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user-inactivated  ·  4283 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Open Letter to /r/CenturyClub: "I don't hate any of you..."

That's not a particularly good solution. A quick glance at the #reddit page shows a couple of posts I found quite interesting in the last month that I would have missed if I had exercised blunt force on the tag.

I am assuming the century club is people with 100000 comment karma (or maybe link karma, or both) on reddit. I genuinely don't understand people who use reddit for the subs like r/drama, r/karmaconspiracy, etc, and who think about karma every time they use reddit (or indeed, at all). I tend to typecast them into a group of people who care more about the internet than they do about learning from the internet, which may or may not be fair. I find this pathetic when I bother to think about it. From reading this, I don't think you're one of those people, but maybe you've got some insight on what the hell they get out of their time on reddit.





kleinbl00  ·  4283 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My personal take is that they like to watch the numbers spin and they don't realize it isn't a pachinko game, it's an odometer.

Some people play Farmville. Some people play Reddit. I just with their game didn't fuck with mine.

user-inactivated  ·  4283 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    they don't realize it isn't a pachinko game, it's an odometer.

And there's some solidly sad imagery to top off my Friday afternoon. Reminds me of Burn after Reading in a depressive sort of way.