Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[gnarlygninja]

My favorite part of reddit is when people don't read an article (in a topic about that article), just make up a story based on whatever deeply weird interpretation of the headline they made, and then when someone points out they clearly did not read the article they insist that because the headline (or again, their very odd interpretation of it) didn't tell them everything in the article.
Or the topics where people are typing up very long, very opinionated posts about things they don't actually know anything about, but somehow get dozens/hundreds/thousands of upvotes and positive comments because redditors can not distinguish between a confidently incorrect person and a person who actually knows what they're talking about.
I might not actually have a favorite thing about reddit.

 

[overgeeked]

My favorite part of reddit is when people don't read an article (in a topic about that article), just make up a story based on whatever deeply weird interpretation of the headline they made, and then when someone points out they clearly did not read the article they insist that because the headline (or again, their very odd interpretation of it) didn't tell them everything in the article.
Or the topics where people are typing up very long, very opinionated posts about things they don't actually know anything about, but somehow get dozens/hundreds/thousands of upvotes and positive comments because redditors can not distinguish between a confidently incorrect person and a person who actually knows what they're talking about.
I might not actually have a favorite thing about reddit.

It’s not limited to Reddit. People here do much the same all the time. They somehow developed deeply-held beliefs about games they’ve clearly never played and never read. Especially fun is when those people come in contact with those who have read the game and played it for decades. The phrase “it might work in practice but it doesn’t work in theory” comes to mind.

 

[gnarlygninja]

It’s not limited to Reddit. People here do much the same all the time. They somehow developed deeply-held beliefs about games they’ve clearly never played and never read. Especially fun is when those people come in contact with those who have read the game and played it for decades. The phrase “it might work in practice but it doesn’t work in theory” comes to mind.

It's not limited to there but generally the level of "I have no idea what I'm talking about but I am going to confidently talk about it, probably shoe horning in some half remembered bit of trivia tangentially related to the subject" is better here than any subreddit other than like...askhistorians.
Funnily enough right after I posted that, I opened reddit and had a notification where a person told me they didn't know what I was talking about that I should naughty word off for making jokes about animal cruelty. I did not make a joke.

 

[dragoner]

My favourite is when the solution to the problem is in the error message, that they didn't bother reading.

Mine is the shakey vid under a truck asking "what is this noise?"

It's what you call a noise.

Though I also think it is people's OCD showing.

 

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[Ryujin]

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Dairy, meat, bread, fruit & veg all in one food item. What could go wrong?

 

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[Ryujin]

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These days people tend to conflate Fawkes with "V for Vendetta" and Anonymous, rather than the historical truth.

 

[pukunui]

Here in NZ, Guy Fawkes is literally just an excuse to make noise. I doubt most Kiwis even know who Guy Fawkes was. Last night, the fireworks were rather pathetic (especially compared to the Diwali celebrations two weeks ago). Maybe they've gotten too expensive? It's way past time NZ banned personal fireworks anyway, though ...

When I went visited the States last year, I was astounded to find my home state (PA) had unbanned personal fireworks!

 

[gnarlygninja]

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I think wtf is a fair reaction to whole wheat pizza crust