Why reddit is a terrible place?

[Rome vs Judea]

It's literally just a Skinner box for NPCs.

The operant conditioning chamber [Skinner Box] may be used to observe or manipulate behavior. An animal is placed in the box where it must learn to activate levers or respond to light or sound stimuli for reward. The reward may be food or the removal of noxious stimuli such as a loud alarm. The chamber is used to test specific hypotheses in a controlled setting.

Skinner's studies on animals and their behavior laid the framework needed for similar studies on human subjects. Based on his work, developmental psychologists were able to study the effect of positive and negative reinforcement. Skinner found that the environment influenced behavior and when that environment is manipulated, behavior will change.

 

[Tablet County]

Because it's on the internet. Places for discussion on the internet are universally awful. Some are just more awful.

 

[Van Darkholme]

Reddit banned me for criticizing the chemical castration of minors via HRT, that alone should tell you what kind of people are using that website: pedos, groomers, trannies and other "special" people who feel their opinion is the only one that matters.

 

[Da Grim Reaper]

There's a lot of conformity for little in return, that's why.
You also have the Reddiquette pushing all users into writing the same. So you end up with people constantly using terms like "I'm not a X...", "Not to sound like a...", and "Not to be a..." as a form of self-censorship.

 

[Afinepickle]

Fuck reddit. Its brainrot has turned many a folk whom I used to be able to have intelligent conversations with into drooling pozzed retards.

As for why its shit? Because normies are fucking retarded and outnumber oldfags 100 to 1 on the internet these days. Let a userbase made up entirely of normies self police and decide what content is worthwhile and what content should be buried no wonder its all shit. Tack on shit like stickers and updoots to enforce conformity and you have a self perpetuating retard-making machine.

Burn the Big I Internet to the fucking ground I say.

 

[ChefKiss]

Actual unironic shilling and influence peddling. Tons of accounts from paid posters, moderation staff that work for companies, activist groups etc

 

[Quintex96]

Numerous factors

-Authoritarian mods that enjoy policing wrongthink
-Userbase comprised of stuckup assholes that think they are smarter and better than you
-karma system that exists to ensure you only read the correct thing when opening a reddit post
-referential humour and in-jokes are heavily encouraged which often drowns out any potentially interesting or relevent comments

The worse one for me is that the average redditor holds no principles. They will propogate whatever opinion is popular at the time with no questions asked. The userbase as a whole has not changed over the years. The exact same people that were anti-censorship are the same ones that are pro-censorship now. The same people that were subbed to r/jailbait and r/fatpeoplehate and whatever controversial subreddit that got taken down were always 100% in favour of it until the admins tell them that they didn't like it and they will always retroactively change their opinions like "Well, i guess in hindsight it really wasn't cool..." No, fuck off. If the bans were reversed you would first in line to resub back to it. The average redditor is a sheep completely afraid of voicing their opinions in fear on invoking the wrath of the jannies and when you are afraid of sharing your voice for long enough, you lose it and that's when you devolve into the soy chugging cuckhold stereotype that every redditor gets labeled as. It's a stereotype they earned and it's not one they will ever shake.

 

[Whatevermancer]

DAE reddit bad?
Upvotes to the left.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

It's funny that I know the part of my town where all the local redditors live. If a mini nuke dropped in that 5 mile radius, most of my city's redditors wouldn't be posting anymore.

Those faggots all think and act alike, you can clock them by their behavior and speaking patterns in real life.

 

[Brightstar777]

redditors should kills themselves fucking stupid faggots leftits think they are so smart one bullet in the head and it is done

 

[Piggle-o]

It's simply the preference for the new and the popular with a large, general userbase. Moderation and culture circumvented the worst of it for a while, but any post that isn't new gets no attention and anything that isn't already popular gets no engagement. So, everything of value from niche interests to an unpopular but correct answer to a question get thrown to the bottom of the pile. It's not even the karma system itself, it's what surrounds it and influences it. 4chan suffered a similar fate when the user count overrode the culture and ability to moderate.

Look at how traditional forums like this one function and how old and active threads are, how niche interests come to the top and don't fight with plonk, and how minimal moderation and a somewhat unified culture keeps the quality somewhat higher.

 

[Spooky Dogwood]

Reddit is shockingly retarded. It's sad that people are now using it to find answers online, because the replies you will find are clearly written by people who don't have a clue and are just parroting something they saw somewhere else. It's the epitome of the blind following the blind.

 

[FatalTater]

My personal experiences with reddit that made me give up on it -

-I posted on an environmental science subreddit thread and I guess I didn't sound stuffy and self-important enough, so it got removed and a moderator posted a wordy sarcastic comment about people not taking the subject seriously enough.

-One US city's subreddit has people poised to post calling people racist against blacks, no matter the subject at hand. I am not making this up, if you go and post something like, "It was a beautiful day today!" someone will jump on it within an hour with something like "Oh what are you saying black people can't enjoy weather you white supremacist nazi trump supporting monster? How dare you!" and while nothing gets deleted it will completely derail any discussions.
(not saying which city for personal reasons, but if you know, you know)

-One subreddit dedicated to a video game I enjoy is 99% bots and paid corporate shills and I would swear to it in a court of law if asked.
I tried pointing out a couple obvious problems the game had, and would get shouted down by at least a dozen posts that had nothing to say except sarcasm and personal attacks, no discussion of the problem. A few actual people will respond like that but not that many and not that quickly. Unnatural.

-I posted on a subreddit thread about a TV show with a small fandom and my post got removed and I got a note from a moderator telling me to rewrite my post as a reply to a top comment instead of it being it's own standalone thought. wtf no.

Add to that the censorship and stupidity and I can't take it seriously as a forum.
Sometimes I go there for memes or other similar goofiness, but not for anything real.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

It's a libtard echo chamber.

 

[Maurice Maine]

I personally subscribe to the opinion that reddit is a psyop funded by the DNC. Like jesus, they advocate for censorship.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Tranny jannies

 

[Wuornos]

Reddit banned me for criticizing the chemical castration of minors via HRT, that alone should tell you what kind of people are using that website: pedos, groomers, trannies and other "special" people who feel their opinion is the only one that matters.

I got banned for saying, "chicks don't have dicks."

The mods seem to be mainly trannies, paedophiles and animal rapists.

 

[Brightstar777]

I hope all redditors kill themveslve the sons of bitches atheists

 

[Van Darkholme]

I got banned for saying, "chicks don't have dicks."

The mods seem to be mainly trannies, paedophiles and animal rapists.

The reason they gave me was something in the vein of "attacking marginalized groups".
Now I don't know if they mean the children, or the degenerates gaslighting them into trooning out.

 

[melty]

I have tried to use reddit many times and it always goes similarly. I ended up saying too many unpopular opinions, get downvoted and shadowbanned. And i don't think my opinions are really even that bad, they are fairly normal opinions for like 95% of the world. To not get shadowbanned and be able to actually have a voice, i try to make more comments that redditors like so i get enough upvotes to counter the down votes I get. But then I'm just feeding into the echo chamber myself, and I don't even want to make stupid positive comments on unrelated subs, I want to talk about stuff like crime in my city, but I can't. This is all because of how reddit is set up and the upvotes system.

The whole ecosystem is just fucked. I don't think it's fixable or salvageable. It's just a shit site that needs to die.