I Use Reddit
Has anyone here had a good experience with Reddit?
I spent three months there and it felt as if everything about the site is badly thought through.
Anal Rules -
Everywhere, in every group.
It took me six attempts to ask a casual question about a song lyric, because I kept coming up against "your post was rejected because it didn't start with a double space, followed by a parenthesis, colon, semi colon and backward slash, in that order".
Isn't social media supposed to fun?
Downvoting -
This was the only thing I found that wasn't limited or monitored.
If you say something that doesn't chime in a particular group, you'll be on minus 20 in no time. Even if what you say is factually indisputable.
And low karma restricts what you can post elsewhere on the site.
So you end up with a series of echo chambers, where people chase out anyone challenging their thought process and end up kissing each others' posteriors.
Sure, every social media site suffers its share of trolls and gang mentality, but the way Reddit is set up allows them to flourish in a way I've never seen anywhere else before or since.
And there were no good experiences to mitigate the bad.
I asked some questions in the advice groups and got little or no response to any of them.
As a community, it sucked beyond belief.
Yet I see it recommended by perfectly sensible people as a great site time and again.
So maybe I'm missing something 🤷♂️ But whatever that is, I'm definitely willing to live without it.
"Downvote...downvote...downvote"
I spent three months there and it felt as if everything about the site is badly thought through.
Anal Rules -
Everywhere, in every group.
It took me six attempts to ask a casual question about a song lyric, because I kept coming up against "your post was rejected because it didn't start with a double space, followed by a parenthesis, colon, semi colon and backward slash, in that order".
Isn't social media supposed to fun?
Downvoting -
This was the only thing I found that wasn't limited or monitored.
If you say something that doesn't chime in a particular group, you'll be on minus 20 in no time. Even if what you say is factually indisputable.
And low karma restricts what you can post elsewhere on the site.
So you end up with a series of echo chambers, where people chase out anyone challenging their thought process and end up kissing each others' posteriors.
Sure, every social media site suffers its share of trolls and gang mentality, but the way Reddit is set up allows them to flourish in a way I've never seen anywhere else before or since.
And there were no good experiences to mitigate the bad.
I asked some questions in the advice groups and got little or no response to any of them.
As a community, it sucked beyond belief.
Yet I see it recommended by perfectly sensible people as a great site time and again.
So maybe I'm missing something 🤷♂️ But whatever that is, I'm definitely willing to live without it.
"Downvote...downvote...downvote"
46-50, M
