When compared to ~5-10 years ago, I find Reddit comments and posts to be more difficult to read.
I am curious as to why this is. I suspect this could be because of bot posts, but am not sure.
You aren’t supposed to be reading the comments you are supposed to be clicking the ads.
The neat thing is the comments are the ads now.
All the cool people are leaving reddit and coming here, leaving only dumb people and LLM “agents”.
I’d argue that it’s not even the cool people coming here anymore. Seems most of the cool people are moving on with the real world and dropping social media completely.
2 years ago it was the good people coming here, now it’s the dreck.
its mostly bot generated content, comments and reposts. only a small number are actually generated by people now. they banned most of them, and forced the ones that still have reddit accounts to lurk instead.
My favorite is when I see a 2 month old account with 4 million karma. Yeah that’s totally a real person.
I had a high school student tell me the others day that they were out of school for “confrinsis” so I think education is part of this. I have a few friends that are teachers and they’ve said since covid and especially with AI, kids can’t read, can’t spell, and can’t think critically. Obviously not all of them but enough to notice.
Edit, a word.
that part is pretty true, studies already came out that even college students arnt up to part with even with “remedial math” or even algebra.
Yeah it’s crazy
it was pretty bad before.at least 2 professors, 1 math and english told us that people were graduating HS with 9-10th grade english and math skill and this was like a little of 10years ago. education is lacking even under a blue area/ state, i assume thats why military recruiters were targeting these schools from time to time.
Probably a number of reasons. Reddit’s main strategy for profit growth has been to expand to countries that speak English as a secondary language. Much of it is regional dialects such as Indian English. I think there might also be auto-translations? That would make writing appear odd when written in a different language and reddit translating it to English for them.
This might be trite but the overall intelligence level of reddit is at all time lows. Apparently reddit is really popular now with teenagers in certain parts of the world.
Several years ago I noticed a starkly different style of writing appearing all over reddit. Comments were being written one sentence per line. The lines were all disjointed. There wasn’t an overall idea. They write a random bunch of sentences that barely made sense together. Other accounts would engage with it as if there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. I haven’t been able to figure that out.
What is really telling is if you change location using VPN you’ll find that if it’s U.S. it’s posts about being 35yo but if you swap to India it’s teenager. Some of the “hot” posts that show up are like a AskReddit post but it’s clearly written by a 30yo for millennials. Also don’t try to change location using Reddits own sorting filter as it literally just ignores what you put there unless a specifically flagged post for that region. The only location their algo cares about is your IP.
Maybe you just became older and don’t understand modern slang? Plus censorship progresses, so many people express their thoughts in more intricate way.
It isn’t slang that’s throwing me off, per say. It’s the poorly written sentences (that’s if they even use punctuation).
I do not relate honestly.
