Reddit Troll Violentacrez Admits Doing CNN Interview Was a ‘Huge Mistake’

http://betabeat.com/2012/10/violentacrez-admits-doing-cnn-interview-was-a-huge-mistake/

by met3 • 14 years ago

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Karunamon• 14 years ago

I for one am tired of hearing about this guy, and even more tired of hearing how evil and terrible reddit supposedly is.

papsosouid2• 14 years ago

But didn't you read the article? Reddit allows men to discuss their rights! Most of them are probably even white!

leoedin2• 14 years ago

Even in real life, I've noticed that when the proportion of men is high enough and one person present in a conversation starts throwing in casual sexism/racism (normally masquerading as jokes) it tends to suck everyone else in. The conversation quickly collapses to fairly uninteresting lowest-common-denominator nonsense. Some people are essentially poison to group conversations because for whatever reason they're unable to stop themselves constantly making crass comments.

It's actually quite remarkable. Recent changes in my life have meant that I've often found myself in a pub with one of these people. Suddenly conversations that I thought I'd grown out of when I was 16 rear their heads again, and every single social event devolves into a pile of misogyny.

Given that Reddit is in many ways a very large conversation with a high proportion of men, the likelyhood of one of them being conversation-poison is much higher.

What we can all do, whether in real life or online, is stand up to it. The best online communities are those that are obscure or very aggressively moderated. If you make it clear that behaviour isn't acceptable, it tends to die out.

awj• 14 years ago

> Even in real life, I've noticed that when the proportion of men is high enough[...]

Whoa there, why do you think this behavior is exclusive to men? This can happen in almost any social group targeting an underrepresented/absent demographic.

Everything else you've said I can agree with, but "men in groups by themselves devolve into misogynists" is painting with too fine of a brush.

leoedin2• 14 years ago

Giving it further consideration, I'm sure you're right. My comment was really based on my experiences, in particular with misogyny (racism and to a lesser extent homophobia are definitely more taboo where I live). Generally, (but not always) misogyny requires men.

The thrust of my comment though is really that the entire group conversation is often dictated by the lowest common denominator. Generally that person is someone that's realised that saying something offensive will get them more attention from everyone than actually trying to engage in interesting discussion would.

Reddit Troll Violentacrez Admits Doing CNN Interview Was a ‘Huge Mistake’

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