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Honestly $#*! Reddit. The admins are absolute Cucks. Reddit be banning subreddits for being too edgy and right wing. CA, sub of peace, stonetoss, chadright, and mde are all banned. The $#*!tards over at AHS and commietraphouse are absolute scumbags who don't care about free speech. They just subreddits banned because they offend people. If you don't like those subreddits then don't $#*!ing go to them. If you enjoy Reddit for the cat videos then by all means go for it. But if you come here for right wing content or dark edgy humor, then don't bother. The content here is limited.

.. USED TO. Not too much anymore after periodic overhauls. It seems as though the platform that was once about freedom is now about censorship. A lot of the comment sections (although have always been ridiculous and foremost a center for comedic exchange) now seem to be echo chambers; a bunch of people agreeing with each other with little to no effort put into critical thought. Ex- Sargon of Akkad was recently "quarantined" (censored) and made out to be an alt-right figure. I won't waste time on the details but I used to watch/listen to Sargon and I can't tell you how far from the truth that is. Proof - He has sent gay-interracial porn to Alt-right figureheads for the sake of trolling them. This whole fiasco came about when he declared he was running for office in Britain. Hmmmm.
That's just one example. I could go on for days about issues with the bots, subreddits, reposting, censoring and politics of Reddit. But all I really want to say is, "I used to love it, but barely use it anymore solely because it feels like a platform to push an agenda on, instead of a free and open community.

I have been banned from reddit a few times, mostly due to arguments with little children on there. I unwisely took a new account and decided to start making a few comments with it. Like clockwork, got a hugely nasty response from a poster, which tends to happen whenever you start using a new message board for some reason. I knew where this was going, so I engaged the person and their friends. I'm 40 and have lived and worked life, so I embarrassed a few and blocked one guy who just wouldn't let up but wouldn't admit he didn't know what he was talking about.

I proceeded to try and comment on a few other sites and basically was karma-blocked from posting. Basically, because people downvoted my comments on the first board, I wasn't allowed to comment on others. Somehow or the other, I think it was worldnews, figured out I was using an alternate account to comment and banned me, followed by reddit banning the account completely.

Imagine being banned from Wal-Mart for going to customer service for a regular problem and then trying to shop there again and patronize them, only to get banned again simply for just shopping. That's reddit's problem. It's not a public website anymore. It's a club, even though reddit would thrive with more users. There are so many rules, so many nasty users that it's impossible to use.

The moderators especially are out of control. I said to myself that moderators on all message boards need some oversight from people who own the site. They should be actively punished for banning people who aren't bots. Site owners should look up any mod who has unusually high ban numbers and evaluate them. If they are trying to be tyrants and are banning people undeservingly, they should not be allowed to moderate anymore. So many of them think they are dictators and enjoy abusing their power. This is a business, not a high school lunch table. Reddit needs to start acting like it's a business and encourage people to patronize it.

Honestly speaking, Reddit have a lot of weird subs than a decent one that will make you wish you hadn't know it exist, but if you spend some time to find the right subreddit for your need, you'll have a great time a head of you, I meet some of the nicest, smart, funny and wise friend on the sub I'm active in. The mods can make you frustrate sometimes with their strict rules, but any other than it was a nice place to read stuff after you done working and want to talk about something.

If one looks at how Reddit has been constructed from a purely unbiased viewpoint. You could sware Kim Jong Un personally designed it. No joke, and no exaggeration. Everything from the ground up is painstakingly made to impede, block, and stifle dialogue. So where would I start?... Well first of all new users have to wait several days before being given permission to write, and usually more because moderators of each individual subreddit always make it much longer. Reddit also has a point system (karma), and if you don't have enough points you won't be allowed to communicate anywhere. Or rather I should rephrase myself. You will be "able" to type, but nobody will see it because it's automatically hidden to everyone but you!... Secondly moderators run their subreddits like a little dictatorships, and an overwhelming amount of them are like this. If you do not parrot the moderators viewpoints, you will be banned sooner or later. Also, since the site has grown older, veteran users usually have moderation power over many different subreddits. So if you get banned from one, in their tyraid they will ban you from all they have control over, just to spite you! There is no trial or evidence needed to ban, they can just see you posted in a subreddit they hate, and ban you on a whim... This has gotten so bad that they now have scripts/bots that won't allow you to post, or will automatically ban you if you post in a subreddit they hate... Anyways I can go on forever, but this should give you an insight into this unsightful site... Don't go to Reddit if you have a working brain!

The site is extremely slow. See for yourself. You can test it on GTMatrix https://gtmetrix.com/ it is given an F(22%) for page speed and an E(58%) for YSlow. YSlow is the degree of best practises used to develop the site. This is really terrible. Not to mention the UI is deeply flawed. For crying in the mud, reddit could be better built by 10th graders. This translates into poor performance and a deep security risk. It is really a wonder considering what's out there anyone still uses reddit. It's getting a single star because this review can't be posted without a star.