r/bestof • u/ectoplasmicz • Sep 09 '12
[photoshopbattles] R/photoshopbattles puts life into perspective.
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u/LordRavenholm Sep 09 '12
Was hilarious...
...until the Atheism/Christianity bullshit
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u/TellThemYutesItsOver Sep 09 '12
I thought the /r/atheism part was hilarious but I don't think christianity really worked there
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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Sep 09 '12
Well it was a rocket launcher so it should of been /r/muslim
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u/Hotwir3 Sep 09 '12
psssst
should have
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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Sep 09 '12
Is that what everyone is getting a hair up their ass about? If that is the case then I can't change it because that is hilarious.
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u/DudeWithTheNose Sep 09 '12
No, everyone getting pissed because that was ridiculously racist, and hardly funny.
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u/Hotwir3 Sep 09 '12
I really don't understand reddit. You downvote that joke but upvote this joke.
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u/DudeWithTheNose Sep 09 '12
I didn't see that joke before, but I'll try to rationalize it.
It's all about the context. And how the joke is delivered. DrunkmanDoodoo's joke seemed a little too serious, almost as if he wasn't joking. Also, no one in this thread was making reference to muslims.
The other thread however, The joke was delivered in a very funny manner. He also makes it very clear that he is joking when he says "I'll show myself out".
Or reddit is just retarded.
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u/redditbarns Sep 09 '12
I honestly think if the Muslim joke was followed by the "I'll show myself out" joke, it would have gotten upvoted. Reddit lets people get away with just about anything if it's followed by that. Kinda lame IMO.
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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Sep 09 '12
well I am not the one confusing muslims with a race of people. Muslims can be quite a number of different races. Am I racist towards white people if I say christians are also sacks of worthless shit?
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u/DudeWithTheNose Sep 09 '12
I suppose it's not so much "racist" as it is "incorrectly generalizing a large group of people".
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u/righteous_scout Sep 09 '12
devil's advocate: "muslim" is far more associated with an ethnic group than "christian" is.
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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Sep 09 '12
Religion shouldn't be able to hide from criticism behind the protections of race.
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u/righteous_scout Sep 09 '12
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do you know what culture is?
islam and arabic are faaar more interconnected than christianity and... the west? i guess.
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u/TellThemYutesItsOver Sep 09 '12
I hate dumb motherfuckers like you who say "____ are not a race so I'm not being racist". Do you know what the definition of racism is, you dumb cunt?
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u/Hotwir3 Sep 09 '12
Oh wow, I corrected you because I thought people were downvoting your grammar because I found the comment moderately humorous.
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u/cssher Sep 09 '12
/r/islam would be the more analogous term. that's definitely why everyone is downvoting you.
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u/rileyrulesu Sep 09 '12
I know,i was hoping the one after god would be Kratos mid jump with his sword things in hand.
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u/MrSourz Sep 09 '12
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u/devourke Sep 10 '12
Thank you for not having a 3 second gap in between each step. It really frumps me up when people do that.
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u/brycedriesenga Sep 09 '12
Looks like they kind of jumped the shark there a bit.
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u/Shiniholum Sep 09 '12
"For your information there was an episode of Happy Days where a guy literally jumped a shark and it was awesome!."
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Sep 10 '12
You do realize that that's the source of the expression, right?
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u/Shiniholum Sep 10 '12
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Sep 09 '12
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u/Arborgold Sep 09 '12
It shows you that titles matter... "you sell the sizzle, not the steak"
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u/HereIsWhere Sep 09 '12
"r/photoshop battles puts life into perspective" Ooh. Sounds intersting. I'll click that.
"here kitty kitty" Probably another cat circlejerk. Skip.
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u/TryUsingScience Sep 09 '12
What's the more logical explanation here?
Someone meticulously goes through new on /r/bestof to find good posts that aren't well-titled and then resubmits them with better titles.
Someone saw this on /r/photoshopbattles, thought it was cool, and submitted it to /r/bestof without meticulously checking new to make sure it hadn't been done already.
Further discussion question: if #1 is in fact true, is that inherently bad? Titles are a form of content, and we all like better content. If someone takes good threads with terrible titles and fixes the problem so more people see them, accepting their reward for this service in meaningless internet points, should be more upset with them or grateful to them?
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u/cssher Sep 09 '12
Obviously it's not #1. I mean, I hope it's not #1, who would do such a thing?? It's #2 and while OP is not at fault, it's a little sad for the other OP whose post didn't go anywhere. It's more the bestof community's fault. However, it's really not that big a deal. I'm sure OP of the first one is having a bit of a laugh.
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u/TryUsingScience Sep 09 '12
I just find the hatred for reposts confusing. I mean, I get being annoyed when someone spams /r/aww with the top results from a "cute dog" image search. But the internet is a big place. The odds of more than one person finding the same thing and thinking it's cool are pretty high.
I'm not really sure we can say a community is "at fault" for upvoting the thing with the better title and not the thing that was earlier. Are we on some kind of first-comes-first-serves system, or is merit a better judge of who deserves upvotes?
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u/cssher Sep 09 '12
"At fault" was definitely a poor choice of words, and in this instance, since neither OP personally created the photoshopbattles thread (or did they...), it's not a big deal. Plus there's no karma at stake, for those who care about that. And yeah, this title is little more helpful.
However...
In general, reposts are problematic. I have no problem with reposts being made--they simply MUST be tagged. If the OP is innocently unaware that he has made a repost, that's fine. Someone will point it out and it should then be tagged as a repost, and everyone's happy. Also, cross-posts should always be tagged, and credit must ALWAYS be given. As long as these requirements are fulfilled, I got no beef with reposts. But they rarely are.
