Reddit is BTFO

submitted by joewest1313 from self.censorship

I know the pending public offering is to blame but sweet baby jesus we got whipsawed by the SJWs.

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[–]magnora7 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (13 children)

When I got banned from like the 10th subreddit, for topics I agree on but was merely offering a counter-point on some part of it, and still getting banned for merely conversing about them, I knew things were beyond broken and we had to make saidit.

The admins broke digg. But the mods broke reddit.

What amazed me most is how comparatively slow reddit's decay has been compared to digg. Digg had a mass exodus because the whole site realized at once there was a problem after a failed advertiser-friendly redesign. Reddit is compartmentalized in to subreddits, and the decay has been happening on a subreddit-by-subreddit level, rather than the whole site at once.

[–]send_dick_pics 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this is exactly why I just came here. Banned from r/lgbt AND r/lgbdroptheT for wanting some fucking answers. I'm so sick of the literal essay of rules for posting on subs too. The fact that needs to be an entire wiki centered around posting is just retarded.

[–]startrek 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

It really is a slow burn. When the mods and tencent are done, reddit will be a thought police-enforced echo chamber worse than /pol/. At least the janitors of /pol/ are mostly hands-off and that echo chamber is user enforced.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I agree. They know not to do what digg did. I kept saying reddit would go the way of digg the day they stop hosting old.reddit.com. I kept waiting for it to be discontinued, but it never was. I am honestly impressed they had the foresight to keep old.reddit.com functional even after spending 3 years building a whole new interface.

[–]startrek 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I use the redirect plugin and honestly forget the redesign exists. I think they know shutting down old.reddit would 100% digg them, although I'm surprised too. I'd love to see a comparison of how popular each version is.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/cr9kwn/what_percent_of_users_still_use_the_old_reddit/

Apparently about 10%?

I was lucky to check a "keep old.reddit permanent" box on my reddit account so it's stuck on old reddit, and I like it that way. The redesign is mainly to push advertiser content, just like digg, but they're being more subtle about it.

[–]startrek 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a surprising number of people. I wonder how many settled for setting the redesign to classic, I bet it would jump at least 15%. I hate all 3 settings of the redesign and I wouldn't be surprised if its worse performance to old.reddit lost some less tech-savvy users on slow computers.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

same here took me forever to find that setting, honestly i would have been completely done with it years ago if i hadnt been able to keep the original setup. cant believe theyr'es only 10% that's crazy.

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    [–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah there is definitely an element of the reddit admins ignoring certain things while focusing on others. The rules were definitely not applied evenly.

    [–]TheAnon 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The admins are complicit in what the mods (many of whom I expect are reddit employees using alts for plausible-deniability purposes) are doing and so they are ruining the site just like they did at digg.

    e: fix incomplete sentence.

    [–]mankindeg 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I don't know how some of you keep getting banned from subs you like.

    I remember I posted some extremely edgy content and never got banned. I was mostly just posting in a normal way though. The subs I got banned from were those usual leftist subs, that ban you without even participating there for posting in a "hatereddit".

    [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Look at all this stuff I've posted that has been removed: https://www.reveddit.com/user/magnora7/?all=true

    [–]asterias 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    They have reached a point where every reddit user will have to agree to certain ideologies and beliefs.

    Nobody would care if they were upfront with this like raddle for example, but they waited till they got established thinking that noone would leave. They should have known better that this is not how it works.

    [–]TheRealRedditCEO 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    The long ride down after the IPO is gonna be hilarious to witness.

    [–]scripzure 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah apparently it's okay to support and endorse racism, but if you say racists deserve the violence they bring upon themselves, I guess it's a "call to violence". reddit sucks ass.

    [–]TheAnon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Just means we need to spread the "problematic" content to new subs. Reddit's value is in the number of communities, if we force them to narrow it down to a subculture-specific site it's value will crash.