Surprised Daily Beast is that high when it’s so aggressively paywalled
They only read books with pictures too.
Where’s the comically liberal/leftist sub breakdown to mirror r/con?
Can you be more specific on what constitutes “video”? Can I assume that since you are otherwise posting media sources, these are videos NOT from some professional media source? Are they all from YouTube?
Likewise, are the images from sources or are they just memes or pictures taken by the users themselves?
Perhaps the “””federalist””” shoud rename itseld the unitary executiveist to keep up with its true platform
Ugh. We can do better than Newsweek and Daily Beast.
Of course, we can do better than edgleord memes and gripes.
Even wilder when you take into account the maximum percent on both scales
Must preserve the sanctity of the echo chamber!
Newsweek? I don’t think op is sending the message he wants to send lol
Just based on this, I’d guess the subs have different rules.
“Image/video” probably isn’t allowed on politics since that would probably just push low effort memes to the top.
This is great because it shows just how hypocritical conservatives are about “fake news” and “fake media”.
The only media sources r/conservative posts are right wing propaganda networks.
Always felt it was a meme sub and data approves 🤭😇
TBH – if you look at any sub that allows images, it would look like the left graph. This is why a lot of subs ban images and/or self posts. I think banning images is good for discussion quality.
In my experience, if your sub allows images (and especially if it allows memes), it’ll just be an endless array of images and memes.
Consider r/cars – Visit it right now, and it is all articles about cars and people commenting on them. Visit r/guitar, and you get no articles about guitars, just people showing off their new guitars and them playing guitar.
I can assure you that if r/cars allowed images, it would be a sub of people showing off their new cars.
If you look at subs that allow images (like r/guitar), the most popular genre of post is eternally “check out my new guitar!” and the comments are eternally “cool guitar man”. There is no discussion left.
I’ve noticed a trend towards “I have more sources” being used as an argument in and of itself, completely defeating the purpose of using sources
This is pretty funny, when there is no real sources to point to. The ignorance and stubbornness are to be studied. This country has let these people down, mostly via education…
As an important note, I despise trump.
However:
The daily beast is fucking trash. Their headlines are absolutely toilet trash that commonly don’t match the story they are talking about. It’s over sensationalized garbage and should be banned.
r/Conservative is the Crowder/Kirk/Peterson crowd.
You do realize r/politics doesn’t allow picture/image posts? 😂😂
Why is the X-axis different in both? What does it mean to have 60% of upvotes?
To be fair, keep in mind there is a lot of brigading over there. Anyone can down vote posts and Reddit is very left leaning in general.
I would love to see data on the top 1% of posters in those communities too. I’ve found that blocking a few of them makes such a difference in the overall conversation
Newsweek is infuriating. I’m a liberal but can’t stand how it’s only clickbait for liberals who believe that—finally—this is the week that marks Trump’s downfall…
I would have sworn clip art would have made it higher up on the red list.
Breitbart being higher than any other news outlet is wild.
It’s a crime that Associated Press isn’t utilized more in these bigger posts
Odd that Midas Touch isn’t up there anywhere.
Fuck Trump. Hate him with a passion. Thoroughly left leaning.
Also, Newsweek, New Republic and the Daily Beast are all sensationalist ragebait. Not useful reporting. It’s honestly exhausting seeing their stuff posted all the time because I want to read about actual fact-based news related to what the administration is doing, not some heresay or speculation. They feel like reading grocery store tabloids.
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Surprised Daily Beast is that high when it’s so aggressively paywalled
They only read books with pictures too.
Where’s the comically liberal/leftist sub breakdown to mirror r/con?
Can you be more specific on what constitutes “video”? Can I assume that since you are otherwise posting media sources, these are videos NOT from some professional media source? Are they all from YouTube?
Likewise, are the images from sources or are they just memes or pictures taken by the users themselves?
Perhaps the “””federalist””” shoud rename itseld the unitary executiveist to keep up with its true platform
Ugh. We can do better than Newsweek and Daily Beast.
Of course, we can do better than edgleord memes and gripes.
Even wilder when you take into account the maximum percent on both scales
Must preserve the sanctity of the echo chamber!
Newsweek? I don’t think op is sending the message he wants to send lol
Just based on this, I’d guess the subs have different rules.
“Image/video” probably isn’t allowed on politics since that would probably just push low effort memes to the top.
This is great because it shows just how hypocritical conservatives are about “fake news” and “fake media”.
The only media sources r/conservative posts are right wing propaganda networks.
Always felt it was a meme sub and data approves 🤭😇
TBH – if you look at any sub that allows images, it would look like the left graph. This is why a lot of subs ban images and/or self posts. I think banning images is good for discussion quality.
In my experience, if your sub allows images (and especially if it allows memes), it’ll just be an endless array of images and memes.
Consider r/cars – Visit it right now, and it is all articles about cars and people commenting on them. Visit r/guitar, and you get no articles about guitars, just people showing off their new guitars and them playing guitar.
I can assure you that if r/cars allowed images, it would be a sub of people showing off their new cars.
If you look at subs that allow images (like r/guitar), the most popular genre of post is eternally “check out my new guitar!” and the comments are eternally “cool guitar man”. There is no discussion left.
I’ve noticed a trend towards “I have more sources” being used as an argument in and of itself, completely defeating the purpose of using sources
This is pretty funny, when there is no real sources to point to. The ignorance and stubbornness are to be studied. This country has let these people down, mostly via education…
As an important note, I despise trump.
However:
The daily beast is fucking trash. Their headlines are absolutely toilet trash that commonly don’t match the story they are talking about. It’s over sensationalized garbage and should be banned.
r/Conservative is the Crowder/Kirk/Peterson crowd.
You do realize r/politics doesn’t allow picture/image posts? 😂😂
Why is the X-axis different in both? What does it mean to have 60% of upvotes?
To be fair, keep in mind there is a lot of brigading over there. Anyone can down vote posts and Reddit is very left leaning in general.
I would love to see data on the top 1% of posters in those communities too. I’ve found that blocking a few of them makes such a difference in the overall conversation
Newsweek is infuriating. I’m a liberal but can’t stand how it’s only clickbait for liberals who believe that—finally—this is the week that marks Trump’s downfall…
I would have sworn clip art would have made it higher up on the red list.
Breitbart being higher than any other news outlet is wild.
It’s a crime that Associated Press isn’t utilized more in these bigger posts
Odd that Midas Touch isn’t up there anywhere.
Fuck Trump. Hate him with a passion. Thoroughly left leaning.
Also, Newsweek, New Republic and the Daily Beast are all sensationalist ragebait. Not useful reporting. It’s honestly exhausting seeing their stuff posted all the time because I want to read about actual fact-based news related to what the administration is doing, not some heresay or speculation. They feel like reading grocery store tabloids.
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