Reddit's Victim Complex: The Reddit panel at SXSW went terribly wrong. A powerful site struggles with introspection (trigger alert for stupidity)

Lightfiend · 2013-03-09T16:30:49+00:00

Apparently, mentioning that reddit does good things is "excusing the bad things," even though the clip doesn't reveal the speaker saying that whatsoever.

What the "reddit panelist" ignores is that the problems addressed aren't problems "inherent* to reddit," they are problems inherent to the internet, and people in general. Reddit just so happens to be a huge place where there are a lot of examples of both "good" and "bad" behavior.

Oh, and God forbid redditors defend themselves at a SXSW event dedicated to them, or was the whole point of this event to bash reddit and generalize millions of users?

*Fixed

BigStupid_Jellyfish · 2013-03-09T19:31:08+00:00

Anyone else notice that the female interrupting him in the video(perhaps Watson?) called him rude because he tried to continue his thought after she interrupted him?

vishtr · 2013-03-09T18:06:09+00:00

SRSers ruin everything.

firex726 · 2013-03-09T18:21:03+00:00

Isn't the big feminist argument that women would never exagerrate or fabricate harassment charges since it is such a painful experience to report these things. Doesn't the fact Rebecca Watson built a career off this sort of Bs ever occur to them?

fuzzo · 2013-03-09T20:11:32+00:00

fucking witchhunt. everything about this. they did some cherry picking and trot out a few people who only go to reddit to document its underbelly and call themselves activists. what bullshit. what hubris. the panelists don't have the fucking nerve to allow anyone who knows to defend anything about reddit. fuck them. this is complete horseshit.

improbus · 2013-03-09T19:20:16+00:00

The person interrupting the speaker was none other than Rebecca Watson, For what it's worth.

2013-03-09T18:07:36+00:00

The article won't load for me. Can someone give me a Tl;dr? Or did OP get the important part?

Kampane · 2013-03-10T03:55:36+00:00

he started speaking and wouldn't stop

For like 10 seconds. It was awful. Why are we linking to buzfeed again?

Kampane · 2013-03-10T04:01:48+00:00

The reddit website is pretty tolerant of different views. Even though they had to cave on that jailbait issue I still respect the admins.

That must drive feminists crazy.

esantipapa · 2013-03-11T13:51:26+00:00

Awkwardly strange and useless commentary about a forum community that is more inwardly critical than any existing internet forum community (that I know of...).

Invalid_Target · 2013-03-09T22:13:36+00:00

I wish I would've been there just to kick Adrien Chen in the balls.

Fuck that limp dick prick. (hehe I rhymed.)

Title	Reddit's Victim Complex: The Reddit panel at SXSW went terribly wrong. A powerful site struggles with introspection (trigger alert for stupidity)
Author	Lightfiend
Upvotes	79
Comments	32
Date	March 9, 2013 4:09 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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