the automods have made all subreddits unusable
writes a comment on hiphopheads - REMOVED, comments must be 250 letters+
hmm ive got a problem with my pc, guess i’ll ask on this PC sub -REMOVED, you most post questions to this thread that nobody uses
ok i’ll post a fun meme on this subredd- REMOVED, you can only post memes on sunday full moons
holy just let me use this god damn website
Unpopular opinion, but those rules are actually a good thing. Reddit has become a slump of one-liners, pop culture references, pointing out obvious things, resposts, and shitposting, and rules like that cut those down.
Those rules, if they work at all, nibble away at the flood of shitposting. They don’t even touch 1% of it.
Meanwhile, though I cannot prove it, I suspect that those same rules block some large fraction of the truly insightful comments/posts approaching 99%, if not reaching or surpassing.
Rules are what control freaks use to get their control freak hardons all turgid. They have nothing to do with reducing shitposting but serve to concentrate it all the more.
there are definitely some issues there, but a lot of that is automatic anti-spam measures, which is something you must turn to when you have millions of users
if you have a reasonable old and active account you usually get no issues whatsoever
If you don’t like the rules don’t post. At some point you have to accept that these subreddits are not where you want to spend your time and move on.
Reddit has been a cesspit for years at this point. My account dates to 2006 (I think this is well before most of the commenters there were born). Sometime after about 2014, they switched from a very readable front page format to some Facebook/Tiktok-like abomination, and geared the site towards “mobile users”. That redesign gamed the whole site, now there are hundreds of little trophy things that you can “award” to other users (I think you’re supposed to pay cash to do that?). There are “metric converter bot”-style bots running around, spamming things up with garbage. No one finds those funny, and it’s difficult to understand why they’re allowed to exist at first if everyone either hates them or should hate them… they fill the site with more “traffic” which is used to sell advertising.
On reddit, you’re not the user. You are the product that they sell to someone else (just like everywhere else). It would be counter-productive to have you reading and thinking and speaking there, because that sort of person might become intelligent enough to be annoyed with their attempts to make money.
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