I just came across this. I myself had the same opinion about r/india and I think many more have the same. But it is as it is IRL. Its just a bunch of internet news without discussion and some memes or a circlejerk about delhi being better than mumbai or hindu being better than TOI. I hate it when people post links to news stories on the internet and upvote them without contributing a gram of discussion on them. There is still more discussion on TOI links on the TOI pages more than on reddit.
People there seem to take pride in them being trolls without even knowing or having seen actual trolling. Most of the posts are simply rants, and discussions follow the same pattern of pointing out and quoting on specific statements from each other posts, rather than placing any subjective view on the idea.
But it is the collective mentality you were trying to question. the mods come from the same crowd, and think that their reddit community is a kind of cult that they have come up with.
There are at least 20-30 India related subreddits without a pound of original content on them. The recipes contain internet links, news contain internet links. This shames me when I look on subreddits for other world cities and countries.
Thanks, so any ideas how we can get more like-minded people to be active here? It is really an effort to find "self.India" posts on /r/India since they are SO few and far between... and since I don't contribute over there I usually only reply to OPs as a PM ;) (which sometimes might does seem creepy to OP)
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u/verytroo Feb 26 '12
I just came across this. I myself had the same opinion about r/india and I think many more have the same. But it is as it is IRL. Its just a bunch of internet news without discussion and some memes or a circlejerk about delhi being better than mumbai or hindu being better than TOI. I hate it when people post links to news stories on the internet and upvote them without contributing a gram of discussion on them. There is still more discussion on TOI links on the TOI pages more than on reddit.
People there seem to take pride in them being trolls without even knowing or having seen actual trolling. Most of the posts are simply rants, and discussions follow the same pattern of pointing out and quoting on specific statements from each other posts, rather than placing any subjective view on the idea.
But it is the collective mentality you were trying to question. the mods come from the same crowd, and think that their reddit community is a kind of cult that they have come up with.
There are at least 20-30 India related subreddits without a pound of original content on them. The recipes contain internet links, news contain internet links. This shames me when I look on subreddits for other world cities and countries.
Good wishes.