I have been on a lot of social media and I am used to trolls and problems. Reddit however, is by far the worse site ever. I will read it occasionally but never put in a comment because of the toxic trolls and moderators on there who bully you off the site when you give an opinion or rant about something that they have specifically asked for.

I followed their exhaustive rules so that was not why they bullied me. In fact the second time they openly admitted after bullying me on there for about 20 min that they were "just messing with me". I don't get that site at all and don't recommend anyone to go and log on an opinion (and some people pay for this service?) just to be shot down by some random idiot who feels like picking on you because they are bored. I believe these trolls may even be the moderators (or at least act very authoritatively like moderators) and make you feel like garbage just for the fun of it. Reddit often comes up in my google searches when I am looking for information on a particular topic and to tell you the truth I would rather be on any site other than reddit--just for these reasons.

The other thing is that we give our opinions free to them so that they can do free data mining (and probably get paid for it) for research companies and then ask people to pay to join --isn't that ludicrous? They should be paying us to participate in their data mining research/opinion polls. This is the worst exploitative site ever.

Also: Was wondering do they ask permission before they post those insulting pictures of people and then get the world to log in and laugh at them? I shudder to think what happens when those people find out their picture is on reddit and no one bothered to inform them. Don't post pictures or videos of people and post them without permission --this is unlawful criminal and ethical behavior. If it happened to you without your permission--you wouldn't think it was so funny.

There are billions of lawyers out there right now who specialize in internet law and make it their business to go after people who post insulting picture/video content without the person's permission---so do it at your own risk. You would think that the politically correct police would be on that-- unless you are witnessing a crime (and even then maybe not) don't post videos/pictures or names online without a person's permission.

You can't assume even the victim wants their privacy violated by putting their private information online--without their permission. Even if you have the best of intentions don't assume they will be appreciated by the person involved.

This just makes common sense --one day trolls with cameras are going to piss the wrong people off and regret the decision to point a camera in someone's face. You are not photo journalists or private investigators (they have to follow a lot of laws and procedures as well or else get sued or fired). Don't decide to be a guerilla investigator--anybody would advise you against it. I get the group "anonymous" and the new wave of kids who want to be "truthers" getting at answers no one wants to address. But there is protocol for this behavior... and if you don't follow it you can get into a lot of trouble real quick.

What the heck is up with people on reddit lately? Post karma can swing around quickly like a vortex. One week you get a ton of up-votes the next week people down vote very damn thing you post. The human mind is a very dangerous thing and reddit clearly shows that. It takes but one comment to ban your account from threads. The mods are given way too much power and are more like gods than moderators. If a mod is very bias they can ban whom ever the hell they want and if they're pissed off enough even get your account banned.

Right side bar taking over page more and no way to remove it. This is annoying because there is no way to slide it down to the size you want.

Discriminately ban you for zero valid reason then make some excuse to get your account banned. I've lost track of how many reddit accounts I've gone through many accounts and am careful what I post. Hell if all people want are kittens and puppies then that's what they get.

Please delete the s-e-x threads. Believe it or not this has generated a black market of a po—rn site on reddit. I had to have adult blocking software to keep my kids safe. There are many casual threads I use to enjoy but are slowing turning into soft po—rn sites and I had to unsubscribe from them. The mods do nothing to monitor the content and they say "oh, it's not against the rules." Yes it is it's right there in the rule box.

This site is not a free speech site. It is amazing what people post and the content they get away with. While other people try to speech freely only get severely down voted or their accounts deleted.

Damn that's interesting thread. I use to enjoy it but now it's just disgusting. You have people posting live births of humans and animals. Yea like I want to see that. You have people posting disgusting content that is against the rules but the mods won't remove it.

Toxic threads. Is it me or are there a ton of toxic threads where if you dare post on them you risk getting negative point karma quickly? Work threads, town threads, threads where people only want to hear what they want to hear but down vote reality….

Too many abandoned threads. Please reddit clean up abandoned threads that have been inactive for more than a couple of years or have few if at all active subscribers.

