>>27My dude, I started posting on world4ch in 2005. I only started using reddit in 2016.
Yeah, I use reddit now, but I'm not ``from'' reddit. I wouldn't call reddit a forum per se, it's more of a digg clone that I would describe as a content aggregator. Digg was never a traditional forum. It was like a public, proto-timeline. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And yeah, reddit's userbase can be annoying -- ultra-liberal, stupid jokes, eating up gross consumerist ``nerd'' culture, etc. But some niche subreddits can be useful, especially for tech, local events, and things like that.
Besides, nothing from my post was from reddit. If you think something I posted was from reddit, that's just you projecting your feelings about reddit and has nothing to do with my post. ``t.'' is not a reddit thing, it's a Finnish language thing and it's also from Ylilauta. And meta-posting shits up the board just as much (if not more) than your perceived ``reddit posts''. It contributes nothing of value.
I'e seen meta-posting like yours in BBSes, IRC, phpBB forums, SomethingAwful (``go back to GBS''), 4chan, reddit, world4ch, and countless other online communities/forms/social media platforms/websites. You think you're the only person who does it, but it's a common trope among many different sites and communities. In no case does it ever contribute anything of value or make the board better.
Rose-tinted glasses and bullshit like that. When you get older, your memories fade, and even change. You look back fondly and gloss over the problems and concentrat only on the good things. Eternal September wasn't just an influx of newfags, it was also that generations ``everything was better back in the day'' which pretty much every generation in history had, even pre-internet.
But whatever. It's 420 and I'm arguing on the internet. Time to stop.