Tigerdroppings vs Reddit

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It seems to me that TD could easily become the new Reddit

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Frick that.

TD is Reddit for people who hate gay and brown people.

What makes TD great is the balance. It has enough traffic to keep moving, but not so much that every topic gets buried. It’s got enough people to have some diversity of thought but it’s also small enough to still be somewhat intimate and community oriented. It’s small enough that the trolling is controllable with basic content moderation which keeps the blatant porn and n-word bombing out while keeping discussions from becoming too much of a circle-jerk. I also love how regional it is. The fact that a plurality of the user base lives (or used to live) in the same metro area makes TD feel homey. The fact that they’re mostly all united by a love of college sports also helps it to feel almost like a real community. I run into OTers in my daily life on a regular basis.

I think TD could benefit from a larger user-base, especially if it could get back to having more college-aged students at SEC schools again, but I wouldn’t like to see TD get too much larger than it currently is. A larger TD would require much more moderation, which would inevitably lead to the same sorts of echo-chambers we see on reddit where mods get over-powered egos.

eh i dont know. I think we're too demographic specific here (southern sports fans). I know it's grown to include other interests but thats a common denominator for a large majority of this boards traffic. Reddit was able to grow because it doesnt have those restrictions (at least on the surface, you can make the argument you have to be liberal to be accepted there).

Both collect like-minded individuals. We baws tend to lean a little more to the right than those nutjobs on Reddit.

reddit is over run by bots

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I use Reddit all the time - as an actual adult

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It's nice to have a consolidated space with all the various topics. But I kinda miss the old days where we had separate websites with very specialized messageboards. The problem with Reddit is that you get a lot of bullshite, lies, and kids trying to be funny.

There’s a lot of systems in place on reddit to silence dissenting views.

1. Mods can easily ban individuals from Individual subreddits. This gives mods the ability to curate who they allow to post.

2. If you’re below a certain threshold of “karma”, you’re restricted from posting/commenting. “Karma” is your balance of upvotes/downvotes that you receive. If your karma is low, you can’t post at all or can only post once in a blue moon. Same is true for commenting. High comment karma means you can comment as much as you want.

3. What posts are visible is based on karma rather than recency. Most upvoted posts and comments go to the top.

4. Reddit is full of bot accounts that exist to automatically upvote/downvote posts based on content to make sure certain topics are seen or not seen.

This all is done specifically to create progressive echo chambers and ensure conservative thoughts cannot be seen or even joked about.

TD is for me to call you a phaggot. Because you acting like one