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palidoozy · 3201 days ago · link · · parent · post: Do you feel that Reddit culture has had a negative influence on your ability to hold reasoned discussion?
I feel like Reddit improved my ability to hold a reasoned discussion -- not in a "oh, Reddit helped me out here!" sort of way, but a "oh my god I could become this, I need to take as many steps to NOT be this" sort of way. Between the whole Sunil Tripathi fiasco, the current drama, love of low-hanging memes/puns, its constant need to jerk off to the idea of even the most disgusting portions of free speech being embraced, its love of vomiting up logical fallacy terms and using 'SJW' buzzwords to try to 'win' discussions... Yeah. I'm not gonna say I'm perfect, but it's definitely influenced me. I don't know if it deserves praise for that, though.