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TaylorS1986 · 3200 days ago · link · · parent · post: Do you feel that Reddit culture has had a negative influence on your ability to hold reasoned discussion?
My earliest exposure to internet discussion boards was as a teenager in the late 90s and early 00s posting on message boards for games like Civilization, the Final Fantasy series, and the Legend of Zelda series. the user base of all those sites were fairly young, but the discussion in all of them was far more mature and polite than Reddit because the moderation was generally strict. IMO any message boards that are not moderated enough inevitably degenerate into cesspits. The founders of Reddit were too ideologically wedded to "Free Speech" as an ideal that they put the ideal ahead of the proper functioning of the site.