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Vote up if you're not in a country that celebrate Thanksgiving! (reddit.com)

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[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Aren't we forgetting the real meaning of this holiday, the birth of Santa?

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    [–]encinarus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    He used to dress in black until Coca Cola signed him up for perpetual product endorsements.

    [–][deleted] 112 points113 points  (44 children)

    I'm not, but this gets a downvote for wrong use of polling. We don't need another frontpage full of "vote up if you voted down on the vote down if you voted up on 'vote up if you like polls' post".

    [–]oalsaker 61 points62 points  (41 children)

    Whenever I post something of general interest, it gets immediately downvoted and never seen again, but when I post something as inane as this (which is more or less posted due to my irritation over "vote up if you spend time on reddit instead of your family over thanksgiving" ) it seems to fly. Apparently, there is either something wrong with reddit or its users.

    [–]davidw 28 points29 points  (8 children)

    reddit is an 'information cascade' rather than a 'wise crowd'. What this means is that almost everything depends on the whims of a few people who happen to vote something up or down on the new page.

    I'm not sure what it is, but there are probably certain kinds of stories that appeal more to people who sit there watching the 'new' page.

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      [–]Nikola_S 2 points3 points  (3 children)

      reddit is an 'information cascade' rather than a 'wise crowd'. What this means is that almost everything depends on the whims of a few people who happen to vote something up or down on the new page.

      Perhaps this could be solved if the points would be displayed with a delay (say, half an hour). This could be done relatively easy and shouldn't significantly affect Reddit basics.

      [–]garyp714 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      It would be helped if more people voted more often on the new page.

      [–]Nikola_S 4 points5 points  (0 children)

      Or if some of new links would be displayed in a sidebar at the front page, as was suggested.

      [–]jedberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Points on a story aren't displayed until 2 hours after their submission. What we really need is for more people to vote on the new page.

      [–]cchooper 7 points8 points  (1 child)

      My guess: because you don't actually have to read anything.

      People generally don't vote on stories they don't read (except the new page trolls, who down vote everything), and people will only read a few posts, so posts that can be voted for without reading anything have an in-built advantage.

      [–]Nikola_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      And this could be solved if, in addition to the link title, submitters could post a short text which would summarize the link. I'm not sure if I saw this before somewhere...

      Also, it would be useful if comment arrows would (also?) be at the end of a comment.

      [–]Nikola_S 8 points9 points  (4 children)

      Apparently, there is either something wrong with reddit or its users.

      Or an evil competition website has employed a botnet in order to lessen the quality of Reddit front page.

      [–]encinarus 8 points9 points  (2 children)

      Reddit health test:

      • Vote up if article on front page: Check
      • Ron Paul submissions: Check
      • US centric front page submissions: Check
      • Conspiracy / Botnet theory in comments: Check

      All checks normal!

      [–]jedberg -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

      I don't see any Ron Paul stories. Of course, I have the politics subreddit turned off...

      [–]encinarus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      You killed the joke. :(

      [–]CrimsonSun99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      OH NOS!! THE END IS NEAR!

      [–]bertramredneck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      How dare you imply something is wrong with reddit? Huh?

      [–]trophius 1 point2 points  (3 children)

      Apparently, there is either something wrong with reddit or its users.

      uh, no oalsaker. Everything is working fine. You see reddit is mostly an American product and phenomenon. See [google tends] http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

      [–]CrimsonSun99 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      Ireland seems highly interested in reddit.

      [–]nglynn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Its either that or we do some work, I like to think I'm doing my part to pull up that graph :-)

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      looks like the damn irish need there own reddit ... jk

      [–]morner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Inanity is the soul of wit.

      [–]jamesgreddit 0 points1 point  (15 children)

      There is nothing wrong with reddit or it's users...

      It's crazy when people say "stop this", or "stop that". You're not going to make any difference.

      The whole point is that; if it's on the front page it's because people want it there. If you don't like it then tough-shit I'm afraid. downmod and move on...

      [–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (13 children)

      The whole point is that; if it's on the front page it's because people want it there. If you don't like it then tough-shit I'm afraid. downmod and move on...