I have lost track of how many reddit accounts I've had to go through to be able to chat daily on this site. Apparently if you're more than an hour on this site you are looked upon more as a troll than just a passer through.

Warning: Do not have multiple accounts on the same computer. Some sh---it head mod on one thread got some one's account banned and reddit thinks we're a multi accouter family when we all have reddit accounts under different emails. No clue what one family member did some how our ip address got banned. I had to switch to vpns to use reddit safely without worry.

Do not pay reddit they do not deserve it. I never paid them one cent but as communistic as this place is I would not recommend pay for any of their features. Your account could be banned in a snap of a finger and you're stuck without the rewards of your paid features. If you look at bbb they're an F.

Point karma needs to go. In the early days of reddit there didn't use to be thumbs up thumbs down. People vote up what they want to say but when they experience reality reddit lies to them and they are given false impressions.

Reddit changes algorithms and it severely changes the way people behave on threads and channels. This has been proven with posted content.

One bad post can tank your karma credit heavily. Then you have sh—it heads that go into your file and down vote everything to trash your account. I had one account where this happened. I posted something on a work thread and before I realized it the account on the throw away account had -500 karma. Good f*!

Go through accounts like candy. Due to the mods having too much damn power and reddit over enforcing rules it is super easy to get accounts banned.

Work thread is full of communistic people that harass others about how sh--itty the company is and in reality that isn't true. This puts a negative image on the company I work for and it has significantly changed the atmosphere of people at work.

Don't use reddit unless you want to be fish bait! I only got into reddit during covid years (2019-2021). I have winged my addiction down to an hour a day if even that. I highly suggest people to get off this sh--it site and get back into reality. This site is a dangerous place for the human mind.

Is it me or does Trump continue to use social media to spread his lies and false propaganda? Many of these stories have been proven false and invalid but yet people believe him and like dumb affes they continue to support this mob boss who has been convicted of many crimes. Wake up people he is a psychopath and mob boss.

My original Reddit profile was HelMort. It was quite old, beloved by followers, and significant for the community, but it got banned. Why? As always, moderators decided to ban me and others, condemning me forever over a simple question of abuse of authority.

I commented on a video, suggesting that the people in it should face consequences from the police to learn a lesson. These young guys happened to be African American, so my comment was deemed racist. In the video, a group of young people looted an Apple store. When Apple blocked their devices, they reacted by laughing, throwing them on the floor, kicking them, spitting on them, urinating on them, and spitting up some juice. Below the video, there were thousands of comments from people totally disappointed, and many like me got banned forever. We expressed extreme disgust for people who steal in the face of others who work hard to obtain a technological device, not because they were African Americans. I'm not racist at all. I believe that regardless of a person's skin color, everyone is just like me – another person deserving respect only for doing good and bad things.

After many years on Reddit, I can say with 100% certainty that there's a significant problem with moderators. Mods abuse their powers and have specific political views, personally attacking and banning people for their amusement. If you attempt to make a post about transgender people, American minorities, or LGBT individuals, you'll get a guaranteed ban. Even using "female" instead of "woman" will get you banned. If mods don't like the color of your cat in your shared pic, you'll be banned. It's totally random.

If you don't believe me, try posting something similar yourself, including positive content, and you'll get a 100% guaranteed ban and post removed after seconds in many subs. Alternatively, check the most famous posts about any topic to see thousands of deleted comments and banned users. In the first months of Reddit, long ago, this platform was about free speech. But the truth is that it's not. Every time you try to write, for example, in "asks" or post in other subreddits dedicated to dialogues, your posts always get closed. In 70% of the cases where you get a ban, you don't even know why. Trying to reach the mods for help or to understand why you were banned is a 100% sure ban from the entire platform because you can't protest.

Another important thing to consider is that mods are clearly leftists and don't permit any posts about right politics like Republicans, etc. The funny part is that I'm a leftist and European, but I find all of this disgusting because not allowing the other side to talk is an attack on democracy. I believe in political free speech. What's happening on Reddit about politics is not okay, and it's extremely dangerous. Reddit can be very dangerous for the next presidential American elections because it risks politically indoctrinating people only to one side.

