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Why are redditors like this? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a post on r/civ (Civilization games subreddit) showing a really funky shaped randomly generated river I saw and most comments were fine but one guy was convinced that I went through the comparatively monumental effort of opening the map editor and changing the river for karma, as opposed to just starting the game and taking a screenshot.

And just to top it off another guy saw the fact that my scout unit was in the far north of the map and went on an obscenely condescending diatribe about how "ackshually" I should be placing my units in the far south of the map because that way I can explore better and whatever the hell. Dude did not stop for one second to consider that maybe the scout that was in the far north was exploring the cool river and that I didn't waste any production points on him because I got him for free from a tribal village...

God every time I go on that website (because let's be honest not a whole lot of good communities here for what I'm interested in) I get excited to share something super innocent and then some total loser has to come and ruin it all.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not even mean, borderline conspiratorial in terms of fake stuff. I guess people have been "burned" a lot by fake stuff in the past, but even when something's fake they bring out every pitchfork available. It's like they don't understand the concept of entertainment. Not everything has to be real to be entertaining.

I think I've seen more internet rioting over fake stuff than I have over genuinely bad things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just had someone here accuse me of being part of an astroturfing campaign because I disagreed with them about FOSS licensing. At that point I just stop responding because there's no use having an argument about whether my entire comment history is just a facade to cover for my secretly paid-for opinions about FOSS.

I think that the "post-truth" world that is blossoming in Right-wing political circles, where incorrect facts are hand-waved away as "differences of opinion", is causing people elsewhere to react defensively and be very guarded against any actual differences of opinion, and some are overreacting and treating any difference of opinion as immediately suspect or even malicious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmy has a specific tech slant problem where inevitably if you post anything which is even tangentially tech related (such as sharing a spreadsheet on google), you will inevitably get someone complaining or ranting about big tech, providing a FOSS alternative, and typically chastising you for not knowing/doing better. I would say a good third to half of all comments we remove for not being nice is something cussing out someone else over a tech disagreement, which is a pretty wild problem to have.