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What did you actually learn from reddit? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

One of the more interesting things I took away from Reddit was that there is a fairly noticeable threshold of community size above which the quality of participation abruptly drops. I think there's a conversation worth having about what barriers to entry are desirable or not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed, I was on Reddit for almost 12 years before I bailed, and although it was a "frog in a pot" kind of slow boil, the quality of content and interaction across the entire site was far worse at the end than at the beginning. But within individual subreddits the change would happen overnight after being linked in a popular comment. But the big thing for the site as a whole was that subreddits stopped being communities about specific topics and were just kind of catch-alls for any kind of post or memes. The whole thing eroded into a vaguely categorized iFunny clone and any sense of community just vanished.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People not adhering to the sub purpose was a constant source of frustration for me. But when the post is at 24k upvotes, downvotes or reports won't do much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're in one of those places right now. This is reminiscent of the old askreddit before the major rules overhaul and aggressive moderation

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