We must also consider the dark side of Reddit. In over three years on Reddit, I've received daily private messages from scammers of all kinds, messages from sexual perverts asking disgusting stuff, and comments that are 99% toxic, aggressive, and violent reactions to questions like "What food can I choose for my dog?" with responses like "I don't give a f. About your dog." If you're happy about a movie, people write stuff like "I hate enthusiasm, you should die." Not to mention the constant abuse of downvotes, where people downvote whatever you write or share that isn't a dumb viral video. I even tried to share my art and give a chance to the artists to be for free in my art gallery in London to help them with their career, but thousands of artists downvoted and attacked me in the comments, so if you have a business, don't try to invest on Reddit because users do all their best to ruin it. It's basically impossible to get attention unless you share some hentai anime characters; 90% of Reddit is pure porn. Porn subs are everywhere.

In a nutshell, Reddit is the most disgusting social platform I've ever experienced. It's like a cult where a few people think like a hive mind, writing as if they're the same person, excluding whatever is considered dangerous enough to question their feudal lifestyle and creepy Soviet mindset. Reddit is the top of the worst.

Obviously, there are some good people around, and some subreddits are born with good intentions, but they're a minority and usually get closed, and these people leave. Reddit is the most toxic social platform currently present on the play store.

I tried to contact Reddit help many times for my issues, but they never answered.

Where does one even start? The company is currently being sued because it's admins refused to remove child pornography. Instead, those employees appear to be abusively targeting users not engaged in criminal activity by mendaciously twisting their words and permanently banning anyone who happens to cross their abusive path. Not child pornography though, they are, and this is no joke, going after grandmothers for posting dog pictures while insulting them.

I guess all of this can be expected when fraud is baked into the company. Reddit values itself at $10 billion. This appears to be based on nothing. Reddit's revenue, all earnings without costs, is $100 million a year. If they had zero expenses, it would take 100 years to reach that amount. It's an absurd claim.

Reddit also makes bold claims about its number of users, going from claims of 20 million to 50 million users without much evidence. Given that you can create as many accounts as you wish, that bots are allowed, God himself would have trouble figuring out how many users there actually are. All of this is meant to drive up user numbers to attract advertisers. Advertisers aren't going to pay to advertise to bots and the same person seventy times across all his accounts. Advertisers report, predictably, that they have great difficulty generating sales on Reddit. Bots don't things? Who knew?

To shore up this advertising model, and desperately hoping to turn a profit, Reddit has extended its fraud into reviews. A quick glance at the Google and Apple stores reveals much higher scores than found on dedicated review sites. There is. Obvious manipulation with clearly spam accounts churning out identical reviews to drown out negative reviews. The critical reviews reveal a drifting company hubristically adding features that no users want and pushing users to use an increasingly dysfunctional app to better harvest user data to shore up its stumbling advertising model.

Competing Social Media companies have tens of thousands of employees. Reddit has 500. Notably absent from the svelte corporate shell is anything resembling customer service. Have an issue? You just get branded a troll and banned. The subs dedicated to customer support are manned by admins whose professionalism can best be described as angsty 14-year old with a chip on his shoulder. Users are routinely treated like literal dirt, particularly if they take issue with admin conduct.

And where is the leadership? The ones speaking of daily active s***heads? Yet somehow not seeing that very behavior in its own staff? Well, they are busy talking about how blockchain allows you to have a Reddit avatar on Twitter. Who then is reigning in the child pornography? Solicitations for prostitution? The ongoing abuse by users who dox and hurl death threats with abandon?

It turns out that the admins not reigning this behavior in are the erstwhile solution. Subs that have taken years, in some cases, to develop are either directly taken over by Reddit staff or bullied into accepting an admin on their moderator teams. The result is a plethora of permanently banned users from an anemic staff of keyboard warriors who seem to gloat in their virtual power. If you are a content creator or volunteer mod, be careful, because Reddit can and will expropriate your work for any reason or no reason at all with zero recourse.

