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What did you actually learn from reddit? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll share mine first.

I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!

I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can't handle toilet paper.

Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn't provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.

TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!

Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (7 children)

There are more pseudo experts and people that talk out of their asses than there are actual experts on the site. Typically actual experts responses aren’t that popular and are nested beneath various comments. The ones on top just “seem” informed.

It’s scary how these comments pass this off in a matter of fact way and promote tons of misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I used to make shit post comments where I would vehemently demand something as fact, and even cite sources. At the time, I thought people were upvoting them because they saw it was satire and shared my humor. Later, I had someone ping my account as a citation to their own argument, and when I chimed in and told them it was a shit post, they blocked me and deleted the comment with the ping.

I realized that I was just spreading misinformation and the fact that it was satire flew right over people's heads. I didn't think it was anywhere near subtle.

If you say something confidently enough, and add in some fake but legit sounding sources, people will just believe you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yikes! Good on you for correcting it! Satire is definitely easier understood in a visual medium as opposed to text based. Can’t say I’m surprised that people actually did that though.

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