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u/TryUsingScience Sep 09 '12
I do enjoy it when cross-posts are tagged, especially when I'm subscribed to both subs in question. Why do you think it's helpful to tag reposts?
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u/cssher Sep 09 '12
Just so people know what's original and what's not, and what's new and what's not. The thing is that if you repost something, yeah some people are going to know it's a repost (especially when someone points that out in the comments), but many users aren't, and they will be under the impression that they are looking at an original picture/video/link etc. by the OP, which is simply not just. Especially to the users who submit their own content.
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u/TryUsingScience Sep 10 '12
That's valid. I was thinking more of stuff like bestof links, where it's obviously not content by the user. Also, something can be not OC and not a repost - for example, if you're posting the Oatmeal's latest comic in some relevant subreddit, you could be the first to post it but you are not the creator. Given how relatively rare OC is, I almost think it's more worth marking that than visa versa.
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u/cssher Sep 10 '12
Well, if you post the Oatmeal's latest comic, it'll be pretty apparent where the comic comes from. If it's not obvious from the comic itself (usually they have the author's name and stuff on them), it'll be obvious from the site OP links you too. Same goes for other types of posts like videos and articles
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Sep 10 '12
How do you tag a repost? What's a repost to you isn't necessarily a repost for somebody else. I'd be way more annoying seeing a repost tag next to every post because rarely are you the first at anything on the internet so you might see repost tags for things you haven't seen before.
Also who tags a repost? If OP has to do it, OP will rarely tag it because 1) he doesn't know it's a repost or 2) doesn't want risk the success of the post. In most cases, it would be problem number 1. If the comments tag it, it will be abused constantly and people will tag it as a repost for shits and giggles like people already do with downvoting something for no reason.
Personally, I don't see the big deal. Just ignore the repost and move on. It's pretty much the same thing with people caring about the opinion of strangers in real life. Stop caring and ignore it. Sorry if I sound harsh, but complaining about reposts just ruins Reddit way more than it's a helpful. When I see posts that are reposts to me, the majority of the comments are something along the lines of: "REPOST", "OP IS FAGGOT FOR REPOST", "I SEE THIS EVERY DAY", etc. Instead of making the post better by creating new comments about the topic of the post, people just keep complaining that they have seem something before on a free and large internet forum.
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u/cssher Sep 10 '12
Yeah, tagging can be a little extreme. A link to the original post would suffice. And that could provided by anybody, but OPs would be greatly encouraged to do so first.
Haha I'm not complaining, just trying to make reddit a better like everybody else! I simply write "repost" (or maybe a dumb joke every once in a while) when no one else has as a pseudo-public-service. Keep in mind that I don't browse reddit as much as some, so it's not like everything is a repost to me and it's ruining my reddit experience.
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u/shizzler Sep 09 '12
Is there no downvote button in r/photoshopbattles?
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u/Werv Sep 09 '12
No, the point is you just upvote good photoshops. The bad ones just stay a low number instead of going negative. During battles, only the upvotes are counted (in case anyone used RES or something).
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u/goodguynextdoor Sep 10 '12
Because all efforts are not to be condemned, no matter the skill of the user!
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u/Swingingbells Sep 10 '12
You can just not use the subreddit's style, which will allow downvotes again.
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u/bongwhacker Sep 09 '12
Reposting ass-gobbler.
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u/Selthor Sep 09 '12
Technically, isn't everything on /r/bestof a repost?
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u/TheExter Sep 09 '12
and reached 100 up votes while this one has 1000+
so... who cares? more people saw it, which is what matters
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u/divinesleeper Sep 09 '12
Be happy that he was sensible enough to put a good title so we could all see it, instead of worrying about reposts. Only people who care about karma give a shit about that anyway.
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Sep 09 '12
i love how this is "best of" nominated in Reddit while it happens constantly on SA.
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u/charlesviper Sep 09 '12
If it makes you feel any better, I thought this was as stupid as 90% of SA Photoshop contests. For a post titled "puts life into perspective" it sure got stupid after the 3rd 'shop.
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Sep 09 '12
They are stupid. I'm not denying that. SA peaked probably in 2006. But SAs Photoshop abilities, even when the content is stupid, put Reddits ability to shame 100 times over.
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u/tetralogy Sep 09 '12
This battle started out kinda good, but then they just pasted more and more images into it
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Sep 09 '12
I don't want to be a part of Reddit anymore if this is considered some of the best it can produce.
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u/wadcann Sep 09 '12
4chan is still ahead in terms of making random content relating to their forum, I'm afraid.
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u/masebee Sep 10 '12
If you open them all in different tabs then cycle through them in order IT'S AWESOME
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Sep 09 '12 edited Sep 10 '12
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u/ectoplasmicz Sep 10 '12
the attempt at sounding deep by OP was pitiful
Because I was completely going for that angle. I was totally trying to sound deep.
Sheesh.
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u/WhipIash Sep 09 '12
I agree on the shopping. It is pretty terrible in /r/photoshopbattles.
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u/Broodje Sep 09 '12
Ah well... Most of us are learning, me included. Gotta start somewhere.
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u/WhipIash Sep 09 '12
Yeah, I'm not saying don't post, but it's usually the best idea which gets voted up the most, not the best shop. Which isn't what the sub is meant for.
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u/Broodje Sep 09 '12
Ow, definitely... Mostly because people don't read the rules in the sidebar, 4th one says
Please vote by quality. Lazy shops shouldn't win just because they made you laugh. You can still vote funny stuff (we can't control you) but keep in mind that people spend lots of time making some really good submissions and deserve as much recognition as the next guy.
But sometimes I do feel compelled upvoting bad shops, just because they've been upvoted before :\
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u/DudeWithTheNose Sep 09 '12
Puts life into perspective? The fuck?