I discovered this when an admin accused me of being 'genocidal', 'supporting war criminals,' inciting hate speech, and just being a terrible human … for blocking people hurling death threats, tawdry insults, and, given that I have direct experience with actual war crimes, explaining the difference between leaders directing war crimes and soldiers who do not engage in war crimes as prompted to explain. It was immediately clear that the admin was projecting some kind hero complex born of a mental state that was unhinged from reality. He was the white knight saving users from war crimes … on Reddit? The Russians are surely spooked by him and not Ukraine's actual military? He seems to actually believe this. If you want to know why abuse and toxicity is so prevalent, it's because our loony admins with serious integrity issues actively encourage it. This behavior has already almost driven Reddit out of business at least once before. Tye admins are the solution. I can't fathom why Reddit would allow its employees to create screech zones devoid of actual content where their employees ban anyone not screeching the right way. It could just be me, but there does seem to be a reason that no other company does this.

That brings up the final but of fraud. Because advertising to bots and trolls isn't exactly lucrative, Reddit has begun selling stuff. This would be premium accounts (supposedly add free, but not now), credits, avatars, collectible items, and even NFT's. If you buy anything and are not the right kind of unthinking screecher, you will inevitably run into one of the cyber-bully admins who will ban you to demonstrate how wrong you are for daring to disagree with their take on the world … in which child pornography is OK but you are, like me, a war criminal? When they ban you, you lose everything you purchased.

Appeals about this atrocious behavior go right back to the crusading keyboard warriors who view conceding a point as tantamount to a death sentence. That's how abusers operate. Reddit management is no where to be found. There is no customer service. Asking for a refund for the goods stolen by the rampaging lunatics called admins are ignored. Anything less than filing a police report will be studiously ignored.

Reddit has serious issues. Only it's size allows it to plod along like the dead zombie it currently is. It's current business model is selling advertising to bots and trolls and stealing from its customers so they can defend themselves in law suits required to get them to acknowledge that child pornography is actually criminal.

Sooner or later, this hubristically drifting zombie is going to run aground on the rocks of reality.

In the meantime, try Quora. I haven't had a single specious death threat or abusive clown following me around hurling insults, bypassing blocks, and organizing similar trolls to attack before dragging in admins for the kill. Reddit's arrogance is so total, that what little communication can be inferred indicates that Reddit believes that quality users are actually desirous of their poor treatment. They don't seem to be able comprehend that quality users can decamp to a rival.

And Reddit is attempting to take this business model public with an IPO? Yikes. It's only going to get worse for users.

I don't know why, or even how, this site is so popular, but so... bad... yet i do understand somewhat, cause i browse reddit every day of the week. It's great at allowing you to find niche communities, learn things and for finding adorable pictures of animals.

But holy s--- is the media integration just. Awful.

The thing about me is, my brain hates me. So it will do anything to torture me. And besides my actual problems, it also has a thing against cliffhangers. I cannot cope with cliffhangers. If i see that there's a video i want to watch, i cannot go without watching it or i will go insane trying to find closure. I feel like i will die if i don't get to watch the video.

And that's where the problem lies, because the video embedding system... just... doesn't work... it does NOT WORK, and i constantly find my self frantically searching for a way to watch the video, but every time i try to load the video, my whole screen goes black and i have to scroll past the video, close the tab/window or change to a different program in order to regain functionality of my screen. It's not that the site crashes, it's still there. It's just that my whole screen goes black, and the video freezes, disallowing me from gaining this revered sense of closure.

The reason that i am only now writing a review, (besides from the one, that i wrote on app-store about the mobile version, which has some of the same points.) is because i needed to do something else, to get my mind off the fact that i can't get to watch this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/Perfectfit/comments/w4rq99/mini_lego_my_son_left_in_my_laptop_bag_that_fits/

Because every time i try, my screen goes CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE on me and blacks out completely, forcing me to close and reopen google.

I have attached a video, showing my current predicament. Please note that this is a daily occurrence, but that it doesn't always happen the same way. Usually the problem is circumvented, by strategically avoiding the progress bar, or clicking the video, if aforementioned does happen. Sometimes reddit dies completely, but works again after closing and reopening google, and yet other times (like this one), there is nothing to do but capitulate and try to remind my self, that nothing bad will happen just cause i didn't get to watch the video.

