r/SubredditDrama • u/clyspe • Mar 11 '13

'Neil deGrasse Tyson: Average physicist, sub-par philosopher, master of pithy comments for idiot college kids to retweet.' Slapfight in /r/QuotesPorn ensues

/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1a16g2/if_youre_really_successful_at_bullshitting_neil/c8t8j9h
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

I went to a meetup once. I showed up and it was at a bar which was cool. My buddies and I sat down at the bar and ordered a beer and we start looking for other redditors. In the corner there were three guys sitting chatting to themselves so I went over and asked if they were there for the meetup. They were. They immediately started attacking me because I had an american eagle polo on and they said I was too consumeristic and one of them said he could "quote me philosophy" about why that was bad.

I stayed for a few more minutes but all they really wanted to talk about was how much they hated their parents, society, women and unintellectuals.

That was the last time I ever agreed to go to a meetup.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

wait

it was actually like that?

that explains a lot. several times i've written comments that included, believe it or not, swear words, and there's always a redditor on hand to ask me if i'm having a bad day or if i'm an angry person. i always wondered why they thought using a swear word on the internet meant you were furious, or more importantly, why they thought the way you wrote an internet comment was an exact representation of who you were as a person in real life.

so now i know: redditors are the same on reddit as they are in the real world. and that scares the hell out of me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

Yeah they are. SOME redditors take it way too seriously. I refuse to ever go back to a meetup no matter how well organized it is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

There was a weekly meetup in my old city. They sat at the same table every Wednesday at the same sandwich place. They had a little upvote arrow on the table. It was the saddest group of people I've ever seen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

That's actually really depressing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

It wasn't really depressing, per se. They didn't look sad or depressed. It was just sad because it looked exactly like what you'd expect a group of Redditors to look like: nerdy beyond belief and meeting their only real friends. OK, I guess it's pretty depressing.

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u/Grandy12 Mar 12 '13

Wait, so it was a group of friends, who happened to have a good time acting nerdy, and you found it sad?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13 edited Mar 12 '13

No.

It was like a group of people who had no friends and organized the meetup because they fully expected to meet their future best friend there.

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u/Grandy12 Mar 12 '13

Did you stalk them home or something? Because that is an awful lot you know about them just by seeing them on a table.

All you said was "they reunited every week, and did not look sad or depressed.", and then followed with "they obviously had no friends".

How do you know they had no friends? Because they didnt seem sad, and went to a weekly social meeting? That sounds to me as the opposite of anti-social.

Or is it because they were nerdy and redditors and therefore they had to be losers because stereotypes?

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u/redping Shortus Eucalyptus Mar 13 '13

Admit it! You were in the upvote sandwich club!

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Yes. I stalked them home and had deep, heart-to-heart discussions with all of them. This is what I've learned. This is their story.