all of this nonsense on reddit stems from people taking the internet too seriously.
A subreddit for a niche topic should not be somewhere you spend your entire day. In an ideal world, where reddit isn't filled with transgender groomers, pedophiles, and batshit insane middle aged men (see the previous two categories), reddit could be used as a place for those with niche interests to explore those interests and learn from other people. That's actually productive.
What ended up happening because the people that gain power on these websites are always those who have the most time to spend on it (and thus, those who offer the least to society), is this annoying, clingy hugbox where everyone gets pushed into believing certain opinions based on the upvote system and the opinion of some faggot moderator.
These people have no special skills that make them "worthy" of being a moderator. They just registered a subreddit before anyone else did. These weird cabals of power moderators that moderate like 100+ subreddits to make sure their political opinions are uniform on all those subreddits are absolute weirdos.
Just look at this absolute chode that we've been discussing:
https://www.reddit.com/user/N8theGr8/
Moderates every big sub, is a self hating white dude, literally spams his dumbass opinions in every subreddit he moderates (and pins them), keeps power by setting up discord servers of jannies that are afraid to remove him
This man is pathetic. He's a leech on the internet and society, and his life is and will always be objectively worse than anyone else, because even the worst of us can still change. He is beyond the point of self awareness and beyond parody. Even some REDDITORS hate the guy.
All of this weird in culture could've been avoided if reddit had any integrity, but they killed off Aaron Swartz because he actually wanted reddit to be a bastion of free speech instead of a corporate suckfest. They're terrified to change their site rules because they know people will protest, so instead they just ignore them. Read this rule, for example:
https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines
Management of Multiple Communities
We know management of multiple communities can be difficult, but we expect you to manage communities as isolated communities and not use a breach of one set of community rules to ban a user from another community. In addition, camping or sitting on communities for long periods of time for the sake of holding onto them is prohibited.
If one dude is going around spamming every sub he's in with some shitty post about "how you can fight disinformation on reddit", is that not the definition of not managing a community as an isolated community? What about mass banning people who post in r/drama or r/conservative?
It's just pathetic. I know there's some people here who are still stuck on using reddit because it's meant to suck you in to using it all day as a time sink, but you need to break out of it. You will not miss anything from being off that website.
At this point, I legitimately don't think I'm going to let my future kids use the internet in any capacity until they fully understand the extent to which people try to use the internet for sinful nonsense.
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