Please fix it. Reddit is the only site that seems to just, not work properly. Take some inspiration from twitter or instagram or any of the countless other sites with embedded video functions.

I just googled how much reddit is worth. It said that the site is valued at 10 billion. That's 10.000.000.000 dollars. Where is all that money going? Cause it doesn't seem to be going into the sites functionality anymore.

I'm going out for a smoke

I am a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. I have been answering questions about these wars and armed conflict in general for the previous two years without incident. I answered a question about war crimes truthfully. The question was whether it was a war crime to attack a civilian building. The answer is that it depends. If the building has been occupied by one side's military forces then opposing military forces can attack the building, even if the primary use of the building is civilian. The law applies equally to all parties to a conflict, be they Russia vs Ukraine, the various combatants in Syria, Ethiopia, Yemen, Myanmar, etc. If facts are unpopular, Tracy Chou's article on what happens is helpful. All manner of poorly informed experts can, and do, show up and hurl all manner of abuse.

As per Tracy Chou's article, being thoughtful and true doesn't necessarily equate to being free from abuse. Reddit did not care when Tracy was abused, and it does not care now. In fact, it looks like Reddit employees, admins, actively support this abuse. When regular users accuse you of supporting sexual assault and other banalities, they can be blocked. That can't happen when the abuser is a Reddit admin. If accurately stating how the Law of War informs war crimes angers people, the admins will not reign in the abuse. If you block people hurling the abuse? The admins will actively move to full participation in the abuse.

Many of the more popular subs have admins acting as moderators. A quick look at the other reviews indicates that these admin/moderators are thin-skinned, capricious, and vindictive - viewing users as little more than vermin. In proof of pattern, a Reddit admin stepped into the situation without reading. When context quickly established that his take was unmoored from the facts of the issue, he escalated into accusing me of supporting genocide, advocating war crimes, and, later, inciting hate speech. (See below) The only way to end this nonsense is by demonstrating that the admin in question is wrong. That is impossible when the admin does not read and views being challenged as a personal affront. The more links I provided to establish context, the angrier and more aggressive the admin became until he retaliated and completely nuked my accounts. Apparently, both taking time to establish context and conceding a point are scurrilous sins among admins?

To be clear, saying, "what you are accusing me of doing did not happen (with evidence)," had no discernable effect other than to trigger the Reddit employee's temper. Every allegation in the attachment is provably false and it does not matter. Reddit is paying people to behave like this. Users triggering the tempers of employees come into innocent contact with these crusading cyber bullies through two other methods. Users can report any interaction directly to admins, but Reddit, at best, has a few dozen employees monitoring 31 million reports every year based on Reddit's own report. Users are actively complaining that reporting actual violations are pointless. Reddit's few employees cannot possibly investigate that many reports. As a result, Reddit staff just clears or substantiates the reports based on little more than a whim. If they do substantiate something? Well, in 2019 when Reddit created this report, they publicly promised to both establish context and avoid being heavy-handed. Good luck getting an admin to establish context in that deluge.

The other method is to contact the admins directly through r/help. The more salacious the allegation, the more likely the admins are to issue strikes without reading. My first interaction with the admin team came from a foreign military officer fundamentally misinterpreting how a piece of military equipment was used. He demanded that I concede it was used differently than I used it in actual combat, before descending into allegations that my leadership in very real battles was suspect – surely he would have done a better job? Obviously, this guy was not interested in a discussion and I blocked him. The moderators, all veterans, of the sub got wind of what he was doing and banned him. Problem solved? Nope. He contacted the admins who decided I was harassing a blocked user (apparently, preventing someone from communicating with you against your will is harassing them) and hurling hate speech at him. They clearly did not read anything. A year later? Still waiting for a response from Reddit.

Reddit's non-response to the latest imbroglio, nothing, is hardly a surprise. Reddit actively allowed the admin to retaliate. If I were a genocidal maniac demanding more war crimes, this should be easy, right? It is, but Reddit would rather go to great gaslighting lengths to convince someone that they are … a war criminal … rather than tell an employee he messed up? The horror.

