Your reasons for hating Reddit?

[Overwritten Tapes]

My city's reddit is the gayest shit ever. None of the people outside of it in real life even think like it, or they hide it really well.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

What people have already said and that it led to the destruction and consolidation of forums and an entire Library of Alexadria's worth of information being lost. So many forums are either dead, moribund or hidden away because of reddit consolidating their userbase into their subreddits. It's really unfortunate.

I agree with this but at the same time I think discord also has a big hand in it. Rather than an aggregator, all reddit does now is drive people somewhere else. Whether its a youtube channel or a discord channel or onlywhores channel, all it exists for is to point people somewhere else; its almost like it admits to itself that its not good for discussion. That'd be great if there was some place good for that but the forum to reddit pipeline killed most forums so there isn't. Effectively it just gathered up a lot of useful people willing to make informative posts and then shot them all into a mass grave.

 

[Blasterman]

Would you care to expand on the difference between Reddit's current karma system and simple upvotes/downvotes?

I don't think I understood that there's a difference.

To be frank there really isn't that much of a difference. However, karma is registered as a unified meter for every post you ever made be it a response or an OP, no matter on which subreddit. In the case the Reddit system software recognizes that your account has too much negative karma (i.e. negative points on posts), then your account automatically gets banned and you're unable to post. Some subreddits also have set karma limits below which you can't post either. There is a whole group of karma farming subreddits just to bypass those limits. I assume the whole karma system was originally made to prevent trolling but nowadays anything not even remotely resembling the urbanite neo-liberal stance gets you downvotes and, consequentially, a potential automatic ban.

Simple upvotes/downvotes would essentially remove the meter mechanic and limit the rating of a post to just that post without affecting your posting site-wide. Think of it like the reactions you get here on the Farms. It's also a far healthier system that practically negates the need of circlejerking a popular (read: astroturfed) opinion just so you could get enough karma to maintain your posting privileges.

 

[Catloaf]

Tranny jannies and moralfagging cunts. They care so much about non-issues and everything becomes political. I can't talk about something without some faggot screeching "muh disinfo, muh x-phobia".

 

[Meat Target]

This should really go without saying.

Once reddit made that announcement that they are banning subreddits on the basis of really nothing other than "we at reddit disagree with your opinion," it has become the most censored social media platform. It is not even close.

A driving force behind this is "super-moderators" like Bardfinn. If you do not know who he is, read up about it here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/steven-joel-akins-penelope-penny-verity-oaken-u-bardfinn-penny-witchette-finning-widget-mutabilesemper.85310/

He is not alone. Another one, who should get a lolcow thread, is this clown merari01. Just search that term here and you will get some good results. @Useful_Mistake knows how he is and I could not remember his name but knew some of his notorious rants and U_M brought it right up. Essentially he has written a number of stickies on various subreddits he is a moderator of stating any post that differs from this very particular worldview and position is grounds for being banned.

These sorts are typical of reddit moderators because of the gambit reddit has made whereby it receives free labor in exchange for the power trips and dopamine hits that induce these losers to put in hours of free labor every day.

Before reddit went to absolute shit, it was never really the best experience. The karma system inhibts descenting opinions. It is also geared so that whoever gets in on a post early gets updoots and that tends to stay on the top whereas as equally or more insightful post that was made later often gets ignored.

Reddit is a big reason behind the sort of mindhive we see in younger millenials and zoomers. It has degraded discourse as much as twitter has with its character limits and how it encourages people from pasting the same memes, the same canned, tired cliches over and over and over again.

I can't remember who ousted Reddit's original founders, but whoever did explicitly said they hoped to shape phblic discourse by doing so.

Hence, as you mentioned, there are only like 6 power jannies who act as the site's petty dictators. Not only will they remove opinions they disagree with, they will also delete factual posts if the facts don't fit the narrative.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Sometimes I genuinely wonder if reddit is some sort of psyop to make people hate Americans, cuz that's exactly what it does. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a psy-op to turn people off liberal-leaning ideas either.

By who? who would be funding this anti liberal American sentiment to spread?

 

[Grub]

I don't hate reddit. That would involve having to care in some manner about reddit. The entire website could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't give it much of a second thought.

