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Imgur has a rating of 1.76 stars from 80 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Imgur most frequently mention front page, left wing, and toxic community problems. Imgur ranks 89th among Photo Sharing sites.
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Imgur goes to great lengths to police their platforms but does so in favor of high output users. So it becomes a power dynamic and if you say something they disagree with especially on Sunday when there are no moderators, then they will multi report you and get you a 24 hour ban in which you cannot defend yourself. They literally practice and allow censorship, but in a narrative changing way. Very toxic and allows abusers to feel they have a place to dominate others. They added filters now to block unwanted tags, political serial posters, and now you can also block anyone who harasses you or you suspect may be dis genuine, etc. Doesn't change the fact that many users are simply to is and can still see and harm your content activity.
Imgur does not even pretend anymore, at this point, to be unbiased or considerate of any even keeled or respectful perspectives. The bias is extremely apparent. In an age of extreme partisanship in all corners of the Internet, Imgur manages to do the impossible: it stands out. There really isn't another site that reaches this levels of blatant disregard for objectivity that the platform does. My words really don't matter, though: just look for yourself. Provoking anger, either amongst its supporters or detractors, seems to be the only goal. I suppose, somehow, that this emotional surge is supposed to be positive in the service of some greater cause, but a permanently angry and incensed population seems to be the opposite of helpful to me in attempting to solve the issues in the world, no matter what your perspective is. Imgur is what it tries so hard to tell you that it isn't: an angry, fuming monster spewing rage at the invisible "enemies" it claims to be fighting.
There are some really cool and interesting things people are doing and sharing on this website, but you have to dig through mountains of recycled meme macros, re-posts galore, arbitrary "community" norms like "cat tax" and "no selfies", and inconsistent moderator actions.
The anonymous upvote/downvote mechanism allows for rampant abuse, especially since there is little consequence for downvoting another member's submission. The scale of abuse aimed at well intentioned but non-conforming viewpoints is staggering. 140 characters seems to be inadequate space to articulate and engage in meaningful discussion over some very controversial but tolerated political posts, especially.
This review is intended more to review the community and hateful cult politics.The site sort of works to upload images, but as per reviews, it's not even working for many cases.
As one who is interested in history, psychology, politics, and these general fields together, I've found myself censored multiple times on this website (including tumblr and reddit, which are only slightly better but enforce the same 'shadow censorship).
Once you reach some amount of negative points, usually just -1 votes, your comment is hidden, placed in a "bad posts only" queue, a place where uneducated trolls and bots will go to claim the reality you mentioned is 'wrong', you are 'bad for posting about it', and tons of insults too. Usually if you post some legitimate fact about "how bad someone some leftist policy did because in history" using scientific backing, and they happen to be a democrap for example, you'll basically instantly get placed into the moderation queue where you'll then be shadow banned instantly for 'breaking the rules'. In this way "they", the big dictators, the mentally ill, and so on, get to control what is displayed, even in the chance that "it's only the way that the [flawed] system was designed"
This creates the fake idea that they are making a 'popularity-based' self-regulated system. In reality, they're actually just censoring real views they claim do not exist, enforcing a community full of bigots, college kids in debt, racists, socialist and fascism lovers, and so on that upon taking up the bulk of voting power, box every other viewpoint or superior efficiency out of their small world. This basically enforces a system where flawed ideology of the users completely takes over everything, and the idea of a democratic, free speech system where 'anyone can comment', 'your view will be tolerated and looked at', is not enforced.
The average 'real person' that is not a bot will claim to be excessively smarter, refute all logic, and entice you to "debate" to prove how better you are (usually leading to an instant ban) in textboxes that only have 100 characters minimum (designed for pea-brains to insult or make 1-sentence commentary only).
Based on how the system works, the dumbest people who conform to the strange leftist policies are given medals and fake ideas of being influential for doing things like praising Obama and insulting/reporting criticism of him.
"fake" ideas and weird politics and memes that have no place for normal people in society are propped up as "highly popular", having to do with vaccines (yes no one cares), politics (obama good black man, white man always bad, orange man bad), general $#*!ation and racism enforced by 'tribal' style group enforcement.
A lot of the memes there are basically really bad, except maybe 1 in 100. It's just an perfect example how of the leftwing of politics functions. One of those places where the delusional ones have hidden themselves away in order to claim they are "smart and popular" when in a real neutral zone they are generally "vastly underperforming" in their ideas and logic.
Example:
>someone posts picture about how some kid missed an exam 'in a college'
>every single post is just "wowww::: :)! 1 he's deaddd woww!", almost like some tribally enforced $#*!ation
>i post something like "It's just a college. Email the professor, say 'I couldn't make the finals', you'll be able to take it in private the next day"
> first reply "Wow guys I found the incel 4channer!" +10 - extremely popular response
> *is actually a programmer who has his own convertible and was at the beach at the time* what.
I just envision these people are like, basically the gnomes, trolls, and fags who cried and acted like the world was going to end after the 2016 elections, and now live in their mom's basement, enforcing their weird memes, stereotypes, and fake socialist (USSR style) censorship on certain websites. They all think Russia is their enemy because the Clintons told them it how to act over CNN, ABC, NBC, and other fascist programming that has educated them since birth.
Imgur just happens to be one where I've noticed the trend of idiocy.
One pro is that it lets you host images. One con is popular or neutral stuff is usually falsely downvoted and perceived as 'not popular' due to the bad community members.
There's much better image sites.
The fact there's so many bad reviews about this is hilarious and essentially confirms the bias.
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