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A subreddit is a community - if you don’t like the norms, go to a different one. It’s like going to someone’s party and loudly asking why they all like such lousy music – nothing positive is going to come from it. In many cases, it’s not even entertainingly weird - more like “you should try something good. You probably haven’t heard of my favorite band before but look them up. Nickleback.”

Note also how I mentioned people repeating low-effort arguments. The tedium comes from the stream of people who come, repeat someone else’s idea, aren’t prepared or willing to engage intellectually, and whine about censorship when nobody finds that compelling. Anyone who spends much time in a particular forum can recognize that and see that there’ll be very little value from engaging. We see that a lot here where people complain that HN is biased against cryptocurrency because the response to “have you accepted our lord and savior bitcoin into your heart?” was not well received by people who remember the exact same claims being made a decade ago.



> The tedium comes from the stream of people who come, repeat someone else’s idea, aren’t prepared or willing to engage intellectually

This is 99% of Reddit though.




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