Worst online community?

[Olly 1,011]

As a bystander, which website has the most toxic, i.e. the most unpleasant community? 

Edited November 28, 2018 by Olly

[Here No Longer 5,276]

Reddit, quite easily. Everyone is a bunch of snowflakes there, who can't handle opinions they don't agree with.

[Gestum 2,493]

The worst online continuity is the one with the most children. So 4chan. 

[碇 シンジン 27,431]

Worst are the ones that really aren't verbally communicating at all. 

Like any online multiplayer communities grind my gears the most 

[TBD 17,254]

Socialized wise, all but MLPF. Youtube, wiki, discord, you name it. 

[Esoteric 142]

https://www.thesbcommunity.com/forums/

@CloudMistDragon

[Jordan D 149]

Steam Community User Discussions (S.C.U.D.) and Wikipedia are the worst I've personally been exposed to. 

Wikipedia is just a headache of bureaucracy and I had to quit using S.C.U.D. for my own sanity after it devolved into people doing highly unethical and  illegal stuff to just spite people they didn't like.

[jicem 17]

yeah wikipedia sucks

and so does pretty much every fortnite fan community

no offense to any fortnite fans that might be on here i'm sure you're one of the two or three good ones

[Arkadios 91]

4chan is like a reverse tumor. It sits there, soaking up bandwidth and pumping out endless piles of content nobody wants (which is also frequently harmful, e.g. /b/ is currently spammed with pictures of male anatomy and Flat Earth arguments).

[HawkbitAlpha 46]

Just now, jicem said:

yeah wikipedia sucks

and so does pretty much every fortnite fan community

no offense to any fortnite fans that might be on here i'm sure you're one of the two or three good ones

When Fortnite sends its people, they're not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing trolls. They’re bringing hackers. They’re children. And some, I assume, are good people.

[Megas 27,652]

The brony community is ass and continues to go further and further down the toilet as time goes on

Edited November 29, 2018 by This Whomps

[ssj4gogita4 101]

I was once a part of a community that was free for everyone, then decided to start charging because of the size of the userbase. It was massive and topics were constantly updating. I only paid for a couple of years (two 1-year subscriptions) instead of the lifetime sub because no one knew if or when the site was going to go offline. What sucks is it was a slow site down the road and, while I still have an account there, I only view it like twice a year to see if anything has changed. It's hard to believe that I joined in 2005... I hope to find something else like it but free, obviously, with a great community of members.

[Odyssey 5,716]

@Olly As this topic focuses on the internet and websites, I have moved it to Media Discussion. 

[The MegaBrony 219]

MyAnimeList. Its users love bashing anime they don't like instead of just pretending it doesn't exist and moving on. It's so toxic, I quit anime altogether (except for the occasional movie).

[Ganondorf8 11,314]

Those are some of the worst but then there are others that are just as bad.

[PiratePony 8,475]

All of the internet is tied. I miss the internet of the 90s: now it's full of jerks with no filters.

[EpicEnergy 23,218]

Every online community has good and toxic people, some are worse than others though. I don't really know what are the worst, but I think it is Fortnite community and TikTok community in my opinion. YouTube comments aren't as toxic as they are annoying, with people posting irritating comments just to get likes such as "best for Fortnite player is: like for Ninja and comment for Tfue" and "I liked my own comment cause no one else would". Which brings up another issue - people are so desperate to be accepted by others that they like their own comments, and that is also annoying.

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, PiratePony said:

I miss the internet of the 90s: now it's full of jerks with no filters.

Hmm, sounds like the American society today. 

Edited November 29, 2018 by EpicEnergy

[Mercury 455]

This one's a bit hard, but every community has the chance to have bad parts in it. 4chan is the one that gets my vote, even though there is some good that comes out of it every now and again.

[Jeric 46,851]

Please keep other site's drama nonsense off of MLPF, this is not the first time I have mentioned that to some of you specifically. Thanks all. 

 

I really think that this topic is substantive because of one KEY word some may have overlooked. @Olly said bystander. Now, imagine you are a fan of x, y, or z. You go on to YouTube to only to watch a video of interest. You rarely comment, but you do read comments. Same with Reddit, 4chan, etc. The interesting question here is this -- do the participants in environments that are caustic or generally not the most peaceful have a negative impact of the average casual viewer who witnesses this? Is there value lost or gained here by having such an environment? What are the trade-offs? These are the interesting questions worth pondering.

[Denim&Venöm 19,022]

Tumblr for me. 

I still regularly visit. Love it for the art and the entertainment. But holy crap do they loose their minds when things get even remotely political, race related or gender related. Heck, they never even fact check original posts or even their own arguments before going on the war path. 

 

[Olly 1,011]

3 hours ago, Denim&Venom said:

Heck, they never even fact check original posts or even their own arguments before going on the war path. 

That gets old. So much hate over nothing... it's so negative lately and nobody bothers to think for themselves. If they see something written they'll just believe it

[cmarston1 5,959]

Which ever one has the most gamers in it, given just how trash the gaming community really is.  Although the anime community isn't real much better to be frank.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

The League of Legends community. Riot Games tried (and failed) to decrease toxicity, but it's still so bad. Especially in ranked games. That's why I quit ranked after my placement games way back in season 8.

[Odyssey 5,716]

Twitter is kind of full of assholes imo. Too much circlejerking and ironic culture there 

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I'll be specific here: the Paladins subreddit. The elitism there was absurd, pretty much was getting non-stop attacked for the three days I posted there... Even the game itself is quite toxic, but sheesh, the subreddit puts the rest of Reddit to shame (and the rest of Reddit is a bunch of f***ing snowflake-filled circlejerks).