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		Reddit user who confessed to murder turns out to be a liar. I can't believe it. I just can't believe someone would go on the internet and tell lies (dailymail.co.uk)		17
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thomps		2013-04-10 12:56:05 AM

7 votes:

i guess we'll never know the truth, because i murdered OP and his sister. now please kindly vote for this post as both smart and funny.

Fair_Poopsmith		2013-04-10 02:19:30 AM

2 votes:

Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

thiefofdreams		2013-04-10 03:36:53 AM

1 votes:

Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general. Yes, attention whoring looms large. But man. As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years. It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.

I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion. I've never felt like people shouldn't be expressing contrary ideas, it's just offensive when it steamrolls in over something that's an on-topic discussion taking place. I think you're confusing the people I'm talking about with "people I don't agree with." I'm not talking about a guy who keeps posting screeds wholeheartedly defendin ...

The reason the ignore function is superior is that you alone can decide what you read and not read. On reddit you have to scroll down to see what differing views are. On fark, I see them right in the order they were posted. Also, it gets rid of that person from your list on any thread you read, so ignore is superior in that it only affect you.

This whole idea that people need to be downvoted because you don't like what they say is exactly why I don't frequent reddit. I just don't like others deciding what I should read and in what order.

As for censorship, having to scroll down sometimes numerous pages effect everyone in the thread, ignore only effects you.

Fair_Poopsmith		2013-04-10 03:28:55 AM

1 votes:

thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general. Yes, attention whoring looms large. But man. As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years. It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

So stick to the topics and use the ignore function. They are there so you don't have to roll your eyes.

I personally would rather know what kind of crazy there is out there, instead of reading the same Ron Paul is god thread over and over again.

Quality discussion is differing views being aired and discussed. At reddit this doesn't happen. Unpopular view points are voted down. The reason you probably found it more agreeable is because the reddit political threads tend to lean your political way. That would be my guess then.

Perhaps you should just realize that morons post shiat on the net, and ignore is a great function.

I feel like using an ignore function is far more akin to censorship than to have to scroll down to see what most people considered poor discussion. I've never felt like people shouldn't be expressing contrary ideas, it's just offensive when it steamrolls in over something that's an on-topic discussion taking place. I think you're confusing the people I'm talking about with "people I don't agree with." I'm not talking about a guy who keeps posting screeds wholeheartedly defending his ridiculous opinion, I'm talking about people who get off on simply ruining shiat.

Duck_of_Doom		2013-04-10 03:22:22 AM

1 votes:

thenumber5: his sister sound like a stuck up prat

Or, she realizes the brother's stupidity and doesn't want her information linked to him. Especially on the Internet.

Fair_Poopsmith		2013-04-10 03:20:37 AM

1 votes:

thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.

Yeah, it sure would be awful to shut down a minority opinion that lends itself to discussion and is so well thought out as this http://www.fark.com/comments/7690404/83509669#c83509669

Sometimes kids need to be put to bed so the grownups can talk. Not all opinions are worth listening to.

So reddit users are cool with censoring those ideas that they disagree with. Many that is some 1st amendment freedoms right there. This is the place that supposedly has a hardon for Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the father of the dissenting view, but you couldn't tell that by reading reddit.

Let the fools open their mouths and show themselves to be fools, is a better way to deal with it. Instead reddit takes the bury your head in the sad approach.

If you go out to dinner with your friends, and eventually crowd out the guy saying racist shiat, you're not censoring him. Somebody's words being deemed ridiculous or unhelpful isn't the same as someone being silenced.

Fair_Poopsmith		2013-04-10 03:17:58 AM

1 votes:

thiefofdreams: As for not attention whoring, are you reading the thread. It is about someone doing just that on reddit. Also, didn't reddit just get done with a some pedo-teacher snapping shots of girls in school and posting them?

Sounds like a great site, but just ask redditors they will tell you how much more awesome they are. Kinda like you are doing right now.

