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Inr/aita, Marc Beaulac was facing a dilemma at work: there was an office conflict brewing over the thermostat, between the men who wanted it turned down and the women who wanted r/aita higher.

The subreddit allows users to solicit and express opinions about the appropriateness of the actions of people in specific scenarios — especially the actions of the person reporting about the situation. The subreddit was created in by photographer and dog rescuer Marc Beaulac to determine if he had been inappropriately mansplaining in a debate with female coworkers about the temperature of their office. By July , it had 1 million members, which it dubs "potential assholes". A Twitter account used to repost a curated selection of the posts, until it stopped doing so on 5 January Any user typically from a single-use account referred to as a throwaway [1] can make a post, beginning with "AITA", asking if they're an asshole for what they did in a situation they were involved in. Some posts, such as the December thread about an orange tabby named Jorts , are shared on other social media platforms, eg Twitter.

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According to both the site r/aita Beaulac, the actual figures are multiple times higher. Read Edit View history, r/aita. Toggle limited content width.

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Every day, people leave their quandaries on the Reddit website — asking others to judge whether they were in the wrong. As religion wanes, are we crowdsourcing our ethics? This was a 6ft-long party sub from a local deli, with loaves of bread braided together to make one super-sandwich — nearly twice the standard width, and loaded with fillings. It would have comfortably fed 20 to 25 people, and there were far fewer coming over to watch the fight. But the host had not accounted for Alan. While the group was distracted by the TV, he ate more than half the sandwich by himself. The next day Alan awoke to angry texts telling him that he had embarrassed himself. It is a question that all but the most oblivious of us sometimes ask: am I the bad one in this situation? Am I in the wrong for wanting to bring my dog to social events?

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Sometimes in life, you encounter an ethical dilemma. Should you tell your sister's boyfriend that your dog and him share the same name? Should you clean out the fridge without telling your significant other? Sometimes there can be ambiguity while conducting social graces. Other times, there's no debate. Every day we send an email with the top stories from Digg. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Google. By signing up, I agree to Digg's Terms of Use and Privacy policy and consent to processing my personal information and receiving marketing emails.

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Subreddit Stats says that changes Reddit recently made to third-party access to site content are the reason for out-of-date data. Users can then vote on the best comments. Toggle limited content width. For some observers, this popularity and endurance is thanks, in part, to a shift toward a more ambiguous sense of morality in our culture. Archived from the original on 9 January The Ringer. According to Hirsh, it's nice for people to have a space — especially one that's anonymous and separate from the actual people they're having a conflict with — to "try and figure out, 'OK, this is good, this is bad. She says that the forum may be most useful in cases where the problems are more ambiguous, "situations where you can tell from the beginning, it's really not clear what the answer is. He received only one response from a user who agreed that his position was somewhat reasonable. Read Edit View history. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Contents move to sidebar hide. According to the community rules, submitters must "accept the judgment and move on," although it's not uncommon to see some keep trying to justify their actions in the comments.

But even in the most trying of times we finds ways to persevere and cope — often, with humor.

Archived from the original on 29 November In , the subscriber count sat below , You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Users can then vote on the best comments. According to Hirsh, it's nice for people to have a space — especially one that's anonymous and separate from the actual people they're having a conflict with — to "try and figure out, 'OK, this is good, this is bad. Once a submitter posts their question, readers can comment and are expected to leave one of four judgments: YTA You're the asshole , where the submitter is deemed to be in the wrong; NTA Not the asshole , where the other party is considered to be wrong; ESH Everyone sucks here , where both parties are wrong; or the rare NAH No asshole , where both parties acted appropriately, but the situation just sucks. In the last year alone, it has gained more than seven million subscribers. Read Edit View history. Archived from the original on 9 January By the beginning of , it had surpassed 1. Apollo Imgur RedditGifts. The Ringer. He received only one response from a user who agreed that his position was somewhat reasonable.