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Javed K.

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2 Reviews by Javed

  • Google

8/18/19

Welcome to the 21st Century where a multi-billion-dollar leading tech company like Google can't even make a basic reviews section to function properly! WHAT AN EFFIN JOKE!

Although I'd give Google 5 stars for everything else, this review relates to Google Reviews, and IT TOTALLY SUCKS!

Backstory: I posted an honest review critical of a business, it stayed up for MANY WEEKS. It was very popular. It had already gained 70 views and counting. In fact, GOOGLE REVIEWS EVEN EMAILED ME THANKING ME for my contribution AND SAYING I NEEDED A FEW MORE VIEWS BEFORE I GAINED A BADGE!

Then one day I foolishly decided to edit it to make it even more readable. I simply took ONE SENTENCE OUT... ONE FRIGGIN SENTENCE!

Then the ghosting started

The review appears when I'm logged into my account, but disappears when I'm logged out In other words, the public can't see it anymore

Yet before the one-sentence edit, everything worked fine. After I edited it, it must have screwed something up with the filters... Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah really, this nonsense should NOT be happening in 2019!

Is Google really a World-class Leading Tech firm?

Is it too much to ask a INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZE BRAND to create a basic functioning comments/reviews section?

What a bloody joke!

  • Reddit

3/2/19

I joined Reddit in Jan 2019 anticipating lots of interesting discussions on subreddits (forums) that took my fancy, contributing as well as reading other people's content. Unfortunately this place has such an utterly shambolic set-up, it's a complete mystery to me how a site so badly organized that DOESN'T fulfil its purpose of a DISCUSSION FORUM still manages to get such a high ranking on Alexa.

I'm no longer prepared to give this place the benefit of the doubt so let me list ALL of the annoying problems that have plagued me since joining up in Jan 2019:

(1) GHOSTING:
For no apparent reason, your posts get ghosted about 50% of the time. When logged into your account, it will look like whatever you've posted has been accepted, but once you log out, it will show [posting deleted]. I repeat: my posts NEVER broke any rules. No racism, no sexism, no -ism of any kind. And yet, ghosting was still a MASSIVE headache for me.

Remember my last review when I said all my threads had inexplicably been deleted? Well, Reddit did get in contact to tell me my posts had inadvertently got caught up in some filters. All well and good and I was willing to give them a second chance. But very soon the same nonsense started up again with me attempting to post something 5 TIMES on one particular subreddit, yet I kept getting ghosted every single time. My suspicion is that the filter got triggered once again as I'd deleted and reposted the same thread within a short space of time. But why did I have to do that? COS YOU CAN'T BLOODY WELL EDIT YOUR TITLE ON REDDIT - YOU HAVE TO DELETE AND REPOST FROM SCRATCH!

(2) ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE PAGES:
One stupid idea Reddit has is to set the default homepage view to card' instead of compact.' This means instead of seeing lots of thread titles, you get large chunky previews for each. As you can imagine it takes ages to scroll down the front page and the site loads extremely slowly as a result. According to Alexa 82% of sites are faster!

You can change the homepage view to compact' at a click, but having to do this each time you visit a new page or return to the same one again is a pain in the arse!

The second issue I have with navigation is that the subreddit homepage you're on will keep refreshing each time you scroll down. So the thread you were trying to find gets lost easily. In general, this site behaves very erratically and you constantly have to be on guard in case the page unexpectedly yanks too far down or back up or even back to the previous page. Its an absolute nightmare!

(3) UTTERLY RIDICULOUS KARMA SYSTEM:
I have seen many experienced Reddit fanboys and fangirls attempt to justify this feature by claiming "its easy to get karma you just know where to look" or "you're going about it the wrong way." But allow me to return to my opening statement:

"I joined up anticipating lots of interesting discussions on what I imagined would be a DISCUSSION FORUM..."

Thus I find the karma points system is a complete and utter distraction. It turns this site into some kind of puerile computer game with participants competing with each other to gain some sort of Karma Crown. Believe it or not there's even a subreddit called Get Free Karma Points.' But I don't have the time to go on some wild goose chase to boost my karma I joined up to because I wanted to partake in a EFFIN DISCUSSION on a DISCUSSION FORUM - is that so bloody hard to understand?!

The Karma points system is totally FLAWED anyway. As I've said my previous review it ends up penalizing those who simply have a controversial opinion while benefiting those who $#*!-lick or are happy to play the silly Karma Points' game. The Karma feature proves how immature this place is, and stunts any proper discussion developing and defeats the whole purpose of having such a forum in the first place!

(4) CONSTANT AND EXCESSIVE CENSORSHIP:
Sometimes this really gets OTT. I've seen too many subreddits where an interesting discussion has ensued but the majority of posts have since disappeared due to deletion. You'll be left with an opening post and one or two replies dotted here and there.

(5) MODS NEVER REPLY TO MESSAGES:
After getting ghosted, I sent around 5 messages to mods on a particular subreddit I was having trouble posting to. Very soon I gave up having any hope of getting a reply. Its strange as there were around 6 mods manning the place, so the likelihood is that they were simply ignoring my messages. Which leads me on to the next point

(6) THE MODS ARE TOTALLY UNACCOUNTABLE:
Each subreddit (or topic forum) has its own mods, one or two who may have originally set up the subreddit. However, any mod is free to act like a total d*ck and get away with it, there's ZERO accountability in that regard. He/she could be racist, sexist, prejudiced, or simply not like the sight of you, ban you, and that's that. You have no say in the final decision and you can't approach another mod for a second opinion.

(7) SUBREDDIT POSTING RULES VARY TOO MUCH AND ARE NEVER EXPLAINED PROPERLY:
Its quite easy to get banned on many subreddits as there's no obligation on the mods or creators to list all the rules you have to adhere to. Its all very haphazard. On some subreddits you in fact need a certain level of Karma points to even post a new thread. However, most subreddits never bother to offer anything more than a few sentences for rules. So on more than one occasion I've spent up to an hour writing the best post possible post only for it to get ghosted once I've pressed send.'

(8) TERRIBLY ORGANISED COMMENTS SECTION:
Its impossible to follow discussions on posts. If someone replies to you, and then another person replies to the second person, a 'branch' of replies gets formed. But if you get lots of people in the same conversation, the right-aligned paragraphs eventually get so squeezed that it becomes difficult to even read them. Nor is it easy to figure out who's replying to what.

(9) RUBBISH ACCOUNT HOMEPAGE:
In your account's homepage it will list all the threads and posts you've ever made. But these are so jumbled up that its difficult to make any sense of it. Is it really that difficult to have a simple format where comments and threads are clearly listed next to date of posting?

I've given up on this place to be honest, and the more people realize just how $#*!e it is the better. Reddit is only popular because no-ones ever bothered to create a viable alternative in almost 14 years. Other than that there's nothing to justify the number 17' ranking it holds on Alexa.

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