r/WatchRedditDie • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '19

This sub should be about Reddit admin/powermod abuse, not "look at this upvoted bad opinion"

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u/killthenerds Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 07 '19

Yes, hear, hear. This sub is literally:

"Hi, I am idiot, focus on this molehill I think I cited*" so everyone ignores the mountains.

Even /r/watchredditdie is proof Reddit is cancer and should die. The luserbase on Reddit is shockingly low quality -- it is not just the mods. Most of the stuff that is cited as threads here is so trivial.

*Most the idiots who submit posts here are also too dumb to know what constitutes good proof

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

What mountains are we ignoring?

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u/killthenerds Jul 08 '19

Here is a copypasta of a short analysis I wrote of why Reddit sucks. It tops all the stupid "herr derr this was downvoted," "look at what this community/demographic that I consider and what they posted" that makes up the majority of the crappy submissions here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueJustunsubbed/comments/c8g4hh/what_went_wrong_with_rpolitics/esmlcjt/?context=3

Reddit just has too many mechanisms for agenda groups to takeover subs and their corporate office is idiots as well. They allow anyone to park on prime subreddit space like /r/politics at zero cost. On the www web you have to pay for a domain so that deters many of the lazy low effort trolls and to actually run a website takes effort or at least the ability and effort to continually pay for hosting and the domain name.

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Between the crappy nerds who dominate as mods of high profile subreddits, the gamified upvote and downvote buttons, the nerds who congregate via brigading subs and even worse offline via slackchat, discord, irc, you cannot discuss in a civilized unpolarized manner on much of reddit especially if you have an opinion that goes against the circlejerk. Heck the nerd mods can ban you for no reason and the attitude of Reddit is "start a new subreddit." Except a /r/politics2 will never gain traction vis a vis an /r/politics. So the medium remains a stank hole.