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For me, it's the system of voting on comment quality that makes Reddit hard to use. It turns it into a game and popularity contest, rather than a discussion. The whole thing ends up out of chronological order, which is fine for "what is the answer to this question?" type posts about, like, woodworking or computer repair where there probably is a correct answer, but pretty bad for "what's the best politics?" type discussions that turn factional and echo-chambered fast
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I feel like Reddit is fine for finding fun videos or things where people are really talking to each other, like AITA content style threads. But for anything that requires discussion, it's useless.
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Apr 24, 2022 17:10
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Yeah it's fine if you want to just pop in and see if anyone's playing good music at the moment, or read Hobbydrama or something, but I could never make it my main 'social media' thing. I'd a hundred times rather just stay here.
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Honestly - I only use Reddit in lieu of ‘googling’ something. Like checking if some new service is any good - reviews of things. Checking if something is legit or a scam. Usually I’ll find a handful of useful comments and then the rest of it are junk comments and ‘jokes.’
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Ritz On Toppa Ritz posted:Honestly - I only use Reddit in lieu of ‘googling’ something. Yeah, I similarly use Reddit as the useful version of, say, googling "how do I cancel X subscription"; top results will include the actual companies FAQ, which will be worthless, and also a reddit page that clearly explains where to go and what to do.
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Reddit is about as navigable as it always was, ie. not very, but it's largely stayed the same for 15 years while all other sites have gotten much worse.
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I was watching the season 4 Simpsons Treehouse of Horror last night. Homer goads the viewer into "shutting off" the TV, so the screen goes dark, except for a small light dot in the middle that gradually fades away.
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Apr 27, 2022 15:37
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modern samsung tvs play a little animation thats supposed to look like that effect when you turn em off. its alive
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Apr 28, 2022 14:03
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Reddit: Quora by any other name.
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Tiggum posted:Adults not being able to figure out how to use a VCR always bewildered me as a child (and still does, looking back) because literally all I did was read the instructions and do what it said. Then relay those instructions to the adult who had requested my help in the vain hope that they'd be able to do it themself the next time. Similarly, my aunt just recently had me set up a new computer for her (ie. plug it in, turn it on, and follow the on-screen prompts). Thanks to the pandemic, the computer had been sitting, unused, for two years, because she couldn't possibly have figured it out on her own. She's been using computers for literally decades but is somehow convinced that if she turns on a new one it'll spontaneously break. I had to do all the VCR programming because neither of my parents could be made to understand 24 hour time.
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My parents will complain that whichever device they are used "just stopped working!" and demand that I come and fix it. 9 times out of 10, when i get there, the device will have a big old pop-up in the middle of the screen explaining in full detail what it wrong and how fix it. Literally reading clear and concise instructions is apparently an impossible task.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I had to do all the VCR programming because neither of my parents could be made to understand 24 hour time. My parents were of the "Don't hook that up! It'll mess up the TV!" era.
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May 1, 2022 12:27
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wesleywillis posted:I never liked the format of reddit. It's youtube comment section, for things other than Youtube. With all the negatives that come with it, namely there's no community, and no possibility of even forming a community, as all interactions are by design ephemeral at best, transactional at worst.
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Pookah posted:My parents will complain that whichever device they are used "just stopped working!" and demand that I come and fix it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Knowing this, I more than once tried to pre-empt it with "Okay, can you tell me what it says on the screen?" and got "'File, edit, view, history, bookmarks...'"  A message popped up on the screen and now it's not working. OK, what did it say? I don't know. I didn't read it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Knowing this, I more than once tried to pre-empt it with "Okay, can you tell me what it says on the screen?" and got "'File, edit, view, history, bookmarks...'"
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Mister Kingdom posted:My parents were of the "Don't hook that up! It'll mess up the TV!" era.
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Tiggum posted:As the family Computer Understander I always hated the inevitable exchange This post filled me with untold swathes of sense-memory. In my mind I heard the hundreds of times I've had this exchange. I could just see how often I've been actively reading an error message only for my sister* to reflexively click it closed. *or whatever, this is a specific memory.
