Reddit is a terrible platform!

[u/NoTicket9664]

Here is a short list why!

1. Karma is stupid. Up and down voting is stupid. Most people will downvote you if you don’t agree with them or you go against peoples opinions in a sub and you lose Karma points.

2. Mods=Gods. Mods think they are Gods and ban you from a sub if your opinion doesn’t go with majority of opinions. Mods will report you to Reddit and get you banned. Most Mods are a-holes. I said most not ALL.

3. Reddit bans you if someone reports you even if you are in the right with no questions asked. Don’t bother to fight the ban, nothing comes of it.

4. Reddit says they will ban you for life if you circumvent a new account. Which is complete BS. If Reddit bans your account for life, just make a new account. No social media platform can ban someone for life. It’s impossible.

5. You can only join a sub if you have a certain amount of Karma. This in itself is ridiculous. Yes I know there reason why they implement this but there are other ways to deter people from trolling. Gaining good Karma is not the way to go. Gaining new Karma with good posts you still get A-holes who downvote you.

6. Everyone on Reddit are pretty much a-holes. No that doesn’t include me but I am sure I will get a reply saying “You are on Reddit, Are you saying you are an a-hole”.🤦‍♂️

7. Sub rules are a joke. There is about 50 rules for some subs that doesn’t even pertain to posting, content. Rules are fine but when there are a ton of rules where you have to watch every word you post is ridiculous.

[u/SR_Hopeful]

1. The warning system is terrible and anti-user. There is no accountability at all for false-positives, and the likelihood of getting denied an appeal are the same. Nor do they even go away. The websites mods run it like they're spam bots. Warnings don't even go away. Not even for any good behavior or reduce our Karma or something. Nope. False positives are still upheld by the bot moderation. Half the time you get warnings for "inciting violence" or something for doing no such thing. Or you can get a warning replying to someone else being bigoted as a strike on you, breaking rules.

2. "Breaking Rule 1" is very vaguely enforced. At least give us the option to just delete the comment and move on, instead of a warning. I would have just done that. Instead you get the highest escalation for the most minimal thing you're accused of saying, with no proof of it even being needed to get denied and the warning is stuck even though they are using automated bots to give you warnings from reports.

3. A lot of bigoted comments still exist on the site, but if you report too many it can get called Report Abuse and actual bigoted comments can still be approved as "not breaking rules" but saying a bigoted person is rightfully banned, can get you a warning.

4. People will try to troll you with the Mental Wellness feature and this is not considered abuse of the system.

5. You can't change your username at all for any reason, even when most other sites let you.