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Reddit Challenge

Most of this week I spent on Reddit. The main takeaway from this excursion is that Reddit is a universe of its own. It is like a living organism bursting with human thoughts and ideas. it can also become a final resting place of some ideas. (I thought I also saw a couple of bot posts.) Here is my reply to the challenge:

Part 1: Finding Spaces

Academic/professional interests: r/AdultEducation

Personal hobby: r/HomeImprovement

Surprise: r/AmIOverreacting

Very strict rules: r/NeutralPolitics

Very minimal rules: r/AskReddit

 

 Part 2: Deep Dive on a subreddit

One rule that shapes what can be posted on a subreddit is adhering to the topic and having a fair purpose (e.g. r/Canvas).

One example that follows the rule well: 

 

 One example that breaks the rules:

 

 Part 3:

Highly upvoted post: r/Teachers ; It's going to get worse, isn't it?

The reason for the upvote is the teacher rant, sounding sort of exasperated. 

Picture of the last portion of the post:

 

Post with few upvotes and the reason why: r/TrueUnpopularOpinion; I have zero respect for teachers - this Reddit user pushed too far. His unpopular opinion is definitely unpopular.

Picture:

 

A "hot" post receives a lot of replies in a short time, say a day. If it gets upvoted a lot, it raises the poster's Karma. A new post or reply is simply new in a subreddit.

Part 4:

I chose to upvote reasonable pieces of advice, typically from teachers to adult students. 

I replied to someone who lamented not getting a teaching job.

 

I also replied to a commenter who tried to be a little facetious. 

 

Part 5: Platform Awareness

Karma is the points a participant receives if they get upvoted in a certain amount of time. My best Karma was 10 points for a comment.

 

Generally, people were quite polite, which was surprising. I have been staying mostly with r/AdultEducation, r/Languages, r/Teachers, so my impression might be biased. There is a lot of TikTok - these posts get thousands of upvotes. To me, that is a bit surprising - kind of like social media intertextuality. 

 

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