Why reddit is a terrible place?

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Divine Power

Divine Power

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Many subreddits tend to favor specific opinions, creating echo chambers. Dissenting or unpopular views are often downvoted or silenced, limiting the diversity of perspectives and reinforcing bias, the right opinion is always down voted and they always leave trash and subuhmanitic opinions upvoted to make live worse espically on "askreddit" and their schemes is very obvious, Just type "God" and you will get instabanned, what a fucking hellish place to be in.
 
Passive aggressiveness and sucking off the mods. Basically you can't just tell other people that they are dumb nigger faggots and that they should kill themselves, like you can here. Instead you need to act like a woman and just imply insults rather than outright say them. This makes the environment toxic and favours people who have the bitchy attitude of "but I didn't actually insult you", hence everyone there is soyfilled bitches and trannies.
 
Partly because of subreddits themselves fundamentally promoting groupthink, partly because of the nature of the upvoting and downvoting pushing dumb posts to the top and unpopular opinions to the bottom, but mostly due to the woman that took it over having a censorious stick up her ass.
 
It's because that's the environment the reddit admins created. Do you honestly think that anybody wants this? That reddit itself has some magic essence that attracts losers?

Merton J. Dingle said:
Partly because of subreddits themselves fundamentally promoting groupthink, partly because of the nature of the upvoting and downvoting pushing dumb posts to the top and unpopular opinions to the bottom, but mostly due to the woman that took it over having a censorious stick up her ass.
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You know Spez is back in charge of reddit and it's more censorious than ever.
 
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Skinner Box conditioning based upon the "karma" system.

Getting rid of reaction notifications saved the Farms and redirected stickers towards their proper purpose - highlighting good content for the casual reader.
 
You even mentioned "AskReddit"... that place is like a reunion of every feminist and AIDS Skrillex type of individual, that live and breathe hatred towards the opposing political party and anyone they dislike.
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The platform is terrible because people are terrible, same with Twitter. These are main social media outlets, of course they're atrocious.

It's a reflection of society, in a way.
 
- Horrible clique of powerjannies who are all tremendously mentally ill ex-goons
- Staff got forced to centralize in San Francisco which both turned them all into braindead Bay Area progs AND resulted in the firing of the one woman whose interviews made AMAs work
- Shitty, insecure API that makes it super easy for every braindead NGO to bot the shit out of the site
- Corporate policy is almost entirely governed by canning anything that makes internet culture blogs attack them
- Sold themselves out to Jewgle and made a horrible redesign because they are so unprofitable Conde Nast told them they had to IPO or be sold
- Mainstream userbase is the worst combination of horribly autistic and shallow idiots who like to drive jokes into the ground and post Instagram-tier nonsense that they won't post there because they're all hideously unattractive.
 
Old reddit was full of malignant atheists, neckbeards and fat misandrist turbocunts. Modern reddit is full of scammers, bots, troons and corporate establishment cocksuckers but their userbase still thinks the site is full of "nazis". The site's very design breeds echo chambers.
 
I hate that redditors base their entire identity around what website they use. What a fucking loser, amirite? Imagine getting all your perspective for current events from the website you go on to look at memes and shitpost. So glad to be in an online environment where that's not the case. Is that grass outside?
 
A very long time ago Reddit was actually more like how the 90s early 2000s internet. A more diverse mix of opinions that were united more by nonpolitical correctness than anything else.

Then it went the way a lot of popular websites did in the transformation to Web 2.0. It became Corporate being bought by Conde Nast and combined with being based in San Fransicko and lefties tending to be more terminally online and gravitating toward unpaid jannying. Reddit lurched left. A lot of people blame Ellen Pao but while she certainly didn't help she was probably more a symptom than the root problem that arrived long after the rot set in. The jannies and sanfransicko admins purged the site of controversial communities they didn't like which included the hardcore rightwing communities. Then after they ran out they started on mainstream conservative communities. More and more right leaning and centrist people left or were forced out.

Pao left and then things hit an even harder overdrive in the run up to the 2016 election. This is where the influence of powermods began to really be felt. A single clique of people basically jannies the entire site or at least almost all the popular subs with individuals modding hundreds upon hundreds of subs on their own. Thats why tons of unreleated subs like r/pics, r/clevercomebacks, r/interestingasfuck look like clones of r/politics.

The remnants of conservatives and centrist continued to be cleaned out (except for limited defanged opposition containment boards like r/Conservative) and then they started getting rid of more moderate leftists in the political subs. It was not just banning you were actively targeted and driven from the site. With the 2016 election organizations and advocacy groups moved in and started major astroturfing operations.

Reddit bitchslapped down a user rebellion but has generally maintained the same course since then. Centralizing power over the unpaid power mod jannies who do unpaid work for them all day which of course they are happy to oblige to hang on to the tiny scrap of imagined power they have and to own the chuds. Corporate influence and astroturfing has also been allowed to increase. As crazy as Reddit's remaining userbase is a lot of the activity there especially during this election season has been amplified by bots and left wing org sock accounts.
 
John Badman said:
Just look at the Donald Trump lolcow thread and you’ll understand.
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holy shit you're right. I just got banned from it, but all the responses (and even the ban) were identical to reddit: nothing that addressed my position; just empty sarcasm and logical fallacies.

I'm new here. How is it that there's a little microcosm of reddit, supported by mods? Is that a growing trend here?
 
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