Reddit / lemmy vs Old internet forums

saltynuts420@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 85 points –

Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord

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Personal example: I once asked on the linguistics subreddit why desceiptivist linguistics were preferred to prescriptivist and was downvoted to hell and back. The only replies were to call me a racist. I never got an answer, and I still don’t know. So voting is not the end-all be-all of forum mechanics.

I'mma have to call bullshit here, unless there just so happened to be a different person using the name quindraco on Reddit who asked this very question.

  • Your question was answered.
  • You may have gotten downvotes, but it was certainly not "to hell and back" -- your post is currently sitting at +18.
  • Not a single person called you racist, even after you compared descriptivism to literal genocide.

Also did this person really refer to an experience they had 12 years ago??

I can't even remember the shit that happened to me 2 years ago. The world was an entirely different place back then.

I remember some things that happened 12 years ago better than some that happened 2 years ago. Memory works like that.