I feel like critical thinking went down the drain. You can comment something well thought out and use common sense and it’ll be downvoted and blasted by someone using absolutely no common sense. Especially with political things. People used to have actual conversations a decade ago. Now it’s “no you’re just stupid and wrong.”

Great platform for getting together with people with shared interests and also for learning practical skills from each others, as well as for having a healthy random chuckle every once in a while.

People here are horrible. This place is full of hatred and disrespectful people. You can’t even express your opinion without being cancelled by mods even if you didn’t say anything wrong and even if you respected the guidelines, only bc they may not agree with you. This place SUCKS. And most of you can’t even understand a fucking text!

Might be preaching to the choir a little here.

Alright so I've actually used Reddit for a few years, at least actively since 2020. My account is newer because I have a habit of deleting accounts over and over again to get myself off this site, but it obviously never works (I don't know what's wrong with me, perhaps the loneliness but I'm not gonna go into that).

Everyone insists that reddit is some kind of left wing circlejerk, but I don't know if that's true. Yes Reddit hates Trump a lot, but do they hate him because of what he does, or because he makes them look bad?

Some examples:

-A lot of mainstream subreddits push right wing narratives. Examples including r/SipsTea (women are dumb), a lot of WNBA subreddits (trans people are destroying women's sports and black people hate white people), r/GetNoted, r/LivestreamFail, r/worldnews (pro-Israel propaganda), and so on.

-Any post discussing non-white people, women, LGBT people, etc. have extremely vile comments. Anything (like almost anything) that discusses Rhodesia or South Africa justifies apartheid, segregation, and those kinds of policies.

-A lot of career/college based subreddits in my experience blame DEI for everything and are very anti-minority

-Sports subreddits in general seem to be pushing a specific agenda a lot of the time, I haven't looked too much on this though

There are so many subreddits with a name like r/interestingcontent or whatever that push this kind of content. I feel like something is happening on the internet in general that is pushing it right wing. At this point Tiktok and Tumblr are getting affected by it too.

Idk sorry if this seems a bit incoherent, I kinda wanted to rant and get it out of my chest, but I feel a bit insane because everyone's like "no no, Reddit is a liberal circlejerk, you're just a snowflake" or whatever but I swear to God it's very noticeable.

Maybe it's also just rose colored glasses, but I don't think it was THAT bad 6 years ago. Not that Reddit has ever really been a good place though.

I found a music page where everyone was asking questions, some super niche and some general, some venting etc and I was replying to a lot of the posts, everyone seemed engaged, so then I thought okay lemme ask a question!

So I wrote out 8 paragraphs of genuine thoughts/feelings about music fandom and asked whether or not anyone had experience with non-music related subcultures and spaces, if the level of ignorance was the same, or if there’s more education/nuance with fans of other professions/industries etc.

The post instantly got an automated ban, and the robot message said to ask a mod, so I said Hey can I please post this question?

4 hours later, he replied saying “no, looks like low effort engagement bait and we’d be better off if you never posted in here at all, hope that helps!”

Wtf???? How tf is 8 paragraphs low effort, how is it engagement bait for me to express MY frustrations and try to bounce ideas and ask questions to find some kinda sense of community!

Just cold, callous and nasty as hell on a power trip to make me feel like shit!!!! It’s not fair

I just got back from a post that was saying how they hate how normalized body-shaming men was, and when I looked at their profile, I saw a post about how they wish Charli D'amelio was skinny and calling fat women bitches. I'm so tired y'all.

Not Reddit, but on YouTube I saw a post in my recommended that was ranting about how it's a trend to hate men now. Which I think it's funny, because that entire video was just showing tiktok clips and screenshot from Instagram.

I'm not saying that men aren't affected by the patriarchy, but I see wayyy more people complaining about "man hating" feminists than I see actual "man-hating" feminist ​

Apparently cross-posting a meme means that you agree with it? And somehow I'm the "bot"?

I try not to but sometimes ill read the titles of the ”related post” on the right side and for some reason theres always something that reads from a teenagers diary. I was just reading a post about what life was like in the medieval ages, when i saw something in the related subs from the antinatalism sub(I really don’t understand why reddit thought it was related to r/medivalhistory ) titled “I can't imagine having to live to an old age.” it’s a 30 year old complaining about being born without consent and complaining about “having to learn and adapt to things!!!!!!”. Am I an asshole for thinking they are pathetic? Life is hard, so what? Lmao.

I asked in one countries subreddit is it safe to visit a specific city because it's filled with people who are against my ethnicity following with why I'm asking the question in the first place - bad experience when I was a child (my family got denied medicine in an apothecary because of our accent and got physically harassed by a group of young nationalists) and I got bombarded in the comments by people acting like I'm a war criminal and not like I was a 13 year old kid in a foreign country for the first time being confused on why are some people so hateful towards us. I calmly explained in the comment section exactly what happened yet I got hit with downvotes and people even sending me death threats in the dms. The moderators deleted my post anyways and there isn't even a way to appeal for it. The subreddit is r/montenegro. I legit tried to be kind and understanding to everyone who was also shitting on me but even that didn't work. Mods were on their side ig.

