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The redditification I see is where people spam 100s of the lowest quality posts across the entire site to push an agenda. Also the comments are all same because no one actually engages with the article and just post a reactionary comment to the headline. I dont know if its because the articles are so low quality there is nothing to engage with, no one cares enough to read the article or everyone is so ideologically aligned the response is the same.
yeah you can block these people at least, but holy crap do they flood the zone.
and if you do engage with them or criticize them, you're 'the enemy'. and no they aren't rage-baiting, they are 'showing people the truth of the evils of the bad people in the world'. and if you aren't miserable, angry, and dumb like they are, you are the problem.
I think this has even gotten worse over the last year. It's amazing how often I see people arguing with each other over what they interpreted through the headline. Neither realizing that not only does the article completely explain whatever they're arguing about, but they miss key details about the topic because they wouldn't make the effort to read.
Lots of garbage blog spam here. Often not factual. And then yeah, everyone circle jerks under it as if anything productive is happening.
I wish we had better sources, more people willing to read and not immediately become adversarial with replies. Same problems we had with Reddit.