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I love Reddit, but I pretty much exclusively hang out on the askreddit/askmen/askwomen subreddits. But I'm subscribed to a few other ones.
 
I'm subscribed to everything from /r/askreddit to /r/gaming to /r/gameofthrones. I think I'm subscribed to 100+. I like having an area to visit for virtually any subject or topic. It's basically been my "forum" while I was away from PC.
 
I posted a blog like five days ago announcing I was leaving and alluding to finding a new place to spend my time, and Reddit was what I meant. Then things happened and "Why did I leave?" feelings sank in and I came back. Whoops!
 
Antemortem said:
What are you asking men and women?
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Advice! They are subreddits for getting insight into subjects only that gender will have knowledge of. "Why do men scream about football?" or "Why do women always smell like dancing petals of sunshine?" If you get the drift. :P

Arago said:
I posted a blog like five days ago announcing I was leaving and alluding to finding a new place to spend my time, and Reddit was what I meant. Then things happened and "Why did I leave?" feelings sank in and I came back. Whoops!
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Reddit is great, but impersonal. I never feel like I can connect with anyone on it. I feel like PC is an easier medium to create and appreciate people on, while Reddit favors less insight. I still love Reddit and visit it every day, but I like that PC gives me the ability and opportunity to make friends.
 
Klippy said:
Advice! They are subreddits for getting insight into subjects only that gender will have knowledge of. "Why do men scream about football?" or "Why do women always smell like dancing petals of sunshine?" If you get the drift. :P
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And what if I want to ask why women don't smell like football and why more men don't take the time to roll around in dancing petals of sunshine? :(
 
Klippy said:
Reddit is great, but impersonal. I never feel like I can connect with anyone on it. I feel like PC is an easier medium to create and appreciate people on, while Reddit favors less insight. I still love Reddit and visit it every day, but I like that PC gives me the ability and opportunity to make friends.
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I like that about Reddit. I like how I can remain anonymous but at the same time a little un-anonymous. You can't get something like that here, because you have so many things contributing to your identity. Whereas when I'm on Reddit, I just pretty much ignore the post by area and just read the post.
 
Antemortem said:
And what if I want to ask why women don't smell like football and why more men don't take the time to roll around in dancing petals of sunshine? :(
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Let me direct you to /r/football and /r/gardening for those answers. ;)

Arago said:
I like that about Reddit. I like how I can remain anonymous but at the same time a little un-anonymous. You can't get something like that here, because you have so many things contributing to your identity. Whereas when I'm on Reddit, I just pretty much ignore the post by area and just read the post.
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Exactly. But that's also the funny thing about Reddit. If you ignore the user, sometimes you get tricked into reading posts by users like, "AllMyPostsEndAbruptly" or "ThisUserLies" and it's always fun once you realize that you've been reading a post by a troll account. Haha.

I like the semi-anonymity. I can post something really terrible and get downvoted, but nobody will remember me in an hour. Post something to PC that is terrible and you aren't forgotten as easily!
 
Antemortem said:
BUT I FEEL LIKE THAT IS NOT A GARDENING QUESTION
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Like the /r/askreddit subreddit is like a huge General Chat thing. That's why I like that. The /r/askmen is mostly about things relating to romance, sex, and general man things and advice from men on their perspective on things. And same with /r/askwomen, but from the women side of things.
 
Reddit just has some plain good areas. Especially for becoming educated on new subjects or asking (experts) about things. I love /r/guitar, /r/askhistory, /r/askscience, and the various other subs for becoming a little bit less dumb. ;P

/r/guitar is one of my favorites, simply because there's always good advice on how to improve your skills with free YT videos or PDFs.
 
Unlikely that I would ever go into anything labeled "men" because it's probably full of archetypical cishet stuff. :p Sounds a little ignorant of me since I've never actually used reddit but I'm also not completely serious, I swear.
 
Sometimes they yield good articles, info, and discussion, but you do see a fair amount of junk. It's basically a website with few filters, so everything and anything can become a popular post.
 
Nick told me one or two of his posts (threads? what are they referred to as?) got quite a few replies in a few hours so I believe that. :P
 
Antemortem said:
Nick told me one or two of his posts (threads? what are they referred to as?) got quite a few replies in a few hours so I believe that. :P
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The main post is called the "post/original post", while the comments and any subsequent replies are called "comment threads". Kind of different than what we have here on PC. :P

And yeah, I've tried posting dozens of things that received...pretty mediocre responses, haha. It's hard to get a popular post, but some people are good at hitting the "front page". Nick is interesting enough to have done it, I'm sure. ;)
 
Arago said:
And same with /r/askwomen, but from the women side of things.
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How much do you want to bed 90% of the "women" are not women!!!

Klippy said:
And yeah, I've tried posting dozens of things that received...pretty mediocre responses, haha. It's hard to get a popular post, but some people are good at hitting the "front page". Nick is interesting enough to have done it, I'm sure. ;)
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I imagine it's kind of hit or miss on what gets popular and there's not really a trend?
 
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