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Reddit Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company is marred by significant customer dissatisfaction, primarily stemming from perceived censorship and biased moderation practices. Many users express frustration over account management issues, such as difficulties in deleting accounts and unjust bans, which contribute to a sense of being silenced. While some appreciate the platform's diverse content and sense of community, the overwhelming sentiment is one of disillusionment with the site's environment, described as toxic and unwelcoming. This dichotomy highlights a pressing need for improved moderation transparency and user support to enhance the overall user experience.

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New York
15 reviews
71 helpful votes
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Used to be great
November 29, 2020

They've gone from a breath of fresh air: an alternative free speech community run by the people to one that's run by big business.
They started censoring many people on politics grounds using flimsy excuses.
And to top it off, their redesign sucks and took the speed and charm of the site away. It's sad that this happens over and over again to every good community.

Date of experience: November 29, 2020
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Anti-Freethinkers
November 27, 2020

Forasmuch as I partook of Reddit as part of my job to promote reviews and connectivity with people to see things in the light of topics, like brewing hard drinks, candies, restaurants, it had been bad. If I do not agree with somebody's perspective, it does not apply as subjective to them, it applies as sacred. Some of my posts were downvoted by more than a couple people like a flash mob to try to get me to talk less about what I felt. I can grasp that free speech allows anybody to talk heatedly about your passion, that holds up as a stance. Hence we call it a day and get along. Mischancely, no, not for the few I was at. The Redditors give bad karma, then try to give sick burns, if they can. Other times, they can carry themselves decent and garrulous to talk about reviews deeper. My respects to that group in between it who use it as intended. I just couldn't go on using it after a year. I wish that maybe some better moderation would work for people to not bomb karma down to protect rights and outside views a little further.

Date of experience: November 27, 2020
Italy
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I'm seeing here there's a lot of bad reviews from people who are of an opposite polictical view than mine.
But, as a liberal, I can say this social sucks even more than Facebook or Twitter (which I removed long time ago). Freedom of speech is almost inexistent, the subreddits just give you a bunch of downpoint just because they don't agree with your idea, no matter if your idea is peacefully and politely exposed. Once you get negative karma, nobody will see your comment or post. So, your own presence on the social is nosense. Even if there is someone not agreeing with my ideas, I do not think censore the person or marginalize it could help to the cause. This social is just putting further bad impression on what Left and affiliated politic ideas are. Those ideas born from the desire of freedom and removal of censorship. Very bad.

Date of experience: November 19, 2020
Hawaii
3 reviews
86 helpful votes
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Clearly these titles on r/politics are written by the globalists/communist media machine. Many of the comments are also mass produced to influence the readers perception of reality. Very dangerous, imo, and reeks of 1984.

Date of experience: November 11, 2020
New York
2 reviews
39 helpful votes
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I cant believe this kind of censorship actually exists in today's social media and people still belong to this site. This news media political biased crap all reminds me of how the majority of society stuck there heads in the sand back during Nazi Germany killed millions. "Its not happening... nope... Fake news..." I only wish I could put karma point muzzles on the mainstream media for being a waste of space and about as useful as a self lick ice cream cone.

Date of experience: November 10, 2020
Oregon
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Venture Agency
October 30, 2020

Was very dissapointed in the work that i received back. I thought there would have been a much better job of editing the work I provided. Instead, I ended up paying more money for this service than I should have. Would not recommend them to anyone.

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
Isle of Man
1 review
5 helpful votes
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LIBERAL RUN REDDIT
October 27, 2020

First if all let's get this straight I'm not on either side of the the left or right wing. You can honestly tell just by spending a few days on the page. My account got blocked for three days because the last account I used got blocked off a sub Reddit for a comment I made about liberals running Reddit! Where's the free speech?

Date of experience: October 27, 2020
Arizona
7 reviews
42 helpful votes
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Unhealthy
October 16, 2020

Not really a conversational forum (where you view active threads, subscribe to threads). It's more like a "post & reaction" slideshow. The worst thing is that it's a very clique promoting, an echo-chamber of "proper" thought. Anything that alters the "sub's" orthodoxy is "hidden" with downvotes. Some subs have very toxic mods.

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
GB
16 reviews
121 helpful votes
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Although there are a few good subreddits still around, on the majority of them subreddits your posts are automatically removed by a bot for no reason. Tonight I was trying to ask a question about Pokémon and I used 2 subreddits for the right topic where they had a bot instantly remove my post. I then tried askreddit where their bot accepted my post only to have a human moderator delete it about 10 minutes later. I honestly can't understand why these moderators hate something so basic and simple.

Date of experience: October 12, 2020
California
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Quality Traffic
October 2, 2020

Very good site for quality traffic. Spam free site, no one able to do spamming activities. I love Reddit specially for whitepeopletwitter subreddit.

Date of experience: October 2, 2020
Idaho
6 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Reddit.com is a site where people can discuss different topics and communties. However, despite the great idea, the execution is not great. The site won't even let you post on most communities if you have "low karma" meaning you have to get people to like you in order for you to simply post on the site. Very poor execution. Also, the moderators on Reddit are known to ban you for stupid reasons, such as for not being specific enough about a post or simply disagreeing with them. There are also porn communities and innapropriate topics discussed, which was quite apalling to me. It's basically just a mix of ABC news and Youtube except innapropriate and despicable content is allowed. Yikes. Not safe for children. Also, there is a high chance that you will get snarky and rude comments on your post regardless of how friendly you are.