I'm talking about politics threads specifically, not Reddit in general. Yes, attention whoring looms large. But man. As someone who Farked more than a few hours a day from September 2001 and TFing about half as long, there really is more quality discussion happening in those threads than in our Politics threads for the past 4 years. It took me a bit of convincing, but it's nice not to have to constantly roll my eyes at people who get off on throwing discussions off track.

Fair_Poopsmith		2013-04-10 03:11:03 AM

1 votes:

J. Frank Parnell: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls are shut down before they kill politics threads.

Politics threads deserve to be killed. And all they're really doing is 'shutting down' those with minority opinions, which upset the established teams who make up the majority. Protecting the status quo was never so cool.

Yeah, it sure would be awful to shut down a minority opinion that lends itself to discussion and is so well thought out as this http://www.fark.com/comments/7690404/83509669#c83509669

Sometimes kids need to be put to bed so the grownups can talk. Not all opinions are worth listening to.

fugeeface		2013-04-10 03:08:52 AM

1 votes:

Fair_Poopsmith		2013-04-10 02:59:58 AM

1 votes:

thiefofdreams: Fair_Poopsmith: gingerjet: Fair_Poopsmith: Wall_of_Doodoo: Fark.... Really? What's a 'reddit'?

A magical place where trolls rational people are shut down by ron paulians before they kill correct politics threads.

FTFY

Whoa, really? I largely bailed out of here during the last election cycle when politics threads were ended before they even had a chance to begin (by the same dozen or so people every time) and found myself really pleased with the amount of actual discussion going on over there. Aside from the Ron Paul threads, I don't know that I've seen much support for him over there.

Discussion on reddit? You mean the place with groupthink and upvoting system that forces unpopular or differing thoughts are pushed down into oblivion.

I read reddit for awhile, it got boring hearing the same thing over and over again because the same ideas are constantly upvoted and the differing views are always voted down.

My co-worker has been editting down his reddit bookmarks due to the amount of not only repeated ideas pushed over and over again, but the fact that what happens is not really discussion, it is more like a backslapping contest.

As opposed to here, where Phil Herup some other troll of the month comes in and shiats all over the conversation, derailing everything by repeating the same nonsense and then refusing to back it up, and the entire thing just becomes a ragefest where everyone throws up their hands and gives up on discussing the actual topic? I dunno, I'd rather hear some good ideas talked to death, and it's not uncommon that ideas from all over the spectrum get upvoted due to the fact that they aren't just people being disingenuous for attention. As for the ideas that are pushed down into oblivion... well, a lot of them really deserve to be.

demonfaerie		2013-04-10 02:40:58 AM

1 votes:

He needs to practice his lying more.

/Never tell the same lie twice.

CipollinaFan		2013-04-10 02:30:23 AM

1 votes:

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I am about to receive large sums of cash but in order to do so I need $15,000 to unlock these funds.
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alienated		2013-04-10 02:27:53 AM

1 votes:

Greening reddit links from daily fail ? Be seeing you. IOW- FU.

cameroncrazy1984		2013-04-10 02:17:28 AM

1 votes:

tenpoundsofcheese: why would anyone believe a French model?

Uhhh...bonjour.

Triumph		2013-04-10 01:03:24 AM

1 votes:

FTA: Mr Johnson posted the information on Reddit but was angry to learn he had been made the subject of a Shadow Ban, which makes it look to other users like you have been banned, even though everything looks normal to you.

So, wait, does that mean he just keeps posting stuff and he can see it, but nobody else can?

Hello?
^{Anybody there?}
_^Anybody?

tenpoundsofcheese		2013-04-10 12:39:19 AM

1 votes:

why would anyone believe a French model?

Pocket Ninja		2013-04-10 12:11:26 AM

1 votes:

A lie is simply a truth that hasn't happened yet, subby. There are no lies, only spoken potential.

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