For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    Jesus, yes. I can’t tell you how many subreddits got swamped with high-school leveled questions about sex.

    Especially in TooAfraidToAsk, which is supposed to be about questions that’d normally be about trying to ask taboo things to get a discussion. But no, you’ll come across questions like “if there is no porn to look at, what do you look at instead while jerking off in the shower?”. Like, besides trolls, who the hell comes up with some questions like that? Let’s not forget the abundance of people, showcasing the lack of sexual education, asking if they’d get HPV by doing this or HIV by doing that.

    • Aesthesiaphilia
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      241 year ago

      I feel bad because clearly these poorly educated teenagers need answers to these questions. But it really drags down the level of discourse.

      And not just regarding sex, but any other “oh you’re obviously 14” takes.

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        101 year ago

        Makes you wonder if the loads of stupid sex questions has anything to do with the lack of proper sex education in schools.

        • Aesthesiaphilia
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          71 year ago

          Some of them were from perpetually horny adults like myself but we usually self-quarantined at r/askredditafterdark

          • SeanM
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            21 year ago

            Ah, yes…I posted on that one for a time.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I don’t know, man.

          Teenagers are going to be horny no matter the level of education. I just think it’s exciting for them to have “real” people answering their questions, a distinctly different experience than asking the teacher in sex-ed, more private too.

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      41 year ago

      Reddit seems like it is largely made up of two main demographics. It’s either people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s who were there since the site’s launch (me) or teenagers to early/mid 20’s. The latter has a big reach on the site right now.

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      21 year ago

      who the hell comes up with some questions like that?

      I mean the obvious answer is of course young teenagers, especially if their family has a uncomfortable relation to sexuality.