RedditReviews 542

If you are lonely/bored/depressed this site is the place to be. They will be reinforcing your negative beliefs and make you feel bettter about your self-loathing situation creating a false sense of happiness and you will be thinking that everyone there is super friendly and helpful. However, if you take a closer look and analyze what the people there are actually saying you will be shocked and possibly enraged. All the content is filtered by some autistic admins that will remove anything that's not to their liking. I personally would hack them if I really had that much free time and expose them for what they are. I hope you will open your eyes and see it for what it really is and get away from that toxic place. There are a million awesome things you can do with your time instead of wasting it there.

I've written about Election '16 for over a year. I always write about understanding people's apprehension with Trump and why I would never have voted for Clinton. Each post I make on this subject I get a slap on the wrist email telling me how disrespectful I am and if I keep it up I will be banned. My blogs are mostly humorous and always fair. There is never profanity but I always get warnings. Reddit should state up front that only liberals are welcome to share.

I was on /r/news, which is a default subreddit. What this means is, it is a community that is selected by the website to appear on the front page and it is a community that represents the site. There are quite a few subreddits.

Anyways, I was having a discussion with someone about the election. It was going quite well, neither of us were arguing, but simply sharing our viewpoints. As soon as I mentioned something positive of Mr. Trump, I received a message from the Moderator team that I was banned from the /r/news subreddit, and the explanation was "you should get off this site and go kill yourself. Trump supporters aren't welcome here".

I was taken back by this, and decided to ask why they had acted so immaturely and sent me a message like that. Not one moderator responded. So I decided to escalate my issue to the admins, where I was then told they don't get involved in community bannings.

This person who not only banned me but sent me this message is a moderator for one of their selected subreddits to represent the site. It is for this reason, I cannot support this website anymore.

I tried to understand reddit and its $#*!ed users but it doesnt make sense to normal human beings. You have to be somewhat down syndrome to use reddit and understand what the $#*! some of these $#*!s are even talking about. Anyone can join reddit just like highschool. If you graduated from highschool congrats your fit to becoming the average $#*! props you to i once thought i was special oh yeah i graduated but it turns out i was just special ed like the rest of you $#*!ing $#*!s. No graduating highschool has nothing on the $#*!ing fools that use reddit the idiots that got A+ in highschool their the idiots that use reddit. Lol. Its comedy really. They think they are smarter than you because they say $#*! that sounds more $#*!ed than you its quite funny actually. Dont stop laughing at the $#*!s who graduated keep laughing truly the comedy continues in life when you join reddit. You $#*!in fools will understand when you read the entirety of just one single post youll see how $#*!ing stupid $#*! gets. Its pointless jabber. Complete waste of time. Ive realized tho that the same people who use reddit are the same $#*!s that finally realized that graduating from highschool WAS a waste of time AND they should have just wasted their time on reddit instead. You $#*!ing $#*!ed immigrants will never understand.

Reddit used to be a really great website to talk about technology, share pictures, learn interesting facts, and so much more.

Over the past few years, it has become a self-absorbed soapbox. You heard about the indecipherable Gamergate controversy, the indecipherable Ellen Pao controversy, SRS and related subs, Coontown's racism, the Fatpeoplehate fallout, the failed Bernie Sanders campaign, and now Donald Trump's views control the site. All of those groups spam each other with meaningless propaganda that only make people needlessly stressed out and turn people against each other.

I don't know if reddit will ever recover. Either it will die soon or it will have to undergo major reformation.

The default subreddits are rubbish, most of the niche ones are rubbish, too many stalkers, not enough rules site-wide, not enough enforcing the rules, illegal behaviour is encouraged and protected, endless misogynist and racist users, site has actual Neo-Nazis in worldnews, people react with threats or looking for your personal info whenever you call out their bull$#*!. Reddit's admins care more about getting users to buy gold that making the site a place worth supporting. Easy to manipulate vote counts, have multiple alternate accounts to harass people with, easy to "squat" on subreddit names, can't delete subreddits, reports not taken seriously, hate communities not banned unless there's a flurry of media attention. If you're the sort of person who enoys 4chan/8chan and calling everyone libcucks, reddit's for you. Otherwise, just use individual forums or a site like linkibil.