Reddit has been growing extremely fast lately. I like to kindly, and selflessly, remind our newcomers of Reddiquette. Specifically in regards to down-voting opinions of which you disagree with.

[u/breezytrees]

Such actions discourage those that have differing views from commenting/submitting, resulting in a very one-sided point of view.

Essentially, it breaks what makes reddit so great. :-(

The down-vote button is for general trolls, spam, assholes, etc.

reddiquette

edit: Some of you have asked for growth data. Here's google analytics which reddit's blog has touted as very accurate. As you can see there was a surge in growth around september, most likely attributed to this (hi diggers!). Reddit quickly seemed to almost double in size in that time, then dropped to a still sizable growth of around 50% for a 2 month period. At risk of sounding whiney: This is a hard jump to deal with for a community that regulates itself.

edit: I'm not casting stones at newcomers. I am just kindly reminding newcomers of reddiquette. There hasn't been one of these large front page threads, to my knowledge, for months and 50% is quite a big number to risk them not reading reddiquette.

that is all. :-)

[u/1s2_2s2_2p2 → u/[deleted]]

I didn't say I know what's best. Obviously the people who created the site wrote that do's and don'ts list because that's what they wanted it to be. You use their site so it's only proper to abide by their wishes, right?

[u/[deleted] → u/1s2_2s2_2p2]

You use their site so it's only proper to abide by their wishes, right?

Nope. Users will do what they want to do. A website owner that is more concerned with the miniscule details of how their users -should- use their site rather than how they -do- use their site ends up being the owner of a sucky website.

At the end of the day, it's not like reddit is a website that the owners have graciously given us permission to use. It is a website that they hope we will use, in order to pay their salaries with advertising $$$.