Can you expand on this, I'm not 100% familiar with the way this is communicated and it just seems like mental gymnastics to avoid calling debt what it is.
part of reddits failure IMO is the way in which shadow banning is used to encourage groupthink.
Its amazing how over the past 12-13 years Reddit feels like it has changed from random site you could get quite different and often difficult opinions about a matter which would challenge you, to now where you get blocked by users (not because of harassment, but just differing opinions), banned on subreddits (because you just don't agree with an often child like simplification/ narrative), mass organised down voting( which leads to further shadow banning across Reddit).
All these things have turned it into a playground of school bullies, and those who virtue signal seeking karma.
Then again, it could always have been that, and I just grew out of it.
> Then again, it could always have been that, and I just grew out of it.
Nah, reddit really did change dramatically. The last reddit account I had got a site wide ban, I commented on some post I saw on /r/all which had a "from the river to the sea" flair with "Wow reddit admins really letting anti semitisim run wild? That's insane". First got banned by that sub with some toxic remark and then a site wide ban for "moderator harrasment", all while I was asleep. That _finally_ pushed me to no longer visit reddit.
A few days later that subreddit got geoblocked in germany for that exact flair.
And I agree with your reading that these people are just bullies, ever since I've started viewing them as that I've finally started to understand their weird behaviour a bit better.
I don't think you can blame this on Reddit alone, as basically all online spaces (and sadly, some offline spaces too) have become incredibly toxic in that they constantly push divisive topics even when many participants would much rather avoid them. It happens even here on HN (covid, twitter, Israel/Palestine) and definitely on Twitter, in any news org's comment section, etc.
The thing that changes is often the exact flavour of the groupthink, but even on Reddit itself, this depends heavily on the subreddit. r/worldnews, for example, skews mostly pro-Israel and is also one of the larger subs.
To this day I still don't know what I was shadowbanned for. It got randomly removed a few months later.
And it's ridiculous when you make a very high effort long post but then get the whole thing hidden because of the use of retard. Without any indication that it's happening.
You still have to share those communities with the same people who make default subs worthless.
The all time low I've ever seen is a post about a very influential person in the modular music space coming out as trans and the top comment being someone grandstanding about how the community was very toxic, meanwhile there were 0 toxic comments in the thread (except that one). Only below that were comments celebrating her achievements and supporting her.
unsubscribed as a result. Bit gutted about this. Thing is £200+ per year just isn't worth it. I'd much rather go back to torrenting and managing things in than paying that amount of money. Same with Spotify. The fragmentation of streaming services will be the end, it'll be a slow death, but a new model is needed.
I'd have no problem with ads if they weren't so invasive and frequent. should be no more than 5% of time should be dedicated to ads. seems like the cost of ads needs to go up not down.
british prime minsters are chosen as the head of the party, by members of the party. This thread seems to not understand that members of the british public can vote for the leader of the party they wish to vote for.
We do not vote on individuals, but on a group at election time. That group is democratically elected, and within that group the leader is democratically elected by its party members (whoever wishes to join).
The EU by definition is anti-democractic (any centralization of power without accountability results in loss of democractic influence). The most important thing to understand is that the public do not have the same level of influence on the direction of the EU that say the public has in in the UK. With that said, the position of the UK and its dealings is irrelevant to the matter at hand. If we are are discussing an anti-democractic group we don't make it democractic by finding someone equally or more so anti-democratic.
I’m not entirely sure what your comment is implying but there is plenty of affluence and quite a few millionaires in the North. If you believe only poor people live in the north that’s also a belief that’s wildly out of touch.
whats crazy is forcing people to save for something they have no guarantee of seeing. Giving the pension age keeps increasing a pension is nothing more than paying into a pot you will never be able to fully use. Especially given how people are taxed on their pension payments.
To be fair, the amount people are forced(?) to put into pensions from employment income is pretty tiny and there are tax-advantages savings accounts which people can use instead of pensions, up to a limit. There are also limits on incentives for pension contributions.
thats incorrect. you lose your tax free allowance, which is a furtger 12,500 tax paid. Plus you need to consider graduate tax and the interest on those 'loans' which currently sits at 4.5%
they will exist for a while because you need to get to that level in your career. People rarely leave uni and get 100k+ jobs. If you leave uni and find a job paying at 50k and you get increases of 2.5% each year, it will take over 20 years to repay.
