Reddit has thousands upon thousand of members. A far more diverse group of fandom.
Reddit's mechanics of downvoting and downvoted posts and comments getting buried, promotes group think and consensus opinion a lot more than Xenforo.
The One Piece subreddit may have more members, but it is less ideologically diverse than WorstGen. Opinions that the majority disagree with on Reddit get hidden by default.
On WorstGen, opinions that the majority disagree with still get a lot of mileage and exposure.
See:
- @Chrono's King's Merienda
- @Zoro D Goat's Sanji will fight King and Queen
- @Jo_Ndule's Zoro's final fight will be YC 3 Kyoshiro
- @Jackteo's Enma stores Oden's haki
- @sanjikun's Big Mom would warn Kaido to dodge Kinemon with Enma
- @Critical Mindset's deluge of Vergo wank
All of the above threads are threads the majority of the forum disagreed with, but they still got massive exposure and discussion by the forum community. On the One Piece subreddit, such threads that the majority disagreed with would have been downvoted to oblivion, so most people would never see it.
People that so deviated from the Overton window on Reddit like the aforementioned would not be able to have productive conversations because their comments would get buried under downvotes. Most of the community would never hear their voice because the forum software guarantees they never see it.
If you have an opinion that deviates from the majority on WorstGen, you can make a thread making your case, and people would engage with it. On the One Piece subreddit, no one would ever see that opinion because it would get downvoted to oblivion (if it's not deleted).
On WorstGen,
@Big D. Kaios,
@True God Moe and
@Erkan12 are/were free to peddle their utter nonsense, and the forum software treats it with the same respect a thread by
@Bogard or
@Garp the Fist would get.
On WorstGen, what determines what threads people see by default isn't upvotes (group think), but instead the last threads that were posted to. Time is the only mechanic that governs the default exposure. It is ideologically impartial.
The idea that the One Piece subreddit is more ideologically diverse than WorstGen is just plain wrong. The very mechanics of Reddit enforce ideological conformity.