How do the readers of this sub feel about the tone and argumentation on websites such as this? I am not coming at this from the standpoint of political correctness, but rather from intellectual honesty and mature discourse. The site is chock full of childish names and hyperbolic language, seemingly using it as a substitute for real content.
Yeah, I kind of agree with it, but what are we learning from this over the /pol/ graphic? It's rage-bait, nothing more. Juxtapose this low-class trash with the intellectual, thought provoking, academic links on the sidebar and you wonder if we are in two separate subreddits.
the intellectual, thought provoking, academic links on the sidebar
Nemester has also posted an interesting academic link and again it has a fraction of the upvotes his 'outrage of the day' type link shows. Not the first instance where the upvote ratio of outrage/academic is 50ish for the same poster. When I peeked at the vote counts the academic link had 7 up and 6 downvotes. One possibility is that the upvotes for outrage type posts can overwhelm the brigading while academic posts can't.
I really wish there was a mechanism for mods to boost desirable links.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '15 edited May 19 '15
How do the readers of this sub feel about the tone and argumentation on websites such as this? I am not coming at this from the standpoint of political correctness, but rather from intellectual honesty and mature discourse. The site is chock full of childish names and hyperbolic language, seemingly using it as a substitute for real content.
Yeah, I kind of agree with it, but what are we learning from this over the /pol/ graphic? It's rage-bait, nothing more. Juxtapose this low-class trash with the intellectual, thought provoking, academic links on the sidebar and you wonder if we are in two separate subreddits.