Fed up, I contacted Reddit legal, and issued a deadline for a refund. There were two responses to this demand. First, the admins cleared every insult hurled at me, after first claiming there were no insults in the thread. These were sent at the direction of their automated prompts. They cleared every aspect of the abusive tirade hurled at me by the admin, and then every salacious allegation including allegations of supporting sexual assault. Accusing customers of genocide, war crimes, and sexual assault is usually something businesses avoid. Stated simply, the employee's conduct entitles me to a full refund for the unused and now unusable credits, particularly as Reddit is failing to remedy the abusive admin's behavior.

The only other response appears to be a stealth attempt to change the user agreement. When I signed on the day after the deadline to record the relevant portion of the user agreement, Reddit had changed it (without updating the revision date, a serious lapse of integrity and likely a fraudulent attempt to void damages). My purchased credits were now worthless, and thus not subject to refund? It is apparently my content policy violation that caused the damage and not the actions of rampaging, thin skinned admin hurling specious and unsupportable allegations?

The problem here is that Reddit's user agreement says that your access to these products is unfettered so long as you follow the user agreement and content policy. If you block access to purchased goods based on false pretense, you have created real damages. A spiffy post hoc does not change that reality. In this case, such an allegedly egregious violation should be easy. Reddit could easily trot out the evidence of something as blatant as advocating war crimes and other egregious violations. They aren't doing so because there is no evidence of such behavior. It did not happen. Rather than acknowledge this factual reality and the egregious nature of the false allegation, Reddit chooses to sustain it anyway, apparently bereft of understanding of what accusing people of war crimes creates and why most people do not hurl these kinds of allegations.

Rather than remedy the situation, Reddit will change the rules to avoid entirely predictable consequences of tolerating and encouraging that behavior in its staff. This stealth editing has a history. When u/spez, the Reddit CEO, was caught editing other user's comments with little consequence the lesson that you can get away with this apparently became entrenched in Reddit's corporate culture. Users not caving to the insults of an abusive employee with a temper and a flair for cruelty and retaliatory pique … well, the employee is violating both policies without consequences. You cannot prevent these guys from harassing you on Reddit. The Content Policy appears to be little more than a sop to public relations.

This behavior is not isolated, other users have complained of getting booted for offering fashion advice … as requested by the sub catering to fashion. Others are banned for daring to say that death threats aimed at SCOTUS might be inappropriate (indeed, after reading the content policy, it is those threats that violate said policy). Others report being banned for hate speech for talking about things like golf. All appear to be derivative of admins not policing but abusing. Reviews substantiate both the wide prevalence of this behavior and Reddit's abysmal, indeed non-existent, response to this behavior. Tracy Chou's article was published two years ago, and Reddit's response to similar abuse remains strikingly similar.

I have never before been accused of supporting genocide because I, like most sane people, do not support genocide (that I even need to make that point is ludicrous). Most people, and indeed every other business on the planet, recognize just how toxic the behavior is. Reddit doesn't just want to facilitate these facile screeds, but they want to fight to keep our money on top of exposing us to these employees?

In a word: No.

Small claims court is cheap, and I was following Reddit's policies, I should have access to the credits I purchased. All appeals to remedy the situation are actively avoided. The idea that you can abuse a customer and make them pay for that abuse is just silly. If Reddit cannot train and discipline its employees so that they do not accuse their customers of genocide? Then they have some serious management issues.

They disagree and think they can hurl those accusations? Make me pay for it? I will see them is court. Reddit has made it clear that they are petty enough to fight an absurd allegation of someone who has been tapped to fix war crimes issues in the real world with secretly supporting war crimes. I genuinely can't wait to see the song and dance trotted out to defend that nonsense.

I can say I have never before encountered a business this obtrusive and abusive. Be careful with this business. Mendacity is well cooked into the culture.

Update: You can see that the issues with admins continue. If you spend any money on the site, you can lose it and access to all the content you provide based on little more than a whim. The pattern is the same, users follow rules and capricious admins ban accounts, ignore appeals, and Reddit executives ignore the behavior. If you purchase premium accounts, NFTs, or other 'collectibles', be prepared to take Reddit to small claims court. Anything less will be ignored.

