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user-inactivated · 3430 days ago · link · · parent · post: Do you feel that Reddit culture has had a negative influence on your ability to hold reasoned discussion?
In my experience, reddit culture wasn't responsible for negatively influencing my ability to discuss things reasonably. Instead, it influenced my propensity to do so. Rather than being unable to make a reasoned argument, it was a place where angry, unreasonable arguments thrived, and I became in less and less of a mood to engage with people like that after some time. I sometimes find myself wondering what a more reasonable argument is to a point that I disagree with compared to the ones that are currently there. Sometimes I even take the plunge and try and post it to counter the groupthink. In some places, it works. In other places where it doesn't, I usually end up avoiding doing so.