Just wanted to let you all know about avery diverting — and damnably difficult — little game you can play on the internets: Reddit or Stormfront?
The premise is simple: You’re presented with an assortment of terrible comments, and you simply have to guess whether each one came from the hive of whiteboy bigotry known as Reddit … or the hive of white supremacist bigotry known as Stormfront.
It’s actually really hard. I’ve been playing it off and on since last night, and I’m barely doing better than pure chance.
The game was evidently inspired by the funny/disturbing Reddit-critical subreddit, SRSsucksOrStormfront. You might also enjoy perusing MRMorWhiteRights.
Yeah, I’m not very good at that game, either. X_X
Also, those white dudes are fucking creepy. I so wish I could flip them off.
Wow. I am really bad at that game.
This game makes me sad. š
On the Free Republic (where the oldest and most pathetic regressives on the internet hangout) mockery thread at Something Awful we play a similar game, Freep or Stormfront. Weirdly enough the former is often more openly racist than the openly racist hate site.
I got 100% last night, but I only did like 6 of them. I think the trick is that the worse, more racist, and more unhinged it is, the more likely it is that is came from Reddit. Which, goddamn, if that’s not a reason to dissociate yourself from Reddit, I don’t know what is.
That’s a hard game!
I played and didn’t do very well.
Yep, I’m going to continue to stay away from Reddit.
I’ve done a couple of dozen, and I’m just barely over 50%. I can’t play for too long at any one time because it’s so hard, and I can’t figure out any simple rules for distinguishing the quotes, despite having spent way too much of my life reading terrible Reddit comments.
Bee, check your email!
I think those are too horrible for me to want to keep going š Pretty sucky game, other than highlighting how terrible both the sites are.
I ended with a 40% right.
Maybe when someone tries to hide nasty prejudices it doubles back.
Whenever I see games like this I think of a less depressing one.
http://brunching.com/pornorpony.html
Also, the racist or really racist game is ugh. It’s weird that the Stormfront people are more cognizant of the fact that other people can read what they say on the internet.
Something tells me that no pony fictional or otherwise has had lips in its name.
I don’t think my score (44%) was very good on a quiz that is “either…or”
I ended at about 78%. I found that the trick was if they seemed to be arguing with someone it was more likely reddit. If they seemed to be more expanding on WHY x race is terrible, or in some way seemed certain that their opinion would be well received, it was more likely stormfront. Also, stormfront had more classic style racism and reddit had more internet “haha im so edgy” style racism. Not 100% of the time obvs.
i’m a mod at /r/MRMorWhiteRights and even i suck at this game.
I’m at six and so far, only one of the terrible comments has been from stomfront, and it seemed rather tame in comparison with the ones from reddit.
Reddit is such a cesspool.
I think the difference isn’t really in the content, but the way it’s phrased (in particular, if it looks like they’re trying to get upvotes).
Hokes, I *started* /r/MRMorWhiterights and I lost. Miserably.
We need a support group!
I would have had a better percentage, but I didn’t realize that the hatred of Romani people was so big on Stormfront. I know they’re hated on Reddit, but I thought Stormfront was more US-centric and I didn’t think that particular form of bigotry was as popular here as in Europe. TIL, I guess.
Cloudiah, the Romani hate is particularly witless. According to the anthropological research I’ve read, they are originally from what is now India, which makes them more Aryan than most Americans. Of course, evil racist wastes of skin are not motivated by rational considerations.
I’m not going to try playing the game. I’d like my breakfast to stay down.
After batting 0 out of 6, I threw in the towel.
Well, here’s a disturbing piece from the SPLC on the number of racist murders committed by Stormfronters: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/white-homicide-worldwide
Holy shit, just when you think Stormfronters are just losers, then you’re reminded that they’re violent losers.