Is reddit just a clogged nightmare or am I doing it wrong?

I'm just curious if other people use it but they're actually getting out of Reddit.

I've stumbled across it a few times but never really got into it because I prefer smaller forums. Sometimes I roll across some fascinating subjects but there's like 12,000 responses and then they're sorting the ones that have dozens of upvotes so it has some upside, but I feel like it's the Time Square of forums.

So I guess I find it occasionally interesting to Browse but pointless to participate due to volume.

Am I doing it wrong?

 

I've not been able to make head nor tails of it yet and I really want to do so as that is supposedly where the term "red pill" got its political start.

 

I dont even remember how I stumbled across it but it was probably by searching for something odd or random, then I got on their trending feed via email (not sure how that happens either)

But it baffles me, someone asks a quesiton, whatever it might be and there are like 10K responses and 8k thumbs up and i'm just baffled as to the benefit of being 1 post out of 10,000, and if it ever even gets viewed.

Technically PF is just a tiny reddit forum correct?
But so much better vs the overwhelming numbers that reddit puts out, I guess I'm confused over why the masses participate when 99.9% of the posts don't even seem to get viewed.

 

10's of thousands of keyboard warriors responding all at once to a query... disastrous, especially knowing that most peeps take the answer as gospel, afterall it was on reddit .

same for that wikipedia crap, most don't bother to verify the content through multiple sources, they just accept everything on there is true & correct

 

seems that on general there are too many sarcastic responses with people searching for upvotes. basically any thread with over 500 responses is a nightmare and I never make it past page 2, oh well. it is what it is, and apparently that's not for me.

 

You are not alone.

 

Are you referring to an overload of information?

Well, in all fairness it is better than a small forum where most of the posters are stupid, and the discussions are mostly of a very low level of intelligence.


I think the format of Reddit is also kind of hopelessly out of date. They desperately need an update. I don't use Reddit, most of the people there seem to be pretty immature.