The Current Events Thread

[Lambeth]

Biden did good.

[[Citation Needed]]

http://joebidensteeth.com/

[Exeres]

"Both parties claiming victory after last night's debate"

[Silver_Wolf]

Well, that's politics for you.

[wordNumber]

Whoever wins, we lose.
Also both sides will say they won anyway so...

[Lambeth]

Biden had a better showing than obama did and Ryan was just kinda there.

[Syobon]

Belgium is for once not doing awful in the football qualifier thingie, I'm kind of proud.

[Dedivax]

Awesome job there Reddit

[Reyo]

God daisies!

Knowing the rest of the internet, they're going to try and use this to justify acting like more "hardcore" internet users. The same shit happened with ebaumsworld and funnyjunk.

[Dedivax]

So people are beating, mistreating and dehumanizing others and acting online like it's the shit and all you can think of is "oh no people are going to insult the website that lets such behavior take place"?

[Brekkjern]

No. Not the website. The Internet. Laws don't apply to only a single website. They apply to everything on the Internet.
Also, it will probably be spun in a way that makes every Reddit user look like a paedophile, which is great PR for increased usage of other social networks than Facebook.

[Reyo]

So people are beating, mistreating and dehumanizing others and acting online like it's the shit and all you can think of is "oh no people are going to insult the website that lets such behavior take place"?

No, I'm talking about reddit the website and the redditors themselves, not the rest of the internet. The rest of the internet isn't going to change at all, it's going to remain its lovably raunchy self no matter what happens to some po-dunk website. Redditors, on the other hand, will no doubt use this to gain some fucked up publicity with that raunchy "rest of the internet". Funnyjunk did that when The Oatmeal sued them for copyright infringement. Ebaumsworld did that when Lemon Demon did that song insulting Eric Bauman. It's the same shit as trolling, they're now a "valid" website since they angered some organization. It always happens.

[Kamak]

While not every Redditor is a part of this, Reddit has become a pretty shitty website since the staff refuse to clean up subreddits and delete some of these more seedy places (and in some cases, actively take part in it or encourage it!), and a lot of redditors, the people who acknowledge that this is going on, don't even do anything to try fixing it, likely because that goes against the flow and they'll get bad karma for doing so. It's pretty sad that it took r/Shit Reddit Says to get some of this fixed, and now people are bawking about MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO SAY WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT AND DISREGARD ALL CONSEQUENCES TO WHAT I SAY to defend them doing things like creepshots or fapping to dead girls "because they can't get mad".

The main point of all of this is that Reddit acts like it's above all of this and "wants" to be an open environment to people, but by allowing this, they're no better than other sites that they act superior to.

[Syobon]

Reddit already is one of the most famous sites off-internet, they got AMAs from Obama and stuff, they don't need to milk this for publicity. The administration isn't fixing this likely because they are lazy and every time a subreddit is removed a new one with the same purpose will pop up. As far as I know the staff is mostly volunteers too.

[BurntToShreds]

England, this is not what I would call news-worthy. Excellent caption on the cat, though.