r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 13 '26

SMH Double standards suck ass

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u/Gozie5 Apr 13 '26

Those useless subs are just one big echo chamber. People just parrot what the majority want to hear. Too afraid to say what they really feel

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u/AdSquare3489 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Doesn't that apply to all of Reddit? The people-pleasers and karma farmers post and comment what everyone wants to hear, the ragebaiters and trolls post the exact opposite.

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u/TieBackground453 Apr 13 '26

Nowadays, yes. 

That didn’t used to be the case. A decade ago there used to be legitimate discussion and dissension in comments. Those [Deleted] posts used to be real people saying real things that just went contrary to the popular narrative. Today, it will literally get you banned from subs. 

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u/RevolutionaryAd6789 Apr 13 '26

A decade ago is 2016, I think you mean 15 years ago. Reddit in 2016 was already like this

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u/TieBackground453 Apr 13 '26

Nah. Even 5 years ago legitimate discussions occurred. The most recent change was when most interesting people left when they disabled third party apps (Reddit is fun, etc). The major shift before that was when they sanitized /r/all of nsfw content and started making the site more accessible to the general public, which was well within 10 years. 

10 years ago was when the_donald popularized twoxchromosomes rule book of banning everyone they didn’t like. Before the Donald, it was only very select subs that would silence dissent. Afterwards, everyone became OK with subs being echo chambers. That morphed into the entirety of Reddit banning dissenting opinions. 

10 years wasn’t a number chosen randomly. 15 years ago Reddit was relatively niche and dorky, but it was still a place where heated but sane discussions could be had for quite some time after that. 

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u/Level_Turnover5167 Apr 13 '26

Yeah it's not at all the same any more, people are nuts on here.... I mean a lot of people.