Reddit is another poorly led unfree speech disaster
Lately I have been looking around for a new social media platform to discuss politics (mainly Israel and Palestine), information technology and other subjects.

After being banned for life from Twitter and banned from Qoura I decided to try Reddit.

Now you might think Im a troublemaker or impolite or rude but this is not the case. My bans were for posting historical documents (Yossef Nachmani's Diary and David Ben-Gurions "Letter to his son" as well as quotes from a Teddy Katz lecture from 2005.

Now to get to Reddit -

I joined a Subreddit called /R/IsraelPalestine.

I began to engage in a conversation in which misinformation was being disseminated and politely countered that with a quote from David Ben-Gurions letter which showed that the information being provided was false.

One of the users then logged into their moderator account and began to flag all my comments with violations even though none of my comments were violations of the subreddits rules.

I was then banned for 5 days.

I complained about the moderator and was then banned for life for "Attacking mods".

24 hours later I was still receiving messages from the "moderators" threatening to get me a sitewide ban even though I had messaged them telling them I no longer had any interest in their subreddit.

And this here is Reddits main flaw and the reason I would not recommend it:

Reddit allows untrained and largely unrestricted moderation with only "guidelines" for moderation.

The moderators can institute any 'rules' they like and interpret those rules in any way they like.

If, as in my case, a moderator acts in an extremely biased way and fabricates violations and you complain about it then they can ban you for "attacking the moderating".

The end result of this system is by banning users with opposing or different views the moderators create a subreddit in which the content is manipulated to be overwhelmingly biased and therefore useless as an aggregated source - it becomes propaganda.

There is an additional system on Reddit that involves banning you for having posted or participated in a completely unrelated subreddit.

For example if you once replied to a post in /R/Tomatoes and you then were to post in another subreddit years later /WeHateVegies the moderators or more usually a bot can Automatically ban you for that transgression irrespective of what you said in /R/Tomatoes.

Its an absurd and largely pointless site where free speech and conversation is restricted and your ability to have an opinion that is your own is curtailed.

If you want to have a civil conversation, don't bother going on here. I signed up mainly to go on a few niche subreddits and the people are so nice. However, I notice that most of the other subs (even ones for just kicks and giggles) are so bad and most (not all) seemingly male users are super rude and use such inappropriate language for NO REASON. If you're sensitive, easily humiliated, have anxiety or any other issues, don't bother posting here. You'll end up getting ripped on like crazy. I only posted twice and I already gave up trying to use this platform.

Experience 1: I posted on r/AskNYC about a problem that I had with my landlord where my landlord was doing something illegal and refused to meet me half-way about it. I wanted some suggestions on how I could solve it without causing a problem. All I got were condescending responses that didn't even address the problem. The first comment was from the mod who insulted me and basically said "if you don't like it, rent elsewhere" (as if everyone has that luxury). Mod was super rude and broke the sub's rules by being super rude. Don't know how these people are allowed to just abuse their "job" and humiliate people. I was so embarrassed, I just deleted the entire post. I can't believe these commenters live in the same city as me. Yet if I saw them on the train, they would never confront me and they would just look down like they're scared.

Experience 2: I was on r/CrappyDesign and posted an image of a kitchen where a sink was placed dangerously close the stove that could cause potential accidents (e.g. Knocking over boiling pots). It was impractical and an old building hence the bad layout therefore, crappy design. Someone responded to me rudely and told me to "check my privilege" and that I needed more "life experience". It wasn't even about privilege or life experience. I cook regularly and I've lived in worse conditions and still managed to have a kitchen that wouldn't burn my elbow every time I turn around. I reported the user and blocked because who cares. It seems this person (like many others on Reddit) can't just say what they think without cursing at and insulting people. What's up with that? How hard is it to be civil and respectful? That was also one of the main rules of the sub!

