Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Reddit is so toxic, regardless of the subject. Got a question on how to get some game controller to work in RetroPie running on a Raspberry Pi? BOOM! Instant downvotes, people telling you that you wasted your money on buying that controller because there are better ones, plus others yelling at you to read the 40 page FAQ on GitHub, people telling you to "shut up and just make your own Linux drivers," etc. Plus people will downvote you, along with their sockpuppet accounts, so as to push their own content up. "Hi Sega Dreamcast group! Check out this Sega Dreamcast T-shirt I just bought!" BOOM! Instant downvotes. One may ask, "What the hell?" That's Reddit for you.
Exactly. I got downvoted in a really local subreddit when I adviced someone on a bar and then I asked one question about multitimbrality on iPadMusic and nobody felt like answering and even downvoted me… then I slowly realised: what does this bring me? I was happy to eventually help people but personally never learnt anything valuable. As a frequent the_donald user, I was also systematically banned on numerous subreddits. Then I took the compulsivity away by deleting my account.
I just politely ask someone to capitalize « Jesus Christ », shortly, nothing else, I got insulted and massively downvoted on the r/piano subreddit. Many blasphemous answers also came like « How do you like JESUS F*Ç[]KING CHRIST? » (censored by me).
So that when I realised Reddit is like that drunk pedo Uncle that once fixed your bicycle tyre but that you’d rather avoid because its pros can’t make up for its cons. R/cats is about people begging for updoots because they lost their cat 2 years ago, r/modular features showoffs with expensive rigs or idiots making repetitive unoriginal noise, the French subreddits are awful (« I am not transphobic, but… »), the r/3dprinting mostly consists of morons printing stupid toys... One just has to wonder: WTF is with that heavily censored and politically biaised cesspool?
I am better off that since I have enough resources to find answers whenever I need some.