 

[XANA]

Reddit is tolerable in that it's a major hub for looking up solutions to technical or specific problems, especially since Google keeps making their search function more retarded with each passing year. I'd say that I dislike parts of Reddit because:

1. The company went down the drain after Aaron Swartz died. I'm not saying Aaron was the perfect moral compass or had a large hand in creating Reddit in the first place, but he did have a strong influence on how Reddit should have been in terms of open discussion about a wide variety of topics. He was also involved in activism such as stopping the US govt's first attempts to regulate the internet in a retarded manner, SOPA. (Slightly unrelated, but I did find it incredibly hilarious how he made thousands of scientific articles free for everyone, which royally pissed off the publishing companies.)
2. Jannies take their jobs way too seriously and act as if a minor disagreement is a personal attack. Additionally, there are quite a few power mods, which oversee 200+ subreddits and enforce their political views from the top-down.
3. There's a distinct lack of nuance. The voting system registers either an upvote or downvote, which people use to rage vote instead of using it for its intended purpose in marking whether content is related to the discussion or not. This same system is also used to downvote comments that are correct, but had hurt peoples' feelings.
4. Moderately controversial subreddits (eg: /r/The_Donald, /r/GenderCritical, etc.) are banned despite no actual laws being broken. Proper discussion cannot be made.
5. There is a shit ton of circlejerking. If you mention anything pro-LGB+, anti-American, or anti-right, you're upvoted to hell. Just slip in a sentence or two along those lines that all but state you accept the current view, and the karma rolls in. Redditors like sniffing each other's farts as much as they do mouth-breathing.
6. The prevalence of scientism. Actual scientific discussion involving criticizing the studies and arguing against the points presented is quickly shot down. Lack of scientific disciplinary training and understanding among the typical Reddit populace combined with shitty studies means that you can push any rag with a vagely scientific title on it, and Redditors will eat it up, as long as it fits within their pre-determined outcomes/views. Want to make it appear as if there's no physical or mental differences between trannies and normal people? Want to pretend to sound smart? Just push a badly-done article on to /r/science. It's an easy strategy.
7. Reddit pushing their stupid, nonworking app with banner ads every time you try to visit the site on mobile. This is especially more glaring in the wake of Reddit charging exorbitant fees for access to their API (which a lot of 3rd party app developers that make Reddit have more QoL functions couldn't afford) to axe the competition for their mobile app. I also hate the new desktop Reddit website appearance.
8. A shitton of ads pretending to be valid posts, in order to bypass adblockers.
9. This is a minor quibble, but typical Redditors have a childish dialect that is incredibly annoying. "Heckin' valid" and "updoots" galore.

 

[Slime Tube]

Some good points already made, but I'd add:

Reddit's community are the most intellectually dishonest group on the Internet; there's a strong reliance on bad faith argumentation over persuasion and evidence when the groupthink on that site is presented with worldviews from outside. If you've been on the site, I'm sure you'll have seen the manner in which any dissent whatsoever on many topics is labelled as springing from Hitlerites as well as a reliance on moving the goalposts and semantic games in an effort to render their own claims unfalsifiable.

Worse, it's role as an aggregation site means that it acts to actively spread its cancerous community over the rest of the Internet. The rules against "brigading" only apply to Reddit itself; they're quite welcome to swarm other websites. More than once I've been trawling the comments elsewhere and noticed a sudden influx of dickheads all chanting the same claim and using a familiar debating (in the loosest sense of the word) style in an effort to enforce what is taken as orthodoxy on Reddit.

Probably the best argument I have for posting on Reddit at all is that if you're keeping the Tranny Jannies busy on their own site being outraged at you, they don't have time to wander off and wreck the rest of the Internet.

Edit: Spelling.

 

[Shidoen]

It’s brings out the worst of people. So does this site but Reddit is more mainstream and out there so it’s more obvious.

 

[spaztocate9000]

reddit is full of woke commie filth and is run by trannies to boot.

Simple as

 

[glow]

Tranny jannies and moralfagging cunts. They care so much about non-issues and everything becomes political. I can't talk about something without some faggot screeching "muh disinfo, muh x-phobia".

I don't even mind about politics seeping into stuff, it's just that there is only one acceptable viewpoint, and if you deviate from it you'll get downvoted and possibly banned.

Here, if I say something someone disagrees with, they call me a retard and maybe that starts an argument. Maybe we don't agree to disagree, but at least we actually discussed something aside from furiously jerking each other off about how terrible drumpf is.

Also, your activity elsewhere is also monitored by bots. Once I was reading some of the redpill subreddits and in amongst the bullshit, someone was going on a date and actually seemed to be improving their life and I proposed that wearing glasses can add extra symmetry to someone's face (he thought of wearing glasses as an indication of weakness). For this crime, my account (one of about 20) was banned from some major subreddits.

 

[whogoesthere]

I disliked the need for people to post things that would get a response. So no matter what the subject was, serious or silly, someone would make a shitty silly joke post. It would end up drawing most of the attention, and the original subject is lost.

I also hate the endless porn baiting. Most gaming subs were people posting shit art that has no value as its never going in the game.

Also they took pinging away from rDrama, that was the end for us. Spoil sports.

But its just a shitty website. Like anything, its ok whilst its small and focused. But once it gets big and the mainstream shows up, it becomes a shitpit. Facebook is like that now, just angry boomers posting shit jokes and minions memes.