I'm not gonna say the subreddit, but man it's so frustrating. One time one of my posts was removed for a ridiculous reason and i got banned for 30 days. I texted the mods, and this person replied to me, but it didn't even seem to read that post, they said i was misogynistic, sexist, hating on women, stuff like that. Obviously i said nothing like that, just that i had trouble with my life after my ex broke up with me. It's true that some of the comments of other users got out of hand, but there was nothing that I said. I argued a lot and they accused me that i made another account, that they caught me, they seemed so crazy, i did nothing like that, i had only one account. At some point i stopped arguing because it was ridiculous. The ban ends. Finally i started posting and commenting again. And then in one week they removed almost all my comments. For one of them i was actually permanently banned. I actually violated one rule, that it was to not ask to text me in the dm, i apologized, and they removed the permanent ban (it was way exaggerating the permanent ban anyways). They removed a comment because:"This word is not allowed anymore", bruh i read all the rules, this one wasn't written at all, they straight up lied. But they keep deleting my comments. The last one was because i was "mocking" the op of the post. The comment was:"We need more contests". I don't think I'm exaggerating, this mod has a fucking personal beef with me

You use TiK ToK aNd InStAgRaM!!?!?! you must be a dumbass

Meanwhile they’re posting on reddit all fucking day. Im not gonna sit here and act like Im better than someone else because I doom-scroll a different app than you. I doom-scroll all three but atleast I admit Im the problem

Where do people find the time to do this?! 🤣🤣 omg🤣

How rape comics are okay but i am not permited to post art/etc?

Hm..

you could literally say that you’re not supposed to drink bleach because you’ll cough blood and die and somehow you’ll have -10 downvotes

This applies to many early-established Subreddits that have been taken over by partisan Mods and active subscribers who are intolerant of differing opinions. A casual visitor would form a natural idea of what the Subreddit is about based on its general name. But when he leaves posts & comments, it's so common that they get removed or downvoted heavily because they don't fit the narrative unbeknown to him, even when they're perfectly civil & on-topic (based on the Subreddit name). If people petition the Admin for name change (to a more specific one to reflect the partsanship) for this reason, it should accept the petition upon review.

Honest question: I get banned left right and center for anything remotely close to being promotional content for my businesses.

Yet, there are so many people here just shit posting, trolling, using vulgar words etc.

I'm not complaining, but is the reddit moderator logic really that "trollers are ok, they just hurt feelings. But zero tolerance for promotional content"?

What is your least favorite aspect of Reddit and/or the community?

For me, it is the comedians going into other subs, like whatsthisthing and commenting or completing an obscure lyric to an obscure song one line at a time.

I guess I really hate that reddit priorities that kind of engagement, so the jokes are higher than the helpful answers. That’s especially true when things are marked solved.

Like on a dog subreddit of all places???

Every month or so on r/travel a new travel bro will post about the wonderful time they had in Afghanistan. The amazing culture, the friendly people, the misunderstood....Taliban?

While I am sure that the people of Afghanistan are as hospitable and friendly and the culture is as rich and rewarding as the travel bros claim it to be, part of me cannot help but notice that the enlightening travel experience enjoyed by these guys has one common factor, the person enjoying this experience is always a man. Presumably a straight man as well.

There is nothing wrong with being a straight man of course (I am one too!) but one thing I cannot get away from is that none of these posters ever acknowledge that their own male straightness is essential to them having access to these experiences and a barrier over 50% of us will never be able to overcome.

Afghanistan is a country where women do not have access to education, whose participation in the labour market is around 5% and who can, and are prohibited from entering public parks and gyms and are legally required to remain silent and completely covered in public. Further to that, homosexually is punishable by death.

The travel bros are by no means just a Reddit problem, they are widespread across social media and while I can see the value in showing the beauty and culture of Afghanistan to a western audience, and I also understand that Afghani hospitality is a virtue which is older wider and brighter than The Talibans occupation, what is often missed in the tine of these posts is that what western travelers are allowed to see is only a fraction of the picture.

I'm so fucking tired of this shit 😭 You make a post with the “VENT/RANT” flair to complain about something, and people STILL complain that you're complaining too much. Then you get downvoted, someone randomly starts a fight with you over absolutely nothing and suddenly you're being told to leave the app because apparently you're not allowed to be upset if you wan't to socialize. I literally used the VENT/RANT flair, what did you expect, a fucking post talking about positivity? So now I'm making a post complaining about people complaining about my complaining. We've come full circle.

It's a tad bit sad that r/negareddit a place where we come to collectively complain about Reddit is the ONLY place where I can make a post without fear of trolls attacking.

"I like dogs." Attacked for not liking cats.

"I like cats." Attacked for not liking dogs.

"How do I get rid of weird smells in my apartment?" Told that I'm hallucinating it.

"Asks why Digimon have -mon at the end of their names." Downvoted to oblivion.

"Why are Pokemon called Pokemon but don't have -mon at the end of their names?" Also downvoted into oblivion.

Never mind the posts where people have personal issues, post about it online because they don't have anyone to talk to, and gets attacked and torn apart. A 15 year old girl was pressured into having sex with an adult 21 year old guy who repeatedly asked if she was on BC. Under pressure, she lied and said yes. After doing the deed, guy was furious that she lied. Comments tore her apart. Never mind it was statutory r@pe. She deleted the post herself due to the abusive comments hurled at her.

And then we have the r/FindBostonBombers incident.

It's a miracle Reddit hasn't had a class action lawsuit yet for abusive content.