A recent LA Times article confirmed my suspicions about religious intolerance on social media sites like Digg and Reddit.
A 2-year-old survey of Digg users showed a significant concentration of atheists and agnostics. Because Digg’s content is submitted and voted on by the users, the stories…reflect the audience.
I have noticed that there is also a left wing bent to many of the stories that hit the front page of Digg and its ilk. This was especially prevalent over the past several months due to the political campaign.
A lot of interesting, useful, and funny stuff comes up on the mainstream social media sites, but after the constant deluge of Jesus-bashing, Creationism-bashing, and Conservative-politics bashing I am ready to find some alternatives.
Maybe there really is something about not discussing politics and religion.
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Its probably been close to a year since I’ve been a regular at digg, but in addition to extreme intolerance (in the name of tolerance?) the level of conversation is usually irrational and a waste of time and brain cells.
I’ve stuck with reddit, but heavily editted my subreddits and never get any of the front page cruft. occassionally there will be a story in science.reddit that elicites some less-than-constructive conversation, but its bearable.
Its good to hear conservatives speaking out about being put down. At least in the short term, I’m afraid its only going to get worse.
That’s a great point about the conversation - It’s not. Usually it is filled with sophomoric and banal comments like “First!”, “Gay!”, or “That’s Photoshopped!” Hardly compelling!