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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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Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Don't pay attention to the rules. Mods implement their own view. If your post doesn't correspond with theirs, you're banned.

Date of experience: July 27, 2015
Indiana
6 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Fun time suck
May 16, 2015

There is just SO much stuff on this site. Pictures, videos, quips... I don't have time to sit and go through everything. Typically, if it's topical enough you will end up seeing it on another social media site anyway.

Date of experience: May 15, 2015
GB
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I love hanging around in the photoshop battles subreddit to and submit my own editings. Its a nice laugh!

Date of experience: May 13, 2015
Kansas
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Great community
April 8, 2015

Such a great community that I feel addicted to browsing reddit and getting know some interesting but useless things.

Date of experience: April 8, 2015
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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1. AMA's appear to have limited functionality because the hosts do not answer legit questions.
2. Moderators appear to have no disciplinary chain of command from the site Admin. Thus, if a moderator begins making accusations against you, you have no defense against the trolling of a mod.
3. Mods apparently do not really care about US federal laws on information flow and sharing related to US national defense and security.
4. Mods apparently lack expertise in the sub/reddits that they moderate. Therefore, you can have a person with absolutely no experience managing a highly technical scientific discussion. This is totally unacceptable because a moderator who lacks such experience can not effectively judge the accuracy of postings.
5. The downvoting at Reddit is totally ridiculous. Why even have down votes? They post in multiple places in some subject areas that downvoting is not allowed. But, upon the whim of some moderators, suddenly a bunch of down votes occur from a cyber mob of moderators who apparently can decide to show up at a moment's notice.
6. Subject matter in each subject area is controlled by a priority other than the timing of discussions and the number of responses.

Date of experience: March 4, 2015
Ohio
5 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Reddit is a real pain to use. As a new member you can't post anywhere. You can't post more than once within a several minute timespan. And Reddit is super picky about what you post in each category. I find it to much of a bother to use, and gave up.

Date of experience: December 6, 2014
Australia
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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The default sub reddits are not a good indication of the breadth of content available on the site. For best results sign up an account and then curate your subreddits.

Date of experience: November 24, 2014
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Posting a video un Reddit under Street Fights is terrible! You have a lot of haters on their that don't want to give your website a chance, and will downvote you everytime you post. I'm a promoter for a few major online companies and yes... I do follow the guidelines! These redditors will downvote you, but these are the same people who will go on the websites, watch the videos, copy the videos, add their watemark to it... go back on reddit add it and downvote us. We are an legit company with anywhere between 50,000 to 200,000 visitors a day. Reddit should at least put a banned or delete button on pages so that you have the option to delete haters!

Date of experience: November 22, 2014
New York
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Reddit is Amazing
September 30, 2014

Reddit is Amazing. It's an innovative platform that has changed the internet forever. What more can I say?

Date of experience: September 30, 2014
Michigan
11 reviews
39 helpful votes
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I love reddit.com I am like addicted to this site!

Date of experience: June 28, 2014
New Jersey
2 reviews
32 helpful votes
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Great site to kill a few hours after work while kicking back and drinking a beer. Just limit yourself as it tends to get a bit addicting.

Date of experience: June 19, 2014
Arizona
13 reviews
57 helpful votes
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I visit reddit daily
April 15, 2014

I visit reddit daily. It's a nice combination of important news and funny/informative user posts. I can never get more than a few upvotes, but that's okay... I still come back every day.

Date of experience: April 15, 2014
Oregon
24 reviews
63 helpful votes
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I have difficult relationship with Reddit and Redditors. Some of them have down voted my posts many times. I still try to do my best to get a good karma. Its not easy at all. Advice: you need to read Reddit rules and actually follow them to be not banned. You need to be very active user to get good points and visitors from Reddit on your website. Happy Redditing :)

Date of experience: March 21, 2014
Georgia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I like this social network.
There are a lot of people which do not know, but also very happy

Date of experience: February 18, 2014
Virginia
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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One of the better sites online for finding solutions to issues. The community can often have trolls and folks that are trying to bunk the system--but because of the amount of users, the information flow is naturally corrected. The site maintenance is strong and works to please the people using it.

Date of experience: February 3, 2014
Australia
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Reddit is magical, as it is so addictive. You can literally find out what will appear in the newspapers over the coming days, as the get their sources here. The site does a good a moderating. You don't need to sign up to join, and you can lurk as long as you like. The site has something for everyone.

Date of experience: December 5, 2013
GB
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I've been a Redditor for years and it's been a major part of my internet experience. I've laughed, I've cried, I've learned (I have learned SO MUCH from this site from mending my hoover to improving my coding. The list is endless.

The interface is tricky at first (in that it's extremely simple and text based). But hey, no goddam social media icons everywhere, or irritating ads, no request for your personal information.

Reddit - you've been there for me. Love you.

Date of experience: October 13, 2013
California
81 reviews
219 helpful votes
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Once you've earned a permanent suspension (usually for a relatively minor infraction), they will go out of their way to keep you off the site.
Step 0: Suspending you
Step 1: Suspending any name on the same IP.
Step 2: Locking you out entirely with a phony "wrong password" error.

This is very shady.

It doesn't matter if the password is correct; they will say it's not to keep you away.

They will suspend new accounts that don't even post within an hour if they decide you're a "bad user."

The admins must try to be this useless. It can't be an accident.

Date of experience: September 24, 2013
Arizona
4 reviews
30 helpful votes
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What a gigantic circlejerk. It used to have insightful comments, but now it's just a bunch of people making terrible puns and sharing memes. I only waste time on here at work because porn is blocked.

Date of experience: August 21, 2013
Illinois
4 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Reddit is a great website it is a great website to find a good at and... you can basicly anything on reddit.
I you havent gone to reddit then here http://www.reddit.com/

Date of experience: July 7, 2013