[OC] Analysis: Stats of Top 10 Posts in the Past 24 Hours on AmITheAsshole. Looks like many posters might frame their stories to paint themselves in a favorable light, seeking validation rather than genuine judgment. What do you think ?

Posted by shisui1729

13 comments

  1. You’re probably right but this data can’t tell you that in isolation. Actual assholes are less likely to post there.

  2. I think the problem with AITA is that these days the NTA get upvoted more, I don’t think because the poster is necessarily framing themselves in a good light, but people just seem predisposed to upvote somone for being good or a victim of an asshole, and more likely to downvote those who are genuine assholes. Personally I prefer seeing the YTA posts so that’s a shame.

  3. My reddit experience is that there are things reddit likes. The Hive Mind is strong. Even when the OP is TA. If OP writes, ‘Is my spouse cheating me?’ the answer given by Reddit is almost always a strong ‘Yes, dump them, red flag, Dodge that bullet’. The advice to talk it out and get more details is there sometimes, and often gets downvoted. I find it interesting that the advice a trained marriage/relationship counselor would give is often not the most popular answer.

    I left AITA? because the questions became too predictable, and the popular answers were not what I consider to be sage advice. That group has more of a negative feeling overall.

  4. I don’t understand the point of the sub. Its just listening to the perspective from one side and then asking someone else to make a conclusion. I can’t imagine being arrogant enough to decide if someone is or isn’t an asshole based on one side of the story.

  5. In life everyone tells the story to make themselves look better, human nature

  6. Well, also people who are openly asking “Am I The Asshole” tend to be more introspective, and thus less likely to BE the Asshole. As you state, there is also an element of people tending to tell the side of the story from their own viewpoint, and people almost always do what they think is best. It might be just self-justification or the fact people don’t generally do things they think will turn out poorly.

  7. The mob judges with upvoted and downvotes. Selecting the top 10 posts will give you the top ten posts that people liked, and therefore probably where they liked OP. OP is less likely to be viewed as the asshole.

  8. If you’re going to post a graph without the axes labelled, I am going to call it a bad graph:

    This is a bad graph.

  9. Clearly I’m missing something obvious since others seem to understand, but what are the axes?

  10. That sub is two posts over and over again:

    1. “this person did an amazingly terrible thing and I got somewhat upset about it AITA?”

    and 2. Spouse/partner is a loser but mainly because OP just lists off every thing they do that annoys OP and it’s clear that they just shouldn’t be together and it’s probably not as one sided as OP is saying

  11. Seems to me that many of these posts are looking for positive feedback that they can SHOW to the people who are calling them asshole.

    “See! Reddit doesn’t think I’m an asshole! They think YOU are!”

  12. I think they should delete posts where the situation is unambiguous, which unfortunately is most stories.

  13. I think that is the whole point of the sub.

    It’s very self indulgent and rarely has debatable issues.

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