Its the fate of all websites, once they get big. The sheer nuclear, toxic, venomous nature of KiwiFarms means it might avoid ever hitting mainstream.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Reddit is one of the gayest sites to pass conversations. All the good subreddits either get banned or get shitty when run by the same tranny moderators who run other subreddits who are extremely liberally biased with the leftist moderation policies (Ex. PewDiePie subreddit getting woke leftist moderators against his own will). If a subreddit has no moderators. A leftists tranny moderator will take it's place against your own will if your subreddit is way to based. Every single person with dissenting voices have been cornered by this for years.

 

[SwanSwanson]

Most people on this website who hate Reddit don't know why they were just told too, it's a very reddit mind set.

It's like Something Awful all over again people hate reddit not because it's bad (It is) but because it's a mirror to show their own behaviors and we can't have anyone thinking we're uncool!

You're probably right, but alot of people, such as myself have actually used reddit before.

 

[Niggernerd]

Moral fagging while having history of defending a sub reddit for pedophiles that took creep shots of young girls. Also tranny jannies.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

I feel the exact opposite of the guy who said "people who hate Reddit have never used reddit." I feel like everyone who violently hates Reddit, was addicted to Reddit 5 years ago or otherwise a frequent user.

I feel like everyone who hates reddit has some autistic origin story of how a janny was mean to them in specific, or how they were torso-deep in being psychologically addicted to some subreddit or whatever, that was "ruined" of course.

Reddit is a cesspool for anything ideology related, anything opinion related, etc: but I enjoy a lot of the light hearted shitposting type subs. For instance, cats, doves building shitty nests, landscape photography, etc. Where else am I supposed to find content aggregation of doves making shitty nests, if I get a chuckle out of seeing those images? The sub was featured on the MATI podcast.

I have never made a reddit account besides throwaways to ask random and specific technical questions, and I've never had a bad time. Reddit has its place, and that place is kinda similar to Youtube. It's popular and it's designed to remain popular, which means the rules are basically popular opinion and wrongthink is punishable by banishment.

It also probably helps that I don't do any sort of porn shit or digital art, so I really have no clue about any sort of pornography-related dramatics besides the cultural osmosis (knowing that r/jailbait existed, that there's lots of redditors into various fetishes, that furries congregate on Reddit etc)
The gay shit is annoying but I live in a city that literally spray-painted pride flags every ten feet down a sidewalk so I'm pretty disillusioned. What are you gonna tell me next? That pop music has bad messaging that promotes hookup culture, drug use, and consumerism?

 

[Whatevermancer]

I don't hate reddit. In fact I like it that if I search for something and add "reddit" in the end, it will give me comments and opinions of actual people instead of SEO-boosted articles generated by bots that only exist to show ads.

 

[Book Thief]

I made a reddit account last year for some minor hobby subreddit. Tried posting in it, got an automatic "Your account is too new to post" message.

Waited a while and tried posting again, another automated message "Your comment karma is too low to post". How does one get comment karma? Post comments and hope some retard upvotes your comment. Posted 10 comments that had some effort put into them. Zero engagement, while typical retard reddit memes (can confirm, username checks out etc) got six million updoots.

Deleted my account and never looked back. Fuck reddit.

I made one relatively recently in a fandom-related subreddit. Got no replies from the scant few comments I placed here or there, only for an admin to inform me a few months down the road that I had been shadowbanned, and that I should make an appeal. Imagine what a fucking authoritarian hell-hole your site must be to assume a guilty-until-proven-innocent mindset towards new-comers.

Aside from that, I hate how Reddit has completely changed how people engage in discourse, and I see it all the time in places like Discord. It's no longer about intelligent thought, instead it's all just one-liners, memes, and quips, as if you're 100% right and the opponent is just too stupid to realize it, so you mock them like it's highschool all over again, just for the sweet dopamine hit of karma or reactions. I swear, it has made people dumber in some way.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

The community is trash, but online communities have always been trash even before normies invaded the internet so it's not special in that regard. For the website itself:
- Whether a new account will be able to post or get around minimum karma limits or get shadowbanned for no reason is a mystery.
- You have to put two spaces at the end of a sentence for a newline to register properly.
- There's no way to jump to a specific page on a sub because the modern human is a transient hedonist who only lives in the present. There's no way to do things like "show all threads within a specified date range" either.
- The search function is completely useless and you're better off searching for a thread on google.
- Their web design is clearly designed for phones, but at least you can use old reddit. Also there's a bug with old reddit that links images to someone's hat.
- I think they broke every third party tool, I haven't been able to get reddit search or tools like removeddit working for a while, even before the events relating to the recent blackout.
- The comment chain UI design with the sort function was a bad idea, the sorting only applies to top level comments so it's hard to check new comments that are part of an existing chain.
No surprise it's popular, normies are and love trash.