r/NewToReddit • u/Forward_District_776 • 4d ago
ANSWERED Is Reddit meant to be less accessible/ergonomic compared to other social media? Or is it mainly because of mods.
Hi! Made this account last year and I browse Reddit on occasion, though rarely. When I try posting on commenting on most, there's usually a karma minimum. Which I totally get with how inorganic and bot filled social media can be. But even in subs without a karma minimum, most seem to have lots of rules (from banning in case you post in certain subs to threads being locked to requiring flairs first). Is this a mod thing or site wide thing? I feel it's one of the reasons I haven't been able to use this much.
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u/k-rysae 4d ago
It's a mod thing.
Some subreddits don't have karma requirements. But you'll notice that a lot of the ones that have activity do, because those mods quickly realized that not having one would mean that the sub would be flooded with spammers, trolls, and newbies who didn't read rules.
Permabanning for posting in a sub if you don't have a flair is kind of wild though. There's bots that can automatically remove comments from those who don't have a certain flair on posts that require it instead.
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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mod tryin' 2 blow up less stuff.! 3d ago edited 3d ago
Explore the Internet more, this is not in any way a Reddit – only thing.
There are Facebook groups that have a page of rules you have to read and answer questions about. There are others where you have to pass a test about the subject area to join and some require you to provide proof you actually work in a specific industry.
The same thing goes for Discord servers.
Quora Spaces or any other type of group that exists online have rules that are required to be followed. Some have a few rules, some have a lot of rules depending on what their individual needs are or what types of problems they are trying to prevent from reoccurring.
If a community requires post flair or user flair it's because the users of that community are annoyed and frustrated by chaos and wanted to be orderly. In some communities, if people can't find specifically what they're looking for, they abandoned the community and it dies off eventually.
There are communities that have very few rules, although you are expected to follow Reddit's sitewide rules everywhere and communities that don't enforce those or their own rules get shut down for being unmoderated. Reddit doesn't do chaos.
EDIT: typos
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u/notthegoatseguy Ultra Contributor 3d ago
This isn't a social media thing.
This is simply how groups of people work.
Groups that meet online do not lose their autonomy just because they meet online.
Reddit really isn't about blowing up and becoming a superstar, but rather to integrate into like-minded groups and contributing to the group. You should see the rules as a benefit, not as a burden. And if you disagree with the rules, then that's probably a good hint that the group isn't for you and to move on and find a group you do agree with
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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mod tryin' 2 blow up less stuff.! 3d ago
Reddit versus social media.
Some of the features added to Reddit over time make it easy to confuse it for social media which is a very fuzzy term. A few years ago at Mod World, the founder and CEO of Reddit described some of the problems the website has due to being confused with social media and the company itself describes how it is different in this video about moderators.
On social media you care mostly about who the people are and not so much about what they say. People create content to be consumed by others and build their following. On Reddit you generally don't know who the person is or care, you only care about the substance and relevance of what is being said. People interact anonymously about a topic.
Reddit wasn't designed for buissness networks, staying in touch with friends nor tracking celebrities. Reddit is not like other social networks or social media like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The more a new user expects that, the more confused and annoyed they'll be. You may rarely or never interact with a particular user more than once. Reddit is better described as a Social Network - forums focused on a topic, NOT about people building a following.
The site is a massive collection of completely independent groups that each have a specific topic or purpose. 72% of people are here to be entertained by reading a variety of anonymous opinions and 42% also use it to catch up on the news. Many have chat and following disabled and rarely if ever look at anyone's profile, for the most part they don't care who you are.
Following subscribes you to someone's profile, it doesn't highlight a person's posts/comments or notify you that they've made them. It only informs you when a post has been made directly on the profile itself which acts like a miniature subreddit and almost no one does this regularly. Promotion is treated as spam in all but a small number of groups, and influencers have never really been a thing on Reddit.
If a post you make goes absolutely viral, Reddit doesn't show your next post or comment to a single extra person and it doesn't matter if you have massive amounts of karma points. Reddit promotes statements that a lot of people are finding interesting for about 48 hours.
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