pics” to everything. I’m open to alternatives, but language changes, and I’ve already gotten so used to it I don’t even think of actual pornography first when I hear the term.

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    Repetitive over posting of same content (looking at you Dadario) across channels/instances.

    Fake stories made up for engagement (be it poop stories or fake cum-related bullshit aimed at mouth breathing teens)

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      You do spend a lot of time parroting made up things about people.

      Maybe don’t walk the duck walk if you don’t want to get called a Nazi?

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    The culture of misspelling lose with loose, excusing it and down-voting to oblivion anyone that dares point out the mistake. “Sorry, is that wrong? English is my second means of communicating with other Homo Sapiens and it was an honest typographical error on my part. Please accept my sincerest apologies.” (original comment remains unedited to fix the typo)