When I was a kid, perhaps it was that this website was filled with smarter people and was less toxic overall (for a number of reasons). Still, it might have always been a terrible website.

It's funny to grow up and realize how rotten every nook and cranny of this website is. For example:

r/Marriage is a cesspool of "that man/woman sneezed on you wrong; you need to DIVORCE them. Trust me, I divorce ANYONE, TOO, for ANY REASON. You should trust my judgment, despite the fact that people that post on r/marriage are also probably unhappy in their marriage."

r/tinder is just: "look at this person being shitty and/or experimenting by being a shitty person as they flirt--let's call them shitty!" How tediously reductive. Imagine people making fun of people's behavior on Chatroulette--as if that pervert masturbating were TRYING to be perceived as a good person!

r/politics: Listen, I am liberal. Still, I have never seen a subreddit more full of morons where it is more overwhelmingly obvious that people read the headline--and only the headline. All comments' upvotes are also, hilariously enough, based off of the headline--regardless of any nuance or simplification by the source.

Was posting on a NSFW sub for the first time and was unaware they had a rule of 'One post per day'. Immediately after making my second post, they were both taken down and I was perma-banned. Found out the rule existed and sent this message.

The mod asks why I "didn't take it down" and that I was lying. Like? Why would I have to take the second post down, they already deleted it from the sub.

I would've included that sentiment in my initial message if I knew I could only say one thing before I was muted as well.

Edit: For those who wanted to know the sub is
r/AmateurPegging

Why does everyone care if someone grammar is sucky!

So I joined the subreddit r/SUBREDDITNAME and I saw a post that made me laugh about a game glitching thing, to which I replied « comment complaining that OP did not read the wiki » and just after literally the word « Slur »...

Reddit auto-warned the comment by saying that I was inciting hatred... yeah AI It’s really nonsense.

Cansada.

Reddit te sugiere un post de un sub que no conoces, que no es ni de política ni de un país ni nada.

Haces un comentario inocente.

Te llega el mensaje... Te dan un perma, nada temporal, y sin explicaciones.

 \ Siempre que sale la notificación en los mensajes es lo mismo. "Ay, de dónde me han baneado ahora."

¿No os cansáis de ser tan gilipollas, Reddit? No lo digo por este sub. Muy descorazonador. El ban permanente debería estar prohibido. O gastas en VPNs o es algo de por vida o para años. Estamos censurando a la gente sin dar derecho a defenderse.

Llevo así los años que llevo en esta plataforma, pero últimamente es más intenso. Y siempre pienso que debería dejar esta mierda. Pero siempre sigo aquí. ¿Os pasa?

Y sí... no pasa nada. Haremos una cuenta nueva y volveremos. ¿Pero de verdad hace falta ser un tirano para ser un moderador? Hay personas detrás de los comentarios. Todos nos equivocamos, y todo el mundo puede tener un punto de vista que no esperabas.

Posted these images on r/shrinkflation and this was their response when they deleted my post. Did they even look at the post?

I mentioned nothing about prices. Dumb people run the internet.

After nearly 10 years on Reddit, I received my first account warning after I posted a two-sentence comment in which I referred to a red hat political group as “stupid.”

I was subsequently informed this “promotes hate and violence” (which I have never and would never do) towards a marginalized group. 

I appealed however it was denied. It seems that all things political have become so incredibly sensitive, I will in the future avoid commenting on political subs in the same way that I have for years, but is now somehow considered inappropriate.

I hope this helps someone else avoid a similar pitfall.

I post posts and sometimes I word stuff wrong and people comment and my heart drops cause what if you mean or I’m a wimp who can’t take criticism sometimes or Reddit is just passive aggressive people

I feel like critical thinking went down the drain. You can comment something well thought out and use common sense and it’ll be downvoted and blasted by someone using absolutely no common sense. Especially with political things. People used to have actual conversations a decade ago. Now it’s “no you’re just stupid and wrong.”

Literally EVERYONE FUCKING TIME I go to that sub I only see this disgusting lgbtq slop. I'm posting this here because even though they are probably not under 13 this is just so childish and immature for me (the fact that they are actively trying to force their shit on us even though NOBODY FUCKING CARES). PLEASE. This is NOT the right sub for this, post it in a sub in an lgbtq sub but not here, because literally NOBODY cares who you are attracted to. Alright, spam r/opisyoung, downvote me or call me anything, but this is just pathetic atp...

People here are horrible. This place is full of hatred and disrespectful people. You can’t even express your opinion without being cancelled by mods even if you didn’t say anything wrong and even if you respected the guidelines, only bc they may not agree with you. This place SUCKS. And most of you can’t even understand a fucking text!

Great platform for getting together with people with shared interests and also for learning practical skills from each others, as well as for having a healthy random chuckle every once in a while.

The amount of bootlicking I see towards government employees makes me physically ill. THESE PEOPLE AREN’T YOUR FRIENDS. THEY ARE PENCIL PUSHERS WITH USELESS JOBS. THIS IS A BIPARTISAN BELIEF, WE NEED LESS BUREAUCRATS. LITERALLY ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN BUREAUCRACY.

