Reddit.....pros, cons, best subreddits?

I love Reddit, and I enjoy the r/shittyaskscience subreddit, along with r/natureporn (beautiful pics of nature, not actual porn) and r/submechanophobia (pics and videos to torment you through your deeply-ingrained terror of submerged decaying machinery).

 

I am on Reddit from time to time. Generally I am looking at things that are either (a) local, (b) history related, or (c) law related. Also dataisbeautiful.

Notwithstanding my political interests and opinions, I stay away from subreddits about current politics.

 

The downside for me is that the the subreddits are often so obscure and have such specialised rules. Like a post gets deleted from the music reddit if you post a song you like on the day that isnt right for that song, etc

In general I think Reddit deserves its reputation for a certain type of person frequenting it (women issues, militant atheist, left wing, probably has a full beard...) but some of the places there are ok. I post on The_Donald a bit and browse a lot of the spooky/paranormal boards.

 

I read a bunch of various subreddits, (RES shows 3 pages of subs) but even then I see the same content.

Favorites? Aww, AskHistorians, battlestations, bodybuilding (gainit too when I was worried about that), corgi, dataisbeautiful, Firefly, Flyers, Frugal (just to see what people will do to save .50 US), Historypodcast, homelab,, KitchenConfidential, metal, oddlysatisfying, swoleacceptance (#NOSWOLESHAME), techsupportgore, trashy, Unexpectedthuglife, whedon, woahdude.

My favorite thing in all of reddit is r/civbattleroyal (a sub-subreddit of Civ5). 61 computer controlled civs in an accurate world map, in their historical starting positions, with no human player interaction (there is one human player, he is in a nuclear sub surrounded by ice mountains). Every week you get to see the screen caps of what happened turn by turn and what the computers did to each other. Future tech mods mean we get to see Icelandic Bio-Humans, Giant Death Robots, and cybersubs take down Spartan spearmen who never upgraded. It's a highlight of my week to see if the Boers finally woke up, if Captain Morgan is going to take down Chile, or if the Austrailans will take out Vietcong.

Askhistorians is one of my favorite subs because of the heavy hand of the mod staff. Unless you have sources and are generally approved, your answer will not stay up. Read an awesome piece on why Nazi Germany never attacked Switzerland (and things about refugees I never knew about).

I waste more time on reddit than facebook at times.

 

I've recently subbed to /r/wicked_edge for shaving and /r/jesuschristreddit for laughs.

 

As far as razors go I see a lot more DE/Safety Razor posts than straight razor material, probably since there's recently been kind of a DE renaissance with a lot of good quality affordable razors hitting the market from Maggard and others. There's also a lot of posts just on soaps, aftercare, brushes, and so on.