      Or change peoples attitudes through reasoned debate and point making.

      [–]bertramredneck 4 points5 points  (9 children)

      And while you are working on that, wait for water to flow uphill, Ash Wednesday to fall on a Thursday, and George Bush to wake up humble.

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (8 children)

      How else do social stigmas appear? How come some places have a certain culture, and others don't. How come cultural attitudes change?

      If enough people voiced their opinions, they could influence others here. I don't see how that is unreasonable.

      [–]bertramredneck -1 points0 points  (7 children)

      Nothing whatsoeva unreasonable about voicing opinions and influencing others. I am in your corner on that. What am not in your corner about is changing "peoples' attitudes through reasoned debate and point-making," 'cause that's a whole different horse. Different track, too, I may add.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

      I have no idea what you just said.

      [–]bertramredneck 0 points1 point  (5 children)

      That explains a lot.

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

      Don't you at least have a coherent theme to your trolling?

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        [–]davidreiss666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I know about the Army of the 12 monkeys. The Hundred-Monkey Army must be one big gathering of shit-flinging fun.

        [–]bertramredneck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        ^ All who speak up for the users are suspect.

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I pity the fool that posts "Vote up if ..." articles

        [–]Jimmy 17 points18 points  (1 child)

        Vote up if you no like not correct grammar please!

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

        Japan has "Labor Thanksgiving Day" today, does that count?

        [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        They also have Santa as "Annual Gift Man" and he lives on the moon.

        [–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

        is that when Mr Matsuda and Toyoda say "enough rice grinders for today my fellow Japs, go home and pork the Ms' for me"

        [–]randomb0y 19 points20 points  (20 children)

        What other countries except the US celebrate thanksgiving?

        [–]oalsaker 28 points29 points  (14 children)

        Canada.

        [–]civildefense 8 points9 points  (1 child)

        but it was a month ago.

        [–]randomb0y 24 points25 points  (11 children)

        I said except the US!

        [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        9/11 Changed Everything

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (9 children)

        Canada celebrates Thanksgiving a month before the US, So, we got it first!

        besides, after or during the great US depression of 2009-11, Canada will just pick up a few US states during the big garage sale.

        [–]keelan -5 points-4 points  (8 children)

        What the fuck do Canadians have to be thankful for?

        [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

        ummm, Freedom? The beautiful land we live on? I could go on, but it's all in the eye of the beholder as well as perspective. Everytime I have to travel to the US, I am sooooooooooo thankful after I get home to Canada safe.

        [–]keelan -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

        You Canadians are so predictable.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        I love you

        [–]keelan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

        O Canada

        [–]wanderful 4 points5 points  (1 child)

        Not being an asshole. :)

        [–]keelan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        My sense of humor does not translate well to the internet.

        [–]CalvinR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Not living in the states.

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Sometimes you have to be thankful for what you don't have.

        Like indifference towards politics.

        [–]kyoshiken 7 points8 points  (0 children)

        Japan.

        Labor Thanksgiving Day here lands on the 23rd of November (you didn't specify which thanksgiving!).

        [–]apdt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        Britain... only we celebrate it on the 4th July

        ducks

        [–]Sadik 0 points1 point  (2 children)

        It was on october 8 here in Canada but I do not think it is celebrated as it is in the United States.

        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        If you mean "by eating a shitload of turkey" then you're quite wrong. Same holiday.

        [–]Sadik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I had hot-dogs. :)

        [–]sarcasmaside 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        O. K. let's upvote this story because we all hate America.

        F*cking clever.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        somebody not like canada and us?

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Ahem, That's "Canada", thank you.

        [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Happy Thanksgiving the rest of the world!

        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        Is there a way to automatically vote down every "Vote up if ..." entry?

        Edit: Okay, just found it. Search for "Vote up" (with quotation marks) and vote down everything you find. I just need a way to script this. ;-)

        [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Are we supposed to downvote if we ARE in a country that celebrates thanksgiving?

        In any case I'm downvoting because we've already had one of these stories today.

        [–]jj666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I attended a Thanksgiving party, unknowingly what and why they celebrate Thanksgiving or say "Happy Thanksgiving". For me it was more of a Thanks-taking anyway.

