Your reasons for hating Reddit?

[RybenZ999]

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. The reason I'm kinda soured on the idea of marijuana legalization is cuz reddit was my introduction to concept. I would've been more open to it if it had been more of an "everyone has their vices" thing, but the sonsofbitches over there seem to treat it like some sort of elixir that can cure cancer and can't stop talking about how amazing it is. They have the "Why do you care? Lemme do what I want" approach to it but then proceed to shit-talk people who smoke or drink alcohol in the next sentence. Buncha hypocrites. It also soured me on the idea of gay rights as well. Nowadays I associate every pro-lgbt activist with your average redditor or 14 year old twitter/tumblr girl.

All that stuff aside, there's also the obnoxious pseudo-intellectualism. Like, say what you want about 4channers but at least they're are self-aware about the fact that they're retards. Redditors on the other hand, aren't even self-aware. They're all a bunch of homosexual bastards who act smug and pretentious towards anyone who goes against the hivemind. Not to mention the politics. The "Left wingers are virtuous, rightoids are literally evil" sentiment that seems to exist in literally every subreddit. I wouldn't have cared if not literally every subreddit was infested with it. A thread that has nothing to do with politics will have someone sitting at a 100 upvotes because he compared X bad thing to "Muh orange man and the GOP. That subredditdrama sub is especially awful with this. Not to mention those folks who unironically think reddit is a "Right-wing hellhole". Say, does /r/ShitReddiSays still exist. Cuz that's a prime example of this. Those folks went from being the laughing stock of reddit to being reddit itself. And the jannies are complete sonsofbitches. I'm willing to bet my left hand that 80% of reddit jannies are trannies and the rest are homos. I have a lot more to rant about when it comes to reddit but I'd be typing this post all day that way so I'm ending it here.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Why are you reading reddit? You queer or something?

It's a place who's time is long past, clinging on to a zombie life as a weak echo chamber for the weak of mind and soul.

 

[TroonsDid911]

For the same reasons I usually hate a website for:

Jannies, Trannies and Tranny Jannies

 

[Garamok]

marijuana legalization

Fuck off

 

[Executive Petrel]

Soyboys, troons, simps and pRoBlEmAtiC leftards.

 

[BirdUp]

reddit and discord are full of people who have no social or work life so they spend their lives online

 

[CptnSnshn]

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!

 

[Bone Santa]

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.

 

[AGP]

I only go to Reddit for the r/Piracy megathread. Everything else is garbage

 

[The Real Me]

Kiwi Farms user here, eeeerm, I just really hate the way that they all *checks notes* talk with the same annoying aura.

Edit: Thanks for the Winner stickers, guys!

It is unironically useful at times though, always the first google result when I'm having a tech issue.

 

[Blasterman]

I personally hate Reddit's stupid karma system. It's the kind of the system that literally forces you to be mindless, bland, soy-laced - because if you don't follow the majority opinion then you cannot fucking post or do anything. If karma was removed and updoot/downdoot made a simple positive/negative statistics meter, then Reddit would be three times better. Just from that alone.
What condemns Reddit to absolutely unusable is the massive banning of "unmoderated" subs that don't fit the Reddit (((zeitgeist))), enforced by useful idiots like r/AHS, r/LateStageCapitalism and other troon-riddled libtard-infested subreddits. Long gone are the days when the only thing that would earn a ban off Reddit was legally dubious shit like jailbait, now any sub (and I do mean any sub) may be banned at any moment.

 

[glow]

I dislike reddit because after it reached some critical mass, downvoting changed from "doesn't contribute to the conversation", but "I don't agree with you".

This then lead to people writing things that they felt people would agree with. It's easy karma, on anything vaguely political just comment "fuck trump" and watch those internet points roll in.

Groupthink like this doesn't happen as much on smaller subreddits of course, but there does seem to be a malthusian tipping point where a given community just becomes shit.

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

It's a group of cattle subservient to the neoliberal world order. OP is right in that it feels quintessentially American. From marvel tier humor to woke politics. I think the most annoying aspect is the consoomer corporate bootlicker mindset they have, it's the best representation of the masses and just how retarded they are. Like some post I saw saying Biden was one of the greatest presidents and then lists a lot of reasons why. It was stuff like passing bills on infrastructure and climate change shit. That's all it takes for the cattle to be happy, just promise you'll spend a ton of money on something and they'll just praise you, no matter how effective the policy was or how those resources were allocated (which isn't possible to know right now). Biden says he'll spend 6 gorillion dollars on climate change? That's it, the planet is saved, we don't need to know the specifics. What a bunch of clowns.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

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.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

It's gay

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Because they are all faggots with a hive mind. Now go the fuck back over there and stay there.

 

[John Wayne Gaylord]

Reddit used to be fun. There was a ton of variety and volume, and basically anything was allowed as long as it wasn't illegal. I felt like I found something interesting every day.

Then The_Donald was too popular and they started aggressively censoring and curating what was allowed on the front page. I remember one day things were buggy and 9/10 posts on the front page were pro Trump for a few hours. After they fixed whatever happened I don't think The_Donald ever made it to the top again.

Now the front page doesn't change if you refresh it after a few minutes because anything popular has to be approved by their tranny faggot censorship team first. It didn't used to be that way, but now the place is about as much fun as a re-education camp run by communist eunucks.

 

[Tequila Jong]

Same reason I hate all the other big-tech sites. They contributed to making the internet a more sterile, boring, corporate place.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

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.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I personally hate Reddit's stupid karma system. It's the kind of the system that literally forces you to be mindless, bland, soy-laced - because if you don't follow the majority opinion then you cannot fucking post or do anything. If karma was removed and updoot/downdoot made a simple positive/negative statistics meter, then Reddit would be three times better.

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.