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I still don't know why, but a lot of older folks seem to have learned computer things in "blind, rote memorization" mode, instead of in "figure it out" mode. Put them in a rental car where the headlights and window controls and radio are all in different places from what they're used to, and they'll just look it over, maybe try a few things, and easily figure it all out. But if a Windows update comes in that changes the look of the taskbar or puts the web browser in a slightly different spot, they're completely helpless.
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Tiggum posted:As the family Computer Understander I always hated the inevitable exchange My colleagues put me through this nonsense daily. 
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Xiahou Dun posted:This post filled me with untold swathes of sense-memory. In my mind I heard the hundreds of times I've had this exchange. I could just see how often I've been actively reading an error message only for my sister* to reflexively click it closed. There's no option to save the error message to a file, and people have to know how to arbitrarily trigger a screenshot (if that was even an option, because it hasn't always been a thing do on all previous versions of Windows), write down the message in full (and not get it wrong), or take a picture of the screen, or they have to know which programs support ^c to copy the message into the clipboard (now we're getting into what's effectively arcane magic incantations). None of these are the correct ways to handle an error that's important enough that you think the user needs to know it, yet not also provide a proper logging environment (yes, Windows logging has gotten better, but it's still absolute poo poo if you want to find an error a user reported at some point in the past).
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In the user’s defence, the error message is usually not worded with an user in mind. “Memory exception at dx0000000FF” yeah ok sure.
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https://twitter.com/BenKuchera/status/1520535834331697155 Not media but it kinda fits I guess
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56K or GTFO.
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Blue Moonlight posted:56K or GTFO.  Blue Moonlight posted:56K? GTFO. 
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Violet_Sky posted:https://twitter.com/BenKuchera/status/1520535834331697155 Personally, I hate that I looked at that photo and "rj-11, duh" immediately popped into my head Also not a huge fan of knowing what rj stands for, either
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postmodifier posted:Also not a huge fan of knowing what rj stands for, either you can call it Ray, or you can call it Jay
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That's not an RJ-11 receptacle, it's an RJ-14 
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Is it POTS? Is it dry loop DSL? Is it ISDN?
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KozmoNaut posted:That's not an RJ-11 receptacle, it's an RJ-14  6P4C (or maybe 6P6C, if it also carries power).  ExcessBLarg! posted:Is it POTS? Is it dry loop DSL? Is it ISDN? BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 18:09 on May 3, 2022 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:My parents were of the "Don't hook that up! It'll mess up the TV!" era. I swear a lot of older people would sooner let you cut off the water to their house than disrupt the TV in any way. SA is superior to Reddit if only for charging a nominal fee, thus filtering out a lot of the children/assholes (I know better than to say all).
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Also having site-wide probations and bans. The fact that you can only get banned from individual subreddits makes for fewer consequences for being a dick.
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SA also doesn't tell you there are 47 posts in a thread and then only let you see 12 of them.
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What even IS that? I thought I was the only one it happened to.
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Drimble Wedge posted:What even IS that? I thought I was the only one it happened to.
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Radium code so bad it causes issues on Reddit
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Flipperwaldt posted:Radium code so bad it causes issues on Reddit
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Flipperwaldt posted:Radium code so bad it causes issues on Reddit Where else would you keep the load bearing slurs?
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Mister Kingdom posted:My parents were of the "Don't hook that up! It'll mess up the TV!" era. I mean old TVs really just kind of worked by magic. I remember adjusting antennas and then as you stepped a foot away, losing all reception. Hell, I had a buddy whose family had two TVs on top of each other. What had happened was that the TV on the bottom had died. Straight up wouldn't turn back on. So they called in a TV repairman who did all he could, but the TV was dead, need to buy a new TV. So they went a bought a newer smaller TV, and while putting that in the living room, they just put it on top of the old TV, which instantly caused the old TV to turn back on. So of course they figured, hey, loose wire and tried adjusting it thinking they could fix it, but nope. The only way the bottom TV worked was if the other smaller TV was on top of it. So they just rolled with it, and used it for gameday parties.
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