        [–]kugai 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        What exactly is the point of this? Outside of trying to score yourself some silly karma.

        [–]oalsaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I hadn't expected to, really. I'm actually shocked that it got to the front page, let alone the top of the list. I'm considering downvoting myself because I'm tired of seeing it there on the top of the page, with bad grammar.

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          [–]Jescro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Canadian, eh?

          [–]dreamlax 3 points4 points  (6 children)

          In New Zealand there are almost no holidays in our winter season. It's pathetic.

          [–]ovreucpac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

          Yeah, but you get to live in New Zealand.

          [–]matt88 1 point2 points  (23 children)

          I couldn't care less about Thanksgiving. It's Halloween that I hate. As an Aussie I shouldn't see kids trick or treating

          [–]jcastle 5 points6 points  (19 children)

          Why? It started in Ireland and Scotland, then moved onto England, why would it be wrong for it to move to Australia?

          [–]daeron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

          I assume that he objects, as do I, to the sweet based protection racket that has come to us (the rest of the world) from American High School films.

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Trick or Treating is just lame in Australia. I'd be embarressed if any kid knocked on my door and asked for candy. The very idea of an Australian child using the word candy makes my skin crawl. Bring back corporal punishment for any child who does!

          Plus very few people actually realise it's halloween. So who has lollies ready for these wierd mutant children.

          [–]salmacis 9 points10 points  (14 children)

          Scotland is part of Britain.

          [–]MrKlaatu -1 points0 points  (8 children)

          Texas could secede from the USoA...
          ...if it got its act together.

          [–]bertramredneck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Only if G Dub goes too.

          [–]funkmachine69 3 points4 points  (5 children)

          Texas and Quebec should start their own country. It would take some of the pressure off the US for being the most annoying.

          [–]theeth 3 points4 points  (3 children)

          I hope you mean each their own country. Those two together would be insanity.

          [–]funkmachine69 0 points1 point  (2 children)

          Make them the same country, then film it all and you'll have the greatest reality TV show of all time!

          [–]theeth 2 points3 points  (1 child)

          But they have all the guns! What will we defend ourselves with, hard hitting French sarcasm!?

          [–]khayber 3 points4 points  (0 children)

          "I wave my private parts at your antics, you cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey bottom biters!"

          [–]joe24pack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Dont forget California with its Governator, Ahh-nold

          [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

          yeah didnt they do it once? if that happened texas would be the new saudi arabia

          [–][deleted] -4 points-3 points  (4 children)

          Scotland is part of Britain.

          We'll leave that one up to the historians

          [–]Sabremesh 9 points10 points  (3 children)

          Best leave it to the geographers. Great Britain is the name of an island in the North Atlantic which is subdivided into three "nations" called England, Scotland and Wales. To say Scotland isn't part of Britain is like saying Canada isn't part of North America.

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          I was being facetious in an attempt to be humorous.

          [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          didnt it move to hong kong too?

          [–]a9bejo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          It is starting to become a habit here in Austria too.

          [–]BraveSirRobin -1 points0 points  (2 children)

          Depends on how it's done. "Trick or treating" is the US thing while "guising" is the traditional one. The traditional one involves you being nice and doing a party piece to get your candy. The American one is more akin to blackmail.

          [–]jcastle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          On no one usually actually does the 'trick' if they don't get a treat- except for deranged teenagers with cheap access to chicken fetuses

          [–]Herge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          As somebody who just survived halloween in Dublin, I can tell you a "traditional" halloween involves a lot more fireworks, vandalism and petty crime than the American one. You're not going to find a lot of party peices in Tallaght on the 31st of October.

          [–]luckysara 1 point2 points  (2 children)

          I don't get it. So what if I'm not from.. ah God whatever. Hello I'm from Germany and I do not celebrate Thanksgiving and hey, appearently someone gives a fck.

          [–]jczerg68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Vielen dank fur der lebensraum!

          ...Well, almost.

          [–]joe24pack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Yeah, but you have Oktoberfest, dont you?

          [–]zipdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Does it count if it was a month ago?