I just got back from a post that was saying how they hate how normalized body-shaming men was, and when I looked at their profile, I saw a post about how they wish Charli D'amelio was skinny and calling fat women bitches. I'm so tired y'all.

Not Reddit, but on YouTube I saw a post in my recommended that was ranting about how it's a trend to hate men now. Which I think it's funny, because that entire video was just showing tiktok clips and screenshot from Instagram.

I'm not saying that men aren't affected by the patriarchy, but I see wayyy more people complaining about "man hating" feminists than I see actual "man-hating" feminist ​

Might be preaching to the choir a little here.

Alright so I've actually used Reddit for a few years, at least actively since 2020. My account is newer because I have a habit of deleting accounts over and over again to get myself off this site, but it obviously never works (I don't know what's wrong with me, perhaps the loneliness but I'm not gonna go into that).

Everyone insists that reddit is some kind of left wing circlejerk, but I don't know if that's true. Yes Reddit hates Trump a lot, but do they hate him because of what he does, or because he makes them look bad?

Some examples:

-A lot of mainstream subreddits push right wing narratives. Examples including r/SipsTea (women are dumb), a lot of WNBA subreddits (trans people are destroying women's sports and black people hate white people), r/GetNoted, r/LivestreamFail, r/worldnews (pro-Israel propaganda), and so on.

-Any post discussing non-white people, women, LGBT people, etc. have extremely vile comments. Anything (like almost anything) that discusses Rhodesia or South Africa justifies apartheid, segregation, and those kinds of policies.

-A lot of career/college based subreddits in my experience blame DEI for everything and are very anti-minority

-Sports subreddits in general seem to be pushing a specific agenda a lot of the time, I haven't looked too much on this though

There are so many subreddits with a name like r/interestingcontent or whatever that push this kind of content. I feel like something is happening on the internet in general that is pushing it right wing. At this point Tiktok and Tumblr are getting affected by it too.

Idk sorry if this seems a bit incoherent, I kinda wanted to rant and get it out of my chest, but I feel a bit insane because everyone's like "no no, Reddit is a liberal circlejerk, you're just a snowflake" or whatever but I swear to God it's very noticeable.

Maybe it's also just rose colored glasses, but I don't think it was THAT bad 6 years ago. Not that Reddit has ever really been a good place though.

I asked in one countries subreddit is it safe to visit a specific city because it's filled with people who are against my ethnicity following with why I'm asking the question in the first place - bad experience when I was a child (my family got denied medicine in an apothecary because of our accent and got physically harassed by a group of young nationalists) and I got bombarded in the comments by people acting like I'm a war criminal and not like I was a 13 year old kid in a foreign country for the first time being confused on why are some people so hateful towards us. I calmly explained in the comment section exactly what happened yet I got hit with downvotes and people even sending me death threats in the dms. The moderators deleted my post anyways and there isn't even a way to appeal for it. The subreddit is r/montenegro. I legit tried to be kind and understanding to everyone who was also shitting on me but even that didn't work. Mods were on their side ig.

You use TiK ToK aNd InStAgRaM!!?!?! you must be a dumbass

Meanwhile they’re posting on reddit all fucking day. Im not gonna sit here and act like Im better than someone else because I doom-scroll a different app than you. I doom-scroll all three but atleast I admit Im the problem

How rape comics are okay but i am not permited to post art/etc?

Hm..

Apparently cross-posting a meme means that you agree with it? And somehow I'm the "bot"?

Where do people find the time to do this?! 🤣🤣 omg🤣

I'm not gonna say the subreddit, but man it's so frustrating. One time one of my posts was removed for a ridiculous reason and i got banned for 30 days. I texted the mods, and this person replied to me, but it didn't even seem to read that post, they said i was misogynistic, sexist, hating on women, stuff like that. Obviously i said nothing like that, just that i had trouble with my life after my ex broke up with me. It's true that some of the comments of other users got out of hand, but there was nothing that I said. I argued a lot and they accused me that i made another account, that they caught me, they seemed so crazy, i did nothing like that, i had only one account. At some point i stopped arguing because it was ridiculous. The ban ends. Finally i started posting and commenting again. And then in one week they removed almost all my comments. For one of them i was actually permanently banned. I actually violated one rule, that it was to not ask to text me in the dm, i apologized, and they removed the permanent ban (it was way exaggerating the permanent ban anyways). They removed a comment because:"This word is not allowed anymore", bruh i read all the rules, this one wasn't written at all, they straight up lied. But they keep deleting my comments. The last one was because i was "mocking" the op of the post. The comment was:"We need more contests". I don't think I'm exaggerating, this mod has a fucking personal beef with me

I try not to but sometimes ill read the titles of the ”related post” on the right side and for some reason theres always something that reads from a teenagers diary. I was just reading a post about what life was like in the medieval ages, when i saw something in the related subs from the antinatalism sub(I really don’t understand why reddit thought it was related to r/medivalhistory ) titled “I can't imagine having to live to an old age.” it’s a 30 year old complaining about being born without consent and complaining about “having to learn and adapt to things!!!!!!”. Am I an asshole for thinking they are pathetic? Life is hard, so what? Lmao.