I'm also concerned about the content being allowed to share here. I'm all for freedom of speech but some things are just beyond cringe and shouldn't be legal while there's people who are just overall sexist, racist, etc. To me, I stay away from politics and I don't get involved. I think everyone should choose what works for them. But insulting others just because their views aren't the same is just childish. What ever happened to "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all?" I scroll past everything I don't like. I'm not a celebrity; I don't get paid nor should I tolerate people insulting me on the internet all day.

I would never post anything on here anymore. I love r/CrappyDesign but when people disagree with you, they would just blow up on you in the comments saying how dumb you are. Same for everywhere else. Most mods abuse their power, you get banned for no reason, the karma system is ridiculous and just gives high karma, long-term account users more freedom to abuse other members and act like they're royalty. In addition, the karma system is just ridiculous that some genuinely kind, new users can't even comment in certain subs because they're low karma. Overall, just consult people you're close with, or make friends elsewhere because this entire website is just a dumpster fire. I've browsed Reddit in the past and it wasn't like this early on, it's sad what it became!

I remember asking for help in the artist lounge reddit. Someone stole my art and posted it on a tumblr blog. Anyways I've received help to get it removed. But I recieved hate comments for no reason. Apparently reddit users support art thieves. Because they got defensive and mad at me over getting my art removed off the blog. One user in the comment section got downvoted a lot. He told others to be snarky to me. Other users started commenting on my post. They posted rude stuff under my post. I tried to contact the moderators but they never got back to me until it was late. They have a no bullying rule in artist lounge. But the rules go unenforced.
I also remember being in the rockstargames bully sub reddit. Reddit users would comment anything to get upvotes and belittle people. I made a post that said why wasn't Gary in school and how come Jimmy got expelled. Some reddit user posted a rude joke under my post for no reason. I downvoted it and someone upvoted it. Bad behavior is rewarded on reddit no matter what the case is. Bullying is a problem on reddit and the administration and moderators don't do a good job enforcing rules. Most sub reddits are toxic. I have not been in a sub reddit that isn't. I remember I posted art in a negative deviantart group. It was a drawing of the power puff girls that obviously looked like cp bait. These people was like their aged up so it's fine. When the artist obviously drew the same features they had on them when they were minors in their design. Reddit supports cp art. I told them the art was wrong. And reddit users downvoted me for disagreeing. They support cp art the person who drew the art draws sexualization of underage characters. They claim that they are aged up but the character designs look the same and the characters still look like minors. Overall Reddit is just full of the worse people. You get downvoted for saying opinions and for having different views. People on the site act like they need attention so they comment stupid stuff. People acting like your the problem because you make a post about your experiences. Do not join this site. You will be mentally drained and stressed trying to blend in. I went through two reddit accounts. I deleted my first reddit after my comment was getting heat. People was downvoting me because I didn't defend the cp sexualized power puff girls art. Reddit is full of idiots. Wrong is wrong reddit.

Writing from experience I say it is. First signed up for Reddit several years ago and was not aware of the site's 'rat pack mentality' - If you support a Conservative politician be ready for an attack by shills and trolls attacking like hungry rats - In 2016 when I favored Trump for President, I received so much negative 'Karma' I had to close the account.
Flash forward to 2020 and my political views changed - So I signed up again and was alright for awhile - Long as you go along with the 'rat pack' mentality you will keep getting 'upvotes' and positive 'Karma'
Until one day you find yourself at the top ot the pack - getting more upvotes and karma then the lower rats in the pack - And yes, like the rats that they are, they will conspire to get you banned from the very 'sub-reddit' where you are earning more upvotes and karma then they are - Nothing worse than a forum full of jealous rats - Except for 'bought and paid for moderators' that the reddit rats will use to get you banned {or just blocked from posting} where you are the number one poster of positive content supporting the content of that particular sub reddit,
And you want to complain about being back-stabbed on Reddit? - The faceless, soulless and unnamed moderators will not respond! No answer, no reason given for blocking you out of the subreddit where you earned thousands of Karma and upvotes.
This is why I say Reddit is corrupt. Reddit that once billed itself as the front page of the internet, is, in my opinion, now the last page of the internet - In fact I see Reddit as the sewer of the internet and all the shills, trolls, and bought and paid for moderators as a symbolic pack of sewer rats!