Would not reccommend. Go to a news site or Youtube, sites which are safe for everyone.

Date of experience: September 28, 2020
Canada
7 reviews
68 helpful votes
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"Thou shalt not reason!"
September 28, 2020

I tried to introduce the atheists there to the idea of a natural form of 'afterlife' and this is my story. Angry atheists immediately attacked: claiming it was impossible- without ever hearing me out. Then the 'subreddits' started censuring everything I wrote. Finally one person did agree to listen. He quickly asserted his intellectual superiority and began baiting me like an IRS scammer from India. That was the final straw. Reddit is yet another site opposed to all higher learning.

Date of experience: September 27, 2020
Germany
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I was using Reddit for many years. Mostly to get in contact to people all over the world. Topics from politics to photography and everything in between. Because of my big activity on Reddit I have earned a lot of karma.

One day I got a message from Reddit: My account is permantly suspended. No reason, no hint... nothing. All my contacts, messages and posts... GONE! I tried to contact Reddit but there was no response. So I created a new account and tried to find some of my old contacts. I used a VPN, just in case. Because most subreddits need you to have karma I started to post every day. Nothing was upvoted and I didn't get any replies. Strange... This gave me an idea; create a new account with an other VPN and check it. And what seemed to be the case? All my posts (100+) from the first new account aren't posted! Nobody can see them!

What is happening here? When did Reddit became crap?

Besides this awfull way of working I also want to point out the minors on Reddit, trying to post and trade other minor stuff. I have seen awful things, even reported them, showing me illegal stuff. These accounts are still active, but mine is removed?

Date of experience: September 16, 2020
Louisiana
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Nasty
September 5, 2020

Not enough control, children age 14 by the tons, talking graphic sex, nude and really gross pics. Pervs prey on them and Rreddit seems okay with.

Date of experience: September 5, 2020
Canada
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I've been on reddit for a few months for gaming and whatnot and it seemed to be a good place for help etc. About a week ago or so, I left reddit. Why? I posted something on a certain page, and immediately the post was deleted. I cannot tell you how infuriating that was. I did absolutely nothing wrong. At first I thought it was the page itself that deleted my post, but after reading other bad reviews, it seems like it was the system itself, not the specific page. I then wanted to contact Reddit so I looked up contact information which was pretty nonexistant, except their own reddit page or their blog.
I know there are people out there who agree with me(especially judging by other reviews I've read). I mean, why delete a post that did not break any rules, tos or anything? If this is how reddit treats their users, I hope they bite the dust sooner or later. I've since deleted my account. If I need help with a video game or whatever, I'd check out the reddit links, but other than that I'm absolutely done with reddit. Why would anybody want to stay with reddit if they just delete random posts out of the blue? I should mention, the post was deleted instantly after I hit the"Post" button. I wouldn't recommend reddit to anyone. If anybody asks me about if they should join, I'd tell them: "ould you like your posts deleted for absolutely no reason?"

Date of experience: August 3, 2020
Ohio
2 reviews
45 helpful votes
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SJW hate site
July 23, 2020

Reddit is a SJW hate site where overprivileged SJW liberals punch down on underprivileged groups such as autistic men. The same liberals who virtue signal about diversity are hateful towards marginalized groups and often use "autistic" as an insult on here. They also banned thousands of subs for no reason yet let violent and hateful liberal subs stay up even though it goes against their site policy.

Date of experience: July 22, 2020
Wisconsin
27 reviews
158 helpful votes
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So Much Hypocrisy
July 18, 2020

It all depends on the sub you're in. So. Many. Subs are moderated by twats with the maturity of a toddler. Overall, their gratuitous concerns about racism are bull. While they're trying to garner public approval of their fake progressive concerns, they also have subs called Watch People Die, subs that denigrate women, subs that glorify sex with and abuse of animals, etc. etc. You can find some good, helpful people on there, but you're going to have to wade through A LOT of crap. It's mostly obnoxious, depraved punks, and the mods are such a joke. It really is no better than 4chan, Facebook, YouTube, and so on.
However, all this talk of communism, etc. in these reviews is sour grapes on the part of scum that was probably legitimately kicked out.
I crave what Reddit could be, but all of Reddit's high and mighty rules are complete BS.

Date of experience: July 18, 2020
Sweden
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Everything from right-wing groups to gender critical groups, anyone who questions the TRA woke crowd gets purged - not even women only spaces are spared from the intrusion of TRAs and men, those that try... you guessed it, you get purged under the false pretense of hate (where there was none). If you support reddit's decisions you might as well join your local fascist group, cause you're essentially no better than the fascists (left or right) who tries to silence everyone who doesn't think like them.

Anyone else is better off using a site like saidit.net

Date of experience: July 10, 2020
NL
1 review
23 helpful votes
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REDDIT HATES WOMEN
July 3, 2020

Reddit banned hundreds of female-and feminism-centered subs but rape porn and virulent, violent misogyny--including graphic rape and death threats-- are A-OK.

Never going to that misogynist male cesspool again.

#REDDITHATESWOMEN

Date of experience: July 3, 2020
Canada
1 review
52 helpful votes
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A website owned by foreign Chinese investors (Tencent). Reddit promotes censorship and is not a free-speech platform. Anything that will threaten their ad revenue or does not fit their narrative will be labelled as "hate speech", even where no legitimate cause has been observed. The majority of the published content on the top subreddits is produced artificially by user account farms and inflated with false upvotes.

There are much better community alternatives online, do not support this company with your business or presence.

Date of experience: July 2, 2020