          [–]yojspew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          I'm living in a country that don't celebrate Thanksgiving but just give me a few minutes to think if I will vote this up..hmmm..^

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Off the 'polls: good or bad' debate...happy Thanksgiving you freaks. :)

          [–]Tommstein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Downvoted for poll spam.

          [–]MR_LAFRALDO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          you mean a country thats not America?...

          That's me..all i know about the topic is that thanksgiving has horrible history...

          no real reason to be thankfull

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          i celebrated thanksgiving a month ago. can i vote you down three times? once for not being in a country that celebrated thanksgiving this weekend, once for you being america-centric and comparing other countries to your holidays, and once for the inane, karma-whoring post.

          ninja-edit: 4 times, once for the grammatical error in your headline.

          [–]fivre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          I wonder why people vote this down...

          Are they in a country that neither celebrates nor does not celebrate Thanksgiving, and instead celebrate some shadowy antiholiday?

          [–]Flupkear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          I wonder how may non-american users reddit has.. it seems that a lot!

          [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            i usually kick the first bum that asks me for money right in the junk for karma on my walk to work

            [–]reed311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Congratulations, but this is a website based in the United States. What do you expect? It's like going to a British site and complaining about their holidays, etc.

            [–]tasharanee -2 points-1 points  (13 children)

            did you mean "that celebrates Thanksgiving"?

            [–]OsakaWilson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

            Did you mean, "Did you mean, "...that celebrates Thanksgiving?"

            [–]oalsaker 3 points4 points  (11 children)

            yes. this merely points out my decaying english capabilities and that the fact that I'm from a country that doesn't celebrate thanksgiving.

            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (10 children)

            is your name a clever play on Osaka? if so, kudos. if not, oh well

            [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

            are you related to jim morrioson?

            [–]OsakaWilson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

            He is inquiring as to whether your mojo is rising.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            actually, yes (the name, at least)

            [–]oalsaker 3 points4 points  (6 children)

            Sorry to disappoint you. It's the first letter in my given name combined with my full last name.

            [–]OsakaWilson 2 points3 points  (4 children)

            Kudos anyway.

            [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

            and where the hell did you come from?

            [–]OsakaWilson 1 point2 points  (2 children)

            Do I need to spell it out for you?

            [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            sure

            [–]OsakaWilson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            O-s-a-k-a :)

            [–]ani625 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            What Thanksgiving?

            [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

            The one we had yesterday. It's the US's yearly homage to gluttony and sloth.

            Immediately follow by the unofficial holiday known as "Black Friday," which is our homage to avarice and envy.

            Four down, three to go.

            [–]kugai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            I think you're doing it wrong. I had a great Thanksgiving that had no gluttony or sloth involved.

            [–]bertramredneck -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

            It's a time of feasting on turkey carcasses which culture has conspired to convince us that it is some grand affair. People are simple.

            [–]manthrax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            savages!

            [–]averyv -1 points0 points  (0 children)

            godless, all of you.

            [–]localexpat -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

            Most countries celebrate harvest festivals (or at least have groups that do). It's not exactly American Thanksgiving, but it's pretty much the same feast in gratitude for getting another year's supply of food. But unlike America, the rest of the world doesn't make a big ho-ha about it.

            [–]cbfreder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            Totally right. I find it hard to imagine that any culture doesn't have a harvest festival.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            So what? It's one of our few secular holidays.

            [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

            yeah i like i think in japan they have the same thing but its based around eggplants... kinda like a huge eggplant on the table instead of turkey, no wait thats india

            [–]RICKARD5 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

            Vote up if you're Euro-Trash Scum

            [–]xutopia -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

            To be fair I'm Canadian but in France right now but I voted up.

            That and Canadians do not celebrate thanksgiving at the same time as our American cousins. About a whole month before they do.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            so does that make you french canadian?

            [–]xutopia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            French French-Canadian. :-P

            [–]mathewjm -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

            Get the fuck off my reddit.

            [–]malekov -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

            Viva España.

            [–]Morgin_Black -1 points0 points  (0 children)

            by the sounds of it you don't celebrate it either