Reddit vs Official Forums

Why are you posting here and not on Reddit? Or the opposite?

I feel like PoE Reddit has turned into a home for safe space victimhood manchildren that I can't even bother myself typing it in my URL bar more than once a week even for the memes. Open up any topic, there is only bitching and anecdotal misfortunes. Everyone just keeps stroking eachothers dicks about how sad their life is while comments giving ANY real perspective are almost always in the bottom.

In forums you have at least some balance of opinions and ideas among bitching and nobody is banned / silenced or shunned for their ideas.

I don't like the reddit layout.
The official forums kinda look better.

Someone is squatting my nick on reddit and I refuse to change it.

I don't like the official forum layout.
Reddit kinda look better.

Did try reddit, deleted it in about a week after...

I check reddit for stickies, have no desire to participate in the community though, upvote and posting system is pretty much a mess and just weird/cringy stuff buries everything.

At least here conversations usually last a while and you don't have to worry about a topic getting buried if people actually respond.

Entertainment wise nothing beats http://boards.4chan.org/vg/poeg

Oddly enough I post to several subreddits when I find one with an amenable, stable community.

PoE's subreddit is not amenable or stable. It often represents the worst of what reddit can be. Which means quite a lot of crap gets upvoted and (ironically for a site called 'read it') quite a lot of well-written but contentious/controversial stuff gets downvoted. Interesting things last a day before they're shuffled off the front page forever.

I also find the moderation of the PoE subreddit...dubious. At least one friend of mine has been banned from there due to a personal conflict with a mod, and the 'rules' are rarely strictly enforced. Which is fine -- it seems to work for them. I only saw it briefly when Chris himself moderated it, but that was back in Closed Beta when you often had fewer than a hundred people online at a time. What a love-in the PoE community was in those days...

As for the official forum? This is the qwerty keyboard of boards. Unoptimised and inexplicable but something I'd learned to work around and with, to the point where anything else feels a little strange.

BUT I get why some GGG devs like to post to reddit -- their stuff is far more visible there and it's part of a larger social interaction. They might be browsing their own favourite subreddits when they get notifications from the PoE one. Easy to just click reply and fire off a quick response. When a GGG dev posts here it's much more official. All personal issues aside, there's a feeling of 'conversation' to reddit's structure that a very basic, hand-made forum like this one lacks.

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The_Scourge написал:

Oddly enough I post to several subreddits when I find one with an amenable, stable community.

PoE's subreddit is not amenable or stable. It often represents the worst of what reddit can be. Which means quite a lot of crap gets upvoted and (ironically for a site called 'read it') quite a lot of well-written but contentious/controversial stuff gets downvoted. Interesting things last a day before they're shuffled off the front page forever.

I also find the moderation of the PoE subreddit...dubious. At least one friend of mine has been banned from there due to a personal conflict with a mod, and the 'rules' are rarely strictly enforced. Which is fine -- it seems to work for them. I only saw it briefly when Chris himself moderated it, but that was back in Closed Beta when you often had fewer than a hundred people online at a time. What a love-in the PoE community was in those days...

The moderation part is interesting as well. I have an odd feeling that what has happened is the same story as Warframe, everyone who is opposed to either nifty community moderation or the popular opinion, gets removed from the community. This eventually has created an echo chamber that blocks out everyone new who do not share the same opinions.
I have no beef with PoE Reddit mods myself but I did notice odd trends once I started playing PoE and was a semi active Reddit visitor.

Perhaps I am seeing the result of that moderation because the warframe subreddit is downright pleasant to browse.

Is that a nice way of saying 'echo chamber'? If so, I don't necessarily see a problem with that. It all depends on what's being echoed.

I use here because Reddit moderators are power freaks that are on a witch hunt against me for no reason

Even if I'm one of the most upvoted for post and karma on this subreddit because I'm a nice guy